name | Yani Tseng曾雅妮 |
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fullname | Yani Tseng |
birth date | January 23, 1989 |
birth place | GuishanTaoyuan Co., Taiwan, Republic of China |
death date | |
height | |
nationality | |
residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
yearpro | 2007 |
retired | |
tour | LPGA Tour(joined 2008) |
extour | Ladies Asian Golf Tour(joined 2007) |
prowins | 17 |
lpgawins | 9 |
letwins | 3 |
jlpgawins | |
klpagswins | |
lagtwins | 1 |
alpgwins | 3 |
futwins | |
otherwins | 4 |
majorwins | 5 |
nabisco | Won: 2010 |
lpga | Won: 2008, 2011 |
wusopen | T10: 2010 |
wbritopen | Won: 2010, 2011 |
wghofid | |
wghofyear | |
award1 | LPGA Rookie of the Year |
year1 | 2008 |
award2 | LPGA Player of the Year |
year2 | 2010 |
award3 | GWAAFemale Player of the Year |
year3 | 2010 |
awardssection | }} |
Yani Tseng (born 23 January 1989) is a Taiwanese professional golfer currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships and is currently ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.
She entered the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in the fall of 2007 and finished sixth in the final Qualifying Tournament in December which gave Tseng full playing privileges on the LPGA Tour for 2008. In June 2008, she claimed her first LPGA tour victory at the LPGA Championship to become the first player from Taiwan to win an LPGA major championship. At age 19, she was also the youngest player to win the LPGA Championship and the second-youngest player to win an LPGA major.
Tseng was named LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2008.
On 29 March 2009, Tseng became the fastest player in LPGA history to reach the $2 million mark in career earnings. She achieved this mark in 32 events, spanning one year, one month, and 13 days. The previous record holder was Paula Creamer who reached the mark in one year, four months, and 15 days in 2006.
On 4 April 2010 Tseng won the first major championship of the LPGA season, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, by one stroke. She went on to win her second major of the year on 1 August 2010 by winning the Women's British Open by one stroke and became the youngest woman in the modern era to win three major championships. LPGA founder Patty Berg was younger than Tseng when she won the 1939 Titleholders Championship. However, that was before the formation of the LPGA Tour in 1950 and the designation of official LPGA major tournaments.
In September 2010, Tseng was offered a five-year sponsorship deal from a Chinese company worth NT$1 billion (US$25 million) with access to a luxury villa and private jets. Tseng rejected the offer because one of the requirements of the deal was that she switch her citizenship to the People's Republic of China from Republic of China.
In January 2011, Tseng defended her title at the Taifong Ladies Open on the LPGA of Taiwan Tour. Three weeks later she won the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open and a week later the ANZ RACV Ladies Masters, both events co-sponsored by the ALPG Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Her wins moved her into the number 1 position in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She won again the next week in the first tournament of the LPGA season, the Honda LPGA Thailand.
In June 2011, she won the LPGA State Farm Classic over Cristie Kerr by three strokes. Two weeks later, she won the LPGA Championship. This made her the youngest player to win four LPGA majors. The next month she defended her title at the Women's British Open, becoming the first defending champion winner at the Women's British Open as a major. Her five major titles also made her the youngest player, male or female, to win five major championships.
Tseng resides in a residential community at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida, in a house that she purchased from former LPGA player Annika Sörenstam in April 2009.
