Did Françoise Dürr play tennis professionally before Marin Čilić started to play professionally?
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Marin Čilić Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. Over the course of his career, Čilić has won 17 ATP singles titles, including the 2014 US Open. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 5, achieved in September 2017. Čilić first came to international prominence by defeating then-World No. 2 Andy Murray in the fourth round of the 2009 US Open. He followed this by reaching the semifinals of the 2010 Australian Open. Among other achievements, Čilić was runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, and was a semifinalist at the 2015 US Open as defending champion. Čilić is currently the youngest active male player to have won a slam. Čilić has reached at least the quarterfinal in all four grand slam tournaments. He has a very powerful serve and very powerful groundstrokes.
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Françoise Dürr Françoise Dürr (born 25 December 1942; sometimes referred to by English writers as Frankie Durr) is a retired French professional tennis player. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.
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Sandrine Testud Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 2000, she became the sixth Frenchwoman after Françoise Dürr, Mary Pierce, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Julie Halard to break into the singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had four women ranked in the singles Top 10 simultaneously (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6, Julie Halard at no.8 and Testud at No. 9). France was the third nation after the USA and Australia to have more than two representatives in the singles Top 10 at any one time. She finished in the top 20 singles rankings for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tennis circuit when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. She resumed her career 12 months after the birth of her child and retired in the summer of 2005.
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Daniela Hantuchová Daniela Hantuchová (] ; born 23 April 1983) is a retired tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA tournament, the Indian Wells Masters, defeating Martina Hingis in the final and becoming the lowest-ranked player to ever win the tournament. She also reached the quarterfinals of that year's Wimbledon Championship and US Open, ending the year in the top 10. She was part of the Slovak team that won the 2002 Fed Cup and the 2005 Hopman Cup.
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Andrea Gaudenzi Andrea Gaudenzi (] ); born 30 July 1973 is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1990 after becoming Junior World Champion winning both Roland Garros and US Open.
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Debbrich Feys Debbrich Feys (born 20 December 1984, in Ghent) is a retired professional Belgian tennis player. Her career high singles ranking is World No. 341, which she achieved in March 2008. Her highest doubles ranking is No. 178, achieved in February 2008.
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Judith Salomé Judith Salomé (born 10 February 1949) is a retired Dutch tennis player who won the Junior Wimbledon title in 1967. Between 1968 and 1970 she competed in singles and doubles in Grand Slam tournaments such as Wimbledon, Roland Garros, French Open and Australian Open, but was eliminated in the first round on most occasions.
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Renata Kolbovic Renata Kolbovic (born July 30, 1976) is a former tennis player, who was born in Czechoslovakia but competed for Canada.
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Florence Haring Florence Haring (born 2 October 1985) is a French professional tennis player.
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Claire de Gubernatis Claire de Gubernatis (born 18 July 1986) is a French professional tennis player.
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Iryna Brémond Iryna Brémond (née Kuryanovich) (Belarusian: Ірына Брэмон (Кур'яновіч) ; Russian: Ирина Бремон (Курьянович) ; born 5 October 1984) is a professional French tennis player.
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2014 Marin Čilić tennis season The 2014 Marin Čilić tennis season began at the Chennai Open, where he won the title for the third time in his career. This was followed by an unsuccessful defense of his title at the Australian Open, where he lost in the semi-finals to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in five sets. A few months later, after a relatively unsuccessful clay season until then, Stan has won his second major title at the French Open, defeating Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in the process.
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Kim Warwick Kim Warwick (born 8 April 1952) is an Australian former professional male tennis player who competed on the ATP Tour from 1970–1987 reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980. He defeated over 35 players ranked in the top 10 including Guillermo Vilas, Raul Ramerez, Vitas Gerulaitis, Jan Kodeš, Bob Lutz and Arthur Ashe. Warwick's career-high singles ranking was World No. 15, achieved in 1981. He won three singles titles and 26 doubles, including Australian Open 1978 (with Wojtek Fibak) and Australian Open 1980 and 1981, Roland Garros 1986 and also a runner-up in Australian Open 1985, all of them partnering fellow countryman Mark Edmondson. Partnering with Evonne Goolagong, he won the French Open 1972, defeating Françoise Dürr and Jean-Claude Barclay in the final 6–2, 6–4. Evonne and Kim were finalists in 1972 at Wimbledon against Rosie Casals and Ilie Năstase who won 6–4, 6–4.
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Patrice Beust Patrice Beust (born 3 September 1944) is a former professional tennis player from France.
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Nelly Landry Nelly Adamson Landry (28 December 1916 – 22 February 2010) was a female tennis player from Belgium (became French citizen after marriage). She was the 1948 women's singles champion at the French Championships beating Shirley Fry. She had also been a finalist in 1938, losing to Simonne Mathieu, and reached again the final in 1949, losing to Margaret Osborne duPont.
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Daniel Courcol Daniel Courcol (born 26 April 1969) is a former professional tennis player from France.
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Corinne Vanier Corinne Vanier is a former professional tennis player who won the 1981 French Open Girls' doubles championship with Sophie Amiach and played on the WTA tour.
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1968 French Open – Women's Doubles The Women's Doubles tournament at the 1968 French Open was held from 27 May to 9 June 1968 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The second-seeded team of Françoise Dürr and Ann Jones won the title, defeating the first-seeded pair of Rosie Casals and Billie Jean King in the final in three sets.
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Ivan Dupasquier Ivan Dupasquier (born 23 November 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.
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Josef Čihák Josef Čihák (born 19 March 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic who competed for Czechoslovakia. He now works as a tennis coach at TK Sparta Praha.
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Stéphane Simian Stéphane Simian (born 8 June 1967), is a former professional tennis player from France. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of 'World No. 41 in 1993 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 56 in 1994.
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Emmanuelle Gagliardi Emmanuelle Gagliardi (born 9 July 1976) is a retired professional Swiss tennis player.