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2019 Karlsruhe Open
The 2019 Karlsruhe Open (also known as the Liqui Moly Open Karlsruhe for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament and part of the 2019 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in Karlsruhe, Germany between 29 July and 4 August 2019. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings as of 22 July 2019. Other entrants The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Katharina Hobgarski * Sabine Lisicki * Jule Niemeier The following players qualified into the singles main draw: * Laura Ioana Paar * Stephanie Wagner * Yuan Yue * Renata Voráčová The following player received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser: * Liana Cammilleri Withdrawals ;Before the tournament * Ana Bogdan → replaced by Elena-Gabriela Ruse * Mona Barthel → replaced by Ekaterine Gorgodze * Anna-Lena Friedsam → replaced by Liana Cammil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 125K Series
WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012. Sometimes called the WTA Challenger tour (analogous to the men's ATP Challenger Series), 2015 it is the second highest level of women's competition, below the top-tier WTA Tour, and above the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour tournaments. Players who succeed in the WTA 125s earn sufficient overall WTA rankings, WTA ranking points to become eligible for the main draw or qualifying draw entry of WTA Tour tournaments. Results such as titles won at a WTA 125 event are separately counted from the same player's achievements at WTA Tour level tournaments. However match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Vögele
Stefanie Vögele (born 10 March 1990) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA rankings, WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January 2015. Over her career, she has defeated top ten players Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki. Vögele announced her retirement from tennis in November 2022. Biography Vögele who has three sisters was introduced to tennis at the age of four by her parents. Her coach was Ivo Werner. Professional career 2009 For the first five months of the year, Vögele participated in several WTA Tour events, needing to play through the qualifying rounds of most tournaments. During this period, she never won a main-draw match in such an event. In June, Vögele played in 2009 Aegon Classic – Singles, Birmingham, defeating seeded Ekaterina Makarova en route to a quarterfinal showing. Playing at 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristína Kučová
Kristína Kučová (; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 71. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at No. 168 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour with eleven singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Kučová was an accomplished junior player, having won the girls' singles title at the 2007 US Open and reaching a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 3, on 10 September 2009. Playing for Slovakia Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 1–5. Personal life Kučová's elder sister Zuzana retired from the professional tour in 2013. Tennis career Junior years At the 2007 US Open, the unseeded Kučová took the girls' singles title, defeating the 13th seed Julia Glushko in the third round, top seed and defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals, and number two seed Urszula Radwańska in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Lena Friedsam
Anna-Lena Friedsam (born 1 February 1994) is a German professional tennis player. In August 2016, Friedsam reached her best singles ranking of world No. 45. In doubles, she peaked at world No. 34 in September 2020. In her career, she has won four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title as well as 13 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She played also in the fourth round of one Grand Slam championship, at the 2016 Australian Open. Career overview 2012 Friedsam won her first $25k tournament in 2012, at the Infond Open. 2015: First WTA Tour final In Linz, Friedsam reached her first career singles final, losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets. 2016-2018: Grand Slam fourth round, top 50 debut, extended hiatus due to surgery At the 2016 Australian Open, she reached her first and so far only Grand Slam round of 16. There, she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska after a big battle and struggling with injury during the match. In the prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterine Gorgodze
Ekaterine Gorgodze ( ka, ეკატერინე გორგოძე, tr, ; born 3 December 1991) is a Georgian professional tennis player. On 23 May 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 108. On 15 August 2022, she peaked at No. 43 in the doubles rankings. Gorgodze has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus four doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with 18 singles and 37 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Since her debut for Georgia Fed Cup team in 2007, Gorgodze has accumulated a win–loss record of 18–19 in singles and 8–7 in doubles (overall 26–26), as of August 2024. Career Singles She made her WTA Tour singles debut 2012 in Baku as a wildcard. In March 2021, she qualified for the Miami Open making her WTA 1000 debut but lost to Anna Kalinskaya. In April, she entered the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix as a lucky loser, making her WTA 500 debut but lost to Angelique Kerber. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2021 Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player. On 18 March 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 14 September 2015, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings. Barthel has won four singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles titles and one doubles title on the International Tennis Federation, ITF Circuit in her career. Early life Mona Barthel was born in Bad Segeberg to Wolfgang Barthel, who won the shot put event at the 1970 European Junior Athletics Championships in Paris, and Dr. Hannelore. She was raised in a tennis-playing family, and took an interest in the game at age 3. She has cited Steffi Graf as an inspiration. Barthel moved to Neumünster, where she completed her Abitur in 2009, having attended the Klaus Groth Schule. Career 2007–2010: Early career Barthel played her first ITF tournament in July 2007 in Frinton where she qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena-Gabriela Ruse
