Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Womens Wild Card Qualifier

Michael D · All-time great

RE: Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Womens Wild Card Qualifier

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Ai Sugiyama played 62 consecutive Grand Slam singles between Wimbledon 1994 and the US Open 2009. This is a record for a female player. Schiavone played 61 in a row. Of still active players Alize Cornet has played 53. Sugiyama won the ladies doubles at Wimbledon in 2003 with Kim Clijsters.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

the addict wrote:
Big chunk of info on wiki

"Casey Dellacqua born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. Dellacqua's best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Masters and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she has also won 22 ITF singles titles.

Dellacqua's career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the 2011 French Open. She has reached the finals of all four Grand Slam events in women's doubles, appearing in seven major finals from 2008 to 2017, however has yet to win a major title. Dellacqua won her biggest women's doubles title at the Premier Mandatory 2015 Mutua Madrid Open, partnered with Yaroslava Shvedova. Dellacqua achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 in September 2014, and career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in February 2016. "

I doubt she'll be adding to her titles as I made a note in my 2018 media guide that she announced her retirement in April 2018. She now has 3 children with her partner. She played in the final of the 4 different Grand Slam venues with Ash Barty. They lost every time.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Eugenie Bouchard nearly joined the group of players who win junior Wimbledon then go on to win the main event. She beat Elena Svitolina in the 2012 junior final. She reached the final of Wimbledon in 2014 without dropping a set (she beat both Kerber and Halep on route) and then came a cropper against Petra Kvitova in the final. Then as a player she fell away. Frustratingly from a British point of view she did beat Johanna Konta in the 2nd round of Wimbledon 2016. She is the first Canadian born player to represent Canada and reach a Grand Slam singles final. As with Mary Pierce and Greg Rusedski she was born in Montreal. She has a twin sister also named after our royal family and called Beatrice.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Ai Sugiyama played 62 consecutive Grand Slam singles between Wimbledon 1994 and the US Open 2009. This is a record for a female player. Schiavone played 61 in a row. Of still active players Alize Cornet has played 53. Sugiyama won the ladies doubles at Wimbledon in 2003 with Kim Clijsters.

That's a good stat! Shes still got no votes sadly!

PockyTastic · Futures level

I found it tough to choose between four of these players but in the end I went for the little assassin (Amanda Coetzer).

Michael D · All-time great

PockyTastic wrote:
I found it tough to choose between four of these players but in the end I went for the little assassin (Amanda Coetzer).

Yes I voted her too... my alternative would probably have been Kimiko but neither looks like they will qualify.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Ai Sugiyama played 62 consecutive Grand Slam singles between Wimbledon 1994 and the US Open 2009. This is a record for a female player. Schiavone played 61 in a row. Of still active players Alize Cornet has played 53. Sugiyama won the ladies doubles at Wimbledon in 2003 with Kim Clijsters.
That's a good stat! Shes still got no votes sadly!

I think the Japanese vote has gone to Kimiko Date.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

No votes for Anna Kournikova. About 20 years ago she was everybodys favourite although she never won a WTA tournament.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 17th of May 2020 02:05:48 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

3 hours left, the 3 wildcard slots still secure.

Michael D · All-time great

ROSAMUND wrote:
No votes for Anna Kournikova. About 20 years ago she was everybodys favourite although she never won a WTA tournament.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 17th of May 2020 02:05:48 PM

Haha let's not be too sweeping with the everybody biggrin

She could probably be described though as the first celebrity tennis player, who made more from her modelling than her tennis itself.

brittak · Satellite level

Michael D wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
No votes for Anna Kournikova. About 20 years ago she was everybodys favourite although she never won a WTA tournament.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 17th of May 2020 02:05:48 PM
Haha let's not be too sweeping with the everybody
She could probably be described though as the first celebrity tennis player, who made more from her modelling than her tennis itself.

Indeed!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

40 mins left , still time to vote, 6 pm close

telstar · Strong Club Player

brittak wrote:
Michael D wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
No votes for Anna Kournikova. About 20 years ago she was everybodys favourite although she never won a WTA tournament.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 17th of May 2020 02:05:48 PM
Haha let's not be too sweeping with the everybody
She could probably be described though as the first celebrity tennis player, who made more from her modelling than her tennis itself.
Indeed!

Kournikova and Bouchard are the favourite players of those who like pretty girls more than they like tennis!

-- Edited by telstar on Sunday 17th of May 2020 04:28:53 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Looking like these results wont change which is good as I'm needing to cook roast dinner tonight ! Glass of rose in garden first. So hopefully no tie break polls to delay me!