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning score | !To par | !Margin ofvictory | !Runner(s)-up | share (United States dollar>$) | ||
McDonald's LPGA Championship | Maria Hjorth | ||||||||
LPGA Corning Classic | Soo-Yun Kang Paula Creamer | ||||||||
Kraft Nabisco Championship | Suzann Pettersen | ||||||||
Ricoh Women's British Open | Katherine Hull | ||||||||
P&G; NW Arkansas Championship | Michelle Wie | ||||||||
Honda LPGA Thailand | Michelle Wie | ||||||||
LPGA State Farm Classic | Cristie Kerr | ||||||||
Wegmans LPGA Championship |
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Morgan Pressel | |||||||
Ricoh Women's British Open | Brittany Lang |
LPGA Tour playoff record (1–1)
!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent(s)!!Result | ||||
2008 | Maria Hjorth | Won with birdie on fourth hole | ||
2008 | State Farm Classic | Ji-Young Oh | Lost to par on first hole | |
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning score | !To par | !Margin ofvictory | !Runner(s)-up |
3 Mar 2007 | DLF Women's Indian Open (Ladies Asian Golf Tour) | Russy Gulyanamitta | ||||
29 May 2007 | CN Canadian Women's Tour at Vancouver Golf Club(CN Canadian Women’s Tour) | Stephanie Sherlock | ||||
2008 | Royal Ladies Open (The LPGA of Taiwan) | |||||
17 Jan 2010 | Taifong Ladies Open (The LPGA of Taiwan) | Wei Yun Jye | ||||
12 Mar 2010 | Laura Davies | |||||
16 Jan 2011 | Taifong Ladies Open (The LPGA of Taiwan) | Nam Min-ji | ||||
6 Feb 2011 | Eun-Hee Ji Melissa Reid Jiyai Shin | |||||
13 Feb 2011 | ANZ RACV Ladies Masters (ALPG, LET) | Nikki Campbell Stacy Lewis |
DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Category:Taiwanese golfers Category:LPGA Tour golfers Category:Winners of LPGA major golf championships Category:People from Taoyuan County Category:1989 births Category:Living people
zh-min-nan:Chan Ngá-nî de:Yani Tseng fr:Yani Tseng nl:Yani Tseng ja:ヤニ・ツェン no:Yani Tseng fi:Yani Tseng sv:Yani Tseng th:เจิ้ง หย่าหนี zh:曾雅妮This text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
Name | Yanina Wickmayer |
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Nickname | Wicky |
Country | |
Residence | Monte Carlo |
Birth date | October 20, 1989 |
Birth place | Lier, Belgium |
Height | |
Weight | |
Turnedpro | 2004 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Careerprizemoney | $2,020,708 |
Coach | Marc Wickmayer, An Devries |
Singlesrecord | 242–113 |
Singlestitles | 3 WTA (10 ITF) |
Highestsinglesranking | No. 12 (19 April 2010) |
Currentsinglesranking | No. 22 (29 August 2011) |
Australianopenresult | 4R (2010) |
Frenchopenresult | 3R (2010, 2011) |
Wimbledonresult | 4R (2011) |
Usopenresult | SF (2009) |
Doublesrecord | 69–48 |
Doublestitles | 0 WTA (8 ITF) |
Highestdoublesranking | No. 71 (15 February 2010) |
Grandslamsdoublesresults | yes |
Australianopendoublesresult | 2R (2010) |
Frenchopendoublesresult | 1R (2008) |
Wimbledondoublesresult | 2R (2009) |
Usopendoublesresult | 1R (2009) |
Updated | 29 August 2011 }} |
Yanina Wickmayer (born 20 October 1989 in Lier, Belgium) 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. She is best known for reaching the semi-finals at the 2009 US Open.
In June 2011, ''Time Magazine'' named her one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future".
She was also selected by team captain Sabine Appelmans to represent the Belgium Fed Cup team at the 2007 Fed Cup. She lost to Venus Williams 6–1, 6–2 in her World Group match before winning one rubber and losing the other against Chinese opposition.
Wickmayer qualified in singles for the French Open, but lost 2–6, 5–7 in the first round to Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan.
She reached the final of the DFS Classic, but lost 6–7, 6–3, 6–7 to Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine.
At Wimbledon she lost in the first round to Japan's Ai Sugiyama 6–4, 6–2.
Wickmayer started the year with first round losses in both Brisbane and the Australian Open. She won her first tour match of the year at Indian Wells, defeating Magdaléna Rybáriková 6–3, 6–2. She lost to Daniela Hantuchová in the second round, despite holding two match points. She then lost her first round matches in Miami, and Charleston.
Wickmayer won her first ever WTA Tour singles title, in Estoril. She beat 3rd seed Sorana Cîrstea 6–4, 1–6, 6–4, en route to the final, where she defeated Ekaterina Makarova 7–5, 6–2. At the 2009 French Open, she was beaten by Samantha Stosur in the second round 6–3, 4–6, 6–4.
Wickmayer lost to a newly returned Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals at the 2009 AEGON Classic in Birmingham, UK 6–1, 2–6, 6–3. At the 2009 Ordina Open, Wickmayer reached both the singles final and the doubles final, losing to Tamarine Tanasugarn in the singles final. The doubles final was a close contest, she lost in three sets to an Italian pairing. At Wimbledon, she lost in the first round to Elena Vesnina.