Elena-Gabriela Ruse (born 6 November 1997) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 51 and a doubles ranking of No. 32 achieved in May 2022 and 2023 respectively. She is currently the No. 2 Romanian player. Ruse won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg Open. She has also won six singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Junior career 2012–2015 Ruse won two junior singles titles and eight junior doubles titles. The biggest title of her junior career was the Grade-1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, where she beat Katie Swan in the final. Ruse also reached the semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon girls' singles event in 2014 and the final of Eddie Herr. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of 7, achieved on 18 May 2015. Professional career 2015–2016: WTA Tour debut When Ruse finished her junior career, she still did not have a professional ranking. In July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Bogdan
Ana Bogdan (born 25 November 1992) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she peaked at No. 39 in the WTA rankings in July 2023. Bogdan had a successful junior career, reaching world No. 2 on 5 January 2008. Career 2016: Major debut and WTA Tour semifinal In May, she won her first ITF tournament of the year in Grado by defeating Susanne Celik in the final. In July, she qualified for the WTA Tour event Stanford Classic. She won her first-round match against Asia Muhammad, before losing to Alison Riske in three sets in the second round. At her next tournament, at the Brasil Tennis Cup, she reached her first WTA Tour semifinal, defeating former world No. 1, Jelena Janković, en route. At the US Open, after qualifying, she defeated fellow Romanian Sorana Cîrstea in the first round, in three sets, for her first main-draw major match-win. In the second round, she lost to another countrywoman, Monica Niculescu, in straight sets. 2017: S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liana Cammilleri
A liana is a long- stemmed woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight. The word ''liana'' does not refer to a taxonomic grouping, but rather a habit of plant growth—much like ''tree'' or ''shrub''. It comes from standard French , itself from an Antilles French dialect word meaning to sheave. Ecology Lianas are characteristic of tropical moist broadleaf forests (especially seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests and temperate deciduous forests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the ''Clematis'' or ''Vitis'' (wild grape) genera. Lianas can form bridges in the forest canopy, providing arboreal animals—including ants and many other invertebrates, lizards, rodents, sloths, monkeys, and lemurs—with paths through the forest. For example, in the Eastern tropical forests of Madagascar many lemurs achieve h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Yue
Yuan Yue (; ; born 25 September 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 36 in singles, set in May 2024, and No. 60 in doubles, achieved June 2025. Career 2018: WTA Tour debut Yuan made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Jiangxi International Open in the doubles tournament, partnering with Liu Yanni. 2022: Major and top 75 debuts She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships as a lucky loser. At the next major, at the US Open, she reached the third round for the first time after qualifying by defeating Jaimee Fourlis and Irina-Camelia Begu without losing a set. 2023: First WTA 1000 win and WTA Tour final She qualified for the 2023 Australian Open to make her debut at this major, and she also qualified for the Wimbledon Championships. Yuan received a wildcard for her home tournament, the China Open, and defeated Elise Mertens for her first WTA 1000 win. She reached her first WTA Tour fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Wagner
Stephanie Wagner (born 17 September 1994) is a German tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 263, achieved on 14 September 2020. Her best doubles ranking of world No. 546, she reached on 25 November 2019. Wagner made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a qualifier at the 2021 Courmayeur Ladies Open. She played collegiate tennis for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Singles performance timeline ''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour are included in win–loss records.'' ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (2 runner–ups) Doubles: 1 (1 title) References External links * * Stephanie Wagnerat the University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Wag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Ioana Paar
Laura Ioana Paar (née Andrei; born 31 May 1988) is an inactive Romanian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 190 in singles, achieved on 31 January 2021, and 113 in doubles, set on 9 March 2020. Laura has won one WTA Tour doubles title, 2020 at the Lyon Open, as well as 13 singles and 53 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career She started tennis at age six and has been coached by German Calin Alexandru Paar whom she married. In December 2016, she won the singles and the doubles at the ITF Cordenons tournament. On 19 May 2019, she made her WTA Tour debut when she entered the main draw of the Nürnberger Versicherungscup The Nuremberg Cup was a women's professional tennis tournament held in Nuremberg, Germany. Held from 2013 until 2019, this WTA International tournaments, International-level tournament was played on outdoor clay courts. Tournament history The ... by defeating Raluca Șerban in the qualifying round. WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (title) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
