Arantxa Rus (born 13 December 1990, in Delft, South Holland) is a Dutch female tennis player. In 2008 she won the Australian Open for juniors, defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. With this win she went from the 35th to 2nd place on the junior ranking, ultimately becoming the world junior No.1 player.

Rus' biggest win to date was a second round shocker over #2 seed Kim Clijsters at the 2011 French Open, winning 3–6, 7–5, 6–1, saving two match points in the second set.

At age 14 Arantxa Rus played her first ITF Pro tournament at Alkmaar. She lost in the second round to Julie Coin.

She played 2 more ITF tournaments at Heerhugowaard and Vlaardingen, reaching the semi finals at the latter.

Rus continued playing ITF tournaments and winning her first at Vlaardingen and second at Alphen aan de Rijn. In San Luis Potosi she reached the finals, but lost in 3 sets.

In 's-Hertogenbosch she was granted a wildcard to play her first WTA main draw, she lost to Alona Bondarenko 1–6, 1–6 in the first round.

Caroline Wozniacki (born 11 July 1990) is a Danish professional tennis player. She is a former world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 23 January 2012, she held this position for 67 weeks. She is the first Scandinavian woman to hold the top ranking position and 20th overall.

Since her WTA debut in 2005, she has improved her year-end ranking each year until finishing on top in both 2010 and 2011. She has won 18 WTA singles titles as of August 2011, three in 2008, three in 2009, six in 2010 (the most since Justine Henin's ten in 2007), and six in 2011. She was runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the 2010 WTA Tour Championships in Doha to Kim Clijsters. She won the 2006 Wimbledon Girls' Singles title but has yet to win a women's Grand Slam title. She also holds two WTA titles in doubles.

Wozniacki is the daughter of Polish Roman Catholicimmigrants, Piotr and Anna Wozniacki. Anna played on the Polish women's national volleyball team, and Piotr played professional football. The couple moved to Denmark when Piotr signed for the Danish football club Boldklubben 1909. Wozniacki's older brother Patrik Wozniacki is a professional footballer for Hvidovre IF in Denmark.

Julia Glushko (born April 1, 1990, in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a right-handed Israeli tennis player who resides in Tel Aviv.

Her junior ranking as of June 2007, when she was 17 years old, was # 10 in the world.

She started playing tennis at the age of 3. Her parents are tennis instructors.

Shahar Pe'er beat her in the women's final of the 2006 Israel National Championships.

She has won 4 junior titles. The first three were the 2006 Saadia Rees (Grade 4), the 2007 Argentina Cup (Grade 2), and the 2007 Uruguay Bowl (Grade 2).

In March 2007 she won the Grade 1 Asuncion Bowl junior girls tournament in Paraguay. It was the first Grade 1 title of her career.

At the US Open in September 2007, she won her first two junior singles matches and her first round junior doubles match with Tyra Calderwood.

Glushko made her professional debut in March 2004 at the ITF challenger event in Ramat Hasharon. She beat Diana Voskoboynik (Israel) in the first round of qualifying before losing to Yakaterina Burduli (Israel).

Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (Dutch pronunciation: [kɪm ˈklɛistərs] ( listen); born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 28 May 2012, Clijsters is ranked no. 47 in singles. Clijsters is a former world no. 1 in both singles and doubles.

Clijsters has won 41 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She has won four Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open, in 2005, 2009, and 2010 and one at the Australian Open in 2011. She has also been runner-up in four Grand Slam singles tournaments, and won the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002, 2003, and 2010. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003. Clijsters announced her retirement with immediate effect on 6 May 2007, but almost two years later, on 26 March 2009, she publicly declared her intent to return to the WTA tour for the 2009 summer hard court season. In only her third tournament back, she won her second US Open title, becoming the first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament, and the first mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong in 1980.

Olga Govortsova (Belarusian: Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова; Russian: Ольга Алексеевна Говорцова; born 23 August 1988 in Pinsk, Brest Voblast) is a professional Belarusian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking was world no. 35, which she reached on 23 June 2008.

She reached her first WTA Tour final at the 2008 Cellular South Open in Memphis, Tennessee. There she lost in straight sets to Lindsay Davenport.

She began her year at the 2009 Brisbane International, here she defeated 8th seed Francesca Schiavone 7–5 6–2 en route to the quarter finals. She fell here however against world no 41. Sara Errani 6–3 6–3.

At the Australian Open she received main draw entry but was drawn against 20th seed Amélie Mauresmo in the first round, she lost in straight sets 6–4 6–3.

She then played in Indian Wells, a premier mandatory event. She defeated British no 1 Anne Keothavong in the first round before falling to Shuai Peng.

In Miami the second premier mandatory event she lost in the first round to Belarusian qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova.