who won the women 's french open in 2018
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2018 French Open – Women's Singles Jeļena Ostapenko was the defending champion, but was defeated in the first round by Kateryna Kozlova, making her only the second French Open champion (after Anastasia Myskina in 2005) to lose in the first round of her title defense. World No. 1 Simona Halep won her first Grand Slam title, defeating Sloane Stephens in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1. She became the second Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title after the 1978 French Open champion Virginia Ruzici. She also became the sixth woman to win both the senior and junior title, having
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2018 French Open The 2018 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 27 May to 10 June and consisted of events for players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events. Rafael Nadal was the defending champion in the Men's Singles and won his 11th French Open title. Simona Halep won her first Grand Slam title in Women's Singles. It was the 122nd edition of the French Open and the second
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2018 French Open – Women's Singles Jeļena Ostapenko was the defending champion, but was defeated in the first round by Kateryna Kozlova, making her only the second French Open champion (after Anastasia Myskina in 2005) to lose in the first round of her title defense. World No. 1 Simona Halep won her first Grand Slam title, defeating Sloane Stephens in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1. She became the second Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title after the 1978 French Open champion Virginia Ruzici. She also became the sixth woman to win both the senior and junior title, having
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second set of her third round match against Maria Sharapova). It was also the Grand Slam tournament debut of future world No. 1 and 2018 French Open champion Simona Halep, she was defeated by Stosur in the first round. 2010 French Open – Women's Singles Svetlana Kuznetsova was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Maria Kirilenko. For the first time since the 1979 Australian Open, none of the semi-finalists had previously won a Grand Slam title. Francesca Schiavone won her maiden Grand Slam title, defeating maiden Grand Slam finalist Samantha Stosur, 6–4, 7–6, in the final.
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Hsieh Su-wei Hsieh Su-wei ( or "Xiè Shúwéi"; ; born on 4 January 1986) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 23, a position she reached on 25 February 2013. She won the doubles events of 2013 Wimbledon Championships, the 2014 French Open and 2013 WTA Tour Championships, all partnered with Peng Shuai. Her singles achievements include reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open in 2008 and 2018, and the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2018 (where she upset the reigning French Open champion and world No. 1 Simona Halep in the third
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ranking in 1973 after winning the US Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973. Women's tennis, in particular, has seen tremendous successes both in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the advent of Florența Mihai, Virginia Ruzici, Irina Spîrlea and Simona Halep. Three of these women reached the Top 10 of the WTA rankings in singles, namely Ruzici, Spîrlea and Halep whilst Mihai, Ruzici and Halep reached Grand Slam finals with Ruzici winning the French Open in 1978 and Halep winning the same tournament in 2018. Tournaments held in Romania on the men's tour every year included Romanian
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De Groot won her first US Open singles title at the 2018 US Open. In doubles, De Groot was a runner up in the 2017 Australian, French and Wimbledon championships. After winning her first doubles title at the 2017 US Open, she lost at the 2018 Australian Open and co-won the doubles event at the 2018 French Open. De Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon in July 2018. She won her second US Open doubles title at the 2018 US Open alongside Yui Kamiji. Outside of the
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Alexander Lévy Alexander Lévy (; born 1 August 1990) is a French professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour. Lévy won the French Amateur Championship in 2009, and the French International Amateur Championship the next year. Turning pro in 2011, his first wins of the European Tour came in 2014 at the Volvo China Open and the Portugal Masters. He won the 2016 Porsche European Open, and the 2017 Volvo China Open. He won the Trophee Hassan II in 2018, he has won a title in each year since 2016 so far and rose to 47th in the
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= tied Amateur Professional Alexander Lévy Alexander Lévy (; born 1 August 1990) is a French professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour. Lévy won the French Amateur Championship in 2009, and the French International Amateur Championship the next year. Turning pro in 2011, his first wins of the European Tour came in 2014 at the Volvo China Open and the Portugal Masters. He won the 2016 Porsche European Open, and the 2017 Volvo China Open. He won the Trophee Hassan II in 2018, he has won a title in each year since 2016 so far and rose
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the Cruyff Foundation Junior Masters in 2013 in singles and doubles. The following year, she won the 2014 Junior Masters in doubles. De Groot made her first Grand Slam at the 2017 Australian Open. After appearing in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and the 2017 French Open, de Groot won her first Grand Slam title at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. At her last Grand Slam appearance of 2017, de Groot was a finalist at the 2017 US Open. At the start of 2018, she won the 2018 Australian Open and appeared at the final of the 2018 French Open.
