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2024 Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Singles
Two-time defending champion Iga Świątek defeated Elena Rybakina in the final, 7–6(10–8), 6–2 to win the singles tennis title at the 2024 WTA Qatar Open. Świątek did not lose a set en route to the title for the second consecutive year. It was her seventh WTA 1000 title and 18th WTA Tour title overall. Świątek became the first player to win three titles at the Qatar Open, and the first player to win three consecutive titles at the same hardcourt tournament since Serena Williams at the Miami Open between 2013 and 2015. This marked the second time this century that all eight quarterfinalists at a WTA tournament had previously reached a major singles final. The last time this happened was also in Doha, during the 2013 Qatar Open. Seeds The top eight seeds In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iga Świątek
Iga Natalia Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women’s singles by the Women's Tennis Association, Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for 125 total weeks. Świątek has won 22 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including five Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles: four at the French Open and one at the US Open (tennis), US Open. She has also won the 2023 WTA Finals – Singles, 2023 WTA Finals and ten WTA 1000 titles. Świątek is the first Pole to win a major singles title. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open – Girls' doubles, 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion. She began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019, and entered the top 50 at 18 years old after her first Tour final and a fourth-round appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sakkari
Maria Sakkari (, ; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her the highest-ranked Greek player, tied with Stefanos Tsitsipas. Her career-best doubles WTA rankings, ranking is world No. 169, achieved on 9 September 2019. Sakkari has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, including a WTA 1000 title at the 2023 Guadalajara Open Akron – Singles, 2023 Guadalajara Open. She is known for her aggressive, all-court style of play, centered around her strong serve and powerful groundstrokes. She served the sixth most aces of any WTA player in 2020, with 144 aces served in 31 matches. Sakkari reached the semifinals at the 2017 Wuhan Open – Singles, 2017 Wuhan Open, where she defeated Caroline Wozniacki for her first top-10 win. In 2019, she reached another WTA Premier tournaments, Premier 5 semifinal at the 2019 Italian Open – Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leylah Fernandez
Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA on 8 August 2022. Her best doubles ranking is world No. 17, achieved on 23 October 2023. Fernandez won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 Monterrey Open – Singles, 2021 Monterrey Open. As a 19-year-old, she finished runner-up at the 2021 US Open – Women's singles, 2021 US Open to fellow teenager Emma Raducanu, defeating three top-5 players en route to the final, including defending champion Naomi Osaka. Fernandez played a pivotal role in Canada's first-ever Billie Jean King Cup win in 2023 Billie Jean King Cup, 2023, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final. Early life Fernandez was born in Montreal, Quebec. She attended École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry. Her father Jorge Fernandez (tennis coach and footballer), Jorge is from Ecuador and is a former football player. Her mother Irene (née Exevea) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková (; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), holding the position for a total of eight weeks, and has been ranked world No. 11 in doubles. Plíšková has won 17 singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and has reached two major singles finals at the 2016 US Open and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. As a junior, Plíšková won the girls' singles event at the 2010 Australian Open. She has also played for the Czech Republic in Billie Jean King Cup competition where she has scored a win-loss record of 15–8 (as of September 2024). She is known for her powerful serve and forehand. Personal life Plíšková was born in Louny to Radek Plíšek and Martina Plíšková, and has an identical twin sister, Kristýna, who is two minutes older and is also a tennis player. She currently lives in Monte Carlo. In 2018, she married Michal Hrd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA for 25 weeks, the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka has won seven WTA Tour-level singles titles, including four Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors: two each at the Australian Open and the US Open (tennis), US Open. She is the first Japanese player to win a major singles title. Born in Japan to a Haitian–American father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived and trained in the United States since age three. She came to prominence at age 16 when she defeated former US Open champion Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Bank of the West Classic – Singles, 2014 Stanford Classic. Two years later, she reached her first WTA final at the 2016 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, 2016 Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and entered the top 50 of the WTA rankin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Fiodaraŭna Azarenka (born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), having held the position for a total of 51 weeks (including as the year-end No. 1 in 2012). Azarenka has won 21 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two majors at the 2012 and 2013 Australian Opens, becoming the first Belarusian to win a major singles title. Azarenka is also a three-time major finalist at the US Open, finishing runner-up to Serena Williams in both 2012 and 2013 and to Naomi Osaka in 2020. In singles, she has won six Premier Mandatory tournaments (including the Sunshine Double in 2016), four Premier 5 tournaments, and the singles bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. She was runner-up at the 2011 WTA Finals to Petra Kvitová. She finished with a year-end top 10 singles ranking from 2009 to 2013. Azarenka has won 10 WTA Tour doubles titles (including one WT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Navarro
