The duo reached the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champions Hantuchová and Bhupathi. A respiratory infection forced her to withdraw from the 2009 Open GDF Suez. “I beat Kim Clijsters in the final and we won the doubles together. Hint: It’s not fraud, Episode 68: Naomi Osaka — seven matches, seven masks, seven names, Directory of who’s who in the world of business in Japan. In the semifinals, they beat fourth-seeded Yan and Zheng 6–3 3–6 6–3. Partnering with Elena Dementieva, she reached the finals of her first tournament, Sydney, losing to Bryanne Stewart/Samantha Stosur. They won their next tournament, in Birmingham over Daniilidou and Russel 6–2 6–3. ュリスト100” 願いを叶える、笑顔になる方法. She then lost in the second round in Los Angeles to Radwańska 6–2, 6–0. Sugiyama also reached the final in doubles with Hantuchová, losing to Virginia Ruano-Pascual and Conchita Martínez. She won 38 doubles titles including Grand Slam victories at the U.S. Open (2000), the French Open and Wimbledon (both 2003), and claimed the U.S. Open mixed doubles crown in 1999. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. “But I think I did everything that I could do in my career and I never think of being back on the tour. Sugiyama said tennis had pretty much always made her happy and she was saddened by Agassi describing in his autobiography his loathing of the tennis world and his admission of using the recreational drug crystal meth when he was an active player. The same year, Sugiyama won the US Open mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi (India), her first Grand Slam title. Senator Dan Inouye in Washington, D.C. The summer brought several bad singles losses, as well as doubles upsets. Srebotnik and Sugiyama continued their form and thus qualified for the 2007 WTA Tour Championships, which were held in Madrid. In doubles, she and Srebotnik beat Andreea Ehritt-Vanc and Anastassia Rodionova 4–6, 6–3, 6–2; Émilie Loit and Nicole Pratt 6–0, 6–3, and got a walkover from Bartoli and Meilen Tu in the third round. “The day I played four matches in one day in Scottsdale in 2003 was most special for me because it was the first time in five years for me to win a title on the WTA Tour,” said Sugiyama. Virtual YouTubers get caught in the middle of a diplomatic spat, 'I have failed': North Korea's Kim shows tearful side in confronting hardships, Suicide spike in Japan shows mental health toll of COVID-19, China’s insistence that Taiwan isn’t a country starts backfiring. She lost in the first rounds of the first three Grand Slams; only at San Diego did she really do well, making it to the final, which she lost 0–6 3–6 to Mary Pierce, having defeated Daniela Hantuchová, Sesil Karantacheva and Svetlana Kuznetsova en route. Scheduling problems forced both the semifinals and finals matches—for both singles and doubles—to be played on the Sunday of the tournament. Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. In Miami, she fell to Dinara Safina in the third. In her career, she won 6 singles titles and 37 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam women's doubles titles (one with Frenchwoman Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Belgian Kim Clijsters). In November, she made an impressive run at the Oakland Tier II tournament. Sugiyama retired at the end of the 2009 tennis season after the 2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open, held in her native country, Japan. 1, who is doing some TV work and generally enjoying a well-earned rest before she focuses on coaching youngsters at her tennis academy. In the third set "Hantuyama" were down 5–2, but rallied to take it to a tie-break, where they saved seven match points to win 12–10. On March 30 in the third round at the Tier I event in Miami, she upset 8th seeded Hantuchová 6–4, 6–7(8), 7–5 in an epic match. 1. They came back from 1–6, 0–3 to beat top-seeded Raymond and Stosur, winning 1–6, 6–3, 6–2. In Miami, seeded 23rd, Sugiyama reached the fourth round, defeating number ten Jana Novotná, her second Top-10 victory. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to world number 30 Gigi Fernández in three sets. However, in Melbourne, her form returned, beating Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 1–1 ret. Sugiyama's dream of a career slam died. In Melbourne, they drew the Williams sisters in the second round and lost 6–2 7–6. The team, seeded second, defeated the Taiwanese duo of Chan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung 6–2, 6–2, but lost to Black and Huber in the final 5–7, 6–3, [10–8]. The following week she reached the 2nd round at the Australian Open. Deciding not to compete in the mixed, Ai and Daniella beat Caroline Dhenin and Mathilde Johansson 6–4 6–3, then squashed Sofia Arvidsson and Martina Müller 6–1 6–1; they escaped from Marion Bartoli and Shahar Pe'er, 1–6 7–6(3) 6–2. 1 in women's doubles, and was considered to be one of the best doubles player in the WTA Tour. “But I hit the wall when I was 25 and that was the time I actually became the world No. Sugiyama began 2005 with four consecutive first-round losses. Ai Sugiyama on Monday warned not to expect a Kimiko Date Krumm-style comeback and says she is loving life outside the WTA Tour after recently drawing to a close her 17-year career. She then lost to Chakvetadze 6–4, 6–4. She represented Japan and reached the 3rd round at the Atlanta Olympics defeating Martina Hingis. In Montréal, she beat Aleksandra Wozniak and Anabel Medina Garrigues before losing to Kuznetsova. She reached No. On October 23 she became the first Japanese woman to rank number one in the world in doubles, winning seven titles in the process. She went on to win the Japan Open doubles at Tokyo, her first tour title. ; April 15 – Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, faints after consuming Quaaludes at a party. In Rome 2006 she and Hantuchová won the title, their third as a team and biggest title, beating Li and Sun 6–4 6–1; Black and Stubbs (2) 6–4 6–0, and Květa Peschke and Schiavone (8) 3–6 6–3 6–1. Sugiyama won her 9th Tier I doubles title with Srebotnik at Charleston at the Family Circle cup, their third team title, scoring 6–2, 6–2 