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dispatched the Austrian in three sets, never losing more than 4 games in a set, to win his record-extending 11th French Open title, equalling the record for most titles won in a single major by either men or women held by Margaret Court with her 11 titles in the Australian Open. His win was also his 17th major singles title, which is 2nd on the men’s Open Era list behind only Roger Federer. Nadal's schedule for 2018 included the Queen's Club Championships, but in the week before he chose to withdraw from the tournament to be able to recover after
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4, 2018. Ashworth won the bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in speed skating. Ashworth died on October 4, 2018 in Wilmington, New York. Jeanne Ashworth Jeanne Chesley Ashworth (July 1, 1938 – October 4, 2018) was an American speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics, 1964 Winter Olympics and 1968 Winter Olympics. Ashworth competed in the first Olympic speed skating event for women. She won the bronze medal, finishing behind a German and Russian. During the late 50's and 60's, when Ashworth was at the height of her career, she won 11 national championships. She was
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Pierre-Hugues Herbert Pierre-Hugues Herbert (; born 18 March 1991) is a French professional tennis player. In doubles, he won the title at the 2015 US Open, the 2016 Wimbledon, and the 2018 French Open as well as several Masters 1000 tournaments along with Nicolas Mahut. In singles he has reached two ATP career finals (at the 2015 Winston-Salem Open and the 2018 Shenzhen Open), and achieved his career high singles ranking of World No. 50 on 22 October 2018. Herbert won the Wimbledon boys' doubles title with partner Kevin Krawietz in 2009, beating French duo of Julien Obry and Adrien
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Carlene Starkey Carlene Starkey (born circa 1940) is a former American badminton player. She is married to former badminton player Rod Starkey. She was member of the American team that won the Uber Cup in 1963. Carlene Starkey and Larry Saben obtained the mixed doubles title of the U.S. Open in 1968, while together with Caroline Hein and Diane Hales, Carlene won the US National Badminton titles in the women´s doubles category in 1971 and 1975. Carlene also competed in the Mexican Open where she won the women´s singles in 1974. In the women´s doubles event, she won the title
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Dominic Thiem career statistics This is a list of the main career statistics of Austrian professional tennis player, Dominic Thiem. To date, Thiem has won eleven ATP singles titles including at least one title on each surface (hard, clay and grass) and reached one Grand Slam final at the 2018 French Open and two Grand Slam semifinals at the 2016 French Open and 2017 French Open. He was a finalist at the 2017 and 2018 Madrid Open, semifinalist at the 2017 Italian Open and 2018 Paris Masters, quaterfinalist at the US Open in 2018 and also reached the fourth round
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and Martyn Kravtsiv in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2012. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. Tigran Gharamian Tigran Gharamian (, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 and 2000. He came first at Fourmies 2007 and Charleroi 2007. In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vadim Malakhatko and Deep Sengupta in the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances. In 2011 he won the Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Open and tied for 2nd–4th with Alexander Kovchan, Boris Grachev and Ante Brkić in the
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Grand Slam event of 2018. Jeļena Ostapenko was the defending champion in the Women's Singles but lost in the first round to Kateryna Kozlova. This was the first French Open since 1992 that both the men's and the women's singles competitions were won by the top seeds. The 2018 French Open was the 122nd edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. A new shot clock that gives 25 seconds for the player serving, between points was introduced. Also for the juniors tournament, service lets wasn't featured. The tournament is an event run by
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Mate Pavić Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player specialising in doubles. He became a Grand Slam champion after winning the 2018 Australian Open men's doubles title. Pavić also reached the 2017 Wimbledon Championships men's doubles finals, and the 2018 French Open men's doubles finals, all partnering Oliver Marach. He also won mixed doubles titles at the 2016 US Open in partnership with Laura Siegemund and at the 2018 Australian Open with Gabriela Dabrowski.. Together with Dabrowski, Pavić also made it to the 2018 French Open mixed doubles finals. In May 2018 Pavić rose
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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 won her first major tournament at the 2018 French Open, having previously lost in the 2014 French Open, 2017 French Open and 2018 Australian Open finals. She also reached the final of the 2014 WTA Finals, losing to Serena Williams in straight sets after having defeated her earlier in the tournament 6-0, 6-2. Halep continued her success throughout 2015 and 2016 seasons, winning three titles in each respective season (including two Premier
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Iga Świątek Iga Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish tennis player. She has won seven ITF career singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 174 in September of 2018. As a junior, she won the 2018 Junior Wimbledon title. She was also the 2018 French Open Girls' Doubles champion with Caty McNally, and won the Junior Fed Cup with Poland in 2016. At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, she won gold medal in girls' doubles with Kaja Juvan. Iga Świątek was born to 1988 Olympic rower Tomasz Świątek who competed
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72nd in the ATP rankings, became the first unseeded men's singles semifinalist at the French Open since Gaël Monfils in 2008, the lowest-ranked male singles player to reach the French Open semifinals since Andriy Medvedev in 1999, and the first Italian man to reach a Grand Slam singles semifinal since Corrado Barazzutti at the 1978 French Open. 2018 French Open – Men's Singles Rafael Nadal was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Dominic Thiem in the final, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2. Nadal equaled Margaret Court's all-time record of 11 Grand Slam singles titles won at one major and
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2017 and became the first French Men's World Champion in that distance. In August 2017, he joined the club of A.A.S. Sarcelles Natation 95. Between 31 May and 3 June 2018, during the French Open Water Indoor Championships, he became French Champion of the 25 km in open-water for the seventh time, and French Vice-Champion of the 5 km and of the mixed relay 4 x 1,250 m mixed (with his team : A.A.S. Sarcelles Natation 95) at Gravelines. On 16 June 2018, he participated in the 4th stage of the 2018 Marathon World Cup in open water, and won
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Open. In March, Smith travelled to USA and played on the Challenger circuit, reaching the final of the León Challenger in Mexico. In May, Smith lost in the qualifying for the French Open. In June, Smith qualified for and lost in round 1 of 2018 Wimbledon Championships. In July, Smith won his first ATP World Tour doubles title in Atlanta Open. Smith competed on the Challenger circuit for the rest of 2018 with limited success. "Current through the 2018 US Open." John-Patrick Smith John-Patrick Tracey "JP" Smith (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player who competes mainly
