Which professional tennis player is older, Stan Smith or Elena Likhovtseva?
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Elena Likhovtseva Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Russian: Елена Александровна Лиховцева ] ; born 8 September 1975) is a Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.
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Stan Smith Stanley Roger Smith (born December 14, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is a former world No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion who also, with his partner Bob Lutz, formed one of the most successful doubles teams of all time. Together, they won many major titles all over the world. In 1970, Smith won the first year end championship Masters Grand Prix title. Smith's two major singles titles were the 1971 US Open (over Jan Kodeš in the final), and 1972 Wimbledon (over Ilie Năstase in the final). In 1972, he was the year-ending world No. 1 singles player. In 1973, he won his second and last year end championship title at the Dallas WCT Finals. In addition, he won four Grand Prix Championship Series titles. His name is also used in a popular brand of tennis shoes. In his early years he improved his tennis game through lessons from Pancho Segura and the Pasadena Tennis Patrons.
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1962 Australian Championships – Women's Singles Margaret Smith defeated Jan Lehane 6–0, 6–2 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1962 Australian Championships.
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Ekaterina Makarova Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova (Russian: Екатери́на Вале́рьевна Мака́рова ; ] ; born on 7 June 1988) is a Russian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of number 8 on 6 April 2015. Her best Grand Slam singles results have come at the 2014 US Open and the 2015 Australian Open where she reached the semifinals on both occasions. Makarova is a four-time Grand Slam champion in doubles competition, having won the 2012 US Open mixed doubles tournament with Bruno Soares, and the 2013 French Open, the 2014 US Open and 2017 Wimbledon Championships with Elena Vesnina.
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Adidas Stan Smith Adidas Stan Smith is a tennis shoe made by Adidas. However, today the shoe is not used for tennis, but as sneakers.
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Anna Smolina Anna Arkadyevna Smolina (Russian: Анна Аркадьевна Смолина ; born 1 September 1994 in Kazan) is a Russian tennis player.
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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 Hlaváčková Andrea Hlaváčková (] ; born 10 August 1986) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her highest singles ranking is world No. 58, which she reached in September 2012, and her highest doubles ranking is No. 3, reached on 22 October 2012. In her career, Hlaváčková has won 22 WTA doubles titles, as well as 19 ITF doubles and eight ITF singles titles. She has won two Grand Slam doubles titles, the 2011 French Open and the 2013 US Open, both times partnered with Lucie Hradecká. The pair are also the 2012 Olympic silver medallists. Hlaváčková was part of the winning Czech team in Fed Cup 2012 and also won the mixed doubles title at the 2013 US Open paired with Max Mirnyi.
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Anna Kalinskaya Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya (Russian: Анна Николаевна Калинская ; born 2 December 1998 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player.
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1985 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships. It was the last time in a women's grand slam singles event, until the 2017 US Open, that all four semi-finalists were American.
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Sandra Cacic Sandra Cacic (born September 10, 1974 in Joliet, Illinois) is a retired professional American tennis player.
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Clarisa Fernández Clarisa Fernández (born 28 August 1981) is a retired Argentine tennis player who is best known for her semi-final appearance at the 2002 French Open, the first Argentine since Sabatini in 1992 to reach that stage. Fernández was ranked 87th in the world at the time of her shocking result. She defeated, in order: (Q) Lubomira Bacheva, Jelena Kostanić, Kim Clijsters, (13) Elena Dementieva, Paola Suárez, before losing to second-seeded Venus Williams in straight sets.
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Helena Vildová Helena Vildová (born 19 March 1972) is a retired Czech professional tennis player. She specialised in doubles. She was active between the late 1980s and the early 2000s.
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Elizabeth Little (tennis) Elizabeth Little (born October 3, 1960) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She competed three times at the Australian Open, once at Wimbledon, and once at the U.S. Open.
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Olivia Rogowska Olivia Rogowska (born 7 June 1991) is an Australian professional tennis player. Both of her parents are Polish. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 102, which she reached on 11 August 2014. Her career high in doubles is 89, which she reached on 28 July 2014. She has defeated Jelena Dokić, Alicia Molik, Maria Kirilenko and Sofia Arvidsson, and taken sets from former #1 Dinara Safina, Alona Bondarenko, Kateryna Bondarenko, Sorana Cîrstea, Jarmila Gajdošová, Anastasia Rodionova, Sania Mirza and Casey Dellacqua.
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Elena Makarova Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (Russian: Елена Алексеевна Макарова , born 1 February 1973) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
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2005 Uncle Tobys Hardcourts – Doubles Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Likhovtseva were the defending champions, but Kuznetsova did not compete this year. Likhovtseva teamed up with Magdalena Maleeva and successfully defended her title, by defeating Maria Elena Camerin and Silvia Farina Elia 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 in the final.
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Anastasia Pivovarova Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova (Russian: Анастасия Олеговна Пивоварова , born 16 June 1990) is a professional tennis player from Russia who reached a career high of 93 in May 2011. During a successful junior career, Pivovarova was ranked as high as No. 2.
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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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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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Anton Zaitcev Anton Anatolyevich Zaitcev (Russian: Антон Анатольевич Зайцев , "Zaitsev " ; born 22 July 1987) is a Russian tennis player.
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1977 Alan King Tennis Classic – Doubles Second-seeded Bob Lutz and Stan Smith won the title, defeating top-seeds Bob Hewitt and Raúl Ramírez in the final.