Who reached a higher world ranking, Julien Benneteau or Arantxa Sánchez Vicario?
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Julien Benneteau Julien Benneteau (] ; born 20 December 1981) is a French professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is ATP world no. 25, which he reached in November 2014. He formerly resided in Boulogne-Billancourt and now lives in Geneva. Benneteau is generally regarded as one of the best singles players on the tour who has not won a title, finishing as runner-up in ten ATP tournaments. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open and the semifinals of the 2014 Cincinnati Masters.
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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (] ; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former World No. 1 professional tennis player. She won four Grand Slam singles titles, six Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. In 1994 she was crowned the ITF World Champion for the year.
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Juan Carlos Sáez Juan Carlos Sáez (born 5 August 1991) is a Chilean tennis player. Sáez has a career high ATP singles ranking of 230 achieved on 28 September 2015. Sáez has won 5 ITF singles events and 14 ITF doubles events on the futures circuit. Sáez made his ATP main draw doubles debut at the 2014 Royal Guard Open, partnering Gonzalo Lama losing to Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace in the first round, 0–6, 6–3, [6–10].
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Albert Ramos Viñolas Albert Ramos Viñolas (] ; born 17 January 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 25 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 17, which he achieved after reaching the final of the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters, his best performance at a Masters 1000 event.
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Raven Klaasen Raven Klaasen (born 16 October 1982) is a professional South African tennis player. Klaasen's career-high singles ranking is world number 208, which he achieved on 24 October 2011. He has had more success playing doubles, with the notable achievement of reaching the 2014 Australian Open finals with partner Eric Butorac. Their run to the final included a victory over the World No. 1 team of Bob and Mike Bryan. As of July 2016, he is ranked at a career-high doubles ranking of 9.
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2014 Sony Open Tennis – Men's Doubles Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Qureshi played alongside Rohan Bopanna, but lost in the second round to Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah. Rojer teamed up with Horia Tecău, but lost in the first round to Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.<br>
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Javier Sánchez Javier Sánchez Vicario (born 1 February 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Spain.
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Petra Kvitová Petra Kvitová (] ; born 8 March 1990) is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed groundstrokes and variety, Kvitová turned professional in 2006 and has won 20 career singles titles, including two Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon. She is also an Olympic medalist, capturing the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 2 on 31 October 2011 and as of 18 September 2017, is ranked world no. 14 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). As such, Kvitová is the current second highest-ranked Czech and the second highest-ranked left-handed player in the WTA behind Karolína Plíšková and Germany's Angelique Kerber, respectively.
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Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Salazar (] , born 27 November 1987) is a Colombian professional tennis player. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition. His best tournament result is reaching the final in the 2014 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He is the number one tennis player from Colombia’s history.Giraldo's career-high singles ranking is World No. 28 and world No. 77 in doubles modality.
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Julien Jeanpierre Julien Jeanpierre (born 10 March 1980) is a former professional tennis player from France.
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João Souza João Olavo Soares de Souza (born 27 May 1988) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Souza competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 69, on April 6, 2015, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 70, on January 7, 2013. Souza is coached by former Brazilian player Ricardo Acioly. João Souza is also known as "Feijão" (Portuguese for Bean).
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Nuno Marques Nuno Miguel Bacelar de Vasconcelos Marques (born 9 April 1970 in Porto, Portugal) is a former Portuguese tennis player. He was the first Portuguese to reach the top 100 ATP rankings and held the record of highest ranked Portuguese player in history until Frederico Gil surpassed him in 2009. However, he still is the highest ranked Portuguese doubles player in history reaching a career high of no. 58.
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Fernando Verdasco Fernando Verdasco Carmona (] ; (born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in April 2009. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight. As of 2009, Verdasco has been working in Las Vegas with Andre Agassi and his team, including Darren Cahill (Agassi's former coach) and Gil Reyes (Agassi's fitness coach).
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Juan Lizariturry Juan Lizariturry (born 20 April 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 14 July 2014, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 304 and his highest doubles ranking of 360 achieved on 11 August 2014.
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Patricia Tarabini Patricia Tarabini (born 6 August 1968) is an Argentine former tennis player. Tarabini represented her country and won the bronze Olympic medal at the 2004 Athens games, with Paola Suárez, where they lost 7–9 in the third set to eventual gold medalists from China, Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. On May 9, 1988, Patricia reached her highest singles ranking; world number 29. Tarabini's highest doubles ranking was world number 12, which she achieved on August 17, 1998. Patricia turned pro in 1986, and won a total of 15 top-level doubles titles in her career. She is the 1996 French Open mixed doubles champion, which she won with Javier Frana.
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2012 Open de Rennes – Singles Julien Benneteau was the defending champion but decided not to participate.<br>
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ATP Rankings The ATP Rankings are the objective merit-based method used by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for determining the qualification for entry as well as the seeding of players in all singles and doubles tournaments. The first rankings for singles were published on 23 August 1973 while the doubles players were ranked for the first time on 1 March 1976. The rankings period is "the immediate past 52 weeks, except for: ATP World Tour Finals, singles and doubles, which is dropped on the Monday following the last ATP World Tour event of the following year; Futures Series tournaments that are only entered into the system on the second Monday following the tournament's week. Once entered, all tournaments, except the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, remain in the system for 52 consecutive weeks."
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Maria Kirilenko Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko-Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко ; ] ; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian tennis player. Kirilenko won the 2002 U.S. Open Girls' Singles and won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. She has reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals, at the 2010 Australian Open the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and the 2013 French Open. In doubles, she has reached two Grand Slam doubles finals, at the 2011 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open, won the 2012 WTA Tour Championships and was a bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics. In June 2013, Kirilenko reached her career high ranking of World No. 10.
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2010 Billie Jean King Cup The 2010 Billie Jean King Cup was the 2nd edition of this tennis exhibition tournament. Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, 2009 French Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, and 2009 US Open Champion Kim Clijsters participated. 2009 Australian Open and Wimbledon Champion Serena Williams had to withdraw from the event due to a leg injury. She was replaced by 2008 French Open Champion Ana Ivanovic. In the first semifinal, Clijsters defeated Ivanovic in a tiebreaker (7–2), despite Ivanovic having match point at 5–4 up. Williams defeated Kuznetsova in the second semifinal, 6–4. Williams defeated Clijsters in the championship match by a score of 6–4 3–6 7–5.
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Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (] ; born 25 February 1982) is a retired Italian professional tennis player and Grand Slam-champion in both singles and doubles. She became Italy's first top-10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles on 28 February 2011. She became a Grand Slam singles champion, winning the 2015 US Open by defeating her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final .
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Conchita Martínez Conchita Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spanish player to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, where she beat Martina Navratilova to win the 1994 title. Martínez also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She reached a highest world ranking of No. 2 in October 1995 and finished the season in the top 10 for nine years. Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career. She is currently the captain of the Spain Fed Cup team and the Spain Davis Cup team.
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Elena Vesnina Elena Sergeyevna Vesnina (Russian: Еле́на Серге́евна Веснина́ ] ; born 1 August 1986) is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No. 13 in singles and World No. 3 in doubles. Vesnina is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2017 Wimbledon Championship tournaments with Ekaterina Makarova, and the 2016 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Bruno Soares.