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2024 Polish Open
The 2024 Polish Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and second as a WTA 125 event which is also part of the 2024 WTA 125 tournaments. It took place at the Legia Tennis Centre in Warsaw, Poland between 22 and 28 July 2024 after the previous editions had been held in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 15 July 2024. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Weronika Ewald * Weronika Falkowska * Gina Feistel * Martyna Kubka The following players received entry into the singles main draw using special rankings: * Zarina Diyas * Nina Stojanović The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Destanee Aiava * Lina Glushko * Alycia Parks * Urszula Radwańska The following player received entry as a lucky loser: * Anna Hertel Withdrawals * Bai Zhuoxuan → replaced by Carole Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match, doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The Service line (tennis), service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the Glossary of tennis terms#Baseline, baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Naef
Céline Naef (born 25 June 2005) is a Swiss tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 121 in singles, achieved on 16 October 2023, and No. 122 in doubles, reached on 18 November 2024. Naef has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career Junior years Naef had a successful junior career. Her career-high ranking as a junior was world No. 4. In 2022, Naef won a prestigious tournament for juniors, the Trofeo Bonfiglio (Grade A). In 2022, Naef reached the final of the French Open, partnering Nikola Bartůňková. In July 2022, she played in the final of the European Youth Championship held in Klosters, Switzerland which she lost to Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva. 2022: ITF Circuit titles Naef played and won her first final in Monastir, Tunisia, in March 2022. In October 2022, she became champion in both singles and doubles in Reims, France. A week later, she won another singles title in Cherbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankita Raina
Ankita Raina (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Since 2018, she has regularly been India's number one female player in singles and doubles. Raina has won one title on the WTA Tour and one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 tournament (both in doubles), along with 11 singles and 30 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. In April 2018, she entered the top 200 in the singles rankings for the first time, becoming only the fifth player representing India to achieve this feat. Raina has also won gold medals in the women's Singles (tennis), singles and Mixed doubles (tennis), mixed-doubles events at the 2016 South Asian Games, and a bronze medal in singles at the Tennis at the 2018 Asian Games, 2018 Asian Games. Raina is one of only two women representing India who have won a WTA Tour-level title. Playing for India Billie Jean King Cup team, Raina has a win–loss record of 33–29. She has notable wins over 2011 US Open – Women's singles, 2011 US Open cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Birrell
Kimberly Birrell (born 29 April 1998) is an Australian professional tennis player. Birrell reached a career-high WTA ranking of No. 68 on 17 March 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 162 on 9 September 2024. Birrell is the current No. 1 Australian singles player. She has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Personal life Birrell was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 29 April 1998 to Australian parents. Her father, John, was working as a tennis coach in Germany at the time of her birth and shortly after relocated his family to Wodonga, Victoria. The family then settled on the Gold Coast, Queensland when Birrell was three years of age as her father took up a role as the head coach of Pat Cash's Tennis Academy. She has a brother Cade who is also a tennis player. She began playing tennis at the age of four and switched training bases to the Queens Park Tennis Centre in 2008 when her father began managing the club. Queens Park had previously produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Monnet
Carole Monnet (born 1 December 2001) is a Ukrainian-born French tennis player. Monnet has career-high WTA rankings of No. 162 in singles, achieved on 11 September 2023, and No. 129 in doubles, reached on 28 October 2024. Early life Monnet was born in Boiarka, Ukraine, and adopted at the age of two by French parents from Toulouse. Career Monnet made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Ladies Open Lausanne, where she received a wildcard into the doubles tournament. Her first singles tour-level main-draw match was at the 2022 Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing to Elise Mertens in the first round. She received a wildcard for the main draw in singles at the 2022 French Open for her home Grand Slam tournament debut. Partnering Darja Semeņistaja, Monnet won the doubles title at the WTA125 2024 Țiriac Foundation Trophy, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Katarzyna Kawa Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai Zhuoxuan
Bai Zhuoxuan (Chinese: 白卓璇; born 16 November 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Bai has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 83, achieved on 4 March 2024. Career 2023-2024: WTA Tour, major and top 100 debuts Ranked No. 209, Bai made her WTA Tour debut at the 2023 Internationaux de Strasbourg, after entering the singles main draw as a lucky loser. She held two match points against Varvara Gracheva in the first round but eventually lost. She made her major debut at Wimbledon, after qualifying for the main draw. She reached the second round defeating Ysaline Bonaventure for her first major match win, before losing to eventual finalist, sixth seed Ons Jabeur, in 45 minutes. At the beginning of the Asian swing, she also qualified for the Ningbo Open. She received a wildcard for the qualifying competition into the WTA 1000 China Open. She also received a wildcard for the WTA 500 Zhengzhou Open where she recorded a win over lucky loser Tamara Korpatsch. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hertel
