|
2024 Upper Austria Ladies Linz
The 2024 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a professional women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the tournament, and part of the WTA 500 tournaments of the 2024 WTA Tour. It was held at the Design Center Linz in Linz, Austria, from 29 January to 4 February 2024. The tournament was upgraded to WTA 500 level for the first time since 2008 when it was last held as a WTA Premier tournament. Champions Singles * Jeļena Ostapenko def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, 6–2, 6–3 Doubles * Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini def. Nicole Melichar-Martinez / Ellen Perez 7–5, 4–6, 0–7 Points and prize money Point distribution Prize money 1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money * per team Singles entrants Seeds * Rankings as of 15 January 2024 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Angelique Kerber * Sinja Kraus * Jeļena Ostapenko * Dayana Yastremska The fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 500 Tournaments
WTA 500 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. At their introduction in 2021, WTA 500 tournaments' prize money was approximately $500,000. Since then, prize money awarded by WTA 500 events has grown less uniform, with one tournament's prize money rising to as much as $1.5 million. The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 500. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 1000 points for winning a WTA 1000 tournament, and 250 for winning a WTA 250 tournament. Events Current Defunct or Upgraded/Downgraded Historic names 1990–2008 ''WTA Tier II'' 2009–2020 ''WTA Premier'' 2021–present ''WTA 500'' Singles results 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Singles champions WTA Tier II WTA Premier WTA 500 Statistics Most titles Bold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Gracheva
Varvara Andreyevna Gracheva ( rus, Варвара Андреевна Грачёва, , vɐrˈvarə ɡrɐˈtɕɵvə, Ru-Varvara Gracheva.ogg; born 2 August 2000) is a Russian-born French professional tennis player. Gracheva has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 39, achieved on 8 January 2024. She has won seven singles titles on the ITF Circuit. Gracheva made her main-draw debut on the WTA Tour at the 2019 Ladies Open Lausanne, where she qualified by defeating Julia Grabher in the final round. In July 2019, she qualified for the Washington Open and won her first WTA Tour main-draw match, defeating Anna Blinkova. Personal information Early life Varvara Gracheva was introduced to tennis by her mother Natalia Kazakova, who coached her until she was 14 years old near Zhukovsky. Because of facilities limitations, she looked abroad to benefit from better conditions, before entering the junior circuit. First, she continued her training in Germany with Nina Bratchikova befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. On 12 July 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 36, and on 18 October 2021, she peaked at No. 62 in the WTA doubles rankings. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and three singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Podoroska competed for Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Podoroska was born on 10 February 1997, in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and grew up in a middle-class family in Fisherton, a neighborhood founded in the late 1880s by railroad workers. She is one of three children born to father Marcelo and mother Irene; she is of Ukrainian descent as her grandparents were Ukrainian, but she does not speak the language at all. Her father was a watchmaker by profession who over the years became a pharmacist, and her mother is also a pharmacist. Nadia was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA rankings, WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals – Singles, 2018 WTA Finals, and has reached three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles semifinals. Svitolina first broke into the world's top 50 in July 2013, reached the top 20 in June 2015, and then the top 10 in May 2017, making her the List of highest ranked tennis players per country, first Ukrainian woman to reach the top 10 in rankings after surpassing compatriot Alona Bondarenko. After winning her first WTA Tour title in 2013, she won three additional titles until 2017, during which she won five titles that same year to propel her into the top 10. Among her titles are the 2018 WTA Finals and three WTA Premier tournaments, Premier 5-level tournaments: the 2017 Dubai Tennis Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhelina Kalinina
Anhelina Serhiyivna Kalinina ( ; born 7 February 1997) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 22 May 2023, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 25. She peaked at No. 92 in the doubles rankings in January 2025. She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 15 titles in singles and three in doubles on the ITF Circuit. Career Juniors In 2014, Kalinina partnering with Elizaveta Kulichkova won the girls' doubles tournament at the Australian Open, defeating Katie Boulter and Ivana Jorović in the final. Later that year, she reached the final of the Junior US Open, losing to Marie Bouzková in straight sets. 2018: Major debut At the 2018 US Open, Kalinina had her singles main-draw debut in a Grand Slam tournament, after winning three matches in the qualifying. She defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the first qualifying round, Tereza Martincová in round two, and finally Jaimee Fourlis, also in straight sets, and went on to win a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaqueline Cristian
Jaqueline Adina Cristian (born 5 June 1998) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 49 in singles and No. 108 in doubles. She is currently the No. 1 Romanian player. Cristian has won one WTA 125 title, as well as 14 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. Career 2015–2020: WTA Tour debut Cristian made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 BRD Bucharest Open, 2015 Bucharest Open in the doubles event, partnering Elena-Gabriela Ruse. In March 2017, she received a qualifying wildcard for the 2017 Miami Open, Miami Open. Cristian reached her maiden WTA Tour final at the 2019 Bucharest Open in the doubles event, again partnering Ruse. 2021: Breakthrough & top 100 She reached the quarterfinals of a WTA event for the first time as a qualifier at the WTA 500 2021 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy where she lost to fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova. In September, she re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Tauson
Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002) is a Danish professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No. 21 in singles, achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 124 in doubles, on 16 June same year. Tauson has won three WTA Tour titles, all on hardcourts. As a junior, at the age of 13, Tauson became the youngest winner of the Danish tennis championship (surpassing Caroline Wozniacki's record who won at age 14). She won the 2019 Australian Open girls' singles event and became the first Danish girl to top the junior world ranking. On the professional ITF Circuit, she has won eleven titles, the first at age 14. Tauson's WTA Tour debut came in April 2019, and her major debut came at the 2020 French Open. In 2021, her first year as a senior, Tauson won her two first WTA Tour singles titles at the Lyon Open and at Luxembourg Open on top of one Challenger and two ITF tournament wins. This led to her entering the top 50 in the WTA rankings. Her 2022 and 2023 seasons were marre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucrezia Stefanini
Lucrezia Stefanini (born 15 May 1998) is an Italian tennis player. Stefanini has career-high WTA rankings of 99 in singles and 393 in doubles. She has won ten singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She was finalist for Italy in the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup. Career 2021–2022: WTA Tour debut and top 150 Stefanini made her WTA Tour debut at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open, 2021 Abu Dhabi Open, qualifying for the main draw by defeating Irina Fetecău in the final qualifying round. 2023–2024: Major debut and first win, top 100 Stefanini made her major debut at the 2023 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2023 Australian Open. She recorded her first win at this level, defeating Tatjana Maria in three sets, before losing to Varvara Gracheva in the second round. She received wildcards into the main draw at her home tournament, the WTA 1000 Italian Open (tennis), Italian Open in Rome in 2023 Italian Open – Women's singles, 2023, losing in the first roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jule Niemeier
Jule Niemeier (born 12 August 1999) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 7 November 2022. Career 2018–2019: WTA debut She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcard at the 2018 Nürnberger Versicherungscup in doubles, partnering Lara Schmidt. She made her singles main-draw debut at the 2019 Nürnberger Versicherungscup, as a qualifier. 2021: Two WTA semifinals As a qualifier, Niemeier secured her first WTA Tour main draw wins at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, reaching the semifinals, where she lost in three sets to fifth seed and eventual champion Barbora Krejčíková. Having received a wildcard entry, she also made the semifinals at the Hamburg European Open, losing to Andrea Petkovic. As a result, she entered top 150 at world No. 140, on 12 July. On her Grand Slam tournament qualifying competition debut at Wimbledon, Niemeier reached the third round but lost to Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Burrage
Jodie Anna Burrage (born 28 May 1999) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of world No. 85, achieved on 11 September 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 147, set on 15 January 2024. Burrage has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, along with six titles in singles and seven in doubles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. Early and personal life Burrage was born in Kingston upon Thames and grew up in Hindhead, Surrey. She was first introduced to tennis through her mother. Burrage won a scholarship to Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, which enabled her to develop her tennis at the nearby The West Hants Club, West Hants Club. Following the completion of GCSE exams Burrage relocated to Junior Tennis Coaching (JTC) in Chiswick, London, where she was guided by former tour professionals Colin Beecher and Lucie Ahl. Career 2020–2021: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Andreeva
Erika Aleksandrovna Andreeva ( rus, Эрика Александровна Андреева, p=ˈɛrʲɪkə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvə, born 24 June 2004) is a Russian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65, reached on 21 October 2024. She also has a best doubles ranking of No. 274, achieved on 11 December 2023. Andreeva has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Juniors Andreeva finished runner-up at the 2021 French Open in the girls' singles event to Linda Nosková. Career 2020–21: First ITF Circuit title In November 2020, Andreeva won her first senior ITF Circuit title at the $15k event in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. A month later, she won another ITF title, this time at the $15k Cairo, Egypt. In March 2021, she won her third $15k tournament. 2022: WTA Tour & major debuts In May 2022, she played her first significant final on the ITF Circuit, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayana Yastremska
Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska (; born 15 May 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 21 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, and No. 82 in doubles, both achieved in January 2020. Yastremska has won three WTA Tour titles. Her best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance is reaching the semifinals at the 2024 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2024 Australian Open. A junior Grand Slam tournament runner-up in both singles and doubles, Yastremska had a quick breakthrough onto the WTA Tour. She made her debut in the top 100 and won two titles when she was 18 years old, including her first at the 2018 Hong Kong Tennis Open, Hong Kong Open in 2018. She had a successful 2019 that helped her rise from No. 58 at the start of the year up to No. 22 by the end of the season. Yastremska was suspended provisionally from competition at the start of 2021 after testing positive for mesterolone. On 22 June 2021, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
