Tamarine Tanasugarn
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Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai
tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles.
Tanasugarn's highest Women's Tennis Association
(WTA) world ranking was 19, achieved on 13 May 2002, which is the highest ranking ever achieved for a Thai female player. She has won four singles titles and five doubles titles. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova
, with whom she won two titles in 2003. Her highest world doubles ranking was 15, which she achieved on 13 September 2004. With Liezel Huber
, she reached the 2004 US Open doubles quarterfinals, and at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
, she reached the women's doubles semifinal with Marina Erakovic
. Her biggest success so far came in 2008, when she reached quarterfinals at Wimbledon
.
In her career, Tanasugarn has defeated former and current no. 1 players, including Amélie Mauresmo
, Jennifer Capriati
, Jelena Janković
, and Dinara Safina
. She has also beaten Australian Open and French Open champion Mary Pierce
.
Tanasugarn is regarded as a grass-court specialist; she has won most matches on the surface including two grass-court International titles. Tanasugarn currently holds the record of the most singles matches won on grass court among WTA
active players and is 12th on the all-time list.
Tanasugarn is also a regular competitor for the Thailand Fed Cup team
, helping the team join the World Group II in 2005
and 2006
, after beating Australia and Croatia
in their play-off matches.
has given an interview regarding Tanasugarn's game after their quarterfinal match in 2008 Wimbledon Championships "I think her game is really suited for the grass. Her serve is a slice that turns into you and it stays low. Her shots are really, really low to the ground. A lot of time I think I was battling just to stay down on the shots, and I felt good when I got one up in my strike zone". Kim Clijsters
has once described Tanasugarn as a "Tricky Player". Tanasugarn's weakness has always been her serve.
Tanasugarn is currently coached by her best friend Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
.
in the semifinal, but lost to Poland's Aleksandra Olsza
, 5-7, 6-7, in the final.
, in which she lost to Australian Rennae Stubbs
, 4-6, 6-7(3-7). The following year. she made the second round in the same tournament by beating world no. 44, Marianne Werdel Witmeyer in the first round, 1–6, 7–5, 7–5. In 1995, Tanasugarn started participating in Grand Slams, but did not make it beyond the qualifying rounds. In 1996 Tanasugarn debuted in her first WTA
final at the Pattaya Women's Open, in which she lost to Ruxandra Dragomir
, 6-7(4-7), 4-6. In 1997, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, beating Chanda Rubin
in the first round. She reached a semifinal at Hobart
and ended the year with a no. 46 ranking.
1998, Tanasugarn reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam in the Australian Open, by defeating the reigning French Open Champion and world no. 6 Iva Majoli
, 6–0, 6–2, in the third round. Tanasugarn also made her second fourth round of the year at Wimbledon, where she eventually lost to Martina Hingis
. In 1999, she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon for a second time by defeating Frenchwoman Sandrine Testud
, 6–2, 1–6, 6–3, in the third round. Tanasugarn ended the year ranked no. 72.
at the Hopman Cup
in 2000. Tanasugarn beat Jelena Dokić
of Australia, Barbara Schett
of Austria, Ai Sugiyama
of Japan and Henrieta Nagyová
of Slovakia. However, Tanasugarn lost in the women's singles final to Amanda Coetzer
of South Africa, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, having led 6–3, 3–0. In the men's singles final Paradorn Srichaphan
lost to Wayne Ferreira
, 6-7(12-14), 3-6. This result made them the first Asian team to reach the finals at the Hopman Cup
. Tanasugarn reached her second WTA
final at Birmingham
with a win over Julie Halard-Decugis
, but lost to Lisa Raymond
. She also lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Serena Williams
. Tanasugarn reached three semifinals at the Japan Open Tennis Championships
, Kuala Lampur, and Shanghai. She represented Thailand in the 2000 Summer Olympics
, but was defeated by Venus Williams
. Her year-end ranking was no. 29, her first time in the top 30.
In 2001 Tanasugarn had her second and third top-ten wins against Nathalie Tauziat
at Eastbourne
and Amélie Mauresmo
at Wimbledon
and reached her third career final at Japan Open Tennis Championships
, losing to Monica Seles
, 3-6, 2-6. At the end of the season Tanasugarn was ranked in the top 30.
In 2002 Tanasugarn achieved her best ranking by reaching the fourth and fifth major finals at Canberra
, losing to Isarael's Anna Smashnova
, and at Doha
, losing to Monica Seles
, and the quarterfinals at the Toray Pan Pacific Open
. On 13 May, Tanasugarn was ranked no. 19 in the world, her best career ranking to date. Tanasugarn ended the year ranked no. 28.
In 2003, Tanasugarn won her first tour major in Hyderabad, where she beat Maria Kirilenko
in the quarterfinals, the Italian Flavia Pennetta
in the semifinal, and Iroda Tulyaganova
from Uzbekistan in the final, 6–4, 6–4. Tanasugarn reached her second tier I quarterfinal in the Toray Pan Pacific Open
, beating Silvia Farina Elia
, but lost to Lindsay Davenport
in two sets. Tanasugarn suffered her earliest exit at Wimbledon since she turned pro, losing to Akiko Morigami
in the first round. Tanasugarn reached the fourth round at the US Open for the first time, beating Rita Grande
, Patty Schnyder
, and ninth seed, Daniela Hantuchová
. She lost to Amélie Mauresmo
in two sets in the following round. Tanasugarn was ranked no. 34 at the end of the year.
In 2004, Tanasugarn reached her sixth fourth round at Wimbledon
, although she lost to Ai Sugiyama
in two sets. Tanasugarn was also the semifinalist in the Japan Open Tennis Championships
, losing to Maria Sharapova
.
In 2006, she once mentioned retiring from tennis, but, after she qualified to play in the main draw of Wimbledon and reached the third round, she decided to give it another shot. Tanasugarn reached her home country tournament final again in the PTT Bangkok Open
, facing Vania King
, and was two games away from taking the title. Leading in the final set 4–2, King fought back to win the match. Despite losing the match, Tanasugarn regained some confidence to get back to the tour. She finished that year ranked 75th.
Unfortunately Tanasugarn still struggled with injuries in 2007 and had to play in many Challengers, ending the season ranked 124th.
, defeating the former world no. 4 Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan.
In the grass-court season, Tanasugarn beat the Austrian seed, Tamira Paszek
, in Birmingham
, but lost to Bethanie Mattek
in the fourth round. A week later, Tanasugarn stunned many tennis fans at the Ordina Open
when, ranked number 85, she beat Kateryna Bondarenko
, Ashley Harkleroad
, Michaëlla Krajicek
, and Alona Bondarenko to reach her eighth major final, beating the French Open runner-up Dinara Safina
in two sets. She reached her seventh fourth round at Wimbledon, beating Vera Zvonareva
en route and surprised the world no. 3, Jelena Janković
, with a two-set defeat in the fourth round. Despite making her Grand Slam quarterfinal debut, she lost to the eventual champion Venus Williams
, 4-6, 3-6. Tanasugarn became the first Thai player to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal. Tanasugarn ended 2008 ranked no. 35, her best ranking in four years.
