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Iva Majoli: Her Biography and Career

Iva was born in 1977 in Croatia and is a professional tennis player. She has an older brother and sister back home. Iva took correspondence courses to graduate from Bradenton Academy in 1996. Her other sport interests include ice skating, in-line skating, sno-skiing and jet-skiing. Her favourite music has gone from techno/dance to rock/dance and her favourite colors are black, white and red. Iva describes herself as a woman with a lot of energy and she likes to spend time with friends when she's at home. Places she enjoys visiting include Maui, Hawaii and Paris.
9/24/2001
Iva Majoli took another step toward career rejuvenation last week. In 1997, she surprised the tennis world by winning Roland Garros, spoiling Martina Hingis' bid for the Grand Slam, but she hasn't been the same player since. Instead, she has battled injuries and waning confidence. In 2001, Majoli has shown flashes of her old brilliance, and last week she signaled she's ready to challenge for titles. American Meghann Shaughnessy defeated Majoli for the Bell Challenge trophy in Quebec. This photo of Iva Majoli was taken at the 2001 Ericsson Open.
Majoli Retires at 26 Posted by WTN at June 29, 2004, 4:10pm
Croatia's Iva Majoli, the 1997 French Open champion, announced her retirement from competitive tennis on Tuesday saying she lacked motivation.

Catalina Castano

Height/Weight: 5-7/132
Birthdate: 07/07/1979
Birthplace: Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Plays: R
Country: Colombia
Resides: Sarasota, Florida
Turned Pro: 1998
Tour: WTA

Li Na

Li Na (born February 26 , 1982, Wuhan, Hubei, China), is a professional women's tennis player from the People's Republic of China.
Between 1999 and 2004, she won twenty women's singles titles, nineteen of which were ITF events, and one (the first ever won by a Chinese woman) on the WTA Tour. A prodigious talent notable for her lightning-quick reflexes and athleticism around the court, her fast, exciting and generally accurate groundstrokes which she scatters unpredictably to all corners of the playing surface, and an eminently likeable on-court personality, she was previously disadvantaged by a two-year hiatus from competition in her early 20s, but since her return to the circuit at the age of 22 she has proven herself to be a force to be reckoned with for the world's top players.
Li Na has frequently entered women's doubles tournaments at events where she has played singles, and has won one WTA doubles title and sixteen further ITF doubles events in her career to date, but overall her greatest success and focus has been seen in singles. Her early success in doubles came mostly in partnership with Li Ting; but more recently she has made a charming habit of forming temporary women's doubles partnerships with players with whom she has previously enjoyed a healthy rivalry through repeated head-to-head meetings in singles tournaments, notably Liu Nan-Nan, Nicole Pratt, Yan Zi and Jelena Jankovic.

Anna Chakvetadze

Birth Date 05/03/1987,
Birth Place-Moscow, Russia
Residence-Moscow, Russia
Nationality-Russia
Weight-128lbs
Plays Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface-Hard
Coach-Pavel Ostovsky
Age Started Tennis-8
Personal Interests-Reading, listening to music and hanging out with friends when at home. Favourite football team is Milan.

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Anna-lena Groenefeld

Anna-Lena was born in Nordhorn, Germany on June 4th 1985, a city where she still resides. She was introduced to tennis at age 5 by her father and brother as they had a tennis club from walking distance from their home. She has two brothers, Philipp and Bastian (who played tennis at a high level). She made some pretty solid accomplishments early on. In juniors, Anna-Lena won the 2003 French Open (defeating Vera Douchevina in the final) and the 2002 Astrid Bowl as well as making it to the final of the 2002 Orange Bowl. She did continue to make progress as a pro, especially in 2005 where she made the final in Beijing, Pattaya City and Luxembourg but came up short of scoring a first singles title.

Patty Schnyder

Patty Schnyder (born December 14 1978, Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss tennis player. She turned professional in 1993.In 1996, she made her Grand Slam debut at Roland Garros. The following year, she defeated three top 10 players: Iva Majoli twice, Amanda Coetzer and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.In August 1998, she entered the WTA top 10.On December 5, 2003, she married Rainer Hoffman, an information technology specialist who now coaches her.In her career she has won 10 singles titles, including a victory in Zurich (Tier I Event) over American Lindsay Davenport, and 4 doubles titles. Her first title on U.S. soil came in August, 2005, when she won at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open.

Jelena Jankovic

Coached by Nick Bolletieri. Favorite surface is hardcourt and favorite shot is backhand. Introduced to tennis at age nine-and-a-half by older brother, Marco, (six years her senior) at Club Red Star. Father, Veselin, and mother, Snezana, are economists; brothers, Marco and Stefan, are students. Entire family plays recreational tennis. Learned piano as a child. Favorites include the color red, orchids, actor Robert DeNiro, the movie Titanic and the book Bridge on Drina...Other sports interests include basketball and swimming. Relaxes by watching TV and reading. Favorite city is Rome because of its history. Most memorable experience was winning Australian Open juniors. Pet peeve is tardy people. Considers herself competitive, friendly and well-organized. Learned French at a diplomatic school in Serbia...Admires Monica Seles. Greatest appeal of being a touring pro is to see the world and learn about different cultures.

