Which tennis player is from a country closer to New Zealand, Maria Sharapova or Mark Woodforde?
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Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова ; ] ; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Mark Woodforde Mark Raymond Woodforde, OAM (born 23 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge.
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Stuart Davenport Stuart Davenport (born 21 September 1962 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a former professional squash player from New Zealand. He reached the World No. 3 ranking in 1987.
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Mariam Bolkvadze Mariam Bolkvadze (Georgian: მარიამ ბოლქვაძე , ] ; born 1 January 1998) is a Georgian tennis player.
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Mark Otway Mark Anthony Otway (9 October 1931 – 2014) was a New Zealand tennis player. Born in Takapuna in 1931, Otway was educated at Takapuna Grammar School, and then, from 1946 to 1948, Mount Albert Grammar School. He competed at Wimbledon on eight occasions between 1954 and 1965, and once at the Australian Championships, in 1951. He represented New Zealand in seven Davis Cup ties between 1954 and 1961.
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Mary Carter Reitano Mary Carter Reitano ("née" Carter; born 29 November 1934) is a former tennis player from Australia.
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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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Tammi Patterson Tammi Patterson (born 3 January 1990) is a professional Australian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached a career high WTA singles ranking of 289 on 21 February 2011 and she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 241 on 16 May 2011. She is coached by Mark Hlawaty.
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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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Jon Ireland Jon Ireland (born 26 September 1967, in Sydney, Australia), is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
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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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Warren Maher Warren Maher (born 15 January 1957) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
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2012 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries The 2012 Australian Open Wildcard Playoffs and Entries are a group of events and internal selections to choose the 8 men and women wildcard entries for the 2012 Australian Open. Tennis Australia will award eight wildcards for the men's and women's professional singles competitions. Former Australian Grand Slam champions, Pat Rafter and Todd Woodbridge will help to select the four discretionary wildcards in the men's draw. In an agreement with the United States Tennis Association, Tennis Australia will give one man and one woman from the United States a wildcard into the Australian Open.
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Belinda Cordwell Belinda Jane Cordwell (born 21 September 1965) is a sports commentator and a former professional tennis player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she lost in the first round of the women's singles competition to Great Britain's Sara Gomer.
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Warren Woodcock Warren W. Woodcock (born 22 September 1936) is an Australian former amateur tennis player who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1957 and the final of a US Pro Championship in 1967, losing to Sam Giammalva.
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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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1991 Stella Artois Championships The 1991 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour. It was the 89th edition of the tournament and was held from June 10 through June 17, 1991. Stefan Edberg won the singles event and Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde won the doubles title.
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Radek Štěpánek Radek Štěpánek (] ; born 27 November 1978) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 8 and best doubles ranking is world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 event finals and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, as well as winning the deciding match for Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012 and again in 2013. In doubles, he won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 Australian Open, along with Indian partner Leander Paes, defeating the Bryan Brothers in the final. Paes and Štěpánek also won the men's doubles title at the 2013 US Open, defeating Bruno Soares and Alexander Peya in the final.
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1914 Australasian Championships The 1914 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia from 23 November to 28 November. It was the 10th edition of the Australasian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the third held in Melbourne, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles title was won by Australian Arthur O'Hara Wood.
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Des Tyson Desmond "Des" Tyson (born 26 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
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Steven Downs Steven Downs (born 8 September 1975) is a former professional tennis player from New Zealand.
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Robert Lansdorp Robert Lansdorp (born 1938, Semarang, Indonesia) is a professional tennis coach. He first rose to international fame in 1979 when his student Tracy Austin became the youngest US Open Women's Singles champion in history at age 16. He has gone on to coach other tennis champions including Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, and Maria Sharapova. He is regarded as an expert on groundstrokes, in particular the forehand, advocating a powerful, flat hitting technique commonly referred to as the "Lansdorp Forehand".