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56 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.8% were Swiss men, 37.5% were Swiss women. , there was one student in Saint-Barthélemy who came from another municipality, while 104 residents attended schools outside the municipality. It is the residence of the tennis player Stanislas Wawrinka, who won a gold medal in men's doubles, partnering with Roger Federer at the 2008 Olympics and won the 2014 Australian Open title in 2014, and Roland Garros, the French Open title in 2015, and the US Open in 2016, winning in four sets over the number one seeded player, Novak Djokovic. The football manager and former
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Australian Open and was a quarterfinalist at the 2016 French Open in women's doubles with Zheng Saisai. She was also a quarterfinalist in doubles at the Australian Open in 2017 with Raquel Atowa. In 2017, Xu won the Miami Open Women's Doubles and the Connecticut Open Women's Doubles with Gabriela Dabrowski. Xu partnered Dabrowski again in the 2017 US Open, with the pair reaching the quarterfinals. In 2018, the duo won the doubles at the 2018 Sydney International, then reached the quarterfinals in the 2018 Australian Open. Xu Yifan Xu Yifan (; ; born 8 August 1988 in Tianjin) is
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of January 2019. Following WTA Auckland Open she will go to Melbourne to play in the qualifying round of the Australian Open. Iga Świątek Iga Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish tennis player. She has won seven ITF career singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 174 in September of 2018. As a junior, she won the 2018 Junior Wimbledon title. She was also the 2018 French Open Girls' Doubles champion with Caty McNally, and won the Junior Fed Cup with Poland in 2016. At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires,
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Kubot and Marcelo Melo took one of the spots in the event. Łukasz Kubot & Marcelo Melo began the year as the world no. 1's and started perfectly when they won Sydney International defeating Struff/Troicki in the final. At the Australian Open, they reached the quarterfinals and was upset by McLachlan/Struff narrowly losing the third set tie-break. After this, they struggled to get decent results including a third round exit at the French Open losing to Bopanna/Roger-Vasselin. They were able to break the drought at the Gerry Weber Open defeating German brothers A Zverev/M Zverev. However, being the defending champion
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Laver Cup; the annual team tennis tournament which pits Europe against the rest of the world. He co-founded the tournament in honor of tennis legend Rod Laver and the inaugural edition was played in 2017. In 2018, Federer returned to the Australian Open to defend his 2017 title and won his 20th Grand Slam tournament. This win placed him a total of four major titles ahead of long-time rival Rafael Nadal, who had won 16 Grand Slam tournaments. However, Nadal winning the 2018 French Open narrowed the gap back to three. Roger Federer has huge popularity in the world of
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into the French Open, losing to former world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. After the French Open, Fourlis took 3 months off to focus on her Year 12 studies, returning to the Australian ITF circuit in September, where she reached the quarter finals in both Penrith and Brisbane. In December, Fourlis won the under 18 Australian Championships and an 2018 Australian Open main draw wildcard/ Fourlis was given a wild card into the 2018 Hobart International where she defeated Nina Stojanović in round 1, before losing to Heather Watson in round 2. At the 2018 Australian Open, Fourlis
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Miss Cosmos 2018 held at Malaysia and won the sub title Most Talent 2018. She received Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Memorial Awards on 2nd September 2018, at Mumbai and Women Achievers Award at Bangalore on 28th September 2018 for her achievement in the Entertainment field. https://www.mirchi9.com/bollywood/archana-gautam-miss-bikini-india/ https://www.amarujala.com/photo-gallery/uttar-pradesh/meerut/archana-gautam-wants-to-win-the-miss-bikini-universe-crown-see-photos https://www.amarujala.com/tags/archana-gautam http://english.tupaki.com/movienews/article/Archana-Gautam-Wears-Pink-Bikini/74422 http://www.santabanta.com/wallpapers/archana-gautam/ http://filmytown.com/archana-gautam-sizzles-in-her-single-baby-dont-you-hurt-me/ Archana Gautam Archana Gautam (born, 1st September 1995) is a Indian Actress, Model and Beauty pageant title holder, who won Miss Bikini India 2018, represented India at Miss Cosmos World 2018 and won sub title of Most Talent 2018. Archana Gautam is a professionally qualified girl, has done her BJMC
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Nikola Mektić Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached the semifinals of the Men's Doubles 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the Men's Doubles 2018 French Open. He also won the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open Masters 1000 event. In November 2018 Mektić achieved his highest career ranking at No. 11. The same year surpassed the 1,000,000 $ mark in career earnings. Mektić was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1988 to Mirko (father) and Višnja (mother). He began playing tennis at age 6 after his brother Luka took up the sport. He
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2018 French Open – Men's Doubles Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus were the defending champions, but they chose not to compete together this year. Harrison played alongside Vasek Pospisil, but lost in the first round to Federico Delbonis and Benoît Paire. Venus teamed up with Raven Klaasen, but lost in the third round to Nikola Mektić and Alexander Peya. Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the title, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the final, 6–2, 7–6. Herbert and Mahut were the third all-French team to reach the French Open men's doubles final in six years. Pavić retained the
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a Grand Slam title. The next two Grand Slams were also won by Russian women (Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon and Svetlana Kuznetsova at the US Open). She also became the first French Open women's title winner after having saved a match point en route to the title (against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 4th round). In the mixed doubles, French players Tatiana Golovin and Richard Gasquet (aged 16 and 17 respectively) won the tournament after entering as wildcards. France also saw success in the boys' singles, where Gaël Monfils won. Juan Carlos Ferrero and Justine Henin-Hardenne were both unsuccessful in defending
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2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open The 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open was the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open and was the 14th championship run by the United States Golf Association. It was open to women whose 50th birthday fell on or before the first day of competition and held a handicap index not exceeding 7.4. The championship was played at the Chicago Golf Club from July 12 to 15. The championship was won by Laura Davies with a score of 276, 10 strokes ahead of runner-up Juli Inkster. The 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open was the 12th USGA Championship contested
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2017 French Open, her greatest achievements have all come in doubles, having won the 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 Australian Open mixed doubles titles alongside Daniel Nestor, the 2016 French Open women's doubles title with Caroline Garcia, and the 2018 Australian Open women's doubles title with Tímea Babos. Mladenovic was the women's doubles runner-up in three other Grand Slam tournaments - the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, the 2016 US Open and the 2018 US Open. Mladenovic had been representing France at the Fed Cup since 2012. Her Fed Cup win-loss record is 9–7 in singles and 11–2 in doubles. She represented France
