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Yuliana Fedak
Yuliana Leonidivna Fedak (; born 8 June 1983) is a Ukrainian former tennis player. Fedak has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 63, attained on 18 September 2006, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 34, achieved on 15 January 2007. She won six singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Fedak retired from tennis in 2011. Tennis career Fedak partnered Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko in women's doubles at Roland Garros. They lost in the third round to Květa Peschke and Francesca Schiavone. She partnered with fellow Ukrainian Tatiana Perebiynis for the qualifying event of women's doubles at Wimbledon. The pair qualified for the main draw and reached the semifinals but lost to Paola Suárez Paola Suárez (; born 23 June 1976) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. She was one of the most prominent women's doubles players throughout the early and mid-2000s, winning eight Grand Slam titles, all of them with Virginia Ruano Pascua ... and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.Kharkiv "never had eastern-western conflicts" , ''Euronews'' (23 October 2014) Located in the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the historic region of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and Kharkiv Raion. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, it had an estimated population of 1,421,125. Founded in 1654 as a Cossacks, Cossack fortress, by late 19th century Kharkiv had developed within the Russian Empire as a major commercial and industrial centre. From December 1919 to January 1934, Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber (née Horn; born 21 August 1976) is a South African- American retired tennis player who represented the United States internationally since August 2007. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On 12 November 2007, she became the co-world No. 1 in doubles with Cara Black. On 19 April 2010, Huber became the sole No. 1 for the first time in her career. Personal life At age 15, she moved from South Africa to the United States to attend the Van Der Meer Tennis Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1992. Huber has since resided in the U.S. and became a naturalized American citizen in July 2007. She married Tony Huber, an American, in February 2000. In 2005, she started a foundation, Liezel's Cause, to raise money and gather basic supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. She competed for the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko (born May 21, 1986) is an Uzbekistani-born American professional tennis player. She is of Ukrainian descent and played for Uzbekistan before relocating to the United States. Lepchenko won a singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour and 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won all her 14 ITF titles in the United States. Lepchenko has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 19, achieved October 2012. She was provisionally suspended from the WTA Tour in 2016 after testing positive for the heart medication meldonium, although she was found to "bear no fault or negligence" by the International Tennis Federation. In 2022, Lepchenko was suspended from tennis for four years (backdated to August 2021), after testing positive for the stimulant adrafinil, and its metabolite, modafinil. In February 2023, her suspension was reduced to 21 months, and she started playing again in May of that year. Early life and junior career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vania King
Vania King (born February 3, 1989) is a retired American tennis player. A former top-10 doubles player, King won both the Wimbledon and US Open women's doubles titles in 2010 with partner Yaroslava Shvedova, with whom she also reached the final of the 2011 US Open. She won a total of 15 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world. She also ended runner-up in the mixed-doubles final at the French Open in 2009, with Marcelo Melo. In singles, King has been ranked as high as No. 50 in the world. Her biggest accomplishments included a WTA Tour title at the 2006 Bangkok Open and two runner-up finishes at the 2013 Guangzhou International and 2016 Jianxi International. She also progressed as far as the third round in Grand Slam tournaments, doing so on four occasions (the 2009 US Open, the 2011 French Open, the 2011 US Open, and the 2012 Australian Open). King announced her retirement on April 6, 2021 Personal life King's parents move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateřina Böhmová (1986)
Kateřina Böhmová may refer to: * Kateřina Böhmová (1958), Czech tennis player (the mother) * Kateřina Böhmová (1986), Czech tennis player (the daughter) {{Hndis, Bohmova, Katerina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimini
Rimini ( , ; or ; ) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is one of the most notable seaside resorts in Europe, with a significant domestic and international tourist economy. The first bathing establishment opened in 1843. The city is also the birthplace of the film director Federico Fellini, and the nearest Italian city to the independent Republic of San Marino. The ancient Romans founded the ''colonia'' of in 268 BC, constructing the Arch of Augustus and the Ponte di Tiberio at the start of strategic roads that ended in Rimini. During the Renaissance, the city benefited from the court of the House of Malatesta, hosting artists like Leonardo da Vinci and producing the Tempio Malatestiano. In the 19th century, Rimini hosted many movements campaigning for Italian unification. Much of the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Czink
Melinda Czink (born 22 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. On 21 September 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 37. Czink reached two WTA Tour singles finals. In 2005, she lost to Ana Ivanovic in Canberra. In 2009, she defeated Lucie Šafářová in Quebec City for her first and only WTA Tour title. On the ITF Circuit, she won 20 singles and nine doubles titles. Tennis career 2000–2008 She played her first tournament at Budapest as a wildcard in 2000, and first entered the top 100 in 2003. Czink won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. At the 2005 Canberra International, Czink lost in the final round of qualifying to Ana Ivanovic, but after being selected as a lucky loser, she went on to reach her first-ever WTA Tour singles finals which she lost to Ivanovic again. 2009 She reached the top 50 and won her first title at Quebec City; as the fifth seed, she defeated Aleksandra Wozniak in the sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monterrey
Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Monterrey is a major business and industrial hub in North America. The city anchors the Monterrey metropolitan area, the second-largest in Mexico with an estimated population of 5,341,171 people as of 2020 and it is also the second-most productive metropolitan area in Mexico with a GDP (purchasing power parity, PPP) of US$140 billion in 2015. According to the 2020 census, Monterrey itself has a population of 1,142,194. Monterrey is considered one of the most livable cities in Mexico, and a 2018 study ranked the suburb of San Pedro Garza García as the city with the best quality of life in the country. It serves as a commercial center of northern Mexico and is the base of many significant international corporations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulnara Fattakhetdinova
Gulnara Maksutovna Fattakhetdinova (, born 13 October 1982) is a Russian former tennis player. In her career, Fattakhetdinova won two singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high ranking is world No. 246, achieved on 12 July 2004, and her highest ranking in doubles was No. 102 on 6 October 2003. After retiring from the professional tour, she became a beach tennis player. Career Fattakhetdinova made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2003 Kremlin Cup, in the doubles event partnering Galina Fokina. In June 2002, she made her WTA Tour main-draw singles debut at the Tashkent Open, where she run through qualification. In the doubles main draw, Fattakhetdinova partnered Ekaterina Kozhokina and the duo lost in the semifinals. They were beaten 6–4, 6–3 by Tatiana Perebiynis and Tatiana Poutchek Tatiana Poutchek (; ; born 9 January 1979) is a retired tennis player and current captain of the Belarus Billie Jean King Cup team. Her career-high ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of largest cities in the Arab world, the Arab world, and List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is List of largest cities, one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people. The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis and Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman empire, Roman fortress, Babylon Fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid dynasty in 969. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (; born 11 July 1990) is an inactive Danish 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, holding the position for a total of 71 weeks (including as the year-end world No. 1 in 2010 WTA Tour, 2010 and 2011 WTA Tour, 2011). Wozniacki has won 30 WTA Tour-level singles Caroline Wozniacki career statistics#Singles, titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2018 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2018 Australian Open, as well as the 2017 WTA Finals – Singles, 2017 WTA Finals. Wozniacki had a successful junior career, winning the junior title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, 2006 Wimbledon Championships. After being named the WTA Awards, WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2008, she contested two major finals at the 2009 US Open – Women's singles, 2009 and 2014 US Open – Women's singles, 201 ... [...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] |