over Edina Gallovits-Hall and Olga Govortsova. However alongside Hantuchová, Sugiyama made the finals at the Rome Masters where they lost to the number 7 seeds, Su-Wei Hsieh and Peng. In doubles, she and Srebotnik lost in straight sets in Sydney to Yan/Zheng, the eventual champions. It was her first top ten win since Beijing 2006. She then upset fourth-seeded Nicole Vaidišová 6–4 1–6 6–3 before losing to Peng Shuai in another three-set match 6–7 6–3 6–2. At the 2007 US Open, Sugiyama lost in the second round to Ekaterina Makarova. Later that year, she broke into the WTA Top 100. “Tennis was my life and now I have a totally different life and I am enjoying every second of it,” said the 34-year-old former doubles world No. In 1995, she won her first Grand Slam match and reached the 4th round of Roland Garros. Two months after, she defeated Amanda Coetzer to reach the third round, while losing to world number four and former Wimbledon champion Conchita Martínez. In the second round, she surprisingly upset (4) Myskina 7–6(2) 6–7(6) 6–4, needing several match points to close the match out. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. Sugiyama broke the record for consecutive slam appearances woman with 57 as of her appearance in the 2008 Wimbledon tournament. 1 in doubles, but my singles play was really terrible and my rankings went down and I couldn’t see myself beating anyone. They earned the title by beating Australian runners-up Azarenka and Pe'er 6–0 6–3, and number one team Black and Huber 7–5 4–6 [10–3]. She won the doubles title with Hantuchová, defeating Yan and Zheng in the semifinal 6–3 3–6 6–3, and Ting Li and Tiantian Sun 6–4 6–4 in the final. At Roland Garros, playing with Mirnyi, she lost in the first round. In Tokyo, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to number one Maria Sharapova 4–6, 6–1, 6–0. Whether this is gossip or a true story I don’t know but I was shocked. Most Read. Beating Lindsay Davenport in the second round, Ai went on to defeat Eleni Daniilidou to progress to the semifinals. They lost in the final to Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo 7–6, 6–4. Until 25 I had been getting by on the momentum of youth.”. Rennae Stubbs OLY (born 26 March 1971) is an Australian retired tennis player, coach and commentator. Katharine McPhee, 36, and husband David Foster, 70, expecting first child together ... Japan’s Ai Sugiyama played in 62 consecutive majors. She got a law degree and worked as a Legislative Aide for U.S. Because of this, Sugiyama broke into the Top 50. Photographer unknown3 Then she broke into the WTA Top-20 and reached another semifinal in Sydney, defeating Conchita Martínez. However, they won Toronto, defeating Peng Shuai and Yan 6–1, 7–5 in the quarterfinal, Molik and Santangelo 6–2, 6–3 in the semifinal and Black and Huber 6–4, 2–6, [10–5] in the final, winning their first title as a team. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. At the end of the year, she reached her first Tier I final at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, defeating Natasha Zvereva, number 14 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, number 9 and multi-Grand Slam events winner Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Dominique Van Roost before failing in the final against first seed and 2nd-ranked Jana Novotná. At the US Open, she partnered with Ullyett. Sugiyama and Hantuchová also played doubles but withdrew because of the infection. At Wimbledon, Hantuchová and Sugiyama reached the Quarterfinal, losing to eventual champions Black and Huber. She lost in the semifinal, in an epic match against Nadia Petrova, 6–1 7–6 (2). They lost in the final to the second seeded Black and Huber 3–6, 6–3, 6–2. They then defeated Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko 4–6, 7–5, 6–3 in the quarterfinals. Ai Sugiyama (杉山愛, Sugiyama Ai, born July 5, 1975) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. 1 indulging in a string of extramarital affairs. They reached the Round of 16 at the Australian Open. “But after 12 years she came back and now she is playing really great tennis so I am happy that she came back. She lost to Pe'er 6–0, 6–2 in the next round. Sugiyama entered the 2009 Dubai Tennis Championships and lost in the opening round to Bartoli in a tight 3-set match 0–6, 6–4, 6–7(6). . In Stanford she lost to Sharapova in three sets 4–6, 7–6, 1–6, saving two match points in the second set. At the French, they lost to Birnerová and Vanc in the second round. In the next round, she lost to Zvonareva 2–6 7–6(5) 0–6. The US Open arrived, and, seeded twenty-eighth, she defeated Zuzana Ondrášková, Tathiana Garbin before falling to second seed Justine Henin 4–6 6–1 6–0. She broke her Grand Slam "curse", reaching the third round before losing to Clijsters, the eventual champion. That was the match that lifted me into the top 10. Her next tournament was Rome, where she beat Maria Kirilenko in 2 hours 49 minutes 6–4, 5–7, 7–5. She also reached the second round at the French Open and Wimbledon. “I was very, very shocked when I heard about this. I really liked his playing of course and as an athlete he was perfect and trying hard to be the most enjoyable player to watch.”, “I love golf so I watched him playing. In 1999, she reached the final at the Japan Open, the semifinals in Gold Coast and Tokyo (Princess Cup) defeating number 8 Julie Halard-Decugis, the quarterfinals in Strasbourg and Moscow, defeating number 6 Mary Pierce, 3rd in Indian Wells, Montreal, defeating number 7 Jana Novotná and at the US Open. They reached the quarter finals at the 2009 Madrid Masters where they lost to Stosur and Stubbs, whom she and Akgul Amanmuradova beat in the finals at Eastbourne, her 38th doubles title. Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese Civil War which lasts until 1990.; A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye. Later that year she reached her first singles final in Surabaya but was forced to retire against Elena Wagner. In the quarters she beat Dominika Cibulková 6–7, 7–6, 6–3, saving 3 match points in the process. In her quarterfinal match against Julia Schruff, she had a comfortable 6–3 6–2 win.