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2018 Australian Open – Women's Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but Mattek-Sands could not participate this year due to injury. Šafářová played alongside Barbora Strýcová, but lost in the quarterfinals to Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai. Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won the title, defeating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 6–4, 6–3. It was the first Grand Slam title for Babos, who became the first Hungarian player to win a Grand Slam event since Andrea Temesvári in the 1986 French Open and the second Grand Slam title for Mladenovic. Makarova and Vesnina
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1998) Rafael Nadal is considered the greatest Spanish tennis player of all time. He has won the French Open a record eleven times, winning four consecutive French Open titles from 2005-2008 along with five consecutive French Open titles from 2010-2014 and another title in 2017 and 2018. After defeating then world number #1 Roger Federer in 2008, Nadal claimed the Wimbledon trophy and became only the second Spaniard to do so. He also won the 2009 Australian Open, the first male Spaniard to do so. In 2009, he became the first player ever to simultaneously hold Grand Slam titles on
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the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, but they lost in first round. They also tried to imitate their past year quarterfinals run on the French Open, but they lost in second round. Partnering with Roman Jebavy, they reached semifinals of the 2018 Antalya Open. Peralta and Zeballos partnered again for the 2018 Wimbledon and won over 16th seeds Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald in first round, but then lost in second round. The partnership went on and they won the 2018 Swedish Open, beating at the final the italian couple Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini. The following week Peralta and
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doubles players to win the home Grand Slam since Gail Sherriff Chanfreau and Françoise Dürr in 1971, and the first of any French women to win since Mary Pierce who won in 2000, partnering Hingis. 2016 French Open – Women's Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson. Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza had the chance to hold all four Grand Slam championship titles, but lost in the third round to Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková. It would have been Hingis' second non-calendar year Grand Doubles
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won his first top-level singles title in Hong Kong and his first tour doubles title in Hilversum. In 1992, the 1.95 m (6' 5") Dutchman reached his first Grand Slam semifinals at the Australian Open. He had to withdraw from this semifinal match due to a shoulder injury. The following year, he reached the semifinals at the French Open, where he lost in four sets to the defending champion Jim Courier. Also in 1992, Krajicek made a controversial comment regarding equal pay for women in Grand Slam events, saying, "Eighty percent of the top 100 women are fat pigs who
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he played in the third round against Fabio Fognini. At the 2018 French Open, he won against Leonardo Mayer before losing to fifth seed Juan Martín del Potro. "Current till 2018 Stockholm Open Julien Benneteau Julien Henry Guy Benneteau-Desgrois (; born 20 December 1981) is a French semi-retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is ATP world no. 25, which he reached in November 2014. He formerly resided in Boulogne-Billancourt and now lives in Geneva. Benneteau has not won a singles title, finishing as runner-up in ten ATP tournaments (holding match point in the 2013 Kuala Lumpur final). He
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1992 French Open The 1992 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 25 May until 7 June. It was the 96th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1992. This was the last time both the top seeds won the men's singles and women's singles until the 2018 French Open. Jim Courier defeated Petr Korda, 7–5, 6–2, 6–1 Monica Seles defeated Steffi Graf, 6–2, 3–6, 10–8 Jakob Hlasek / Marc Rosset defeated David Adams
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2018 French Open (badminton) The 2018 French Open, officially YONEX French Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France from 23 to 28 October 2018 and had a total prize of $750,000. The 2018 French Open is the twenty-first tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the French Open championships, which had been held since 1909. This tournament is organized by French Badminton Federation and sanctioned by the BWF. This international tournament was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France. Below is the tables with
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Klára Zakopalová, the 32nd seed. After direct acceptance into the main draw of the 2011 French Open, Baltacha defeated American qualifier Sloane Stephens. Due to the previous win by fellow Briton Heather Watson, it was the first time since 1992 that two British women had cleared the first round of the French Open. In the second round, Baltacha drew another American Vania King, who defeated her in three sets. On 12 June, Baltacha won her first tournament of the season, winning the 2011 Aegon Nottingham Challenge without dropping a single set throughout the tournament, defeating Petra Cetkovská in the final.
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Jeanne Ashworth Jeanne Chesley Ashworth (July 1, 1938 – October 4, 2018) was an American speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics, 1964 Winter Olympics and 1968 Winter Olympics. Ashworth competed in the first Olympic speed skating event for women. She won the bronze medal, finishing behind a German and Russian. During the late 50's and 60's, when Ashworth was at the height of her career, she won 11 national championships. She was born in Burlington, Vermont. She lived near Lake Placid, where she ran her family toy and candy company. She died of pancreatic cancer on October
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only during the 1960s when they won the right to work without getting permission from their husbands, in addition to the right to open personal bank accounts. At present, due to effective health care provision in the country, the life-span of women is at an average of 80.9 years old. So-called "infant allowances" are available to subscribing pregnant women and their newborn children. In 1988, the unemployment rate among the French population was described to be "higher among women". However, in modern-day France, women who have attained a "suitable level of education" and training are gaining prominent positions in the
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’09);. Saba also won the ladies singles title at the QTF-Intercontinental Tennis Open (Doha, Qatar Nov.'12) and the ladies doubles title at the Smash Tennis Academy Championship (Doha, Qatar May '15). In 2012, Saba was listed in Newsweek Pakistan's list of 100 women who matter. In 2018, she was selected amongst the 150 leading women of the University of London since women gained access to higher education in the UK . She is the only Pakistani woman on the list. Saba was also a Fulbright Scholar 2013 at Boston University. Saba Aziz Saba Aziz (born 26 November 1988) is a
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2017, Jeļena Ostapenko became the first Latvian to win a Grand Slam title when she won the Women's Singles Title at the 2017 French Open . In March 2018 she reached a career high singles ranking of no. 5 and she has a career high doubles ranking of no. 32 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Another WTA Player is Anastasija Sevastova who reached a career high ranking of no. 15 in 2017 and has reached three US Open quarterfinals, including one semifinal, and has won three WTA titles. In the Fed Cup, the Latvian team reached World Group II