During the summer hard court season, Wickmayer reached the third round in Los Angeles, losing to Vera Zvonareva. She was defeated in the early rounds of her three other summer tournaments.
At the 2009 U.S. Open, Wickmayer defeated a seeded Virginie Razzano in the first round. In the second round she recovered from a set down to beat Shuai Peng in three sets. In the third round Wickmayer dispatched Italian Sara Errani 6–3, 6–4. In the fourth round Wickmayer defeated Petra Kvitová 4–6, 6–4, 7–5 to reach the quarterfinals where she beat Kateryna Bondarenko 7–5, 6–4 to reach the semifinals before losing to Caroline Wozniacki 6–3, 6–3.
Wickmayer fell in the first round in Beijing, to Alisa Kleybanova. She has qualified for the year-end championships in Bali. Her next tournament was in Linz. She won through to the semis, where she upset top seed Flavia Pennetta, for her biggest career win. She beat Petra Kvitová in the final 6–3, 6–4, and as a result made it into the Top 20 for the first time. One week later at the 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open she won through to the semi-finals, where she was edged by Timea Bacsinszky 3–6, 6–2, 7–5.
Her last tournament of the year was at the year-end championships in Bali. Drawn into Group C, she defeated Kimiko Date Krumm in her first match in straight sets: 7–6, 6–3. She was supposed to face Anabel Medina Garrigues next but was disqualified from the tournament due to doping allegations. This was her last tournament of 2009.
On 1 October 2009, it was announced that Wickmayer and fellow Belgian tennis professional Xavier Malisse were to defend themselves before the Flemish anti-doping tribunal for failing to properly fill out their whereabouts. Wickmayer replied in a press release that the failure to follow procedure was due to her not being able to log on to the relevant website, not being able to contact the right people when needed, and not being in the country when written admonitions arrived by mail. At the tribunal on 22 October 2009 the prosecution did not ask for a ban, but rather for a "principal restraint" of the facts that they were being accused of, and as such it was expected that this would not cause any problems for both sporters.
However, on 5 November 2009 the decision of the tribunal was announced, an effective one-year ban for both players. Wickmayer as well as Malisse appealed the final decision, and her ban was lifted on 16 December 2009 after the appeal was granted.
Due to her suspension being lifted after the deadline for the Australian Open, Yanina was forced to enter the qualifying draw. After a nervous first round qualifying, she easily won through to the main draw. Being a dangerous floater, she drew Alexandra Dulgheru first round. In a match that included numerous rain delays, she prevailed 1–6 7–5 10–8. Yanina defeated two Italian players, the 12 seed, Flavia Pennetta and Sara Errani in the second and third round respectively, but lost in three sets to Justine Henin in the fourth round. Despite the loss she moved up to a career-high of no.15.
Wickmayer was selected to represent Belgium at the World Group II Fed Cup tie against Poland. Wickmayer won both her rubbers against Marta Domachowska and Agnieszka Radwańska, thus allowing Kirsten Flipkens to secure the tie for Belgium with a win against Domachowska, to advance to the World Group Playoff.
In her next two tournaments, the Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris and the 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, Wickmayer lost in first-round matches – in Paris to Petra Martić; and in Dubai to Shahar Pe'er.
She fared better in the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, where she won two matches before losing in the round of sixteen to María José Martínez Sánchez of Spain, who had upset sixth seed Victoria Azarenka in the previous round. She then travelled to Miami for the Premier Mandatory Sony Ericsson Open. Seeded 12th, in the fourth round she thrashed Timea Bacsinszky 6–0, 6–1. Despite losing 6–4, 7–5 to Marion Bartoli in a close quarterfinal match, her strong performance has brought her to a new career-high ranking of World no. 13, moving to 12 without playing the next week.
She was again selected to represent Belgium at the Fed Cup World Group Playoff tie against Estonia. When Kim Clijsters and Yanina won their singles rubbers on Saturday, Belgium was in a comfortable lead. However, Clijsters had injured her foot, and had to be replaced by Justine Henin, who herself had been injured earlier that week. Henin lost her rubber, so it fell on Yanina to bring home the tie during the fourth, which she did in three sets 2–6, 6–1, 6–1. At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix held in Stuttgart, Yanina moved to the 2nd round before falling for the 2nd consecutive time to fellow Belgium and former World No. 1 Justine Henin 6–3, 7–5. Her next tournament was the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, where she was seeded 11th. She defeated Karolina Šprem and Aravane Rezaï in the first two rounds before losing to 7th seeded Jelena Janković in the third round 6–2, 6–0. As she was defending the points for her 2009 Estoril win during this week, but lost too early in the tournament, this week marked the first in a long time when she lost ranking points.
