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2021 FineMark Women's Pro Tennis Championship
The 2021 FineMark Women's Pro Tennis Championship was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Bonita Springs, United States between 10 and 16 May 2021. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 26 April 2021. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Hailey Baptiste * Ashlyn Krueger * Robin Montgomery * Katie Volynets The following player received entry using a protected ranking: * Vera Lapko The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Mirjam Björklund * Hanna Chang * Victoria Duval * Irina Fetecău * Yuriko Lily Miyazaki * Kyōka Okamura * Despina Papamichail * Alycia Parks The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Catherine Harrison Champions Singles * Katie Volynets def. Irina Bara, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese tennis player. Coaching team Wang's current team consists of her father Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at 2009 Summer Universiade and once trained with Novak Djokovic when young; a fitness coach from Croatia; and a Chinese physio from Nanjing. With the help of Slović, Wang was able to train with a few Serbian players abroad. She currently trains at the Tennis & Badminton Centre of the Shenzhen Sports Centre. Personal life Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Her father, Wang Peng (born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang), is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Harrison (tennis)
Catherine Elizabeth Frances Harrison (born April 9, 1994) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 236 in singles, achieved on July 25, 2022, and world No. 69 in doubles, reached on July 11, 2022. Professional career Harrison made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2011 Cellular South Cup, after receiving a wildcard for the singles competition. She won her first doubles title at the 2022 Monterrey Open, partnering compatriot Sabrina Santamaria. She made her Grand Slam doubles debut at the 2022 French Open and qualified to make her singles debut at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, having never contested a major qualifying event before. College career She played college tennis at the University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alycia Parks
Alycia Michelle Parks (born December 31, 2000) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 50 in singles and world No. 42 in doubles, achieved 2023, on February 27 and March 20, respectively. Career 2021: WTA Tour & Grand Slam debut, fastest serve record She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 MUSC Health Open in Charleston, having made it through qualifying as an alternate. She defeated qualifier Grace Min in the first round, before losing to top seed Ons Jabeur in the second. In her first-round match at the US Open, she tied the record by Venus Williams for the fastest serve by a woman that the tournament had ever recorded (129 mph). 2022: Breakthrough, top-10 win & first doubles title, top 75 In 2022, she made her sixth career main-draw appearance advancing to the second round of the German Open in Berlin as a qualifier. As a result, she climbed to a career-high, up 34 spots from 169 to No. 135, on 20 June 2022. Ranked No. 144 at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despina Papamichail
Despina Papamichail ( el, Δέσποινα Παπαμιχαήλ; born in Preveza, 9 February 1993) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 147, reached on 20 June 2022. Her highest doubles ranking is No. 162, achieved on 14 September 2015. Papamichail has won 15 singles and 35 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Playing for the Greece Fed Cup team, Papamichail has a win–loss record of 20–25. Career 2021: WTA debut In June 2021, Papamichail won the inaugural $60k Charleston Pro event, by defeating Gabriela Cé. It was her first title above $25k level. She made her main-draw WTA Tour singles debut at the WTA 500 2021 Abu Dhabi Open. 2023: United Cup debut At the 2023 United Cup The 2023 United Cup tennis event was won by the United States, defeating Italy in the finals, 4–0. The United States swept Poland in the semifinals while Italy lost one match in their defeat of Greece. This was the first edition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōka Okamura
is a professional Japanese tennis player. Okamura has career-high WTA rankings of 223 in singles and 229 in doubles. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2014 Japan Women's Open The 2014 Japan Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the Japan Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2014 WTA Tour. It was held at the Utsubo Tennis Ce ..., where she received a wildcard entry into the doubles draw, partnering with Kotomi Takahata. They defeated Misaki Doi and Elina Svitolina in the first round, but lost to Darija Jurak and Megan Moulton-Levy in the quarterfinals. WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups) Doubles: 16 (11 titles, 5 runner–ups) External links * * 1995 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Sportspeople from Okayama Tennis players from Tokyo 21st-century Japanese w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriko Lily Miyazaki
Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (born 11 November 1995) is a Japanese-born British tennis player. Miyazaki has career-high rankings by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 199 in singles and 223 in doubles. She has won four singles titles and six doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Personal life Miyazaki settled in London aged 10, having previously resided in Tokyo and then Switzerland. She trained at Sutton Tennis Academy up until the age of 18. She switched to British nationality in March 2022, as Japanese citizens are not allowed to hold dual citizenship. Miyazaki attended the University of Oklahoma (2014–2019), where she completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematics followed by a Masters in Information Technology Management. Career Miyazaki made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Transylvania Open, partnering Anastasia Gasanova in the doubles tournament. She made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2022 Lyon Open, after qualifying for the main dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Fetecău
Irina Fetecău (born 17 April 1996) is a Romanian professional tennis player. In her career, Fetecău has won three singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 29 November 2021, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 207. On 28 January 2019, she peaked at No. 310 in the doubles rankings. Fetecău made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... main-draw debut at the 2019 Bucharest Open, having been handed a wildcard into the doubles event, partnering fellow Romanian Georgia Crăciun. Grand Slam singles performance timelines ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups) Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) References External links * * Romanian female tennis players 1996 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Duval
Victoria Duval (born 30 November 1995) is an American professional tennis player. Duval has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In August 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 87. In 2012, she won the USTA Girls' 18s National Championships. Early life Duval was born in Miami and spent some of her childhood in Haiti, including time training at the JOTAC Tennis Academy in Port-au-Prince. While living in Port-au-Prince, Duval was robbed at gunpoint and held hostage at her aunt's house at the age of 7. Victoria's mother gave up her neonatal practice and moved Victoria and her two brothers to south Florida. Her father stayed behind to continue the gynecology and obstetrics practice he had helped build in Port-au-Prince. To continue improving Vicky's tennis game, Nadine moved with her to Atlanta. It was here that she worked with coach Brian de Villiers, at the Racquet Club of the South. In January 2010, Vicky was training in Atlanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Chang (tennis)
Hanna Chang (born February 25, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Chang has a career-high singles ranking of 214 by the WTA, achieved on 21 March 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 265, reached on 6 June 2022. Chang won her first major ITF title at the 2021 Landisville Challenge in the doubles draw, partnering Alexa Glatch. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner–ups) References External links * * 1998 births Living people American female tennis players 21st-century American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirjam Björklund
Mirjam Björklund (born 29 July 1998) is a Swedish tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of World No. 123, achieved on 20 June 2022. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of World No. 281, achieved on 31 January 2022. Björklund has won one doubles WTA Challenger title as well as nine singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career Björklund made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2017 Swedish Open, where she played Kateryna Kozlova in the first round. At the 2022 French Open she qualified to make her Grand Slam debut, where she was drawn to face fellow qualifier Donna Vekic. She qualified for her second Grand Slam in a row at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. Personal life Björklund is dating Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born 15 April 1999) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Lapko
Vera Valeryevna Lapko ( be, Вера Валер'еўна Лапко; born 29 September 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She has won six singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 1 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 60. On 14 May 2018, she peaked at No. 83 in the doubles rankings. Lapko reached the 2014 US Open and 2015 Wimbledon girls' doubles finals, both times partnering Tereza Mihalíková. She won the 2016 Australian Open girls' singles title, defeating Mihalíková in the final. Playing for Belarus Fed Cup team, Lapko has a win–loss record of 6–2 (as of November 2022). Performance timeline ''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.'' Singles ''Current through the 2021 Astana Open The 2021 Astana Open was a tennis tournament organized for professional tennis players, held in Nur-Sultan, Kazak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