Tanasugarn was seeded 32nd in the Australian, Open but lost early to María José Martínez Sánchez
, 5–7, 3–6. She played in the Fed Cup for Thailand, losing to Samantha Stosur
, 6–4, 5–7, 0–6, leaving Thailand in third place in the Asia/Oceania group, after Australia and New Zealand. Tanasugarn lost to Sania Mirza
in straight sets in the quarterfinal of the Pattaya Women's Open
. In doubles, she partnered Yaroslava Shvedova
and the team, seeded second, got into the final and won the match, beating Yuliya Beygelzimer and Vitalia Diatchenko
, 6–3, 6–2.
At the 2009 French Open
, Tanasugarn defeated Camille Pin
, 6–3, 5–7, 7–5 in the first round. In the second round, she was beaten by 8th seed, and defending champion, Ana Ivanović
, 1–6, 2–6.
Tanasugarn started playing on grass courts at the 2009 AEGON Classic
. In the first round, she defeated Julie Coin
in straight sets, 7–6(1), 6–1. In the second round, Tanasugarn spent 2 hours 23 minutes on court, eventually losing to home favourite Naomi Cavaday
in three sets, 6–7(5), 6–2, 4–6. In 's-Hertogenbosch
, as defending champion, Tanasugarn defeated Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová and 7th seeded Iveta Benešová
to reach the quarterfinals. There, she recovered from a set down to defeat 3rd seeded Flavia Pennetta
, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3. In the semifinals, Tanasugarn defeated Dinara Safina
in straight sets, 7–5, 7–5. It was Tanasugarn's first career win over a reigning world No. 1. In the final, she beat Yanina Wickmayer
, 6–3, 7–5, to successfully defend her title.
At Wimbledon
Tanasugarn had an arm injury and eventually lost early to Arantxa Parra Santonja
in first round, 4–6, 4–6. Tanasugarn played the mixed doubles event for the first time by partnering with Rogier Wassen
, but she scratched in the second round because of her injury.
Tanasugarn came back after her arm injury at the 2009 US Open
, but lost to Anastasija Sevastova
of Latvia in the first round, 3–6, 5–7.
. She won her first first-round match in five years, with a 6–1, 7–6 victory over Sesil Karatantcheva
, but lost to Kim Clijsters
in the second round, 3–6, 3–6. At the PTT Pattaya Open
. Tanasugarn worked her way past Alla Kudryavtseva
, 6–1, 6–1, second seed Sabine Lisicki
, 6–3, 3–6, 7–5, Anna Chakvetadze
, 6–1, 6–4, and Sesil Karatantcheva
, 6–2, 6–0. She finally lost to top seed and defending champion, Vera Zvonareva
in a dramatic final, 4–6, 4–6.
Tanasugarn and her New Zealand partner Marina Erakovic
won the PTT Pattaya Open
doubles title, beating Anna Chakvetadze
and Ksenia Pervak
, 7–5, 6–1, giving Tanasugarn a successful defence of her homeland doubles title. Tanasugarn's next scheduled tournament was the Malaysian Open, where she lost to seventh seed Magdaléna Rybáriková
in the first round, 5–7, 3–6. At the American fortnight tours, she entered the main draw in Indian Wells
as a lucky loser and advanced into the second round, before losing to 19th seed Aravane Rezaï
. In Miami, she lost to Pauline Parmentier
in the final qualifying round. She also played several ITF tournaments in April, reaching the finals in Johannesburg
.
After the middle of April, Tanasugarn did not play any tournaments and withdrew in Strasbourg
due to an elbow injury. At Roland Garros
, she lost to Daniela Hantuchová
in the first round. Tanasugarn began playing her favourite surface, grass, at the Aegon Classic
in Birmingham, surviving into the second round against Sania Mirza
, 4–6, 7–5, 6–1, after Mirza failed to serve out the match at 5–4 and 30–0. She lost to Yanina Wickmayer
in the next round, 4–6, 4–6. Tanasugarn then competed at the Unicef Open
in 's-Hertogenbosch, but was defeated in the first round. Tanasugarn suffered a first-round loss at Wimbledon
and missed the US Open due to injuries. She won her fourth WTA title at Osaka
, defeating Marion Bartoli
and Kimiko Date Krumm in the final.
, the doubles team received a lucky loser
birth into the main draw, and advanced to the semifinals with a 4–6, 7–6(1), 13–11 victory over the third seeds Lisa Raymond
and Liezel Huber
. It is the first time that Tanasugarn (as well as Erakovic) had advanced to the semifinals of a Grand Slam event in any capacity.
Runner-ups (6)
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or when the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Wimbledon Championships in London, Great Britain, which ended 5 July 2009.
Thai people
The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...
tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles.
Tanasugarn's highest Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
(WTA) world ranking was 19, achieved on 13 May 2002, which is the highest ranking ever achieved for a Thai female player. She has won four singles titles and five doubles titles. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
, with whom she won two titles in 2003. Her highest world doubles ranking was 15, which she achieved on 13 September 2004. With Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On November 12, 2007,...
, she reached the 2004 US Open doubles quarterfinals, and at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships
2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova were the defending champions, but lost to Sabine Lisicki and Samantha Stosur in the second round.Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik won this event, defeating Lisicki and Stosur in the final 6–3, 6–1. It was the 1st Grand Slam title for the veteran couple, and...
, she reached the women's doubles semifinal with Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic is a New Zealand professional tennis player of Croatian background. Her career high in Women's Tennis Association doubles ranking is World No. 43, achieved on 27 October 2008, and in singles it is No. 49, achieved on 7 July 2008. As of 21 November 2011, she is World No...
. Her biggest success so far came in 2008, when she reached quarterfinals at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
.
In her career, Tanasugarn has defeated former and current no. 1 players, including Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....
, Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati is a former world number one ranked professional tennis player, and the winner of three women's singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments. Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 14 when she reached the finals of the hard court tournament in Boca...
, Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
, and Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
. She has also beaten Australian Open and French Open champion Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...
.
Tanasugarn is regarded as a grass-court specialist; she has won most matches on the surface including two grass-court International titles. Tanasugarn currently holds the record of the most singles matches won on grass court among WTA
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
active players and is 12th on the all-time list.
Tanasugarn is also a regular competitor for the Thailand Fed Cup team
Thailand Fed Cup team
The Thailand Fed Cup team represents Thailand in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand. They currently compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group I.-History:...
