Famous Athletes Biography: May 2012

Sunday, 13 May 2012

Anne Gaelle Sidot

Anne Gaelle Sidot Biography
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot (born on July 24, 1979 in Enghien-Les-Bains, France) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Sidot turned professional in 1994. She has never the reached the singles final of a WTA Tour tournament, although she did reach the semi-final stage on 6 occasions and the quarter-final stage on 13 occasions. Her best Grand Slam singles performances were reaching the third round exactly once in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments. She won two WTA Tour doubles titles in Leipzig in 2000 and Nice in 2001, and was the runner-up in Los Angeles and Zürich in 2000. She also reached the 1999 Wimbledon women's doubles quarter-final with Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands. She represented her country in the Fed Cup in 1997. She retired from the WTA Tour circuit in 2002.
Height: 1.72m (2002)
Weight: 56kg (2002)
Left-handed
Highest WTA Tour singles ranking: 24
Highest WTA Tour doubles ranking: 15
Career prize money: $1,236,925
@Overall singles record: @215-174
@overall doubles record: @112-125
WTA Tour doubles finals WTA(WITA) Tour doubles finals (2-2 record) and Grand Slam quarter finals and beyond
1999 Wimbledon QF with Kristie Boogert(Hol); 2000: W – Leipzig(Germany) with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario(Spn); RU – Los Angeles(California), Zürich(Switzerland) with Kimberly Po(US); 2001: W – Nice(France) with Émile Loit(Fra); US Open Mixed Doubles QF with Sandon Stolle(Aust)
WTA(WITA) Tour doubles semi-finalist on 10 occasions, excluding Grand Slams
1998(1), 1999(4), 2000(2), 2001(3)
ITF Women's (formerly Futures) Circuit singles titles(7)
Casablanca(Morocco) '94, Nottingham(England) '94, Flensburg(Germany) '95, Cardiff(Wales) '96, Cergy-Pontoise(France) '96, Würzsburg(Germany) '96, Southampton(England) '98
Grand Slam records
Grand Slam singles record (excluding qualifying matches): A - 3-5; F - 4-8; W - 3-6; US - 3-6 ; overall - 13-25
Grand Slam women's doubles record (QF or better): Wimbledon – QF('99)
Grand Slam mixed doubles record (QF or better): US Open – QF(’01)
Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games
Federation Cup record: 1997 - (1-0); overall singles and doubles record: 1-0; overall singles record: 0-0; overall doubles record: 1-0
Olympic Games: did not participate
Career summary
Year singles ranking win-lose Prize money in US$ A F W US SF QF
1993 NR 0-0/0 - - - - - 0 0
1994 299 0-0/0 c.8,000 - - - - 0 0
1995 164 0-1/0 c.23,000 - 1 Q1 - 0 0
1996 55 6-6/50 e.87,878 - 1 2 3 1 0
1997 33 22-24/48 e.173,371 2 1 1 1 3 2
1998 54 13-24/35 e.154,698(47) 3 2 1 1 0 3
1999 33 17-26/40 e.246,935(35) 1 1 1 2 1 1
2000 36 25-27/48 e.312,537(29) 1 3 3 1 1 5
2001 120 9-19/32 e.207,061(48) 1 1 1 1 0 2
2002 242 1-2/33 c.25,000 - 2 - - 0 0
Notes: WTA singles ranking was as of end of the WTA Tour season
"win-lose" record includes only WTA Tour singles matches and excludes qualifying matches, Federation Cup, Olympic Games tournaments before 2004 and other team competition matches. The singles match winning percentage is indicated after the slash
overall "win-lose" record: 93-129; overall winning percentage: 42%
A: Australian Open, F: French Open, W: Wimbledon, US: US Open - indicate the Grand Slam singles performance for each year; '-' means did not play, 'X' event not held in that year, Q1/Q2/Q3 means lost in the 1st/2nd/3rd qualifying round
"SF" and "QF" mean the number semi-final and quarter-final defeats respectively for each year and involve only WTA Tour non-Grand Slam events (excludes ITF Tour, Satellite events, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games tournaments before 2004)
overall no. of SF defeats - 6
overall no. of QF defeats - 13

Anne Gaelle Sidot

Steffi Graf Hannover 1999 Bits & Pieces 1/2

Nathalie Krebs Fragile S

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Martina Sucha

Martina Sucha Biography
Currently being coached by M.Mihal; physical trainer is Tomas Kampmiller
Father, Henrich Suchy and mother, Margita Sucha are both doctors; brother, Marek Suchy, is student of economics and plays ice hockey
In her spare time likes shopping and reading (favorite author is Michal Viewegh)
Favorite movies are Trainspotting and American Beauty; favorite TV show is The Simpsons.

