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Pelham Racquet Club Pro Classic
The Pelham Racquet Club Pro Classic is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event is classified as a $60,000 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour tournament and has been held in Pelham, Alabama Pelham is a city in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in July 1964 and is a suburb located in the Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama which was home to over 1.1 million residents as of the 2020 census. At the 2000 census ..., United States, since 2004. Past finals Singles Doubles External links ITF search {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelham Racquet Club Pro Classic ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Clay court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in the United States Recurring sporting events established in 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelham, Alabama
Pelham is a city in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in July 1964 and is a suburb located in the Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama which was home to over 1.1 million residents as of the 2020 census. At the 2000 census the population was 14,369, and has grown to 24,318 by the 2020 census, nearly doubling. It was named for Confederate Civil War officer John Pelham. Geography Pelham is located at (33.304581, -86.784620). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , is land and (0.89%) is water. Oak Mountain State Park, Alabama's largest state park, is located in Pelham. The city is located along U.S. Route 31, which runs directly through the city, as well as I-65, with access from exits 242 and 246. Downtown Birmingham is 20 mi (32 km) north, and Montgomery is 72 mi (116 km) south, both via US-31 or I-65. Demographics 2000 census At the 2000 census, there were 14,369 people, 5,637 households, and 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Min
Grace Min (born May 6, 1994) is an American tennis player who won the 2011 US Open girls' singles title. She also won the girls' doubles title with . Min's highest singles ranking is 97, set on 2 March 2015, and she peaked at No. 308 in the doubles rankings, on 17 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossana De Los Ríos
Rossana Neffa de los Rios (born 16 September 1975) is a retired tennis player from Paraguay. She was born in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and now lives in Miami, Florida, with her daughter Ana Paula Neffa de los Ríos and her husband Gustavo Neffa, a retired Paraguayan Association football player who played for Boca Juniors. De los Ríos achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 51 in singles and 52 in doubles. She played doubles with Grand Slam champions such as Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, as well as Jelena Janković and Dinara Safina. She is also a former world number one junior player, having won the 1992 Roland Garros Juniors event. De los Ríos participated in six editions (1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010) of the Australian Open. She was the only female tennis representative for Paraguay in the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games. De los Ríos was also in Paraguay's Fed Cup team in 1991 and 1992, and the Pan American team in 1999. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajla Tomljanović
Ajla Tomljanović ( ; ; born 7 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 31 October 2022, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33. On 5 January 2015, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. Tomljanović was an accomplished junior player, having won the 2009 Australian Open girls' doubles title with Christina McHale. She reached a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 4, on 30 March 2009. Before 2014, Tomljanović played for her country of birth, Croatia. She began competing for Australia at the 2014 US Open after obtaining permanent residency in Australia. For the next four years she was required to represent Croatia at all non-Grand Slam events, until she was granted Australian citizenship in January 2018, allowing her to represent the country at all events on the WTA Tour. Early life Tomljanović was born in Zagreb to Croatian father Ratko Tomljanović wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edina Gallovits
Klaudia Edina Gallovits-Hall (née Gallovits; born December 10, 1984) is a Romanian-born American tennis player. Her career-high ranking of No. 54 she achieved on April 28, 2008. She represented Romania until April 2015, then started playing for the United States. Personal life She married her American coach and manager Bryce Hall in November 2010. Her father was in the 1980 Olympics representing Romania in the Modern Pentathlon. Her sister played tennis at Florida State University. Career In June 2007, she reached the final of the inaugural Barcelona KIA event. In February 2010, she won her first WTA title in doubles at the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas in Bogotá. Her second doubles title came in September 2010 at the Guangzhou International Women's Open. In 2011, she defended her 2010 Bogotá title, winning the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas with Anabel Medina Garrigues. At the 2015 US Open, she played her last match on the tour. She was beaten in the first round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Voráčová