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doubles and the US Open girls' doubles titles with fellow Czech Kateřina Siniaková. Together with Siniaková, she won the women's doubles at the 2018 French Open and 2018 Wimbledon . Barbora Krejčíková Barbora Krejčíková (born 18 December 1995) is a Czech tennis player. Krejčíková has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one doubles WTA 125K series title, as well as nine singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 14 August 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 121. On 25 June 2018, she peaked at No. 4 in
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an ATP tournament, but losing against eventual champion Diego Schwartzman. The next tournament, he reached his first ATP final at the 2018 Brasil Open. He lost in the final to Fabio Fognini. This effort took him to career best ranking of world No. 61. After reaching the quarterfinals at the 2018 Estoril Open and losing in the first round of the 2018 French Open, Nicolás won his first match in a Grand Slam at 2018 Wimbledon, defeating 28th seed Filip Krajinovic in four sets. He lost to Mackenzie McDonald in five sets in the second round. Few weeks later at
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year came to a close. On August 12, 2018, Osuigwe won the USTA girls 18s tennis championship which earned her a wild-card entry into the main draw of the US Open. Osuigwe made her WTA main draw debut at the 2018 Miami Open, losing to her fellow wild card and junior rival Claire Liu. Whitney Osuigwe Whitney Osuigwe ( ; born 17 April 2002) is an American tennis player. She is the reigning ITF Junior World Champion and a former No. 1 junior in the world. Osuigwe also won the 2017 French Open to become the first American to win
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on record in terms of Grand Slam results. He then went on to win the [[2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles|2018 Indian Wells doubles title]] with his partner Jack Sock, as they defeated the Bryan Brothers in two tiebreak sets. Isner then played at the [[2018 Miami Open – Men's Singles|Miami Open]], where he won his first Masters 1000 title. Isner defeated Alexander Zverev in the final. With this win, Isner returned to his career-high ranking of world no. 9. Isner reached the fourth round of the French Open and advanced to his first quarterfinal at a Slam in
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2018 French Open – Men's Singles Rafael Nadal was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Dominic Thiem in the final, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2. Nadal equaled Margaret Court's all-time record of 11 Grand Slam singles titles won at one major and became the first player to achieve that feat in the Open era. He dropped only one set during the entire tournament (losing the first set of his quarterfinal match against Diego Schwartzman). Nadal also retained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking by defending the title. Nadal and Roger Federer (despite having withdrawn from the clay season) were
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the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event. The total prize money for this year's tournament was US$750,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations. 2018 French Open (badminton) The 2018 French Open, officially YONEX French Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France from 23 to 28 October 2018 and had a total prize of $750,000. The 2018 French Open is the twenty-first tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also
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quarterfinals of Internazionali BNL d'Italia and French Open losing to eventual champions Svitolina and Halep, Respectively. At the grass season, Kerber suffered an upset in the hands of Alison Riske in the first round of the Mallorca Open, but she bounced back by reaching the semifinals of Eastbourne International losing to top seed Caroline Wozniacki. At Wimbledon, Kerber won her third grand slam title and her first at the event defeating Serena Williams in the final in straight sets. This means Kerber has won 3 of the 4 slams, only missing the French Open. After her slam triumph, Kerber had
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2018 Juan Martín del Potro tennis season The 2018 Juan Martín del Potro tennis season officially commenced on 10 January 2018 with the start of the Delray Beach Open. This season saw Del Potro slightly improve on his previous results as well as his playing style. Highlights from his season includes winning his 400th career match in Indian Wells, where he won the first Masters 1000 title of his career. After he was forced to retire due to a leg injury in the Italian Open, his participation in the French Open was apparently at risk. However, the Argentine managed to
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2018, the decision was overturned on appeal." "South Africa won 7–0 on aggregate." "2–2 on aggregate. Zambia won on away goals." The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification The 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification was a women's football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Ghana who qualified automatically as hosts. Apart from Ghana, the remaining 53 members of CAF were eligible to enter the qualifying competition, and a
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open to both men and women, it was only in 1986 that the first woman won – Jenny Runacre as Miss National Geographic. The previous year's competition was won by a robot created by Bruce Lacey, Miss ROSA BOSOM (Radio Operated Simulated Actress Battery or Standby Operated Mains), which was first designed for a theatre production in 1966. The 1998 Alternative Miss World was won by 75-year-old Russian woman, Miss Pani Bronya, who remains its oldest winner. There has been a significant Russian presence since the 1990s, and the 2018 competition was won by the Russian performance artist Andrey Bartenev
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2012 French Open – Men's singles final The 2012 French Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2012 French Open. In the final, Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 7–5 to win the match. It was a Major final match of historic proportions for both players. Nadal was looking to become the first man to win seven French Open titles, thus breaking the record previously held by Björn Borg, who won six titles, and equalling the record held by Chris Evert, who won seven titles. Djokovic was trying to
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back to the French colonial period. Touch Football is a popular sport in Lebanon. In 1998, Lebanese Australians founded the "Lebanon Touch Football Association". Since Lebanon's international debut in 1999 they have qualified for the 1999 World Cup in Australia where the Men's O30's won silver, Mixed Open won bronze and Men's Open came 5th. In the 2001 Youth World Cup in New Zealand the Lebanese Men's U18's team finished 4th and Men's U20's came 6th. In the 2005 Youth World Cup in Australia the Men's U20's defeated South Africa to win the bronze medal. In the 2007 World Cup
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Tigran Gharamian Tigran Gharamian (, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 and 2000. He came first at Fourmies 2007 and Charleroi 2007. In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vadim Malakhatko and Deep Sengupta in the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances. In 2011 he won the Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Open and tied for 2nd–4th with Alexander Kovchan, Boris Grachev and Ante Brkić in the Open Master Tournament in Biel. Gharamian tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze
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2018 World Open (snooker) The 2018 HongRuiMa Yushan World Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6 and 12 August 2018 in Yushan, China. It was the second ranking event of the 2018/19 season. Qualifying took place between 6–9 July in Preston. Ding Junhui was the defending champion, who defeated Kyren Wilson 10–3 in the 2017 World Open final, but lost 5–4 to Robert Milkins in the last 32 of the 2018 event. Mark Williams won his 22nd ranking title, defeating David Gilbert 10–9 in the final. Williams trailed 5–9 but won the last 5 frames.
