Which champion tennis player is older, Maria Sharapova or Tony Roche?
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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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Tony Roche Anthony Dalton Roche, AO MBE (born 17 May 1945) is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and thirteen Grand Slam doubles titles, and was ranked as high as World No. 2 by Lance Tingay of "The Daily Telegraph" in 1969. He also coached multi-Grand Slam winning World No. 1s, Ivan Lendl, Patrick Rafter, Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and former World No. 4, Jelena Dokic.
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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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Tony Lloyd (tennis) Tony Lloyd (born 3 December 1956) is a former British professional tennis player.
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Warren Maher Warren Maher (born 15 January 1957) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
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Anna Chakvetadze Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze (Russian: Анна Джамбулиевна Чакветадзе ; Georgian: ანა ჯამბულის ასული ჩაკვეტაძე ; born 5 March 1987) is a retired Russian professional tennis player who was born to a Georgian father and a Russian mother. On 10 September 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of world no. 5. She has won eight WTA singles titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. She was also a quarterfinalist at the 2007 Australian Open and the 2007 French Open. She announced her retirement on 11 September 2013, due to a persisting back injury. She is currently a commentator on Eurosport channel.
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Irina Falconi Irina Falconi (born May 4, 1990) is a professional American tennis player, who was born in Portoviejo, Ecuador. She moved to Manhattan, New York, as a toddler. Her highest WTA singles ranking is World No. 64, which she reached on September 14, 2015. Her career high in doubles is World No. 70, which she reached on June 10, 2013. Falconi played college tennis at Georgia Tech where she was a 2x ITA All-American.
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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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Kerry Melville Kerry Melville Reid, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , ("née" Melville; born 7 August 1947) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. During her 17-year career, Reid won one Grand Slam singles title and 26 other singles titles and was the runner-up in 40 singles tournaments. Reid was included in the year-end world top ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968–1979) . She won at least one tournament annually from 1966 through 1979, except for 1975. Her career-high ranking was World No. 5 in 1971, behind Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong, and Rosie Casals.
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Wimbledon Effect The Wimbledon effect (Japanese: ウィンブルドン現象, rōmaji: "Uinburudon Genshō", literally "Wimbledon Phenomenon") is a chiefly British and Japanese analogy (which possibly originated in Japan) which compares the tennis fame of the Wimbledon Championships, held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, with the economic success of the United Kingdom's financial services industries – especially those clustered in the City of London. The point of the analogy is that a national and international institution (the All England Club) can be highly successful despite the lack of strong native competition, as in modern tennis Britain has produced very few Wimbledon champions, with only Ann Haydon Jones, Virginia Wade (both women's singles), Jonathan Marray (men's doubles), Andy Murray (men's singles), John Lloyd, Jeremy Bates, Jo Durie, Jamie Murray and Heather Watson (mixed doubles) winning titles in the Open Era.
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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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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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2013 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles Maria Sharapova successfully defended her title, beating Li Na in the final, 6–4, 6–3.
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2006 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but lost to Maria Sharapova in the semifinals.
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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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Trey Lewis (tennis) Trey Lewis (born on November 27, 1959) is a female American tennis player who played professionally in the first half of the 1980s.
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2014 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles Maria Sharapova won a third title in a row, defeating Ana Ivanovic in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1.
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Anne Minter Anne Minter (born 3 April 1963) is a former tennis player from Australia, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour: 1987 Taipei, Singapore; 1988 Puerto Rico; 1989 Taipei. Minter was a quarterfinalist at the Australian Open in 1988, beating fourth seed Pam Shriver in the R16 when the tournament moved to the hard court surface at Melbourne Park. She twice reached the R16 at Wimbledon, upsetting ninth seed Hana Mandlíková in the third round in 1988. She reached her highest individual ranking in her professional career on 4 July 1988, when she became the 23rd top player in the world. On 19 March 1990 she reached her highest doubles ranking or 68. Her playing career spanned 11 years from 1981 until 1992. Minter's win-loss record for singles stands at 258–245.
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2015 Maria Sharapova tennis season The 2015 Maria Sharapova tennis season officially began on 4 January 2015 with the start of the 2015 WTA Tour. Sharapova entered the season ranked as world number 2 behind Serena Williams following the completion of the 2014 season.
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1990 Holden NSW Open The 1990 Holden NSW Open (known as such in 1990 for sponsorship reasons) was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 98th edition (the 22nd edition in the Open Era) of the event known that year as the Holden New South Wales (NSW) Open, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour, and the WTA Tier III tournaments of the 1990 WTA Tour. It took place at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia, from 8 to 14 January 1990. Yannick Noah and Natasha Zvereva won the singles titles.
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1989 European Open The 1989 European Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Drizia-Miremont Tennis Club in Geneva, Switzerland that was part of the Category 2 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 22 May until 28 May 1989. Third-seeded Manuela Maleeva won the singles title
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Julie Anthony (tennis) Julie Anthony (born January 13, 1948) is a former professional American tennis player of the 1970s. She played college tennis at Stanford University. Her coach for many years was Ray Casey.