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Emma Johanna Laine is a professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

player from Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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The left-handed Laine turned professional in 2004. Her highest career singles ranking has been World No. 50 on August 7, 2006.

Her father was Finnish ice-hockey player Erkki Laine

Erkki Laine

Erkki Laine was a Finnish ice hockey player. He won a silver medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics, in Calgary, Alberta.His daughter, Emma Laine, is one of the top Finnish tennis players....

. Emma was born in Sweden because Erkki was playing there at that time.

Key

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1 February 2004	Tipton Tipton Tipton is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands, England, with a population of around 47,000. Tipton is located about halfway between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is a part of the Black Country....	Hard (i)	Liana-Gabriela Balaci	6-7⁴ 6-2 6-3
2.	22 February 2004	Capriolo Capriolo Capriolo is a town and comune in the Italian province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is situated directly south of Lago d'Iseo....	Carpet (i)	Nina Ozegovic	7-6⁶ ⁴6-7 7-6⁴
3.	11 April 2004	Torre del Greco Torre del Greco -Main sights:Roman archaeological remains, including the so-called "Villa Sora" , probably a property of the Flavians.Monastery of the Zoccolanti, with a cloister housing 28 frescoed panels depicting the life of St...	Clay	Chanelle Scheepers Chanelle Scheepers Chanelle Scheepers is a South African professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is No. 37, which she reached on 10 October 2011. Her career high doubles ranking is 91, set at 30 August 2010....	3-6 6-4 6-0
4.	26 September 2004	Jersey Jersey Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...	Hard (i)	Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha is a British professional tennis player of Ukrainian background. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Award, she is also the long standing British number 1, a position she has held intermittently since 2002. As of 24 November 2011 she holds a current world ranking of No. 50. Her...	3-6 6-2 6-1
5.	21 August 2005	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...	Hard	Irina Kuzmina Irina Kuzmina Irina Kuzmina is Latvian tennis player. She has played the most ties for team Latvia in the FedCup.- External links :...	6-0 6-2
6.	18 January 2009	Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...	Hard (i)	Stéphanie Vongsouthi Stephanie Vongsouthi Stephanie Vongsouthi is a French tennis player.-2005:Vongsouthi played her first ever professional match on the clay at Amiens in France, at the age of 16. She lost a close match to compatriot Laurene Fayol, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. She left Amiens with her first prize money of $98. Vongsouthi's first...	4-6 6-2 7-6⁴
7.	9 August 2009	Savitaipale Savitaipale Savitaipale is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....	Clay	Anette Schutting	7-5 6-1

Finalist

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	28 March 2004	St. Petersburg	Hard (i)	Anastasiya Yakimova Anastasiya Yakimova Anastasiya Yakimova is a female tennis player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the 2007 Australian Open, defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.-2009:...	6-3 2-6 1-6
2.	22 August 2004	Westende Westende Westende is a town in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West-Flanders. It lies on the Belgian coast, also called Flemish coast. It used to be the far west of the island Testerep which lay along the Belgian coast....	Hard	Leslie Butkiewicz	⁴6-7 ⁴ 6-7
3.	12 September 2004	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...	Hard	Hanna Nooni Hanna Nooni Hanna Nooni is a Swedish tennis player who has won 5 ITF Singles titles . In 2006, Nooni had wrist surgery and returned to action in St Paul . Hanna's best surface is clay, Hanna plays Doubles with Erica Krauth of Argentina the pair have won 1 ITF Doubles Title . Hanna's career singles high...	4-6 3-6
4.	20 February 2005	Bromma	Hard (i)	Olga Savchuk Olga Savchuk Olga Savchuk is a female tennis player. Her best accomplishment to date was reaching the third round of the 2006 Australian Open. Her career high ranking was #79, achieved on May 19, 2008....	1-6 2-6
5.	27 March 2005	St Petersburg	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Bychkova Ekaterina Bychkova Ekaterina Andreevna Bychkova is a professional tennis player. She is most famous for defeating defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round of the 2005 US Open. She defeated her by a score of 6–3, 6–2. It was the first time a defending US Open Champion had lost in the first round...	1-6 2-6
6.	5 March 2006	Las Vegas Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...	Hard	Shenay Perry Shenay Perry Shenay Perry is an American professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 40, which she reached on August 28, 2006...	1-6 4-6
7.	2 October 2010	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...	Hard(i)	Yuliya Beygelzimer	6-7(7) 0-6

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