She pulled out of her next tournament, citing a right elbow injury, and underwent surgery. Though Roland Garros was only two weeks later, she managed to be fit in time, and played there as 16th seed. She defeated Sandra Záhlavová in the first round 6–1, 6–1 and Sybille Bammer 7–6, 1–6, 7–5 before falling to Daniela Hantuchová 7–5, 6–3. Despite her recent injury, this was her best French Open performance so far.
Yanina reached the quarterfinals in Birmingham where she lost to qualifier Alison Riske. The next week she had 200 ranking points to defend from her 2009 's-Hertogenbosch final. She decided to play in Eastbourne however, where she wasn't seeded due to the strong players field. She lost to fifth seed Kim Clijsters 6–1, 6–1. Yanina defeated Riske in a tough first round match at the Wimbledon Championships, her first Wimbledon main draw win. She reached the third round after defeating compatriot Kirsten Flipkens, but lost to no. 21 seed Vera Zvonareva. The day before their second round match, Flipkens and Yanina played doubles together, which they lost. Yanina also lost her first mixed doubles match with Dick Norman. After Wimbledon she will rise to No. 16 once again, the third Belgian after Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin.
At the 2010 Bank of the West Classic, Wickmayer fell to top seed Sam Stosur in the quarterfinals.
She was seeded 8th at the 2010 Mercury Insurance Open, but fell to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round.
Wickmayer was seeded 15th at the 2010 US Open, with semifinal ranking points to defend. She advanced to the 4th round, before falling in three sets to 31st seed Kaia Kanepi.
Wickmayer was seeded 21st at the 2011 Australian Open. She lost in the second round to Lativan Anastasija Sevastova 4–6, 2–6, citing illness.
Wickmayer reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 Open GDF Suez, where she lost to Petra Kvitová in a tight three-sets match 7–5, 3–6, 6–7.
At the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships she defeated Wildcard Bojana Jovanovski in the first round, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2. Next up for Wickmayer was Australian Open finalist Li Na. Li, the 5th seed, held four match points in the second set tie-break, but Yanina saved all of them and won 6–7, 7–6, 6–2. With that win, Wickmayer got her second Top 10 win over No.7-ranked Li, having beaten No.9-ranked Agnieszka Radwańska in Fed Cup last season. She lost to 9th seed Shahar Peer 6–3, 4–6, 1–6 in the third round.
Wickmayer's next event was the 2011 BNP Paribas Open where she competed as the 23rd seed. She lost in the semifinal to 15th seed Marion Bartoli 1–6, 3–6. This was her first semifinal ever in Indian Wells.
At the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open Yanina was the 23rd seed. After a first round bye, she was defeated by Russian Elena Vesnina 2–6, 7–5, 4–6.
Wickmayer was seeded 21st at the 2011 French Open, and beat both Monica Niculescu and Japan's Ayumi Morita in straight sets before losing to 12th seed Agnieszka Radwańska 6–4, 6–4 in the third round, matching her 2010 performance.
As the 3rd seed, Wickmayer reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 UNICEF Open, falling to eventual champion Roberta Vinci.
Wickmayer was the 19th seed at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. She beat Varvara Lepchenko, Anna Tatishvili, and 12th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the 4th round for the first time, where she lost to 8th seed and eventual winner Petra Kvitová.
During the summer, Wickmayer took part in the 2011 Rogers Cup where she lost to Roberta Vinci in the first round. She then played 2011 Western & Southern Open and lost in the second round. At the Virginia Slims of Dallas she retired in the first round against Sofia Arvidsson with a back injury. At the 2011 US Open, after having won her first match 6-1, 7-5 against Sorana Cirstea, she withdrew in the second round against Alla Kudryavtseva due to the same back injury.
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Category:1989 births Category:Belgian female tennis players Category:Belgian people of Austrian descent Category:Living people Category:People from Lier, Belgium
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