Emma Navarro (born May 18, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 by the WTA, achieved on September 9, 2024 and a best doubles ranking of No. 93, set in 2024. Navarro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, and reached a major semifinal at the 2024 US Open. Navarro played college tennis at the University of Virginia and won the NCAA Singles Championship in 2021, later becoming the first women's singles NCAA champion to reach the US Open semifinals. She won her first WTA Tour title at the 2024 Hobart International in Hobart, Australia. Career 2019: WTA Tour debut Navarro finished as the runner-up in the junior 2019 French Open singles draw, and won the junior 2019 French Open in doubles playing with Chloe Beck. They also finished as runners-up in the junior 2019 Australian Open. Navarro made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Charleston Open in South Carolina, after receiving a wildcard for the sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia (, born 16 October 1993) is a French professional tennis player. She had a career-high WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 4 in singles and world No. 2 in doubles. Garcia was the 2022 WTA Finals – Singles, 2022 WTA Finals champion. Garcia was also a two-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion in doubles, having won the French Open women's doubles title in 2016 French Open – Women's doubles, 2016 and 2022 French Open – Women's doubles, 2022 partnering Kristina Mladenovic. The pair were also runners-up at the 2016 US Open – Women's doubles, 2016 US Open, and reached the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2017 Australian Open. Garcia reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in October 2016, and won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2016 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's doubles, 2016 Madrid Open. She also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions, and alongside Mladenovic was voted the 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Ekaterina Evgenyevna Alexandrova ( rus, Екатери́на Евге́ньевна Александро́ва, , jɪkətʲɪˈrʲinə ɐlʲɪksɐnˈdrovə; born 15 November 1994) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has won five WTA Tour singles titles, three WTA 125 titles and seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 1 April 2024, she achieved her best singles ranking of world No. 15. On 26 September 2022, she peaked at No. 58 in the WTA doubles rankings. Personal life Since 2006, Alexandrova has been living and training in Prague, Czech Republic, with her parents and two siblings, a brother and a sister. They moved after travelling to the city for a youth tournament, attracted by the local availability of tennis courts compared to Russia. According to the player, the Russian Tennis Federation didn't know about her existence before 2016 and she has never been good enough to cause interest from the Czech Tennis Association in terms of citizenship switch. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 6 June 2022. In doubles, she has won eight WTA Tour titles including three WTA 1000, and the 2022 WTA Finals – Doubles, 2022 WTA Finals with Elise Mertens. In addition, she reached the doubles final of Wimbledon in 2021, with Elena Vesnina. She has also won two WTA singles titles. Kudermetova won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Volvo Car Open, 2021 Charleston Open, and her first WTA doubles title at the 2019 Wuhan Open, partnering Duan Yingying. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at the 2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and in doubles at the 2014 Kremlin Cup, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. Playing for the Russia Fed Cup team, Kudermetova has a win–loss record of 3–4. Personal life Kudermetova was born to Eduard Kudermet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudmila Samsonova
Liudmila Dmitrievna Samsonova ( rus, Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, , lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 12 in singles and No. 40 in doubles. She has won five singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her first title being a WTA 500, WTA 500 title at the 2021 WTA German Open – Singles, 2021 German Open. She has also won a total of eight singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. During the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup, Samsonova led the Russia Billie Jean King Cup team, Russian team to their first triumph since 2008, winning all five of her matches in both singles and doubles. Samsonova also competed for Italy from 2014 to 2018. Early life Samsonova was born in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Her family moved with the then-one-year-old Liudmila to Italy. Her father Dmitry, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Kasatkina
Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina (born 7 May 1997) is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, achieved in October 2022. Kasatkina has won eight WTA Tour singles titles and one title in doubles. Her best results at Grand Slams are making the semi-final of the 2022 French Open – Women's singles, 2022 French Open and the quarter-final of 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon in 2018. Born to athletic parents who were nationally ranked in athletics and ice hockey, Kasatkina began playing tennis at age six at the insistence of her older brother. She excelled as a junior, winning the European 16s championship and one junior Grand Slam singles title at the 2014 French Open – Girls' singles, 2014 French Open. Kasatkina quickly ascended up the professional rankings, reaching No. 32 in the world while still 18 years old and winning her first WTA title i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
