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■ 4- Elena Vesnina

Elena Vesnina (born August 1, 1986 in Lviv) is a Russian tennis player, professional since 2002.

Born in Ukraine, she grew up in Russia and was trained by Jurij Vasiljevich who was also coach of Maria Sharapova. She has twice won the Fed Cup in 2007 against Italy in the final again in 2008, against Spain.


■ 5- Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is an American tennis player born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan.

It has so far won 27 Grand Slam tournaments:

13 Singles (5 Australian Open, Roland Garros 1, 4 and 3 Wimbledon U.S. Open);
12 in women's doubles with her sister Venus Williams (4 Australian Open, Roland Garros 2, 4 Wimbledon and 2 U.S. Open);
2 in mixed doubles (1 and 1 U.S. Open Wimbledon).
She also won two Olympic gold medals in women's doubles with her older sister Venus.

These impressive results have made her one of the greatest players in history. Monica Seles said of Serena Williams in March 2010 that it had "the potential and attributes to be the best player of all time. She has a great service, good return, a fantastic movement and incredible power. If this is not enough, no player is as strong as it "[1].

Over two years in 2002-2003, she won all four Majors in a row, original performance since Steffi Graf nine years ago which enabled her to occupy the leading position in the WTA world for 57 consecutive weeks. Relatively more irregular from 2004 to 2007 due to injuries and lack of motivation, she found this place on two other occasions thereafter, in September 2008 and February 2009, the benefit each time a new success in Grand Slam (U.S. Open and the Australian Open).

Serena Williams is the younger sister of Venus Williams, also number one worldwide in 2001. Serena prevailed in thirteen of their twenty-three confrontations on the circuit since early 1998. The encounter between the final U.S. Open 2001 is the first Grand Slam final in the Open era to see two sisters. These are also the only players to have competed in four consecutive Grand Slam finals.


■ 6- Sorana Cirstea

Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea (born April 7, 1990) is a Romanian tennis player, professional since 2004. It is the best tennis player in his country, since the retirement of Ruxandra Dragomir in 2005. It has four titles on the WTA tour: a singles and three doubles.




■ 7- Dominika Cibulkova

Dominika Cibulkova, born May 6, 1989 in Piestany, is a Slovak tennis player.

 

■ 8- Carolina Wozniacki

Caroline Wozniacki was born July 11, 1990 in Odense, is a Danish tennis player from Poland.

In 2005, she won the Orange Bowl. In 2006, she lost in the final tournament of the Junior Australian Open and was awarded the Junior Wimbledon tournament.

In October 2010, she became the twentieth to twenty years World No. 1 player in the history of the Open era . She is the sixth youngest player in the history of the Open era to reach this place.



■ 9- Ashley Harkleroad

Ashley Harkleroad (born May 2, 1985 in Rossville, Georgia) is an American tennis player. At its peak, it reached the 39th position of the women's race June 9, 2003.


■ 10- Alizé Cornet

Alize Cornet (born January 22, 1990 in Nice) is a French professional tennis player who has quickly entered the top 20 worldwide.

She began playing tennis at age four at the Tennis Club Arena Cimiez in Nice with his brother, Sebastian. In 2004, she won the title of champion of France of 13-14 years [1] and in 2005, the title of European Champion of 15-16 years [2].

She won three titles on the WTA Tour (1 singles and 2 doubles) and obtained rank as the 11th place worldwide.

Alongside his career as a champion, she continued her education with two years early.

In 2001, she played a major episode of The Instit, called Clay, that of a tennis champion intensively trained by his father.




■ Haifa Wehbe

Haifa Wehbe Mohamed (Arab هيفاء محمد وهبي) better known by the name of Haifa Wehbe (born March 10, 1967 [ref. necessary] to Mahrouna, Lebanon) is a Lebanese model and singer. She became known in the Arab world to the release of her first album Howa el-Zaman.