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years old. She won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women 2013. After participating in a few friendlies in 2014 and 2015, she played again official games in February 2018, when coach Lucas Mondelo called her up for the 2019 EuroBasket qualifiers. Up to February 2018, she had 24 caps with 3.7 PPG. Queralt Casas Queralt Casas (born 18 November 1992) is a Spanish basketball player. She plays as a forward in the French League for Flammes Carolo Basket. Also a member of the Spanish national team, she won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women 2013 with the senior
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the final, before losing to Federer, who by winning the French Open for the first (and, as of 2018, only) time completed his own Career Grand Slam and equalled Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 Major titles. Nadal later withdrew from Wimbledon due to a knee injury, while Federer, who lost to Nadal in the previous year's final, would regain the title and return to world number one in the rankings, displacing Nadal who dropped to No. 2 as a result of being unable to defend the Wimbledon title which he won in 2008. It should be noted that just as
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tennis bodies of Asian nations, the current list of members is:- Asia is by far the most populous continent but tennis still remains a sport under development. Besides a couple of Asian nations like India, China and Japan who have produced some world class players, tennis does not have a very long and fruitful history. The only Asian to ever win a single tennis grand slam is Chinese women Li Na, who won both the woman’s French Open 2011 and Australian Open 2014, with over 100 million people watching in China. She grew up playing badminton and only switched over
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2018 Scottish Open (snooker) The 2018 BetVictor Scottish Open was professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 10 to 16 December 2018 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the tenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series. The tournament was won by Mark Allen who beat Shaun Murphy in the final. Allen led 6–3 but then Murphy won four frames in a row to take a 7–6 lead. Allen, however, won the next three frames to win 9–7. Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 2–4 to
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streak for her new country the US, with victories in Peru, the US, Brazil and the Netherlands. She won her first Grand Prix title at the 2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold, then won the 2014 Brazil Open Grand Prix and 2014 Dutch Open Grand Prix. In 2016, Zhang competes in Skagen, Denmark, for Vendsyssel Elite Badminton. At the same year, she reach the final round at the BWF Super Series event in French Open, but she finished as the runner-up losing a match to He Bingjiao of China in straight games. In 2018, she won her first BWF World
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also made it to the 2018 French Open finals, where they lost to Mahut and Herbert. After the French Open, Pavić and Marach went 10-8, losing in both 2018 Wimbledon Championship and 2018 US Open first rounds. "Current through the 2018 US Open." Mate Pavić Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player specialising in doubles. He became a Grand Slam champion after winning the 2018 Australian Open men's doubles title. Pavić also reached the 2017 Wimbledon Championships men's doubles finals, and the 2018 French Open men's doubles finals, all partnering Oliver Marach. He also
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W. Birschoyle, M. Leywe and J. Boyles founded the Rosario Lawn Tennis. The first Argentine tennis player of European descent to achieve some international success was Mary Terán de Weiss in the 1940s and 1950s; the sport, however, was considered an elite men's sport and her efforts to popularize this activity among women did not prosper at the time. Guillermo Vilas, who is of Spanish descent, won the French Open and the US Open both in 1977, and two Australian Open in 1978 and 1979, and popularized the sport in Argentina. Another sport in which Argentines with European ancestry have
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Open, held in Arlington. In July 2015, he won the 3rd AIDEF Chess Championship (French-speaking countries chess championship) in Montreal. He tied for first in the 2018 French Chess Championship with Tigran Gharamian and Yannick Gozzoli. Gharamian won the playoff. Édouard has played for the French national team at the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014, and at the European Team Chess Championships of 2009, 2013 and 2015. In the 2013 event he won the team silver medal and the individual gold on board three. Romain Édouard Romain Édouard (born 28 November 1990) is a French chess grandmaster. Born
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Boys' Doubles together with Hungarian Márton Fucsovics. Hsieh compiled a doubles win/loss record of 124-33 (69-44 in singles) and reached a career-high of No. 8 in the ITF Junior combined world rankings in April 2009. Junior Slam results – Singles: Australian Open: QF (2009) French Open: 1R (2009) Wimbledon: 2R (2009) US Open: 1R (2008, 2009) Junior Slam results – Doubles: Australian Open: W (2008) French Open: QF (2008) Wimbledon: W (2008) US Open: W (2009) Hsieh has won 15 Challenger titles in doubles, reaching a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 89 in November 2018. Hsieh Cheng-peng Hsieh Cheng-peng
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Clara Burel Clara Burel (; born 24 March 2001) is a French tennis player. In singles, she reached two Grand Slam junior finals and won the silver medals at the Youth Summer Olympics. In 2018, she became the junior world No.1. In 2018, Burel reached the junior singles final at three major events : the Autralian Open, the US Open and the Youth Summer Olympics (YOG). Partnering with compatriot Hugo Gaston, she also won the mixted double bronze medal at the YOG. In October, Burel qualified for the ITF Junior Masters, where she captured her first major title. She became
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has played in the most five-set matches that have gone beyond 6–6 in the post-tiebreak era, his longest fifth set being 16–14 at the 2009 Australian Open against Gilles Müller. He reached the quarter-finals of the US Open in 2015, and won his first Grand Slam title at the 2016 French Open when he won the men's doubles title with Marc López. In 2017 at the age of 35 López won the Aegon Championship at The Queen's Club, London, beating Marin Čilić in a third set tiebreak. As of the 2018 US Open, López has made 67 consecutive Grand Slam
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the tournament. Later that month, Ross left her previous partner Sweat to team up with Sara Hughes, who she previously played with in the 2012 U21 World Championships. Hughes and Ross won their first tournament as a team at the AVP New York Open in June 2018, as part of the 2018 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. The pair medalled in their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour tournament the following month, winning bronze at the Espinho Open. Hughes and Ross later won the 2018 AVP Hermosa Beach Open and the 2018 Moscow Open, the latter being their first FIVB
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losing a set en route to the quarterfinals. His opponent in the QF, clay-court specialist Diego Schwartzman, took the first set and became the first person to win a set against Nadal in the tournament since Djokovic defeated Nadal in straight sets in the 2015 French Open, thus ending Nadal's 37 sets win streak at the French Open. Nadal won the next three sets and continued his form by defeating Juan Martín del Potro in the semifinals in straight sets. In the final, he met Dominic Thiem, the only man to beat Nadal on clay in 2017 and 2018. Nadal
