Dominika Cibulkova Biography
Became the second woman from Slovakia to reach the semis of a Grand Slam when she advanced to that round at Roland Garros in 2009. She achieved a career-high ranking of No. 12 that year, when she also reached the fourth round of the Australian Open. In 2008, she was a finalist in Amelia Island and Montreal. Cibulkova represented Slovakia in the 2008 Olympics. (as of October 28, 2009)
Daniela Hantuchova Biography Born April 23, 1983 in Poprad, Slovakia) is a Slovak professional tennis player. The Englishman Nigel Sears has twice been her coach. 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 15 January 2007 she is ranked #18 in the world in singles and #14 in the world in doubles.
HantuchovĂ¡ has won one WTA singles tournament in her career, in 2002 at the Tier I Pacific Life Open, defeating Martina Hingis 6-3 6-4 in the final. She has reached four other finals in her career—(Filderstadt 2002 losing to Kim Clijsters, Eastbourne 2004 losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova, Los Angeles 2005 where she lost to Clijsters again, and 2006 Zurich open, losing to Maria Sharapova in 3 sets), but has yet to win a second singles title.
Ana Ivanovic biography
Ana Ivanovic started to play tennis when she was only 5, after being inspired by Monica Seles (by watching TV), also a Serbian player. It was a hard task for Ana who had to practice in the early morning in 1999 in order to avoid the NATO bombing and, during the winter time, she used to use a abandoned swimming pool, due to the lack of tennis facilities.
She was first noticed by the tennis world when she reached the final of the 2004 Junior Wimbledon tournament, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko.The next tear, Ivanovic won her first career singles title, as a qualifier, in Canberra, Australia, (by defeating Melinda Czink in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1). That was a beginning of a string of successes; she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva the same year,all of them being WTA top 10 players by that time.
She finished off 2006 as the 14th best ranked woman in the world. In 2007, her career continued to climb. She entered in the selected group of the top 5 world tennis players (she finished 4th just 14 points shy of Jeleba Jankovic). And as the winter of 2008, after losing the Australian Open final to Maria Sharapova, she claimed the second WTA spot. To note that she eliminated in the "quarters" Venus Williams. She was only 21 years old.n 2008, she became the first Serbian and third Yugoslav woman ever to win a Grand Slam singles title (the others being 'Mima Jausovec' and Monica Seles) when she won the French Open, defeating Dinara Safina in the final.
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Anastasia Myskina (ah-nass-TAH-seeya MUYSS-kee-nah) was born July 8th, 1981 in Moscow, Russia from parents Andrey and Galina. She started playing tennis at 6 with her parents , she then went to the Spartak club in Moscow where she was coached by Marat Safin's mother until they left for Spain in 1994. Anastasia is trained by Svitoslav Mirza since 1994 and has improved every year since even reaching a career rank of #41 in July 2000! She is an established top-10 player and picked up the seventh tournament win of her career when successfully retaining her Doha title. Like most of her fellow Russians, Myskina has a tidy game from the back of the court, and also boasts a neat touch at the net. However, her record against the likes of the Williams sisters, Justine Henin-Hardenne, Lindsay Davenport and Jennifer Capriati is poor. It is also time for Myskina to make an impact at Grand Slam level but her record in Paris is woeful, having never made the third round in four attempts. Anastasia turned professional in 1998, the year in which she broke into the WTA top 500. The very next year, she entered the top 100 and went on to end 2002 in the top 20 and 2003 in the top 10. On March 8, 2004, she was ranked no. 5 in the world. She has won 8 WTA tour singles titles in her career as of 2004, with the most recent being Roland Garros. She routed fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-1 in the final to become the first Russian
Anastasia Pivovarova biography
She is called one of the hottest babes on the tennis court and the one to watch both on and off the court. Certainly all eyes were on her in August 2010 at the Rogers Cup in Montreal when Anastasia Pivovarova took to the catwalk at the players' party along with the other ladies of the court.
She was born in Moscow on June 16th 1990 and started playing at the age of 6 years-old. Was coached by Dmitry Degtiarev at CSKA Moscow and the Evert Academy and she is now coached by Antonio Badellou.Pivovarova played her first event on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2005 at the age of 15 and won her first singles title in Moscow in only her second tournament when she beat Olga Panova 7-6/7-6 in the Final.
She turned professional in 2007 and on the ITF tour that year she won three singles and one doubles title. In 2008 at Indian Wells and Miami she got wild cards into the main draws but lost in the first rounds of both and she qualified for the US Open main draw but lost in the first round to Patty Schnyder in three sets. She went on to win her first main draw tournament in Seoul.Then she was struck by a series of injuries which interrupted her tournament play on and off during the last two years.
She lost three months due to an abdominal injury, five months due to a back injury and she also had a broken wrist.Despite her injuries she managed to reach the 3rd round of the 2010 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, and she played in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships but was beaten by Maria Sharapova.Her mission for 2011 is to stay healthy and injury free. She qualified for the Main draw of the Brisbane International but lost in the first round to Jelena Dokic and she failed to qualify for the Australian Open, losing to Anne Kremer of Luxembourg in straight sets.Anastasia Pivovarova is currently ranked 118 in the World but aims to get into the Top 100 this year.
Andrea Petkovic Biography
Andrea Petkovic was born on September 9, 1987 in Tuzla, Yugoslavia. She is a young tennis player.
When she was six years old her tennis career started as well as she started playing tennis. Later she became a professional tennis player. Now (2007) she resides in Griesheim, Germany. Her coach and the person who goes with her at the tournaments is her father, Zoran Petkovic. Zoran and Amira are her parents and she also has one sister, Anja. Besides tennis, her favorite activities are going out with friends, listening to music, reading and acting.
Until now she earned almost one thousand hundred dollars just from the tennis tournaments. She won six ITF single tournaments, two ITF doubles tournaments, but still no WTA tournament. On July 30, 2007 she entered Top 100 on the 100th position, which is the highest position in this top for her. At three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, she hasn't qualified yet.
In 2007 at the Roland Garros she qualified and played into the first round. It was a great surprise when she won the round and passed into the second, but unfortunately, she was eliminated. She is a great player and has many chances to become an important name in the tennis world in the next few years.
Anna Chakvetadze biography
Anna Djamalovna Chakvetadze (born March 5, 1987, Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player. On February 19, 2007, she reached her career-high pro singles ranking of #10 in the world.
She began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother, Natalia. She travels for tournaments with her father. She speaks both Russian and English.
Chakvetadze debuted on the ITF circuit in 2001, competing in her first juniors tournament at Minsk, Belarus, losing in the first round. In 2002, she won her first ITF Juniors title at Istanbul, in her doubles debut with fellow Russian Irina Kotkina. In 2003, she made it to the finals of the Junior Championships at Wimbledon before falling to Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 4-6 6-3 3-6. The same year, she won the International Bavarian Junior Challenge, defeating Marta Domachowska of Poland 7-6 6-5. Her record as a junior was 67-19 in singles, and 22-14 in doubles. Her highest world ranking as a junior was #22 achieved in December of 2003. Chakvetadze turned pro in 2003.
In 2004, at her first ever Grand Slam appearance, and third WTA tournament appearance, she defeated the #3-ranked player in the world at the time, Anastasia Myskina, 7-6(3) 6-3 and reached the third round as a qualifier. With this result, she became tied for the second fastest player to defeat a world top 10 in WTA history, tying Serena Williams. She broke into the top 100 in the WTA rankings on September 13, reaching #91. She reached the top 50 on June 6, 2004 coming in at #44.