Anna Hertel (born 27 October 2000) is a Polish tennis player. Hertel has a career-high WTA ranking of 691 in singles, achieved on 22 July 2024. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 285, achieved on 2 August 2021. Hertel made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 WTA Poland Open in the doubles competition. She plays college tennis at the University of Georgia The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the oldest public university in th .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner–ups) Doubles: 13 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups, 1 not played) Notes References External links * * * 2000 births Living people Polish female tennis players Sportspeople from Warsaw Georgia Bulldogs women's tennis players Polish expatriate tennis players in the United States 21st-century Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 29. On 21 September 2009, she peaked at No. 74 in the doubles rankings. As a junior player, Radwańska won the 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles title, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. Nicknamed Ula, she is the younger sister of Agnieszka Radwańska. Tennis career As a junior player, Radwańska won Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2007 Wimbledon girls' singles, culminating in the junior year-ending world No. 1 ranking. This was the launching pad into her professional career, where she has been getting into Women's Tennis Association, WTA main draws via qualifying and wildcards. In 2007, Radwańska p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Glushko
Lina Glushko (; born 12 January 2000) is an Israeli tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 201 in singles and No. 296 in doubles. She also represents Israel in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she has a win–loss record of 17–15 (as of June 2024). Biography Glushko's USSR-born parents Sergio and Olga, sister Julia, and brother Alex immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in 1999, one year before she was born in Israel. She graduated from Ironi Gimel High School in Modiin, Israel. She served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). She is the younger sister of Julia Glushko (10 years older), who was also a professional tennis player (ranked as high as No. 79 in the world), and with whom she has teamed as a doubles partner. She was coached first by her father, and then by her brother. Career In September 2017, Glushko won the inaugural Anna and Michael Kahan Family Prize in Ramat Hasharon, claiming NIS 100,000 in support; Glushko was able to use the money to purcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destanee Aiava
Destanee Gabriella Aiava (born 10 May 2000) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 147 in singles, achieved on 11 September 2017, and No. 133 in doubles, achieved on 5 August 2024. Aiava has won nine singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut after winning the 2016 U18 Australian Championships, granting her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open. She thus became the first player, male or female, born in 2000 or later to participate in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. Early life Aiava was born in Melbourne to a New Zealand father of Samoan descent and a mother from American Samoa. Her mother, Rosie, was a professional kickboxer and rugby player who represented the Australian national rugby team and her father, Mark, was a professional powerlifter. In 2005, at four years of age, Aiava watched Serena Williams win the Australian Open final and was inspired to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Stojanović
Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 title in singles and one in doubles. As a junior, Stojanović reached three Grand Slam (tennis), major semifinals in doubles, each on a different surface, the 2013 French Open – Girls' doubles, French Open and 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' doubles, Wimbledon in 2013, and the 2014 Australian Open – Girls' doubles, Australian Open in 2014. As a professional, she made her debut on the WTA Tour in 2016. In 2019, Stojanović reached her first WTA Tour semifinal in singles at the 2019 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open – Singles, Jiangxi International and also won her first doubles title at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarina Diyas
Zarina Diyas (; ; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as No. 31 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Diyas has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2017 Japan Women's Open, along with nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Diyas mostly played on the ITF Circuit until 2014, her breakthrough season. She progressed into the top 40 by September, having started the year outside the top 150. This helped her enter tournaments on the WTA Tour more consistently, though she still plays ITF tournaments. She is one of the most successful female tennis players representing Kazakhstan Tennis Federation, Kazakhstan, along with Elena Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva. Diyas became a member of the Kazakhstan Fed Cup team in 2011 and is tied for her country's most singles wins with Yaroslava Shvedova, but with a much better winning percentage. She has a win/loss record of 18–8 (14–5 in singles) as of July 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
