Which tennis player reached a higher World ranking in doubles, Slobodan Živojinović or Elena Vesnina?
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Slobodan Živojinović Slobodan "Boba" Živojinović (, ] ; born on July 23, 1963) is a retired Serbian tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. Together with Nenad Zimonjić he is the only tennis player from Serbia to be the World No. 1 in doubles. As a singles player, he reached the semi-finals of the 1985 Australian Open and the 1986 Wimbledon Championships, achieving a career-high ranking of World No. 19.
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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.
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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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Teodora Mirčić Teodora Mirčić (; born 3 March 1988) is a Serbian former tennis player. She has won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF tour, and has also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team.
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Meredith McGrath Meredith McGrath (born April 28, 1971) is a former professional tennis player. She was born in Midland, Michigan, USA and made her debut on the Women's Tennis Association tour in 1988. In her eight-year professional career Meredith achieved career-high world rankings of #18 in singles and #4 in doubles. She notched victories over such players as Martina Navratilova, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova, Jana Novotna, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, and Gigi Fernandez. The pinnacle of her career came in reaching the singles semi-finals and doubles finals at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships. In the singles she defeated Mana Endo, Amanda Coetzer, Nancy Feber, Katarína Studeníková and Mary Joe Fernandez before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. An injury the week prior to the 1996 Wimbledon Championships eventually ended her career. Meredith won the 1995 U.S. Open Mixed Doubles Championship (she was runner-up in 1989) and was the runner-up in the 1994 Australian Open Doubles Championship. Meredith won three WTA singles titles: Oklahoma City and Eastbourne in 1994 and Birmingham in 1996, 25 doubles titles. She retired with a 140–83 record in singles and a 189–40 record in doubles. Meredith was recognized by Tennis Magazine as the WTA Comeback Player of the Year as she overcame near career-ending injuries to having her most successful competitive season in 1996. In 1994 she received the WTA Tour Comeback Player of the Year.
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Tsvetana Pironkova Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova (Bulgarian: Цветана Кирилова Пиронкова ] ) (born 13 September 1987) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player and the current no. 2 Bulgarian in the WTA rankings. She is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. Born in Plovdiv, Pironkova started playing tennis at the age of four on being introduced to the sport by her father, who later coached her. After playing at a junior level and winning the Atlantic Cup, she made her senior international debut in 2002 at International Tennis Federation tournaments. Early in her career, Pironkova won six international singles titles at the ITF circuit.
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Maria Goloviznina Maria Goloviznina (Russian: Мария Головизнина ; born 5 June 1979) is a Russian former 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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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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2012 Family Circle Cup – Doubles Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions but were defeated in the quarterfinals by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Šafářová.<br>
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Elena Vesnina career statistics This is a list of the main career statistics of professional tennis player Elena Vesnina.
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2012 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Doubles Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond defeated the defending champions Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina 6–2, 6–3 in the final.
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2016 Kremlin Cup – Women's Doubles Daria Kasatkina and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together this year. Vesnina played with Ekaterina Makarova, but lost to Daria Gavrilova and Kasatkina in the first round.
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Dia Evtimova Dia Evtimova (Bulgarian: Диа Евтимова ) (born 30 April 1987) is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. On 31 October 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 145 whilst her best doubles ranking was 228 on 23 June 2014. In 2010, she qualified for the Internationaux de Strasbourg where she was defeated by Maria Sharapova in the second round. In 2011, she qualified for the Gastein Ladies where she reached her first WTA quarterfinal, but there she lost to Patricia Mayr-Achleitner. She has also played for the Bulgarian Fed Cup team, with a current 15–16 record.
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Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Radwańska (nicknamed Aga, born 6 March 1989) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in July 2012. She has won twenty career singles titles, and is nicknamed "La Profesora" among players and the media. Her achievements include winning WTA's Fan Favourite Award six times, Shot of the Year four times, and Shot of the Month on a regular basis. She has been described as making intelligent use of the court.
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Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић , "Novak Đoković", ] ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
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Nenad Zimonjić Nenad Zimonjić (Serbian Cyrillic: , ] ; born June 4, 1976) is a Serbian professional tennis player who was ranked World No. 1 in 2008 in doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No. 1, after Slobodan Živojinović. While Zimonjić is known as a doubles specialist (winning 3 Grand Slams in men's doubles and 5 in mixed doubles), he has recorded two big wins in his singles career. A 22 year span consisting of 54 Davis Cup ties including 43 victories has resulted in him becoming the most accomplished Davis Cup player in his nations history. His strongest weapon is very powerful first serve that he can hit at up to 235 km/h (146 mph).
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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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Elena Makarova Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (Russian: Елена Алексеевна Макарова , born 1 February 1973) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
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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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Rohan Bopanna Rohan Bopanna (born 4 March 1980) is an Indian professional tennis player. His singles career high ranking was World No. 213 in 2007 and his career high ranking in doubles was World No. 3 on 22 July 2013. Recently, most of his appearances in professional tournaments have been in doubles matches. He is a member of the Indian Davis Cup team since 2002. In 2010, he finished as a runner-up in doubles at the US Open, partnering with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. He won the 2017 French Open - Mixed Doubles title with Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada becoming the fourth Indian player to win a Grand Slam title.
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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.