, helping the team join the World Group II in 2005
2005 Fed Cup
The 2005 Fed Cup was the 43rd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 76 nations participated in the tournament...
and 2006
2006 Fed Cup
The 2006 Fed Cup was the 44th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. A total of 76 nations participated in the tournament...
, after beating Australia and Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
in their play-off matches.
Playing style
Tanasugarn produces her best game and strategy when she performs on grass. Tanasugarn is also known for her accurate flat ground strokes and a heavy slice serve for which are particularly effective on grass, Venus WilliamsVenus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
has given an interview regarding Tanasugarn's game after their quarterfinal match in 2008 Wimbledon Championships "I think her game is really suited for the grass. Her serve is a slice that turns into you and it stays low. Her shots are really, really low to the ground. A lot of time I think I was battling just to stay down on the shots, and I felt good when I got one up in my strike zone". Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....
has once described Tanasugarn as a "Tricky Player". Tanasugarn's weakness has always been her serve.
Tanasugarn is currently coached by her best friend Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc is a Romanian professional tennis player. Vanc plays predominantly in doubles; and has won two WTA Tour titles.-Wins :-Finalist :-External links:...
.
Junior
During her junior career, her expenses were provided by her father, Virachai Tanasugarn, a lawyer who was once a Thai basketball player and who inspired Tanasugarn to become a professional tennis player. At 17, Tanasugarn reached her Junior Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in 1995 with a win over Anna KournikovaAnna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
in the semifinal, but lost to Poland's Aleksandra Olsza
Aleksandra Olsza
Aleksandra Olsza is a retired Polish tennis player. Her career highlights include winning of 1995 Wimbledon Championships in both girls' singles and doubles. At the 1996 U.S. Open Olsza defeated World No. 12 Magdalena Maleeva.- Achievements :...
, 5-7, 6-7, in the final.
1994–1999
Tanasugarn turned pro in 1994, but made her WTA debut in the 1993 Pattaya Women's OpenPattaya Women's Open
The PTT Pattaya Open is a tennis tournament held in Pattaya City, Thailand. Held since 1991, this WTA Tour event is currently classified as an International Series tournament and is played on hardcourts....
, in which she lost to Australian Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....
, 4-6, 6-7(3-7). The following year. she made the second round in the same tournament by beating world no. 44, Marianne Werdel Witmeyer in the first round, 1–6, 7–5, 7–5. In 1995, Tanasugarn started participating in Grand Slams, but did not make it beyond the qualifying rounds. In 1996 Tanasugarn debuted in her first WTA
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
final at the Pattaya Women's Open, in which she lost to Ruxandra Dragomir
Ruxandra Dragomir
Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired female tennis player from Romania, who won four singles and five doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on August 25, 1997, when she became the number 15 of the world...
, 6-7(4-7), 4-6. In 1997, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, beating Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin is an American tennis player. Winning seven WTA Tour singles titles, she reached her highest ranking World No. 6 on April 8, 1996, after reaching semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open. Rubin is also former World No...
in the first round. She reached a semifinal at Hobart
Moorilla Hobart International
The Hobart International is a women's professional tennis tournament held at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia. Held since 1994, it forms a part of the Women's Tennis Association Tour and is classed as an International tournament...
and ended the year with a no. 46 ranking.
1998, Tanasugarn reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam in the Australian Open, by defeating the reigning French Open Champion and world no. 6 Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli Marić is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won eight singles titles and one women's doubles title during her career.-Career:Majoli turned professional in 1991 at the age...
, 6–0, 6–2, in the third round. Tanasugarn also made her second fourth round of the year at Wimbledon, where she eventually lost to Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
. In 1999, she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon for a second time by defeating Frenchwoman Sandrine Testud
Sandrine Testud
Sandrine Testud is a former professional female tennis player from France.-Career:Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr, Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings...
, 6–2, 1–6, 6–3, in the third round. Tanasugarn ended the year ranked no. 72.
2000–2004
Tanasugarn partnered with Paradorn SrichaphanParadorn Srichaphan
Paradorn Srichaphan is a retired professional tennis player from Thailand. He is the highest ranked men's singles player from Thailand and Asia in history, reaching a career high World No. 9. His nickname is "Ball".-Career:...
at the Hopman Cup
Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early January each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis...
in 2000. Tanasugarn beat Jelena Dokić
Jelena Dokic
Jelena Dokić is an Australian female professional tennis player.During the height of her career, she played for Serbia and Montenegro and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 on 19 August 2002. After several family-related difficulties , she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006...
of Australia, Barbara Schett
Barbara Schett
Barbara Schett Eagle is a former Austrian tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 7, on 13 September 1999. She ended her career at the 2005 Australian Open. Between 1993 to 2004 she played in 48 games for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30...
of Austria, Ai Sugiyama
Ai Sugiyama
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992...
of Japan and Henrieta Nagyová
Henrieta Nagyová
Henrieta Nagyová is a Slovak female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1994 and has been ranked as high as the 21st in the world . In recent years her ranking has fallen due to constant injury. In late 2005, she brought her ranking up to a year ending 145, after it fell below 200...
of Slovakia. However, Tanasugarn lost in the women's singles final to Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...
of South Africa, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, having led 6–3, 3–0. In the men's singles final Paradorn Srichaphan
Paradorn Srichaphan
Paradorn Srichaphan is a retired professional tennis player from Thailand. He is the highest ranked men's singles player from Thailand and Asia in history, reaching a career high World No. 9. His nickname is "Ball".-Career:...
lost to Wayne Ferreira
Wayne Ferreira
Wayne Richard Ferreira is a former tennis player from South Africa. He attended Parktown Boys' High School....
, 6-7(12-14), 3-6. This result made them the first Asian team to reach the finals at the Hopman Cup
Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early January each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis...
. Tanasugarn reached her second WTA
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
final at Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
with a win over Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...
, but lost to Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...
. She also lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
. Tanasugarn reached three semifinals at the Japan Open Tennis Championships
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...
, Kuala Lampur, and Shanghai. She represented Thailand in the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, but was defeated by Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
. Her year-end ranking was no. 29, her first time in the top 30.
In 2001 Tanasugarn had her second and third top-ten wins against Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
at Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...
and Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....
at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
and reached her third career final at Japan Open Tennis Championships
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...
, losing to Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...
, 3-6, 2-6. At the end of the season Tanasugarn was ranked in the top 30.
In 2002 Tanasugarn achieved her best ranking by reaching the fourth and fifth major finals at Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, losing to Isarael's Anna Smashnova
Anna Smashnova
Anna Smashnova is a former professional tennis player from Israel. She retired from professional tennis after Wimbledon 2007.Smashnova, who has been noted as having a great last name for a tennis player, reached her career-high singles ranking of World # 15 in 2003. She was in 13 finals, and won...
, and at Doha
Doha
Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...
, losing to Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...
