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WTA Rising Stars...MARTA KOSTYUK (UKR)!

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Who is Marta Kostyuk? Marta Kostyuk is a tennis player from Ukraine. Marta was born on June 28, 2002. in Chaiky near Kiev. Marta is the daughter of Oleh Kostyuk and his wife, Talina (nee Boyko). Oleh Kostyuk was the technical director of the Kiev Junior Tennis Tournament "Antey Cup", Marta`s mother was a professional tennis player representing Ukraine in the 1990s who reached a career high WTA ranking of No. 391. Marta started playing tennis in her young childhood at the Antey Tennis Club on the west side of Kiev. One of her first coaches was her native uncle Taras Beyko, a respected player for the USSR and Ukraine in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  www.tennisforum.com Junior career: The first junior tournament, Marta played with her 13 years at home in Lviv (ITF Lion Cup). Marta came to the finals at her premier tournament but was injured in the finals and handed over the match before the start. The first significant success, Marta made in February ...

ATP Rising Stars...MIOMIR KECMANOVIC (SRB)

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In the sea of ​​young great tennis players who have come from Serbia for years, in addition to already famous tennis players such as Djokovic, Troicki, Tipsarevic, Zimonjic, Lajovic ... the name Miomir Kecmanovic stands out. Miomir is formerly the first junior in the world, but now the ATP TOP 150 player and certainly one of those who will very quickly get into the world's top. www.worldtennismagazine.com Miomir Kecmanovic was born in Belgrade on August 31, 1999, by father Dragutin Kecmanovic, a famous Serbian doctor, and Maja Pavlov Kecmanovic, a Serbian surgeon. His coach is Miro Hrvatin, a great coach from Croatia. Miomir is currently number 132 on the ATP list, Miomir is also in the top 500 at the ATP Doubles Rankings. Junior career: Miomir was a junior also in position number 1 on ITF JUNIORS. During his junior career, Miomir won the following tournaments: COPA UNIVERSIDAD GALILEO, GUATEMALA (G4) - 2014. OPEN DU CONSIEL GENERAL (G4) GUADELOUPE - 2014. ITF JUNI...

Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic is back on WTA Tour!

The long-awaited beautiful news for Serbian women's tennis has finally arrived - Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic returns to the WTA Tour. After nearly two years of injury break, Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic will play her first match this weekend.  After a long break, Bojana will perform in the  qualifiers of  WTA St. Petersburg which will be played from 27.1-4.2.  Bojana's first opponent in the qualifications will be Oceane Dodin (FRA, 5). Bojana and Dodin will play their match on Saturday at 7.30 CET. Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic, one of the best Serbian tennis players and former TOP 50 player, was injured because of a right wrist injury and an operation she had nearly two years away from tennis. The last tournament which she played was Roland Garros 2016. Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic was born in Belgrade on the last day of 1991. She started playing tennis at the age of seven, and her first club was Red Star. At the age of 12 she won the national championship of S...

WTA Rising stars...ELISE MERTENS (BEL)

Elise Mertens is a professional tennis player from Belgium. She was born on 17 November 1995 in Leuven, Belgium but her current residence is at Hamont-Achel. She's a right-handed tennis player (double-handed backhand). Her coach is Robbie Ceyssens.  Elise is the second daughter of Liliane Barbe, a teacher, and Guido Mertens, who makes furnitures for churches. Elise is currently a member of the Kim Clijsters Academy, where she has been training since 2015. JUNIOR CAREER:  Her career high Combined Junior Ranking was 7 on 22/4/2013. At the age of 13, Elise began playing at junior ITF tournaments, and she was very successful. Elise played in Bangladesh (G4) at the beginning of February 2009. In her premiere, Elise won her match against Prarthana Thombare in two sets of 7-6,6-4. In the second round, Elise will meet with another great junior, Demi Schuurs (NED). In that match, Elise will be totally overpowered and will easily lose in two sets of 3-6,1-6. In the n...

