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2017 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles
Monica Niculescu was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Pauline Parmentier. Carina Witthöft won her first WTA title, defeating Monica Puig in the final, 6–3, 7–5. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers # Naomi Broady Naomi Broady ( ; born 28 February 1990) is a British former tennis player. She won one WTA Tour doubles title, as well as nine singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 March 2016, she reached her best singles ranki ... Draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier References Main drawQualifying draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 BGL Luxembourg Open - Singles BGL Luxembourg Open - Singles Luxembourg Open 2017 in Luxembourgian tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Witthöft
Carina Witthöft (also spelled Witthoeft; born 16 February 1995) is a German former professional tennis player. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour whereas on the ITF Women's Circuit, she won eleven singles titles and one doubles title. On 8 January 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 48. Career Witthöft made her WTA Tour debut at the 2012 Swedish Open. Having defeated Marina Shamayko, Akgul Amanmuradova and Jill Craybas to qualify, she lost in the first round of the main draw against Kateryna Bondarenko. She won her first WTA title at the 2017 Luxembourg Open, defeating Monica Puig in straight sets in the final. She was coached by Torben Beltz and then by Philip Lang. 2018 Witthöft started the season at the Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Aleksandra Krunić. Despite being defeated in the final round of qualifying at the Sydney International by Camila Giorgi, Witthöft entered the main draw as a lucky loser. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Čepelová
Jana Čepelová (; born 29 May 1993) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. Čepelová won seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 May 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 May 2015, she peaked at No. 158 in the doubles rankings. Her best result at a major event was the third round of the 2012 and 2016 Wimbledon Championships. As a junior, she won the girls' doubles at the 2010 Australian Open with Chantal Škamlová. Following the birth of the daughter in 2020, Čepelová took a break from her tennis career. In 2023, she made a "quick comeback, just to say good bye and play the final Grand Slam tournaments". Personal life Čepelová was born in Košice to Peter and Jarmila and was coached by Martin Zathurecký. Career Junior career Jana Čepelová and Chantal Škamlová won the girls' doubles at 2010 Australian Open. They also won silver medals in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. At the same even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Martić
Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tournament on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, plus four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early and personal life Petra Martić was born in Split, Croatia, Split, SR Croatia, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to Nenad (father) and Sandra (mother). She grew up in the suburb of Duće, 30 km from Split, and moved to Split at the age of 10. Her father died in a car accident when Petra was five. Petra is quoted as saying that her mother is a hero to her for managing to go through all this and raising Petra by herself, and that this motivates her to excel in tennis and bring joy to her family. Career 2006–2009: Early years The best result in her junior career was the quarterfinals in 2006 U.S. Open – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic (, ; born 9 September 1987) is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships. Petkovic suffered three separate injuries in 2012: a back injury in January, an ankle injury in August and a knee injury in December that kept her out for nine months, and almost saw her fall out of the top 200. She rebounded in 2014 by reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2014 French Open and later winning the WTA Tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeniya Rodina
Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (, born 4 February 1989) is an inactive Russian tennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 67. Rodina has won 13 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit along with one singles and one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments. Personal life Rodina is married to her coach Denis Shteyngart. They have a daughter, born in November 2012. Career 2004–05 Rodina began her career on the ITF Circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25k tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was fifteen and a half years old, and took a set from up-and-coming fellow Russian Elena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three. Further wildcards into two successive $10k events at Dubrovnik, Croatia that October gave her the opportunity to win her first and second main-draw ITF matches without qualifying. She lost in the second round on both occasions. But these two res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Fett
Jana Fett (; born 2 November 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. On 30 October 2017, Fett reached her best singles ranking of world No. 97, and on 21 May 2018, she reached her best doubles ranking of No. 348. Fett has won nine singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career 2014–2015 On the ITF Junior Circuit, Fett had a career-high ranking of No. 12, which she achieved on 24 February 2014. She was the runner-up at the 2014 Australian Open girls' singles event, wherein she fell to Elizaveta Kulichkova in the final. Fett's biggest title to date was at the 2015 Dunlop World Challenge, where she won the singles title, defeating Luksika Kumkhum in the final. 2017: WTA Tour debut, two semifinals, and top 100 At the 2017 Hobart International, she qualified for her first main draw of a WTA tournament. She reached her first WTA Tour semifinal but lost to eventual champion and fellow qualifier, Elise Mertens. Later in the year, she reached her second semifinal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verónica Cepede Royg