, and the quarterfinals at the Toray Pan Pacific Open
Toray Pan Pacific Open
The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event...
. On 13 May, Tanasugarn was ranked no. 19 in the world, her best career ranking to date. Tanasugarn ended the year ranked no. 28.
In 2003, Tanasugarn won her first tour major in Hyderabad, where she beat Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...
in the quarterfinals, the Italian Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...
in the semifinal, and Iroda Tulyaganova
Iroda Tulyaganova
Iroda Tulyaganova is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.She has been ranked as high as No.16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career...
from Uzbekistan in the final, 6–4, 6–4. Tanasugarn reached her second tier I quarterfinal in the Toray Pan Pacific Open
Toray Pan Pacific Open
The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event...
, beating Silvia Farina Elia
Silvia Farina Elia
Silvia Farina Elia is a former female tennis player from Italy. She reached a career high of World No. 11 on 20 May 2002. She won her first ITF title at Caltagirone in 1991 and her first WTA tournament at Strasbourg in 2001...
, but lost to Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
in two sets. Tanasugarn suffered her earliest exit at Wimbledon since she turned pro, losing to Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41....
in the first round. Tanasugarn reached the fourth round at the US Open for the first time, beating Rita Grande
Rita Grande
Rita Grande is a professional female tennis player from Italy.-Singles :*2001: Hobart, Australia*2001: Bratislava, Slovakia*2003: Casablanca, Morocco-Singles finalist :*1999: Hobart...
, Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and is a former World No. 7. She defeated several World No...
, and ninth seed, Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...
. She lost to Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....
in two sets in the following round. Tanasugarn was ranked no. 34 at the end of the year.
In 2004, Tanasugarn reached her sixth fourth round at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
, although she lost to Ai Sugiyama
Ai Sugiyama
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992...
in two sets. Tanasugarn was also the semifinalist in the Japan Open Tennis Championships
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...
, losing to Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
.
2005–2007
Tanasugarn had to deal with multiple injuries which affected most of her year in 2005, her ranking dropped out of the top 100, and she played in Challenger-level tournaments to collect the points.In 2006, she once mentioned retiring from tennis, but, after she qualified to play in the main draw of Wimbledon and reached the third round, she decided to give it another shot. Tanasugarn reached her home country tournament final again in the PTT Bangkok Open
PTT Bangkok Open
The PTT Bangkok Open was a tennis tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand. Held from 2005 to 2007, this WTA Tour event was a Tier III-tournament and was played on outdoor hardcourts.-Singles:-Doubles:...
, facing Vania King
Vania King
Vania King is a Taiwanese American female tennis player. King won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles with Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova....
, and was two games away from taking the title. Leading in the final set 4–2, King fought back to win the match. Despite losing the match, Tanasugarn regained some confidence to get back to the tour. She finished that year ranked 75th.
Unfortunately Tanasugarn still struggled with injuries in 2007 and had to play in many Challengers, ending the season ranked 124th.
2008
Tanasugarn made a successful comeback in 2008. She decided to skip the clay-court season due to her difficulty playing games on that surface and chose to play in hard-court Challengers she thought were more like grass. Tanasugarn won the challenger title at GifuGifu, Gifu
is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country. During the Sengoku period, various warlords, including Oda Nobunaga, used...
, defeating the former world no. 4 Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan.
In the grass-court season, Tanasugarn beat the Austrian seed, Tamira Paszek
Tamira Paszek
Tamira Shelah Paszek is a professional tennis player from Austria. As of July 4, 2011, she is the no.1 ranked tennis player from Austria in the WTA ranking, at No. 41....
, in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, but lost to Bethanie Mattek
Bethanie Mattek
Bethanie Lynn Mattek-Sands is an American professional tennis player who competes on the WTA Tour. She lives in Miami, Florida, but trains in Phoenix, Arizona...
in the fourth round. A week later, Tanasugarn stunned many tennis fans at the Ordina Open
Ordina Open
The Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, now sponsored by UNICEF and called the UNICEF Open, is a tennis tournament on the ATP Tour and WTA Tour held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.-Singles:-Doubles:-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:*...
when, ranked number 85, she beat Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open 2008.The younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was...
, Ashley Harkleroad
Ashley Harkleroad
Ashley Harkleroad , is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. Her career prize money to date is $1,022,094...
, Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking was number 30 on 11 February 2008. She currently is the second best ranked player from the Netherlands behind Arantxa Rus.-Personal life:...
, and Alona Bondarenko to reach her eighth major final, beating the French Open runner-up Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
in two sets. She reached her seventh fourth round at Wimbledon, beating Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...
en route and surprised the world no. 3, Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
, with a two-set defeat in the fourth round. Despite making her Grand Slam quarterfinal debut, she lost to the eventual champion Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
, 4-6, 3-6. Tanasugarn became the first Thai player to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal. Tanasugarn ended 2008 ranked no. 35, her best ranking in four years.
2009
María José Martínez Sánchez
María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish professional tennis player. In singles, she has won five WTA singles titles, the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, the 2009 Swedish Open, the Premier 5 event, 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, the 2011 Gastein Ladies and the 2011 Hansol Korea Open. She...
, 5–7, 3–6. She played in the Fed Cup for Thailand, losing to Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...
, 6–4, 5–7, 0–6, leaving Thailand in third place in the Asia/Oceania group, after Australia and New Zealand. Tanasugarn lost to Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings...
in straight sets in the quarterfinal of the Pattaya Women's Open
Pattaya Women's Open
The PTT Pattaya Open is a tennis tournament held in Pattaya City, Thailand. Held since 1991, this WTA Tour event is currently classified as an International Series tournament and is played on hardcourts....
. In doubles, she partnered Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player of Russian descent. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29 as of 21 June 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 doubles titles, including the 2010 Wimbledon and US...
and the team, seeded second, got into the final and won the match, beating Yuliya Beygelzimer and Vitalia Diatchenko
Vitalia Diatchenko
Vitalia Diatchenko is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 105, which she reached on July 27, 2009. Her career high in doubles is No. 60, which she reached on February 21, 2011.-Career highlights:...
, 6–3, 6–2.
At the 2009 French Open
2009 French Open
The 2009 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 108th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, Tanasugarn defeated Camille Pin
Camille Pin
Camille Pin is a former French professional tennis player. Pin played right-handed and is 162 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall....
, 6–3, 5–7, 7–5 in the first round. In the second round, she was beaten by 8th seed, and defending champion, Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...
, 1–6, 2–6.
Tanasugarn started playing on grass courts at the 2009 AEGON Classic
2009 AEGON Classic
The 2009 AEGON Classic is a tennis tournament being played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 28th edition of the event, known that year as the AEGON Classic, It is taking place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, from June 8 through June 14, 2009.-Seeds:*...