Renata Voráčová (; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player. Voráčová has won 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 56 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 11 October 2010, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 74. On 21 August 2017, she peaked at No. 29 in the WTA doubles rankings. Background and early life Voracova's father, Frantisek, owns a gas company, while her mother, Vlasta, manages a sports center. She also has brother, David, that is a professional dancer and still studying. She started playing tennis at age of 7. Junior achievements As a junior, Voráčová reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in singles and No. 3 in doubles. One of the highlights of her junior tennis career was winning the 2001 French Open doubles title, alongside Petra Cetkovská. Career 2017 At the Wimbledon Championships, Voráčová made the second week of a Grand Slam tournament for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic ( ; hr, Marina Eraković ; born 6 March 1988) is a retired tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won one singles title, at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Personal life Born in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Erakovic emigrated with her family to Auckland, New Zealand in 1994 at the age of 6. She attended St Thomas's Primary School and Glendowie College in Auckland. Junior career Erakovic and Monica Niculescu were the runners-up to Victoria Azarenka and Olga Govortsova in the 2004 Wimbledon girls' doubles, before Erakovic teamed with Michaëlla Krajicek to win the US Open title three months later, beating Niculescu and her Romanian teammate Mădălina Gojnea. Erakovic became the first player from New Zealand to win a Grand Slam title (singles or doubles) since James Greenhalgh and Steven Downs won the boys' doubles in 1993 at the French Open and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edina Gallovits-Hall
Klaudia Edina Gallovits-Hall (née Gallovits; born December 10, 1984) is a Romanian-born American tennis player. Her career-high ranking of No. 54 she achieved on April 28, 2008. She represented Romania until April 2015, then started playing for the United States. Personal life She married her American coach and manager Bryce Hall in November 2010. Her father was in the 1980 Olympics representing Romania in the Modern Pentathlon. Her sister played tennis at Florida State University. Career In June 2007, she reached the final of the inaugural Barcelona KIA event. In February 2010, she won her first WTA title in doubles at the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas in Bogotá. Her second doubles title came in September 2010 at the Guangzhou International Women's Open. In 2011, she defended her 2010 Bogotá title, winning the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas with Anabel Medina Garrigues. At the 2015 US Open, she played her last match on the tour. She was beaten in the first round of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi El Tabakh
Heidi El Tabakh (born September 25, 1986) is an Egyptian-born Canadian former professional tennis player. Her highest singles ranking by the WTA is 146, which she reached in October 2012. Her career-high of 173 in doubles, she set in February 2010. She represented Egypt, the country of her birth, from 2002 to April 2005, but since then has represented Canada. She has been inactive since April 2016 and became Canada's Fed Cup captain in 2019. Tennis career 2002–2016 El Tabakh won one of the biggest singles tournaments of her career in 2009 at the $25k in Valladolid, Spain. In May 2010, she qualified for her Grand Slam debut at the French Open, where she lost to Aravane Rezaï in the first round. In April 2012, El Tabakh won the second $25k event of her career at the Challenger in Jackson. She defeated former world No. 14, Elena Bovina, in the final. The week after, she won her second straight and third $25k tournament of her career in Pelham. In May 2012, El Tabakh qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurumi Nara
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 August 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 2 May 2016, she peaked at No. 109 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Japan Fed Cup team, Nara has a win–loss record of 12–8. Junior career Nara began playing tennis at the age of three. At the Esaka Tennis Center in Osaka, the budding pro player studied tennis under the tutelage of Japanese tennis luminaries Masaru Suishu and Hiroko Mochizuki. She won recognition from an early age as a tennis prodigy. In 2002, while enrolled in Kawanishi Makinodai Elementary School, Nara took second place in the All Japan Primary School Tennis Championships at the age of ten. She would go on to win that tournament in 2003. In 2004, after entering the middle school associated with Osaka Sangyo University, Nara won the girls' singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Duque Mariño
Mariana Duque Mariño (; born 12 August 1989) is a Colombian retired tennis player. Having turned professional in 2005, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 in October 2015. Duque debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2004. As a junior, she reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the 2007 French Open. She defeated the tenth-seeded Ksenia Pervak in the first round, and ousted juniors' world No. 1, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, in the semifinals. Duque lost in the final to Alizé Cornet in three sets. She had some setbacks during the tournament, due to losing her tennis rackets at the airport. Without money to buy replacements, she had to play with borrowed rackets. She won her first professional tournament in May 2006, in Mazatlán, Mexico. Her biggest win in senior competition is defeating 26th seed Anna Chakvetadze in the opening round of the 2009 French Open in three sets. Professional career 2005–2006 In 2005, she appeared in her first WTA To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Antonovna Putintseva ( rus, Ю́лия Анто́новна Пути́нцева; , ''puh-TEEN-tseh-vah''; born 7 January 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist (twice at the French Open and once at the US Open), and she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 in February 2017. So far, she has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour. Before June 2012, she played for her country of birth, Russia. Personal life Yulia Putintseva was born to Anton Putintsev and Anna Putintseva, and has a brother named Ilya. Born in Moscow, she currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida. She was introduced to sport by her father. She liked it and was soon practising at Spartak Club in Moscow. Later, she moved to Paris to attend Mouratouglou Academy after winning a big Under 14s event. Her favourite surface is clay, while her favourite tournaments are Australian Open and US Open. Tennis idols were Martina Hingi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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