Aussie Open - "behind the scenes" of Melbourne Park

Every tram leading to the tennis complex on Sunday was full, and since the Melbourne Park is in the very center of the city, the crowds were huge. The machine operator of this I managed to smuggle was very in the mood - while telling us which side door would open, he told us to look at the opposite and make a short pause. We expected it to be a warning, but he saved something else. "People are wowing You", heard through the tram speakers and a laugh, and after arriving at the press center, I decided to show you, apart from the training of Novak Djokovic, how to look inside from one of the four largest tournaments from the inside. Every day, a daily quiz is organized for us - people from the organization place a question on the bulletin board, usually very crowded, the papers with the answers are placed in the bowl from which a lucky winner comes out at the end of the day. He houses two bottles of wine, and today he was a British journalist sitting ri...

DONALD YOUNG - Who is the first Novak`s oponnent in Melbourne? #AOtennis

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Young is 28 years old, 183 centimeters tall, and he has been at ATP Tour since 2004. He is currently 63 at the ATP Rankings Singles. A word that describes his career - oscillations . Tennis began to play when he was three years old, and during his entire career, his father, Donald Senior is his coach, with his wife Ilona, also a professional tennis coach, has a tennis center in the suburbs of Atlanta. His favorite surface is hard, and he is great with volleys. He most likes to perform at the US Open and ATP Tournament in Washington. He finished seven seasons among the top 100 players in the world, where he first came in 2007 and has been a constant since 2013. His career high was five years ago when, after the Australian Open 2012, he reached the 38th position on the ATP list, but immediately after that he had an inglorious series of 17 consecutive defeats, he did not win by August. The guy from Chicago has no title in his professional career, and his overall performanc...

ATP Rising Stars...STEFANOS TSITSIPAS (GRE)

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The rising stars of the ATP World Tour are ready for 2018 season. In the group of excellent tennis player, which has a bright future,  the young tennis player from Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas stands out. www.atpworldtour.com JUNIOR CAREER: Followed by his father Apostolos, Tsitsipas played all around Europe in U12 and U14 categories   and finally, the first junior tournament he played in Morocco in 2013. At the first tournament, Stefanos comes to QF where he loses from Dennis Uspensky (USA) in two sets 4-6,6-7.  Next week, Stefanos performs at Mediterranee Avenir (G1) , Having passed the qualifications and greatly played the first two rounds, Stefanos was defeated in the third round by Spanish tennis player Calvo Eman in two sets of 3-6,4-6. Stefanos played the first finals in the junior competition in August 2013 in the French city of Clermont, after 4 great victories Stefanos was nevertheless defeated by domestic tennis player Alexis Gautie...

WTA Rising Stars...ARYNA SABALENKA (BLR)

This year's great season was also played by young Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka . Sabalenka`s season was impressive with an incredible breakthrough year so she has a great future ahead of her at the age of 19. Her favourite surface is Hard, but she is good on other surfaces, too. Sabalenka was born on May 5, 1998, she has a career high WTA singles ranking of 73 achieved on 27 November 2017 and a career high WTA doubles ranking of 251 on 27 November 2017 too. Throughout this season, Aryna has 36-25 win-loss record, including ITF events. So far, she has won six titles in singles and two in doubles. JUNIOR CAREER: During her junior career, at the ITF Juniors level, Aryna did not achieve great results. Her best rankings were 225 (05 January 2015).  She played the first tournament when she was 14 years old at the Minsk Cup, Polina was defeated in the qualifications by Polina Novikova (RUS) 3-6,6-7. After that, she took a break and dedicated to the...

We present...MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU)

One of the biggest returns this season was made by Mihaela Buzarnescu , professional tennis player from Romania. Mihaela was born in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. She was born on May 4, 1988. She is left-handed (two-handed backhand) player and her coach is her father Mihai Buzarnescu. Her hobbies are Music and swimming.  Until this year and a fantastic season, Mihaela played mostly on smaller WTA tournaments and at ITF tournaments. In her career so far, Mihaela won 22 ITF tournaments in singles and 33 ITF tournaments in doubles. The biggest tournament was won this year in Poitiers (FRA) ($ 100,000). Her current Singles Ranking is 60 and that is her Career High Singles Ranking. In doubles, Mihaela is on 104 on WTA doubles Rankings.  For 13 years of her professional tennis career, Mihaela has made nearly 300 wins in the singles and doubles at the ITF, WTA level. 2004: Mihaela played first professional tournaments in mid-2004 on domestic ground in Ro...