. In the first round, she defeated Julie Coin
Julie Coin
Julie Coin is a professional French tennis player. Coin recorded the largest victory of her career by defeating the world's #1 ranked female singles player, and #1 seed, Ana Ivanović at the 2008 US Open. Her career high singles ranking is World No. 60, achieved on 27 July 2009. Her career high...
in straight sets, 7–6(1), 6–1. In the second round, Tanasugarn spent 2 hours 23 minutes on court, eventually losing to home favourite Naomi Cavaday
Naomi Cavaday
Naomi Kathleen Cavaday is an English former tennis player from Sidcup, Kent. She retired in April 2011 to take up a coaching role with the Lawn Tennis Association. At the time of her retirement she was the British No.6, with a world ranking of No. 231. Her career high ranking was No. 174,...
in three sets, 6–7(5), 6–2, 4–6. In 's-Hertogenbosch
2009 Ordina Open - Women's Singles
Tamarine Tanasugarn successfully defended her title, by defeating Yanina Wickmayer 6–3, 7–5 in the final.-Seeds:# Dinara Safina # Dominika Cibulková # Flavia Pennetta ...
, as defending champion, Tanasugarn defeated Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová and 7th seeded Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.-2006–2008:In the 2006 Australian...
to reach the quarterfinals. There, she recovered from a set down to defeat 3rd seeded Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...
, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3. In the semifinals, Tanasugarn defeated Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....
in straight sets, 7–5, 7–5. It was Tanasugarn's first career win over a reigning world No. 1. In the final, she beat Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no. 22 and is the second-highest ranked female Belgian tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 12 on 19 April 2010...
, 6–3, 7–5, to successfully defend her title.
At Wimbledon
2009 Wimbledon Championships
The 2009 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, from Monday 22 June through to Sunday 5 July 2009...
Tanasugarn had an arm injury and eventually lost early to Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja is a professional female tennis player from Spain. She turned pro in 2000.On 12 July 2010, Parra Santonja reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...
in first round, 4–6, 4–6. Tanasugarn played the mixed doubles event for the first time by partnering with Rogier Wassen
Rogier Wassen
Rogier Wassen is a Dutch tennis player who competes regularly on the ATP Tour as a doubles player.Wassen reached his highest doubles ranking on the ATP Tour on 10 September 2007 when he became world no. 24. The right-hander has won three ATP doubles titles...
, but she scratched in the second round because of her injury.
Tanasugarn came back after her arm injury at the 2009 US Open
2009 US Open (tennis)
The 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September 14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States. Originally, it was scheduled to end with the mens' singles final match on Sunday,...
, but lost to Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova is a Latvian tennis player. On January 31, 2011, she achieved her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 36. On August 31, 2009, she claimed her highest Doubles rank of No. 195...
of Latvia in the first round, 3–6, 5–7.
2010
Tanasugarn started the year by playing at the Australian Open2010 Australian Open
The 2010 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 18 to 31 January. It was the 98th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year....
. She won her first first-round match in five years, with a 6–1, 7–6 victory over Sesil Karatantcheva
Sesil Karatantcheva
Sesil Karatantcheva is a Bulgarian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. Karatantcheva played for Bulgaria until February 2, 2009, when she changed nationality. She will play for Kazakhstan until at least 2012....
, but lost to Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....
in the second round, 3–6, 3–6. At the PTT Pattaya Open
2010 PTT Pattaya Open
The 2010 PTT Pattaya Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the PTT Pattaya Open and was part of the International category on the 2010 WTA Tour...
. Tanasugarn worked her way past Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...
, 6–1, 6–1, second seed Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Lisicki is a German professional tennis player of Polish background.Lisicki has won three WTA singles tournaments in her career and one doubles tournament . She reached the semifinals of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and also reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships...
, 6–3, 3–6, 7–5, Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...
, 6–1, 6–4, and Sesil Karatantcheva
Sesil Karatantcheva
Sesil Karatantcheva is a Bulgarian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. Karatantcheva played for Bulgaria until February 2, 2009, when she changed nationality. She will play for Kazakhstan until at least 2012....
, 6–2, 6–0. She finally lost to top seed and defending champion, Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...
in a dramatic final, 4–6, 4–6.
Tanasugarn and her New Zealand partner Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic is a New Zealand professional tennis player of Croatian background. Her career high in Women's Tennis Association doubles ranking is World No. 43, achieved on 27 October 2008, and in singles it is No. 49, achieved on 7 July 2008. As of 21 November 2011, she is World No...
won the PTT Pattaya Open
2010 PTT Pattaya Open
The 2010 PTT Pattaya Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the PTT Pattaya Open and was part of the International category on the 2010 WTA Tour...
doubles title, beating Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...
and Ksenia Pervak
Ksenia Pervak
Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak is a professional left-handed Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 37th, which she reached on 19 September 2011...
, 7–5, 6–1, giving Tanasugarn a successful defence of her homeland doubles title. Tanasugarn's next scheduled tournament was the Malaysian Open, where she lost to seventh seed Magdaléna Rybáriková
Magdaléna Rybáriková
Magdaléna Rybáriková is a Slovak professional tennis player. On June 22, 2009, she achieved her career-high WTA singles ranking of 40th.-Biography:...
in the first round, 5–7, 3–6. At the American fortnight tours, she entered the main draw in Indian Wells
2010 BNP Paribas Open
The 2010 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2010. It was the 36th edition of the event, known this year as the BNP Paribas Open, and is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on...
as a lucky loser and advanced into the second round, before losing to 19th seed Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï is an Iranian-French tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 5 in women's tennis. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball girl...
. In Miami, she lost to Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier is a professional tennis player from France. Her career high was #40, achieved on 21 July 2008 and her highest ranking in doubles was World Number 146 on 15 June 2009.-Background:...
in the final qualifying round. She also played several ITF tournaments in April, reaching the finals in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
.
After the middle of April, Tanasugarn did not play any tournaments and withdrew in Strasbourg
Internationaux de Strasbourg
The Internationaux de Strasbourg is a tennis tournament held in Strasbourg, France. Held since 1987, this WTA Tour event is an International-level tournament played on outdoor clay courts....
due to an elbow injury. At Roland Garros
2010 French Open
The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, she lost to Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...
in the first round. Tanasugarn began playing her favourite surface, grass, at the Aegon Classic
2010 AEGON Classic
The 2010 AEGON Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 29th edition of the event. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, from June 7 through June 13, 2010.-Seeds:...
in Birmingham, surviving into the second round against Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings...
, 4–6, 7–5, 6–1, after Mirza failed to serve out the match at 5–4 and 30–0. She lost to Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer
Yanina Wickmayer is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no. 22 and is the second-highest ranked female Belgian tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 12 on 19 April 2010...
in the next round, 4–6, 4–6. Tanasugarn then competed at the Unicef Open
2010 UNICEF Open
The 2010 UNICEF Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 21st edition of the UNICEF Open, and was part of the 250 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...
in 's-Hertogenbosch, but was defeated in the first round. Tanasugarn suffered a first-round loss at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
and missed the US Open due to injuries. She won her fourth WTA title at Osaka
HP Open
The HP Open is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association , and is an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour...