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Gabriela Dabrowski Gabriela "Gaby" Dabrowski (; , ; born April 1, 1992) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 164 on November 3, 2014 and her highest doubles ranking of No. 7 on March 19, 2018. She won the 2017 French Open mixed doubles title with Rohan Bopanna, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a senior Grand Slam title. With Mate Pavić, she also won the 2018 Australian Open mixed doubles title. She played in her first provincial tournament when she was 8. Her first big victory was at the provincial
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2018 French Open – Women's Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together this year. Mattek-Sands played alongside Latisha Chan, but lost in the second round to Irina Bara and Mihaela Buzărnescu. Šafářová teamed up with Svetlana Kuznetsova, but lost in the second round to Sorana Cîrstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo. Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková won their first Grand Slam doubles title, defeating Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6–3, 6–3. Despite losing in the first round with different partners, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina jointly attained the WTA
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2018 Denmark Open, her ranking points will coming to 101,517. She becomes the second player in the women's singles category to break 100,000 points, whose the first is Li Xuerui from China, led the points by 101,644. Although lost the final game of 2018 French Open, she still won 9,350 points. By deleted the 2017 French Super Series#Women's singles' 9,200 points, her points comes to 101,667 eventually, she becomes the highest points holder in the women's singles category history. Tai plays an offensive game, with many calling her style unpredictable and often spontaneous. She is a very adventurous player with
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14 Grand Slam titles, never won the French Open – his best result was reaching the semi-finals in 1996. Other notable players who have won multiple Grand Slam events but have never won the French Open include John McEnroe, Frank Sedgman, John Newcombe, Venus Williams, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Jimmy Connors, Louise Brough, and Virginia Wade; McEnroe and Edberg lost their sole French Open finals appearances in five sets. On the other hand, players whose games are more suited to slower surfaces, such as Rafael Nadal, Björn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Justine Henin and Chris Evert, have found great
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the men playing from August 11 through August 19, 2007, and the women from July 14 through July 22, 2007. The men's singles were led by World No. 1, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, and Canada Masters runner-up Roger Federer, French Open winner and Stuttgart titlist Rafael Nadal, and new ATP No. 3, Miami and Canada Masters champion Novak Djokovic. Other players competing were Washington champion Andy Roddick, Roland-Garros semifinalist Nikolay Davydenko, Fernando González, Tommy Robredo and Richard Gasquet. The announced women's draw was headlined by WTA No. 8, French Open quarterfinalist and 's-Hertogenbosch champion Anna Chakvetadze, Gold Coast runner-up
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Latvia. In December, appearing on the senior level, they won silver at the French Championships, behind Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov. In March, they finished 11th at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Competing in the 2018 JGP series, Hamon/Strekalin placed sixth in Linz, Austria, and fifth in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Making their senior international debut, the pair took gold at the Volvo Open Cup in November 2018. "CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix" Cléo Hamon Cléo Hamon (born 25 November 2001) is a French pair skater. With her skating partner, Denys Strekalin, she is the 2018
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and lost in straight sets, 1–6, 3–6. Australia won the final 3–0. In the same year, she reached the women's singles quarterfinals of the Australian Open which she lost to eventual champion Billie Jean King. Suurbeek played in the ladies' singles competition at Wimbledon in 1967, 1968 and 1969 but did not make it past the second round. In 1980, she was voted Female Player of the Year by the USA Tennis Florida Adult Competitive Tennis Council. In 1983 she won the USTA National Indoor Women`s 35 Championships in St. Louis and was ranked first in the USTA women`s 35s.
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1976, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2018) Albanian Basketball Supercup Winners - 3 (2003, 2016, 2018) "For the male basketball team see PBC Tirana" PBC Tirana (women) PBC Tirana (women) is a basketball team that play in the Albanian A-1 League. It is the most successful club in the Albanian Basketball history, with 40 championship titles won. On August 16, 1920, the patriot P. Nika altogether with gentlemen A. Erebara, P. Jakova, A. Hoxha, A. Koja, P. Berisha, A. Zajmi, H. Fortuzi, B. Pazari, L. Berisha, S. Frasheri, H. Alizoti, A. Gjitomi and V. Fekeci
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Murray's last defeat before a grand Slam quarterfinal until the 2015 US Open, the 2008 Canada Open and 2011 Shanghai Masters, both of which Murray won in three sets. While Murray has led the majority of the rivalry, Wawrinka won their first two matches and beat Murray three consecutive times between 2013 and 2015, winning all of them in straight sets, until Murray ended the winning streak at the 2016 French Open, beating the defending champion Wawrinka in four sets. Their most recent match was played in the first round of the 2018 Eastbourne International, which Murray won in straight
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2003 French Open The 2003 French Open was the second Grand Slam event of 2003 and the 107th edition of the French Open. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from May 26 through June 8, 2003. Both Albert Costa and Serena Williams were unsuccessful in their title defences, both being defeated in the semi-finals by eventual champions Juan Carlos Ferrero and Justine Henin-Hardenne respectively. Ferrero won his first Grand Slam title, defeating Martin Verkerk in the final, and Henin-Hardenne, who had previously won the event in 1997 as a junior, won after defeating Serena Williams,
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Alexei Popyrin Alexei Popyrin (born 5 August 1999) is an Australian tennis player of Russian descent. Popyrin has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 150 achieved in October 2018. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 1,403 achieved in August 2018. Popyrin began playing tennis at age four. In 2011, won the Optus 12s Grasscourt Championships and with Chase Ferguson, won the Optus 12s Nationals Claycourt Doubles Championships. In 2017, Popyrin reached the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open in the junior doubles tournament. He then followed that up by winning the 2017 French Open junior
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and selection process, which in 2010 had approximately 2,500 applicants from across France. Upon selection the ball boys and ball girls participate in preparatory training in the weeks leading up to the French Open to ensure that they are prepared for the day they set foot on the tennis court in front of a global audience. For 2018, the prize money purse was increased to €39,197,000. If a player makes it to the indicated round, they will receive the points and money listed (provided they don't make it to a further round). Men and women often receive different point values
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the ball open him up as a safe back-pass option during midfield play. He also has vision and an eye for moving the ball forward with pace or precise long ball. His performance at the 2018 Europa League and 2018 World Cup impressed many, and caught the eye of serveral large clubs including Ligue 1's Olympique de Marseille and La Liga's Sevilla FC. Croatia Duje Ćaleta-Car Duje Ćaleta-Car (born 17 September 1996) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French club Marseille and the Croatia national football team. He is a member of the Croatian squad