Klara Koukalova

Klára Koukalová (born on February 24, 1982 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech professional female tennis player. She was born and still lives in Prague, the capital.
In her career she has reached eight singles finals and won two, in 2005 on the grass of Rosmalen (Netherlands) and in September of that year on the hard courts of Portorož (Slovenia).
She recently played in January 2006, a comeback player Martina Hingis, at the WTA Tournament, in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, whom she lost to in the second round of the tournament.
Klára is seeded No.29 at the 2006 Australian Open tennis tournament

Latest News On Sania Mirza

She's Starting to get a Bit Thick..LOL..August 30, 2005-Flushing Meadows, New York): Sania Mirza (current singles ranking 42) defeated Mashona Washington (current singles ranking 65) in the 1st round US Open Women's Singles Match. It wasn't a very convincing three set win. The three set match lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes, with the first two set going to tie-breaker. See Match Statistics Sania Mirza (India), severely hampered by a strained abdominal muscle, needed to dig deep into her reserves to outclass Mashona Washington (USA) 7-6(8-6), 6-7(6-8), 6-4. Whereas the 18-year old Indian was not in her best fitness, 29-year old Mashona's fragile temperament proved to be a counterpoint, making it a melodramatic contest. Both the teenagers seemed to be conscious of the big stage and the early phase of the match was spent in testing each other's weaknesses and strength. This was Sania's debut match in the US Open, whereas Mashona was playing in her sixth US Open. Sania went up, breaking Mashona in the very first game but the American bounced back with two successive breaks to go up 4-2. But serving for the set, Mashona was broken. In the tie-breaker, Mashona's nerves frayed and she let go a two set point advantage to Sania. Sania won the tie-breaker 8-6 and the first set lasted 47 minutes. The second set was a ding-dong battle that saw Sania fail to close the match after going 3-1 up. Mashona did well to come back twice from a break behind while Sania lunging to avert a break in the 12th game and pushed the set into the tie-breaker. Again Sania went up 3-0 only to allow Mashona to claw-back and in frustration Sania flung her raquet to the ground. Mashona, the local lass, failed to convert two set points but was successful on third break point. Mashona won the tie-breaker 8-6 and the second set lasted 48 minutes. In the decider, Sania again took the lead after breaking Mashona in the first game. But she surprisingly failed to put away two simple forehands, her strong points. Fortunately for Sania, Mashona was proving to be error-prone. After levelling the score 3-3, the American committed two double faults to hand Sania a 5-4 lead. Yet, the Hyderabadi lass had to stamp out a last minute challenge by Mashona who forced three break points. Sania finally clinched the issue when Mashona put a forehand wide and won the decider 6-4. The third set lasted 38 minutes.
thursday 01 june 2006-Putting behind the disappointment of her singles loss, Sania Mirza and Slovak Janette Husarova on Wednesday cruised into the second round of the doubles competition with a 6-1 6-3 win over the Spanish-Columbian pair of Conchita Martinez and Catalina Castano.
Putting behind the disappointment of her singles loss, Sania Mirza and Slovak Janette Husarova on Wednesday cruised into the second round of the doubles competition with a 6-1 6-3 win over the Spanish-Columbian pair of Conchita Martinez and Catalina Castano.

Iveta Benesova

BENESOVA, Iveta (CZE)
Birth Date-01/02/1983,
Birth Place-Most, Czech Republic,
Residence-Most, Czech Republic,
Nationality-Czech Republic,
Weight-56kg
Plays-Left Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface-Clay, Hard
Coach-Jiri HREBEC
Age Started Tennis-7
Personal Interests-Swimming, watching movies (fav. Forrest Gump, fav. actors Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnet), Italian food and shopping.
Current Singles-50
Current Doubles-43
Career High Singles*-33 * (07 Feb 2005)
Career High Doubles-26 (20 Jun 2005)
Singles Year End-54
Doubles Year End-38

Ana Ivanovic

Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић) (born November 6, 1987 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She started tennis at the age of five after seeing the sport on TV. She asked her parents to take her to the local tennis school and she was given a small racket as a birthday present from her father shortly after. Her idol is legendary tennis player and fellow Yugoslavian Monica Seles, who she says is her main inspiration for wanting to be a tennis player.
She first caught the eye of the tennis world when she reached the final of the junior Wimbledon tournament in 2004, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko. In 2004 she also went 26-0 on the challenger circuit, and won all 4 events that she entered, two of them as a challenger. Her first proffesional breakthrough occurred in October of 2004 when she took Venus Williams to two tiebreaks before losing 7-6(11) 7-6(6) in the second round of the Zurich Open in Zurich, Switzerland. She followed that up with a quarterfinal showing in Luxembourg the following week.
Ana is currently the 16th ranked player in the world, and at just 18, has already established herself as not only a star of the future, but a fan favorite. She is aiming to make it into the women's top 10 rankings during 2006 which many expect her to achieve.
Ana plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand. She has a strong forehand and serves well (at least because of her height of 6' or 1.83m).
Since her professional debut in August 2003 she won 5 ITF Titles and One WTA Single Title (Canberra 2005)

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Svetlana was born June 27th 1985 in St-Petersburg, Russia and started playing there, she later moved at the Emilio Sanchez Tennis Academy in Spain (she still lives there) and is currently coached by coaches from that academy.
She started her pro career in 2000 when she played 5 ITF tournaments reaching the quarterfinals twice. In only a few years on the tour, Svetlana has showed outstanding improvement and her ranking certainly shows as she improved over 600 ranks in her first full time year on the tour and entered the top 50 in her second. She now seems poised to continue to improve at a very quick pace to keep up with all the other Russians.

Welcome Back Martina Hingis

Welcome back Martina, after a three year absence.
Martina Hingis won a winner-take-all set Monday to complete a suspended match, beating Shahar Peer 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 for the final berth in the women's quarterfinals at the French Open. Unfortunately, she lost to Kim Clijsters.
"I've made a lot of improvement since Australia," Hingis said. "We'll see. Just got to come up with the best."
A five-time Grand Slam champion, the No. 12-seeded Hingis is playing at Roland Garros for the first time since 2001. It's the only major event she has yet to win.