, defeating Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....
and Kimiko Date Krumm in the final.
2011
Despite losing in qualifying stages of Wimbledon with her partner Marina ErakovicMarina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic is a New Zealand professional tennis player of Croatian background. Her career high in Women's Tennis Association doubles ranking is World No. 43, achieved on 27 October 2008, and in singles it is No. 49, achieved on 7 July 2008. As of 21 November 2011, she is World No...
, the doubles team received a lucky loser
Lucky Loser
Lucky Loser is a 2006 Thai sports-comedy about a small, fictional Southeast Asian country's bid to play in the World Cup...
birth into the main draw, and advanced to the semifinals with a 4–6, 7–6(1), 13–11 victory over the third seeds Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...
and Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On November 12, 2007,...
. It is the first time that Tanasugarn (as well as Erakovic) had advanced to the semifinals of a Grand Slam event in any capacity.
Singles: 11 (4–7)
Wins (4)| Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) |
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| Grand Slam Grand Slam (tennis) The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and... tournaments (0–0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
| Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
| Tier II / Premier (0–0) |
| Tier III, IV & V / International (4–7) |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
| Runner-up | 1. | 18 November 1996 |  Pattaya CityPattaya Women's Open The PTT Pattaya Open is a tennis tournament held in Pattaya City, Thailand. Held since 1991, this WTA Tour event is currently classified as an International Series tournament and is played on hardcourts.... |
Hard |  Ruxandra DragomirRuxandra Dragomir Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired female tennis player from Romania, who won four singles and five doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on August 25, 1997, when she became the number 15 of the world... |
7–6, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 12 June 2000 |  BirminghamDFS Classic The AEGON Classic, formerly known as the DFS Classic, is an International series tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Held at this location since 1982, the tournament is played on outdoor grass courts... |
Grass |  Lisa RaymondLisa Raymond Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles... |
6–2, 6–7 (7), 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 1 October 2001 |  TokyoJapan Open Tennis Championships The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions... |
Hard | Monica Seles Monica Seles Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007... |
6–3, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 7 January 2002 |  CanberraRichard Luton Properties Canberra International The Richard Luton Properties Canberra International was a women's tennis tournament held in Canberra, Australia. The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association , and was classed variously as a Tier III , a Tier V , and a Tier IV on the WTA Tour. It was competed on outdoor hardcourts... |
Hard |  Anna SmashnovaAnna Smashnova Anna Smashnova is a former professional tennis player from Israel. She retired from professional tennis after Wimbledon 2007.Smashnova, who has been noted as having a great last name for a tennis player, reached her career-high singles ranking of World # 15 in 2003. She was in 13 finals, and won... |
7–5, 7–6(2) |
| Runner-up | 5. | 11 February 2002 |  DohaQatar Total Open The Qatar Ladies Open , known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor... |
Hard | Monica Seles |
7–6(6), 6–3 |
| Winner | 1. | 9 February 2003 |  HyderabadBangalore Open The Bangalore Open was a tennis tournament held in Bangalore, India. The tournament began in Hyderabad in 2003, and moved to Bangalore in 2006. This WTA Tour event was played on outdoor hardcourts. It as a Premier Mandatory event with a prize Money of US$175,000... |
Hard |  Iroda TulyaganovaIroda Tulyaganova Iroda Tulyaganova is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.She has been ranked as high as No.16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career... |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 6. | 9 October 2006 | Bangkok PTT Bangkok Open The PTT Bangkok Open was a tennis tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand. Held from 2005 to 2007, this WTA Tour event was a Tier III-tournament and was played on outdoor hardcourts.-Singles:-Doubles:... |
Hard | Vania King Vania King Vania King is a Taiwanese American female tennis player. King won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles with Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova.... |
2–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
| Winner | 2. | 21 June 2008 |  's-HertogenboschOrdina Open The Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, now sponsored by UNICEF and called the UNICEF Open, is a tennis tournament on the ATP Tour and WTA Tour held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.-Singles:-Doubles:-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:*... |
Grass |  Dinara SafinaDinara Safina Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1.... |
7–5, 6–3 |
| Winner | 3. | 20 June 2009 | 's-Hertogenbosch Ordina Open The Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, now sponsored by UNICEF and called the UNICEF Open, is a tennis tournament on the ATP Tour and WTA Tour held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.-Singles:-Doubles:-Singles:-Doubles:-External links:*... |
Grass |  Yanina WickmayerYanina Wickmayer Yanina Wickmayer is a Belgian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no. 22 and is the second-highest ranked female Belgian tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 12 on 19 April 2010... |
6–3, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 14 February 2010 | Pattaya City |
Hard | Vera Zvonareva Vera Zvonareva Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the... |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Winner | 4. | 17 October 2010 | Osaka HP Open The HP Open is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association , and is an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour... |
Hard | Kimiko Date Krumm |
7–5, 6–7(4), 6–1 |
Doubles: 13 (7–6)
Wins (7)| Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) |
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| Grand Slam Grand Slam (tennis) The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and... tournaments (0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0) |
| Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0) |
| Tier II / Premier (0) |
| Tier III, IV & V / International (7) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
| 1. | 11 January 1998 |  AucklandASB Classic The ASB Classic is a tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. Held since 1986, this WTA Tour event is an International series tournament and is played on outdoor hardcourts during the first week of the year.... |
Hard | Nana Miyagi Nana Miyagi Nana Smith Rogers, previously is a Japanese American tennis player, born in Seattle, Washington. She plays right-handed, and hits both forehand and backhand double-handed. She turned pro in March, 1988, and retired in 2006... |
 Julie Halard-DecugisJulie Halard-Decugis Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...  Janette HusárováJanette Husárová Janette Husárová is a professional female tennis player from Slovakia. She is probably best remembered for winning the WTA Tour Championships women's doubles title in 2002 partenering Russian Elena Dementieva... |
6–4, 7–5 |
| 2. | 22 October 2000 |  ShanghaiChina Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... |
Hard | Lilia Osterloh Lilia Osterloh Lilia Osterloh is a tennis player from the United States, who started a professional career in August 1997.... |
 Rita GrandeRita Grande Rita Grande is a professional female tennis player from Italy.-Singles :*2001: Hobart, Australia*2001: Bratislava, Slovakia*2003: Casablanca, Morocco-Singles finalist :*1999: Hobart... Meghann ShaughnessyMeghann Shaughnessy Meghann Shaughnessy is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of #11 in 2001, and has won six WTA Tour singles titles... |
