List of Famous Female Tennis Players
Greet Minnen
Greet Minnen is a Belgian tennis player.
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top 5 player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world in both disciplines. Petrova won a total of 37 titles on the WTA Tour in her career, 13 in singles and 24 in doubles, as well as over $12.4 million in prize money, making her one of the most successful Russian tennis players of all time.
Jule Niemeier
Jule Niemeier is a German tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 140, achieved on 12 July 2021.
Hu Na
Hu Na is a former professional tennis player best known for defecting from the People's Republic of China to the United States in 1982, thereby sparking a Cold War-era diplomatic incident. Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been established in 1979, and the Hu Na incident was among the first major tests of those newly established relations.
Natalia Vikhlyantseva
Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass.
Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison is a former top five professional tennis player from the United States. She was the women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist and singles bronze medalist in Seoul at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering her sister Alona Bondarenko. Kateryna is the younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona.
Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko-Neiland is a retired tennis player who represented the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Latvia. A former world number-one-ranked doubles player, Neiland won two Grand Slam women's doubles and four mixed doubles titles. She also won two singles titles and 63 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She is listed in fourth place for the most doubles match wins (766) in WTA history, after Lisa Raymond, Rennae Stubbs and Liezel Huber.
Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli-Marić is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won seven other singles titles and one doubles title during her career. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in February 1996.