Who has won more Grand Slam doubles titles, Elizabeth Smylie or Vasek Pospisil?
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Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also won three singles titles and 36 doubles titles.
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Vasek Pospisil Vasek Pospisil (, ] ; born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is the No. 3 male ranked player in Canada, after Milos Raonic and Denis Shapovalov. Pospisil has a career-high World singles ranking of 25, and No. 4 in doubles. As Canada's currently ranked No. 3 in singles and No. 3 in doubles, he is an important member of the Canada Davis Cup team. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and the 2015 Indian Wells Masters men's doubles titles. He also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.
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1991 US Open – Mixed Doubles Elizabeth Smylie and Todd Woodbridge were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Smylie with John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge with Nicole Provis.
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Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová (] ) (born 19 November 1978 in Litoměřice) is a Czech athlete, competing in the discus throw and the shot put. She married Czech professional wrestler Jakub Cechl on 17 October 2003.
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Hans van Swol Albertus Christiaan "Hans" van Swol (] ; 22 August 1914 – 20 May 2010) was a Dutch tennis player. He was five-fold Dutch singles champion (1938, 1940, 1941, 1948 and 1949). He reached the fourth round at Wimbledon on five different occasions (1946, 1948–1951) but never made it to the quarter finals stage. He reached the third round of the French Championships at Roland-Garros in 1937.
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2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.<br>
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Jessica Steck Jessica Steck (born 6 August 1978) is a South African tennis player. During her career on the professional tennis circuit from 1996 to 2003, she won the 1996 US Open Junior Girls' Doubles title and won several singles and doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Steck has competed and won first-round doubles matches in all four Grand Slam events.
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Winifred McNair Winifred McNair (née Winifred Margaret Slocock, 9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Between 1906 and 1925 she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best Wimbledon result came in 1913 when she reached the final of the all-comers' event and won the doubles title, partnering Dora Boothby.
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Judy Connor Judith Connor (born 18 November 1953) is a retired female tennis player from New Zealand also known by her married name, Judy Connor-Chaloner. She won the 1979 doubles title at the Australian Open, alongside Diane Evers It was Connor's first and only career Grand Slam title.
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Lany Kaligis Lany Kaligis (born 22 April 1949), sometimes known as Lany Lumanauw, is a former Indonesian professional tennis player. She played at Grand Slam events between 1968 and 1975, in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
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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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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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Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl (] ; born March 7, 1960) is a retired tennis player originally from Czechoslovakia who became a United States citizen in 1992. He is often considered among the greatest in the sport's history. He was the world No. 1 for 270 weeks in the 1980s and finished his career with 94 singles titles. At the majors he won eight titles and was runner-up a record 11 times. He also won seven year-end championships and a record 22 Grand Prix Super Series titles.
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Varvara Flink Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (Russian: Варвара Александровна Флинк ; born 13 December 1996) is a Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high WTA singles ranking of 218 on 14 November 2016. Flink won her first ITF singles title on 21 May 2017. In doubles, Flink has two ITF titles. The first was in Monastir, Tunisia, in 2012. By winning the doubles title, Flink reached her highest doubles ranking of 471 on 1 April 2013. Flink reached two singles semifinals in 2013, one in Dubrovnik and the other in Seoul.
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Park Sung-hee Park Sung-hee (Hangul: 박성희; born 17 February 1975 in Busan, South Korea) is a retired professional tennis player from South Korea. Park turned pro in 1989. She won 7 singles and 7 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She reached four doubles finals during her career on the WTA Tour. Her best Grand Slam performances came in doubles, reaching the Round of 16 at the 1996 French Open, 1997 Australian Open, and 1998 Australian Open, all partnering Wang Shi-ting. She reached career high rankings of No. 34 in doubles (in June 1998) and No. 57 in singles (in September 1995). Park played in 34 ties in 9 years for the South Korea Fed Cup team, with a 30-14 record overall and 24-12 in singles, all team records. She retired from the tour in 2000.
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1971 Australian Open – Women's Doubles Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court defeated Joy Emerson and Lesley Hunt 6–0, 6–0 in the final to win the Women's Doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open.
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1998 ENKA Open – Doubles Meike Babel and Laurence Courtois won in the final 6–0, 6–2 against Åsa Carlsson and Florencia Labat in the doubles of the 1998 ENKA Open.
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands Bethanie Lynn Mattek-Sands (née Mattek; born March 23, 1985) is a U.S. professional tennis player who is presently ranked No. 2 in the women's doubles rankings. Mattek-Sands is an Olympic Gold Medalist in mixed doubles, has won five Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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1999 Australian Open – Women's Singles The 1999 Australian Open – Women's Singles was the women's singles event of the eighty-seventh edition of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year and the most prestigious tournament in the Asia-Pacific and the Southern Hemisphere. Martina Hingis was the two-time defending champion, and she successfully defended her title by defeating unseeded Amélie Mauresmo, 6–2, 6–3, in the final. With this win, she joined Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles as the only women to have won three consecutive Australian Open titles. Hingis also became the only woman to have won three consecutive Australian Open titles in singles and doubles simultaneously.
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Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
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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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1973 Dutch Open (tennis) The 1973 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. The men's event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized in Group C. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 16 July to 23 July 1973. It was the 17th edition of the tournament. Tom Okker and Betty Stöve won the singles titles.