7–5, 6–1 |
| 3. | 24 September 2001 |  Indonesia |
Hard | Evie Dominikovic Evie Dominikovic Evie Dominikovic is an Australian tennis player. Dominikovic turned professional in 1997. Her best grand slam result is making it to the third round at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open.... |
 Janet LeeJanet Lee Janet Lee is a Taiwanese-American retired professional tennis player. She won three doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles... Wynne PrakusyaWynne Prakusya Wynne Prakusya is an Indonesian tennis player.Her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon and US Open junior QF.Her Highest Rank is 74 in 2002.-Singles Titles:... |
7–6(1), 6–4 |
| 4. | 5 October 2003 | Japan Japan Open Tennis Championships The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions... |
Hard | Maria Sharapova Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open... |
Ansley Cargill Ansley Cargill Ansley Cargill is a tennis player from the United States, who won four International Tennis Federation Circuit singles titles, and four International Tennis Federation Circuit doubles titles.... Ashley HarkleroadAshley Harkleroad Ashley Harkleroad , is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. Her career prize money to date is $1,022,094... |
7–6(1), 6–0 |
| 5. | 26 October 2003 |  Luxembourg CityFortis Championships Luxembourg The BGL Luxembourg Open is a tennis tournament held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Held since 1991, the tournament was an exhibition event until 1995. After that, it became a WTA Tier III tournament, which it remained until 2004. In 2005, it was promoted to Tier II, marking the first such... |
Hard (i) | Maria Sharapova |
 Elena TatarkovaElena Tatarkova Elena Tatarkova is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Now retired, she won four ITF singles titles, four WTA doubles titles, and 25 ITF doubles titles...  Marlene WeingärtnerMarlene Weingärtner Marlene Weingärtner is a former German professional tennis player. Weingärtner retired in late 2005 after suffering several first round losses due to ongoing physical problems.... |
6–1, 6–4 |
| 6. | 15 February 2009 | Pattaya City 2009 Pattaya Women's Open The 2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the Pattaya Women's Open, and was part of the International category on the 2009 WTA Tour... |
Hard |  Yaroslava ShvedovaYaroslava Shvedova Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player of Russian descent. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29 as of 21 June 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 doubles titles, including the 2010 Wimbledon and US... |
Yulia Beygelzimer Yulia Beygelzimer Yulia Beygelzimer is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine.Beygelzimer has competed for Ukraine both at the Olympics and the Fed Cup, finally reaching the Top 100, at number 83 in September 2006.... Vitalia DiatchenkoVitalia Diatchenko Vitalia Diatchenko is a professional Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 105, which she reached on July 27, 2009. Her career high in doubles is No. 60, which she reached on February 21, 2011.-Career highlights:... |
6–3, 6–2 |
| 7. | 14 February 2010 | Pattaya City |
Hard | Marina Erakovic Marina Erakovic Marina Erakovic is a New Zealand professional tennis player of Croatian background. Her career high in Women's Tennis Association doubles ranking is World No. 43, achieved on 27 October 2008, and in singles it is No. 49, achieved on 7 July 2008. As of 21 November 2011, she is World No... |
Anna Chakvetadze Anna Chakvetadze Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World... Ksenia PervakKsenia Pervak Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak is a professional left-handed Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 37th, which she reached on 19 September 2011... |
7–5, 6–1 |
Runner-ups (6)
| Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) |
|---|
| Grand Slam Grand Slam (tennis) The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and... tournaments (0) |
| WTA Tour Championships (0) |
| Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (1) |
| Tier II / Premier (2) |
| Tier III, IV & V / International (3) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
| 1. | 16 August 1998 | Los Angeles |
Hard | Elena Tatarkova Elena Tatarkova Elena Tatarkova is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Now retired, she won four ITF singles titles, four WTA doubles titles, and 25 ITF doubles titles... |
 Martina HingisMartina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...  Natasha ZverevaNatasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings... |
6–4, 6–2 |
| 2. | 27 February 2000 | Oklahoma Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup are tennis tournaments held in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships is a men's ATP Tour event that has been held since 1976. In previous years it has been known as the U.S. Indoor Championships, the... |
Hard | Elena Tatarkova |
Kimberly Po-Messerli Corina Morariu Corina Morariu Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the... |
6–4, 4–6, 6–2 |
| 3. | 14 October 2001 | Shanghai China Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... |
Hard | Evie Dominikovic Evie Dominikovic Evie Dominikovic is an Australian tennis player. Dominikovic turned professional in 1997. Her best grand slam result is making it to the third round at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open.... |
 Lenka NěmečkováLenka Němečková Lenka Němečková a Czech tennis player. She has won several ITF events, 1 WTA doubles event and has reached one WTA singles final. She has not competed in an ITF or WTA event since 2006.-References:...  Liezel HuberLiezel Huber Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On November 12, 2007,... |
6–0, 7–5 |
| 4. | 21 September 2003 | Shanghai China Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... |
Hard | Ai Sugiyama Ai Sugiyama is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992... |
Émilie Loit Emilie Loit Émilie Loit is a retired French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France.She rose to fame when she played against American superstar Serena Williams before losing 6–3, 6–7, 5–7 in a tough first round 2003 Australian Open match.In her career Loit has won three career... Nicole PrattNicole Pratt Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian... |
6–3, 6–3 |
| 5. | 8 August 2004 |  Montreal |
Hard | Liezel Huber Liezel Huber Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On November 12, 2007,... |
Ai Sugiyama Ai Sugiyama is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992... Shinobu AsagoeShinobu Asagoe Shinobu Asagoe is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006.-Career:2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 . In the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top 50 player... |
6–0, 6–3 |
| 6. | 2 November 2008 | Quebec City Bell Challenge The Bell Challenge is a WTA Tour Tier III tennis tournament held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada since 1993. The tournament is played on indoor hardcourts.... |
Hard (i) | Jill Craybas Jill Craybas - Early years :Craybas was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletics Association competition from 1993 to... |
Anna-Lena Grönefeld Anna-Lena Grönefeld Anna-Lena Grönefeld is a professional tennis player from Germany. She turned professional in April 2003.As of September 2011, Grönefeld is the No. 12 tennis player from Germany. She was coached and trained by Rafael Font de Mora in Scottsdale, Arizona until 2006... Vania KingVania King Vania King is a Taiwanese American female tennis player. King won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles with Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova.... |
7–6(3), 6–4 |
Singles performance timeline
| NM5 | means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament. | |||
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or when the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Wimbledon Championships in London, Great Britain, which ended 5 July 2009.
