- Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss", she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. - Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters (born June 8, 1983) is a retired Belgian tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 ranked player in singles and in doubles. During her professional career, Clijsters won 34 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won the U.S. Open singles title in 2005 and the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002 and 2003. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003. - Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf (born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, West Germany) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player from Germany. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Smith Court's 24. In December 1999, Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press. - Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva (pronunciation: VEH-ruh zvon-a-RYOH-vuh, Russian: Вера Звонарёва, born September 7, 1984, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. She finished 2002 in the WTA top 50 and 2003 in the top 20. - Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (born October 2, 1984) is a French professional tennis player. She has won three Women's Tennis Association titles in her career, but her biggest career achievement is a run to the 2007 Wimbledon Championships final. As of July 9, 2007 she is ranked 11th in the world by the WTA. - Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova is a professional tennis player from Russia. Petrova's career high ranking is World No. 3, a ranking she achieved after beating Justine Henin in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open in May 2006. She has reached the French Open semi-finals twice in her career, once in 2003 and again in 2005. As of July 9 2007, she is the No. 9 player in the world. - Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born March 12, 1981 in Slovenj Gradec) is a Slovenian professional tennis player, coached by Biljana Veselinovic. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006. Her nickname amongst fans is Kata. Although she has a career-high of No. 20 in singles, she has had better results in the doubles circuit. - Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (born July 31, 1982, Valencia, Spain), better known as Anabel Medina Garrigues, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of 23 in August 2006, and has won 7 singles titles and 7 doubles titles. Most recently she won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Amelie Mauresmo in the final in May 2007. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, … - Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone (June 23, 1980, Milan) is a professional tennis player from Italy. She turned professional in 1998. She has finished the 2005 season on the WTA Tour ranked #13 in the world in singles. She has yet to win a singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the US Open in 2003. - Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season. - Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn (born May 24, 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a professional female tennis player from Thailand. Her highest WTA Ranking has been World No. 19, a ranking she achieved on May 13, 2002. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova, with whom she won two titles in 2003. - Bethanie Mattek
Bethanie Mattek (born 23 March 1985 in Rochester, Minnesota) (height 5'4", weight 113lbs) is an American professional tennis player who competes on the WTA tour. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida. The only time that she has progressed beyond the first round of a Major was when she reached the second round at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships before falling 7-6, 6-4 to Svetlana Kuznetsova. - Emilie Loit
Emilie Loit (June 9, 1979) is a French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France. She rose to fame when she played against American Serena Williams 6-3, 6-7, 5-7 in this tough match at first round of Australian Open 2003. In her career Loit has won three career singles titles: 2004 Estoril, Casablanca and 2007 Acapulco (all on clay) and eight doubles titles. Emilie's highest WTA Ranking has been #27 in singles and #15 in doubles. - Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a Serbian professional female tennis player. Janković entered the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) top 15 in late 2006 when she reached the semi-finals of the US Open. At the beginning of 2007, she broke into the top 10 in the WTA rankings, and entered the top 3 when she reached the semifinals of the French Open. She won the Mixed Doubles title at Wimbledon 2007 with partner Jamie Murray. - Camille Pin
Camille Pin is a French tennis player. As of January 15, 2007, she is ranked No. 62 on the WTA Singles Tour. Pin plays right-handed and is 164 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall. Camille's 2006 season was rather successful, for a player ranked lower than the top 100 in the women's tour. After a second-round loss to Serena Williams in the Australian Open, she made 3 ITF tour event finals, taking one of the titles at Lexington. - Sofia Arvidsson
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Shinobu Asagoe , born June 28, 1976, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1997. 2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (no. 72). In the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top 50 player. She also reached her first WTA tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. - Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is currently working with a number of coaches who work under the Sanchez-Casal Academy. Her WTA Tour mentor in the Partners for Success program was Martina Navratilova, who was her doubles partner for a brief period in early 2005. As of July 9, 2007, Hantuchová ranks at No. 12 in singles. - Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva (born April 1, 1975) is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She has played in the WTA tour, competing in singles and doubles, since April 1989. Her best position in the WTA Tour was № 4 between January 29 to February 4 1996. - Sorana Cirstea
Sorana Cirstea (born on April 7, 1990 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian female tennis player. She is currently at her career high ranking of No. 169, a ranking achieved on April 30, 2007. In April 2007, she shocked tennis fans by coming out of relative obscurity to make the final of the Budapest Grand Prix, a Tier III event held in Budapest, Hungary as a qualifier. During the tournament, all of her main draw matches were pushed to three sets. - Alla Kudryavtseva