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he won his first Masters 1000 title at the Indian Wells Masters, defeating defending champion and World No. 1 Roger Federer in the final. After reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 French Open, he again matched his career high of No. 4. Finally, in August, he achieved the World No. 3 ranking for the very first time. At the 2018 US Open, he reached his second Grand Slam final. Having started playing tennis at the age of seven, del Potro won his first senior match (ITF level) in 2004 at the age of 15. At the start of the 2006
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In the semi-finals of the women´s singles category, the American Dorothy O´Neil defeated the Mexican Carolina Allier 7-11, 11-8, 12-11. II Mexican National Open Championship 1965 The II Mexican National Open Championship 1965 was a badminton competition held in November 1965 in Mexico City. In the men´s singles event, the semi-finalists were the World number one Erland Kops, Channarong Ratanaseangsuang, Don Paup and Antonio Rangel. Erland Kops defeated (15-2, 15-4) Antonio Rangel, while Channarong Ratanaseangsuang won to Don Paup (15-1, 15-10). In the final, Erland Kops showed off his class against Channarong Ratanaseangsuang. In the men´s doubles category, the Mexican
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and 2018. In 2018 she was also Western Australia's single sculls entrant to race for the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. She placed third in the single scull. In 2018 she crewed a composite Australian selection eight who won the open women's coxed eight title at the Australian Rowing Championships and in a composite Australian selection four she won the 2018 open women's coxless four national title. McIntyre made her Australian representative debut in a coxless pair at the 2017 U23 World Rowing Championships. Rowing with Bronwyn Cox she won a silver medal. In 2018 McIntyre was elevated
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III Mexican National Open Championship 1966 The III Mexican National Open Championship 1966 was a badminton competition held from 24 to 27 November 1966 in Mexico City. Players from Peru, the United States and Mexico competed in this tournament. In the semi-finals of the men´s singles event, Antonio Rangel had defeated Oscar Luján (15-12, 15-5), while Raúl Rangel had won to Rod Starkey, then ranked as the number 3 American player. In the quarter-finals of the men´s doubles category, the brothers Raúl Rangel and Antonio Rangel defeated the team integrated by Jimmy Lynch and Salvador Peniche. In women´s singles, Carolina
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is one of only six men to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year. The others are: Rod Laver who won the Grand Slam in 1969; Mats Wilander won the Australian, French and US Open in 1988; Roger Federer won the Australian, Wimbledon and US Open in 2004, 2006 and 2007; Rafael Nadal won the French, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2010; and Novak Djokovic won the Australian, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2011 and 2015. Connors reached the final of the US Open in five straight years from 1974 through 1978, winning three times
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career high singles and doubles rankings of World No. 5 and World No. 2 on 14 September 2015 and 30 January 2017. "Current to 3 November 2018." Lucie Šafářová career statistics This list summarizes the main career statistics of Czech professional tennis player Lucie Šafářová. To date, Šafářová has won seven WTA singles titles and fifteen WTA doubles titles including five Grand Slam doubles titles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the 2015 Australian Open and French Open,; the 2016 US Open and 2017 Australian Open and French Open. Other highlights of Šafářová's career thus far include winning the 2015 Qatar Total
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2009–10 Challenge de France The 2009–10 Challenge de France is the ninth season of the French cup competition for women, organized by the French Football Federation. The competition is open to all women's clubs in French football. The final will be contested on 23 May 2010 at the Stade Robert-Bobin. The defending champions were Montpellier, who defeated Le Mans 3–1 in the 2008–09 edition of the competition. On 23 May 2010, Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain won the competition by defeating fellow first division club Montpellier by a score of 5–0 in the final. The victory gives Paris Saint-Germain
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won 11 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments, from the 2005 French Open to the 2007 US Open, and another 6 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments from the 2017 Australian Open to the 2018 French Open. They are the only pair of men to have finished six consecutive calendar years as the top two ranked players on the ATP Tour, which they did from 2005 to 2010 and seven times overall, including 2017. This includes a record 211 consecutive weeks sharing the top two rankings from July 2005 to August 2009. As tournament seedings are based on rankings, with the top two seeds
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The draw was conducted by Red Cross ambassador and fashion model Adriana Karembeu. The semi-finals were contested on 25 April. 2009–10 Challenge de France The 2009–10 Challenge de France is the ninth season of the French cup competition for women, organized by the French Football Federation. The competition is open to all women's clubs in French football. The final will be contested on 23 May 2010 at the Stade Robert-Bobin. The defending champions were Montpellier, who defeated Le Mans 3–1 in the 2008–09 edition of the competition. On 23 May 2010, Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain won the competition
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the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry to the 2019 Open Championship, his first major as a professional. Source: CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> "T" = tied Amateur Professional Romain Langasque Romain Langasque (born 18 May 1995) is a French professional golfer. He won The Amateur Championship in 2015 and in 2018 has biggest professional success in the Hopps Open de Provence. Langasque won The Amateur Championship in 2015 at Carnoustie Golf Links, beating Grant Forrest 4&2 in the final. His Amateur Championship win gave an entry to the 2015 Open Championship where he
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date in 5 sets at the 2009 US Open final, shortly after Federer won their next most important match in 5 sets at the 2009 French Open semifinals a few months before. Federer also won the longest best of 3-set match in the history at the 2012 Olympic semifinal against del Potro, 19–17 in the deciding set. Del Potro also prevailed in 2017 US Open quarterfinals against Federer in 4 sets. Federer prevailed in three sets in the 2017 Basel final. However, at their most recent meeting at Indian Wells Masters in 2018, Del Potro won in the finals, winning
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Wimbledon Championships, a run of 36 quarterfinals in a row. Until the 2017 Australian Open, this would be the last Grand Slam event where the top two seeds would fail to reach the quarterfinals of a major. With Federer's loss to Kuerten, number two seed Andy Roddick also lost in the second round to Olivier Mutis. As of the conclusion of the 2018 US Open, this was the last Grand Slam in which none of the semi-finalists had previously won a Grand Slam singles tournament. 2004 French Open – Men's Singles Juan Carlos Ferrero was the defending champion, but lost
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won the 5000 meters at the European Under-23 Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, and broke the Under-23 French record in 15 min 30 s 61. Two weeks later, she took part to the 5000m at the Salinsbury Games in London, Great Britain, and lowered for the third time the Under-23 French record to 15 min 28 s 61. On October 12, 2015, she took part to her first 10k road race at the Tufts Health Plan 10k for Women and broke the Under-23 French 10k road race record in the time of 33 min 26 s. On December 13, 2015, aged
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