| Tournament | 1994 1994 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 1995 1995 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 1996 1996 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 1997 1997 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 1998 1998 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 1999 1999 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events... | 2000 2000 WTA Tour The 2000 Sanex WTA Tour was the 28th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 3, 2000, and concluded on November 13, 2000, after 58 events. For this season, a new event was added: the State Farm Classic in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S... | 2001 2001 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V events... | 2002 2002 WTA Tour The 2002 Sanex WTA Tour was the 30th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on December 31, 2001, and concluded on November 11, 2002, after 64 events.... | 2003 2003 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V events... | 2004 2004 WTA Tour The 2004 WTA Tour was the 32nd season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2004, and concluded on November 13, 2004, after 60 events.... | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 2007 WTA Tour The 2007 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 35th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 1, 2007, and concluded on November 11, 2007 after 61 events. Two new events were added to the schedule for the 2007 season: the Barcelona KIA and Gastein Ladies. It also... | 2008 2008 WTA Tour The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 36th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on December 31, 2007, and concluded on November 9, 2008 after 59 events.The season was characterised by its frequent changes in the No... | 2009 2009 WTA Tour The 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 37th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2009, and concluded on November 8, 2009 after 56 events.... | 2010 2010 WTA Tour The Women's Tennis Association Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments , the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , and the year-end... | Career SR | Career Win-Loss |
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| Grand Slam Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | LQ1 | LQ2 | 3R | 4R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R5 | 1R | 1R5 | 1R | 2R | 0 / 14 | 15–14 |
| French Open | A | LQ2 | A | 2R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | 2R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 13 | 6–13 |
| Wimbledon | A | LQ2 | A | 3R | 4R | 4R | 4R | 4R | 4R | 1R | 4R | 2R | 3R1 | 1R | QF 2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Venus Williams was the defending champion, and won in the final 7–5, 6–4, against her sister Serena Williams.-Seeds:# Ana Ivanović # Jelena Janković # Maria Sharapova ... |
1R | 1R | 0 / 14 | 27–14 |
| US Open | A | LQ2 | A | 3R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 4R | 1R | 1R | LQ1 | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 12 | 9–12 |
| SR | 0 / 0 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 50 | N/A |
| Win-Loss | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–2 | 7–4 | 6–4 | 4–4 | 8–4 | 5–4 | 8–4 | 5–4 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 4–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 44–50 | |
| Year-End Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
| WTA Tour Championships WTA Tour Championships The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour. The month, city and number of players has changed since the first edition in 1972... |
A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||||
| Summer Olympics Tennis at the Summer Olympics Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics... |
Not Held |
A | Not Held | 2R Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's Singles The women's singles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the tennis program was held at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre from 19 September till 28 September.-Medalists:-Seeds:# #... |
Not Held | 1R Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's singles The women's singles competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was part of the tennis program for the games, and was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in Athens, Greece.-Medalists:-Seeds:# # ... |
Not Held | 1R | Not Held |
0 / 3 | 1–3 | ||||||||
| WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | A | A | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 1R | LQ2 | 2R | A | 1R 2009 BNP Paribas Open - Women's Singles Ana Ivanović was the defending champion, but lost to Vera Zvonareva in the final.-Seeds:All seeds receive a bye into the second round.# Dinara Safina # Jelena Janković # Elena Dementieva ... |
2R | 0 / 12 | 9–12 |
| Key Biscayne | A | 3R3 | A | 2R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 4R | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | A | 1R6 | 1R6 | 2R 2009 Sony Ericsson Open - Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Victoria Azarenka 6–3, 6–1.-Seeds:All seeds receive a bye into the second round.# Serena Williams # Dinara Safina # Jelena Janković ... |
A | 0 / 13 | 15–13 |
| Madrid Madrid Masters There are two sporting events named the Madrid Masters:*Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open — a men's and women's tennis tournament*Madrid Masters... |
Not Held | 1R 2009 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open - Women's Singles Dinara Safina defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4 for the title.-Seeds:The four Rome semifinalists received a bye into the second round.# Dinara Safina # Serena Williams # Elena Dementieva ... |
A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Beijing China Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... |
Not Held | Not Tier I | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| WTA Premier 5 Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dubai Dubai Tennis Championships The Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab... |
Not Tier I | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||||||||||||||
| Rome | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | LQ1 | A | A | A | 0 / 3 | 0–2 |
| Cincinnati | Not Held | Not Tier I | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Montreal / Toronto | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | A | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 2R | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | 0 / 8 | 5–8 |
| Tokyo Toray Pan Pacific Open The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event... |
A | A | A | 2R | 1R | A | 1R | A | QF | QF | 1R | A | LQ2 | LQ2 | LQ1 | A | A | 0 / 8 | 5–6 |
| Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Family Circle Cup The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. The tournament is currently played on the green clay courts at the Daniel Island Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA... |
A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | 1R | A | NM5 | 0 / 5 | 0–5 | |
| Moscow Kremlin Cup The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour... |
Not Held |
Not Tier I |
A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
| Doha Qatar Total Open The Qatar Ladies Open , known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor... |
Not Held | Not Tier I | 3R4 2008 Qatar Total Open - Singles Justine Henin was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.Maria Sharapova won in the final 6–1, 2–6, 6–0, against Vera Zvonareva.-Seeds:The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.... |
Not Held |
0 / 1 | 2–1 | |||||||||||||
| Berlin Qatar Telecom German Open The German Open, sponsored from 2006 through 2008 as the Qatar Telecom German Open, was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in Berlin, Germany. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women... |
A | A | A | 1R | 2R | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | ||
| San Diego | Not Tier I | 1R4 | A | A | 2R | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | |||||||||||
| Zürich Zurich Open The Zurich Open was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 1993 until 2007. In its final year, 2008, it was downgraded to a Tier II event.The Open was held at... |
A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
| Philadelphia Advanta Championships Philadelphia The Advanta Championships of Philadelphia was a WTA Tour professional tennis tournament for women played from 1971 through 2005 in Philadelphia, United States. The tournament was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I event from 1993 through 1995. It was classified as a Tier II event in 1991,... |
A | A | Not Tier I | Not Held | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||||
| Career Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tournaments played | 12 | 12 | 16 | 26 | 23 | 21 | 27 | 22 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 24 | 27 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 5 | N/A | 349 |
| Finals reached | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | N/A | 24 | |
| Tournaments Won | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | N/A | 13 |
| Year End Ranking | 294 | 209 | 79 | 46 | 37 | 72 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 34 | 66 | 132 | 75 | 124 | 35 | 114 | 62 | N/A | N/A |
- 1 Lost in the second round of the qualifying tournament.
- 2 Lost in the first round of the qualifying tournament.
- 3 Won two and lost one qualifying match to reach the main draw before losing in the third round.
- 4 Won two qualifying matches to reach the main draw.
- 5 Won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw.
- 6 Won one and lost one qualifying match to reach the main draw before losing in the first round.
- 7 Her win-loss record includes all matches listed on the WTA website, including Women's Pro Circuit and Fed Cup matches.
- 8 Her qualifying matches not include with her win-loss record.