Martina Sucha

Martina Sucha rally

martina sucha

Severine Bremond

Severine Bremond Biography
French professional female tennis player Séverine Brémond was born on August 14, 1979 in Montpellier, France. She started her professional tennis career in 2002 and represent France in WTA and ITF. She has played in all the major Grand Slam Events but failed to won any one of those. By far her best performance came in Wimbledon where she reached to the Quarterfinal in 2006. She has won 5 ITF singles titles up till now and as also played in doubles as well where she has won 4 ITF doubles titles. Severine currently ranks world no. 74 in singles and world no. 138 in doubles.

Severine Bremond

Serena Williams vs Severine Bremond | 2008 US Open 4th Round highlights

Séverine Brémond in Paris Indoors 2007 1

Friday, 11 May 2012

Amanda Coetzer

Amanda Coetzer Biography
As a biography, Amanda Coetzer, nicknamed The Little Assassin, was born on October 22, 1971 in Hoopstad, South Africa. Coetzer began playing tennis at the young age of six. Gavin Hopper served as her coach when she lived in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Amanda Coetzer began her professional tennis career in 1988. She has competed at the Canadian Open in 1995 where she successfully beat Steffi Graf, Jana Novotná and Mary Pierce before losing to Monica Seles.
In 1996 Amanda attended the Australian Open where she made it to the Grand Slam semi-final before losing to Anke Huber. The following year, the best season of her career, Amanda went on to the French Open and the Australian Open.
In 1997 and 1998 Coetzer successfully beat Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport, all were ranked at No.1. In the remainder of her tennis career Coetzer competed at the Fed Cup, the Hopman Cup and attended the Olympic Games three times to represent her homeland.
In 2004 Amanda Coetzer retired from the world of professional tennis with an estimated $5,594,821 inprize money! She is currently married to film producer Arnon Milchan.

Amanda Coetzer

Amanda Coetzer v Barbara Schett Us Open Highlights 2003

Martina Hingis vs Amanda Coetzer 2002 US Open Highlights

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Angela Haynes

Angela Haynes Biography
Angela Haynes is a female professional tennis player from United States. She was born on September 27, 1984 in Bellflower, California, U.S. She started to play tennis professionally when she was a teenager and later she has won two titles in singles category and both are ITF titles. In doubles, her victories include Seven ITF titles. Her career best ranking in singles circuit was No. 95 which she achieved on August 22, 2005. In doubles, her highest career ranking was No. 86 and she achieved that on September 15, 2008.

Angela Haynes

angela haynes at Indian Wells 3.12.09

Tennis Tips from Angela Haynes, Murphy Jensen and Victoria Azarenka -- Washington Kastles

Angela Haynes

Angela Haynes

angela haynes at Indian Wells 3.12.09

Tennis Tips from Angela Haynes, Murphy Jensen and Victoria Azarenka -- Washington Kastles

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Zuzana Ondraskova

Zuzana Ondraskova Biography
Professional female tennis player, Zuzana Ondrášková was born on May 3, 1980, Opava, Czech Republic. She has been playing at ITF circuits and on WTA tours and turned professional in 1995. Zuzana has also appeared in many Grand Slam singles events during her career, but she never goes farther then 2nd round, where she reached on four occasions. Besides that, she has also won 17 minor titles at ITF. At the moment she is ranked World No. 185 in singles category, but her career best ranking in singles was World No. 74, reached on February 9, 2004.

Zuzana Ondraskova

Zuzana Ondraskova in Paris indoors 2009 2

Zuzana Ondraskova Practicing in Luxembourg