"' (born November 3, 1987 in Moscow) is a professional tennis player from Russia. Kudryavtseva qualified for the 2007 Australian Open and defeated Finland's Emma Laine in the first round 4-6, 6-2, 9-7, and then fell to her lifetime heroine, Martina Hingis, in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 in the second round. Her highest singles ranking as of June 26, 2007 World Number 59. Also on and as of June 26, 2007, … - Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva (Belarusian: "Наталля Зверава", Russian: "Наташа Зверева"; born April 16, 1971) is a tennis player from Belarus. Playing initially for the Soviet Union, Zvereva won many doubles titles during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. As a junior, Zvereva won the Wimbledon girls singles title in 1986, defeating Leila Meskhi in the final 2-6, 6-2, 9-7. - Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish tennis player. She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Girl's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. In May 2006, she played in her first WTA tournament in Warsaw (Tier II), where she reached the Quarterfinals (thanks to a wild card given to her by the organizers). In her first match she sensationally defeated # 7 seed Anastasia Myskina 6:4, 4:6, 6:4. In the second round she easily beat Klára Koukalová, … - Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez (born June 23, 1976 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA double tournaments, and by reaching the singles semi-finals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris. "La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the age of fifteen, in 1991. In 1994, she joined the professional tour as a singles player. - Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born December 28, 1970 in Haarlem) is a Dutch tennis player. She is married to Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati. Schultz is known for her fast serve, holding the record for the fastest serve in the WTA tour. Schultz turned professional in 1986. She married McCarthy in April 8, 1995. Thereafter, she is known as "Brenda Schultz-McCarthy". Schultz' career high was in 1996 when she reached World No. - Anne Kremer
Anne Kremer (born October 17, 1975 in Luxembourg City) is a professional female tennis player from Luxembourg. Her highest WTA Ranking has been World No. 18, a ranking she achieved on July 29, 2002. - Ioana Raluca Olaru
Ioana Raluca Olaru is a professional Romanian tennis player. At the 2007 French Open, she upset the 30<sup>th</sup> seed, Julia Vakulenko in straight sets, but eventually lost to the 7<sup>th</sup> seed Ana Ivanović in the third round. As of June 11, 2007, her highest singles ranking on the WTA was World Number 79, of which she achieved on June 11, 2007. In her career, Olaru has won 7 ITF singles and 6 ITF doubles titles, but no WTA titles. - Tatjana Malek
"' (born August 8, 1987 in Bad Saulgau) is a professional German tennis player. As of June 25, 2007, her highest ranking was World Number 87 for singles (when she achieved the ranking on June 25, 2007), and is ranked 87 for singles. Her highest doubles ranking as of June 12, 2007 was World Number 142"', of which she achieved on May 21, 2007. In her career, Malek has won two ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title, … - Shahar Pe'Er
Shahar Pe'er is a 1.71 m (5' 7") right-handed professional female tennis player. On January 29, 2007, she achieved her highest WTA ranking of # 15, and (together with Anna Smashnova) became the highest ranked Israeli tennis player ever. - Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Maleeva (born February 14, 1967) is Bulgaria’s all time best female tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1982 and 1994. Maleeva also sometimes played for Switzerland. - Iroda Tulyaganova
Iroda Tulyaganova (born January 7 1982) is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan. She has been ranked as high as #16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career. She returned to the main Tour in 2006 after a long injury absence, and in Kolkata in September 2006, she reached the semi-finals as a qualifier, leaping more than 120 places in the rankings to No. 222 after her success. - Kimiko Date
is a Japanese professional tennis player. In her career, she won over 200 tournament matches, including the Japan Open four times. In 1994, she was ranked in the top-ten women players in the world. In 1992, the WTA awarded her the "Most Improved Player Of The Year" and the Japan Men's Fashion Association named her "Most Fashionable." After playing in her second Olympiad, she announced her retirement on September 24, 1996. - Angela Haynes
Angela Haynes (born September 27, 1984 in Bellflower, California) is a professional tennis player from the United States. Haynes's top WTA ranking is World No. 95 which she attained in August, 2005. Angela is currently ranked World No. 175, race-singles World No. 180 and World No. 204 in doubles as of 13 November, 2006 Haynes's brother, Dontia Haynes, … - Andreja Klepac
"'"' (born March 13, 1986 in Koper) is a professional Slovenian tennis player. While she has not won a WTA title of any kind, she has won 3 ITF singles titles and 6 ITF doubles titles. As of June 12, 2007, Klepac reached her career-high singles ranking on June 11, 2007, when she became World Number 144, and also relevant of that date, she is on her highest singles rank. Her highest doubles ranking was World Number 164 on April 23, 2007. - Jelena Dokić
Jelena Dokić is a female professional tennis player who has played for both Australia and Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia prior to February 2003), and currently plays for Australia. Her career-high ranking is No. 4 (on August 19, 2002), but by the end of 2005 had slipped to 349th place in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) singles rankings. As of May 28, 2007, Dokić is 650th in the WTA rankings. The high points of Dokic's career include beating No. - Alina Jidkova
Alina Jidkova (born January 18, 1977 in Moscow, Soviet Union), soubriquet "Alinka", is a Women's Tennis Association tennis player who lives in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Her father, Vladimir, is an engineer; mother, Lina, is a school teacher; brother, Dmitriy, owns a construction business. Her most memorable tennis experience was playing Lindsay Davenport for the first time at the Australian Open and beating Serena Williams in 2004 in Linz. - Jim Pierce
Jim Pierce is the father and former coach of tennis star Mary Pierce. Jim introduced his daughter to tennis at the age of 10 (a relatively late age for a future professional). Just two years later, Mary won the US national 12-and-under junior title. In 1989, she became the youngest American player to make her debut on the professional tour, aged 14 years and 2 months (this record was broken the following year by Jennifer Capriati). - Katerina Maleeva
Katerina Maleeva (born May 7, 1969) is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990. - Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking (singles) was number 32 on July 9, 2007. - Ted Tinling
Ted Tinling (June 23 1910 - May 23 1990), sometimes known as Teddy Tinling, was a British tennis player, fashion designer, spy and author. He was a firm fixture on the professional tennis tour for over sixty years. He was born in Eastbourne and in 1923, suffering from bronchial asthma, his parents sent him to the French Riviera on doctor's orders. It was there he began playing tennis, particularly at the Nice Tennis Club where the then biggest star of the game, …
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