Kristina Mladenovic (Serbian: Кристина Младеновић, Mladenović, pronounced [mlaːdɛnoʋit͡ɕ]; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player.
Mladenovic has won one singles title and fourteen doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as four singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On September 28, 2015 she reached her best singles ranking of World No. 18. On October 24, 2016 she peaked at World No. 2 in the doubles rankings.
Although Mladenovic has enjoyed success in singles, her greatest achievements have all come in doubles, having won the mixed doubles titles at the 2014 Australian Open and 2013 Wimbledon Championships alongside Daniel Nestor and reaching the 2014 Wimbledon doubles final with Tímea Babos. At ...
Camila Giorgi (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈmiːla ˈdʒordʒi]; born 30 December 1991) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. Born in Macerata, Italy to Argentine parents, Giorgi started playing tennis at the age of five at a local club. After playing at a junior level, she made her senior international tournament debut in 2006 at the International Tennis Federation circuit. After winning her first title at the ITF tour in 2009, Giorgi made her WTA tour main draw debut at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.
Giorgi went on reach the fourth round of 2012 Wimbledon Championships in just her second appearance at the tournament. Post her successful run at the championships, she made her Top-100 debut in WTA rankings. The ...
Agnieszka "Aga" Radwańska[3] [aɡˈɲɛʂka raˈdvaɲska] ( listen) (born 6 March 1989) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in July 2012 and is currently ranked world No. 8 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Known for constructing points and making intelligent use of the court,[4][5][6] she has won twenty career singles titles, and is nicknamed "The Professor" among players and the media. Her achievements including winning fan favourite six times, shot of the year four times, and shot of the month on a regular basis.[7][8]
Radwańska holds a number of tennis accolades. She is the first Polish player in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam singles final (the 2012 Wimbledon Championships), the first Pole ...
Andrea Petkovic (Serbian: Андреа Петковић, Petković pronounced [pêtkoʋit͡ɕ]; born 9 September 1987) is a German tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old. Petkovic turned professional in 2006 and reached her career-high singles ranking of world number 9 in October 2011 after reaching the quarter-finals of that year's Australian Open, French Open and US Open. She suffered three separate injuries in 2012: a back injury in January, an ankle injury in August and a knee injury in December that kept her out for nine months and almost saw her fall out of the top 200. She has won five WTA titles, nine ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles. She won the season-ending tennis ...
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; IPA: [mɐˈrʲijə ˈjʉrʲjɪvnə ʂɐˈrapəvə] ( listen); born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Sharapova became the world No. 1 for the first time on August 22, 2005, at the age of 18, and last held the ranking for the fifth time for four weeks from June 11, 2012, to July 8, ...
Simona Halep (Romanian pronunciation: [siˈmona haˈlep]; born 27 September 1991) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Halep first broke into the world's top 50 at the end of 2012, and reached the top 20 in August 2013 and finally the top 10 in January 2014. She won her first 6 WTA titles in the same calendar year in 2013 (a feat that was last achieved by Steffi Graf in 1986 when she won her first 7), being named the WTA's Most Improved Player at its end, as well as being named ESPN Center Court's 2013 Most Improved Player. Halep reached the 2014 French Open final, her first Grand Slam final, where she played against Maria Sharapova, losing in three sets. She also reached the final of the WTA Finals the same year, losing to Serena Williams in straight sets after having defeated ...
