List of Famous Female Tennis Players
Lara Arruabarrena
Lara Arruabarrena Vecino is a professional tennis player from Spain. On 3 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 52, and her best doubles ranking is No. 28, set on 22 February 2016.
Maeve Quinlan
Maeve Quinlan is an American actress and former professional tennis player. She is best known for starring as Megan Conley for 11 years in The Bold and the Beautiful and for the series South of Nowhere. Raised in Northfield a North shore suburb, she attended New Trier high School in Winnetka and later Northwestern University and USC on tennis scholarships. Maeve played Wimbledon, the French open and was a world-class tennis player making many friendships on the court. She is the daughter of a medical doctor and a pharmacist.
Patricia Tarabini
Patricia Tarabini is a former tennis player from Argentina. She represented her country and won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games, with Paola Suárez, where they lost 7–9 in the third set to eventual gold medalists from China, Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. On 9 May 1988, Tarabini reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 29. Her career-high doubles ranking is No. 12, which she achieved on 17 August 1998. Patricia turned pro in 1986, and won a total of 15 top-level doubles titles in her career. She is the 1996 French Open mixed-doubles champion, partnering with Javier Frana.
Barbara Schwartz
Barbara Schwartz is an Austrian former professional tennis player.
Erika Sema
Erika Sema is a Japanese professional tennis player.
Elena Dementieva
Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She won 16 WTA singles titles, reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open and reached seven other Grand Slam semifinals. Dementieva was also part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Fed Cup. In doubles, she won the 2002 WTA Championships with Janette Husárová and was the runner-up in two US Open doubles finals – in 2002 with Husárová and in 2005 with Flavia Pennetta. Dementieva achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 3, which was accomplished on 6 April 2009. She announced her retirement on 29 October 2010, after her final match at the 2010 WTA Championships. Between 2003 and 2010, she only ended one year, in 2007, outside the top 10. She is considered to be one of the most talented players never to have won a Grand Slam tournament.
Elizabeth Smylie
Elizabeth Smylie, 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.
Claire Liu
Claire Liu is an American tennis player.
Jane Bartkowicz
Jane Bartkowicz, known during her career as Peaches Bartkowicz, is a former top tennis player from the United States in the 1960s.
Kateryna Kozlova
Kateryna Baindl is a Ukrainian tennis player. On 19 February 2018, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 22 October 2012, she peaked at No. 139 in the doubles rankings. To date, Kozlova has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.