Verónica Cepede Royg (; born 21 January 1992) is a Paraguayan former tennis player. On 7 August 2017, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 73. Her best doubles ranking is No. 85, achieved on 19 September 2016. Cepede Royg has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 singles titles and 20 doubles titles on ITF tournaments. Playing for Paraguay Fed Cup team, Cepede Royg has a win–loss record of 61–26. She participated in the 2012 London Olympics, losing in the opening round to American Varvara Lepchenko in three sets, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship was reaching the fourth round of the 2017 French Open. Personal life and background Her father, Eduardo, owns a gas station, while her mother, Edith, is a retired dentist. Her brother Andres is an economist and her sister, Estefania, is an architect. She was introduced to tennis at age five by her sib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Larsson
Johanna Larsson (; born 17 August 1988) is a Swedish former tennis player. In her career, she won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, with 13 singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high WTA rankings are 45 in singles, achieved in September 2016, and 20 in doubles, set on 30 October 2017. In 2017, Larsson qualified for the WTA Finals for the first time, with her partner Kiki Bertens, reaching the final in Singapore upsetting fourth seeds Barty and Dellacqua and second seeds Vesnina and Makarova. They lost in the final against Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlaváčková. Larsson made her debut for the Sweden Fed Cup team in 2005, eventually accumulating an overall win–loss record of 50–30. Career Early years Larsson began playing international tennis on the ITF Junior Circuit, with a career-high junior ranking at No. 79 in September 2006. During the Fed Cup in 2005, she made a significant career achievement when defeating Anna Krem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Bouchard
Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; , ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis and pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles tournament, finishing runner-up to Petra Kvitová. Bouchard also reached the semifinals of the 2014 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2014 Australian Open and 2014 French Open – Women's singles, 2014 French Open. Having won the 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2012 Wimbledon girls' title as a junior, she was named WTA Awards#Newcomer of the Year, WTA Newcomer of the Year at the end of the 2013 WTA Tour. She received the WTA Awards#Most Improved Player, WTA Most Improved Player award for the 2014 WTA Tour, 2014 season and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 5, becoming the first Canadian tennis player to be ranked in the top 5 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, winning the 2012 Tournoi de Québec, as well as seven doubles titles. She also won 13 singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She had success as a junior, winning the girls' doubles title at the 2002 US Open (tennis), 2002 US Open and the singles titles at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships and the 2003 US Open (tennis), 2003 US Open. Her best Grand Slam performance as a senior was at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the semifinal. In the same year, she was crowned Sportswoman of the Year at the Belgian Sportsman of the year, Belgian Sport Awards. In 2016, Flipkens entered her first Olympic Games 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Sorribes Tormo
Sara Sorribes Tormo (; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 32 on 7 February 2022 and No. 17 in doubles on 6 May 2024. She has won two singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit, she has won ten singles and five doubles titles. She is a bronze medalist in Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, women's doubles at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won her maiden WTA Tour title at the 2021 Abierto Zapopan in Guadalajara. On the Challenger Tour, she has been runner-up at the Bol Open, and champion at the Open de Limoges, in doubles in 2019. Sorribes Tormo made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Rio Open, after making it through the qualifying rounds. Her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament came at 2015 French Open – Women's singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Brengle
Madison Brengle (born April 3, 1990) is an inactive American tennis player. Her biggest success came in early 2015 when she reached her first WTA Tour final in January, followed by a fourth round major event appearance at the Australian Open. In May of that year, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 35. Brengle has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, and 19 singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In August 2007, she was ranked fourth in the world in juniors. Brengle then toiled for years in the ITF Circuit. Over the course of 24 consecutive majors from 2008 to 2014, she failed to make it out of the pre-tournament qualifier. The streak ended when she earned a wildcard for the 2014 US Open main draw, which she capitalized on for her first major match-win. Her ranking soon rose into the top 100 for the first time in September 2014. Early life Brengle was born and raised in Dover, Delaware, and she is Jewish. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
