'Well done @vika7 in Melbourne' was a tweet about which Tennis player earlier this year after she won her first Grand Slam singles title?
"Champions). The WTA Premier tournaments were 21 of the tennis tournaments divided into three levels on the 2013 WTA Tour. The WTA International Tournaments were 31 of the tennis tournaments. The 2013 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on Hardcourt (Plexicushion). It was the 101st edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia from January 14 to January 27, 2013. All four of the main events in singles and same-sex doubles were won by the top seeds—Novak Djokovic in men's singles, Victoria Azarenka in"
"consecutive women's singles Grand Slam event to feature a first-time semifinalist (Rybáriková). This streak ended months later at the 2017 US Open. Despite losing in the second round, Karolína Plíšková attained the WTA No. 1 singles ranking at the end of the tournament, after Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep, the other contenders for the top ranking, lost in the fourth round and quarterfinals, respectively. This was formed World No. 1 and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka's first appearance in a Grand Slam event since the 2016 French Open after giving birth to her first child in December 2016. She"
"Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódorovna Azárenka (; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles and was the year-end No. 1 in 2012. Azarenka has won 20 WTA singles titles, 6 WTA doubles titles, and 3 mixed doubles titles. She has won two Australian Open singles titles (2012 and 2013), becoming the only Belarusian player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title. Her other major achievements include winning six Premier Mandatory tournaments including the Sunshine Double in 2016, the singles bronze medal at"
"first. She would get broken again during the seventh game of the set, which eventually surrendered the match to sister Serena. This was Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slam singles title and seventh Australian Open title for her career, both being Open era records, whilst being one shy of Margaret Court's record of 24 in the history of tennis. The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 9 January 2017, while ranking and ""points before"" are as of 16 January 2017. The rankings afterwards comes"
"2017 Australian Open The 2017 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 16–29 January 2017. It was the 105th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's title sponsor was Kia. Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber were the defending champions and both were unsuccessful in their title defence; they lost to Denis Istomin and Coco Vandeweghe in"
"another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final of the US Open. The only Grand Slam singles title that Hingis failed to win in 1997 was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli. She won the Australian Open women's doubles with Natasha Zvereva. In 1998, Hingis won all four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles, only the fourth in women's tennis history to do so, (the Australian Open with Mirjana Lučić and the other three events with Novotná), and she became only the third woman to hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles"
"2018 Australian Open – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, stating that she was not fully fit after giving birth to her daughter in September 2017. Caroline Wozniacki became the first Danish player to win a Grand Slam singles title, defeating Simona Halep in the final, 7–6, 3–6, 6–4. Wozniacki also regained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking for the first time since 2012. Both finalists saved match points earlier in the tournament: Halep saved three match points against Lauren Davis in the third round and two match points against Angelique"
"Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (; born 25 February 1982) is a retired Italian professional tennis player and Grand Slam-champion in both singles and doubles. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles on 28 February 2011. She became a Grand Slam singles champion, winning the US Open in 2015 by defeating her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final. Pennetta won ten other WTA singles titles, including the 2014 Indian Wells Masters, in which she defeated the top two seeds,"
"policy being invoked. However, the new surface faced criticism for being too similar to DecoTurf, the surface used at the U.S. Open. Player reaction to the change of surface was generally ambivalent. Both Roger Federer and Serena Williams were unsuccessful in defending their 2007 titles; Federer losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals and Williams losing in the quarter-finals to Jelena Jankovic. Djokovic won his first Grand Slam singles title, defeating unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final; Maria Sharapova, runner-up to Williams in 2007, defeated Ana Ivanovic to win her first Australian Open title and third Grand Slam title. For"
"round in back-to-back majors in her career. This was Schiavone's final Grand Slam that she appeared and would announce her retirement months later. This tournament marked the first time that Agnieszka Radwańska did not play in the main draw of a Grand Slam singles event since her debut at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, ending a streak of 47 consecutive appearances. This was Serena Williams' first Grand Slam appearance since the 2017 Australian Open and giving birth to her daughter in September 2017. She was unseeded in a Grand Slam singles event for the first time since the 2007 Australian Open."
"2017 Australian Open – Women's Singles Angelique Kerber was the defending champion, but was defeated in the fourth round by Coco Vandeweghe. Serena Williams won the title her 7th Australian title overall and first Australian Open where she did not lose a set during the tournament defeating her sister Venus Williams in the final, 6–4, 6–4. This marks the first time the Williams sisters met in a Grand Slam final since the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and the first time they met in the Australian Open final since 2003. With Serena's win, she also regained the WTA singles No. 1 ranking"
"Destanee Aiava Destanee Gabriella Aiava (born 10 May 2000) is an Australian professional tennis player. Aiava has a career high WTA singles ranking of 147 achieved on 9 January 2017. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 516 achieved on 7 November 2016. Aiava has reached two ITF singles finals. Aiava made her grand slam main draw debut after winning the 2016 18/u Australian Championships, granting her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open. She thus became the first player, male or female, born in 2000 or later to participate in the main draw of a Grand"
"Destanee Aiava Destanee Gabriella Aiava (born 10 May 2000) is an Australian professional tennis player. Aiava has a career high WTA singles ranking of 147 achieved on 9 January 2017. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 516 achieved on 7 November 2016. Aiava has reached two ITF singles finals. Aiava made her grand slam main draw debut after winning the 2016 18/u Australian Championships, granting her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open. She thus became the first player, male or female, born in 2000 or later to participate in the main draw of a Grand"
"from Kerber. Serena's victory was her 23rd Grand Slam title in singles, surpassing Steffi Graf as the all-time leader in Grand Slam titles in the Open era. Mirjana Lučić-Baroni reached her second Grand Slam semifinal 18 years after reaching her first one at Wimbledon. Angelique Kerber ""(Fourth round)"" 2017 Australian Open – Women's Singles Angelique Kerber was the defending champion, but was defeated in the fourth round by Coco Vandeweghe. Serena Williams won the title her 7th Australian title overall and first Australian Open where she did not lose a set during the tournament defeating her sister Venus Williams in"
"Williams sisters The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price. There is a noted professional rivalry between them—between the 2001 US Open and the 2017 Australian Open tournaments—they met in nine Grand Slam singles finals. They became the first two players, female or male, to play in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals from the 2002 French Open to the"
"and based in Melbourne, Australia. Zoe Hives Zoe Hives (born 24 October 1996) is a professional Australian tennis player. Hives has a career high WTA singles ranking of 259, achieved on 30 April 2018. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 408, achieved on 19 February 2018. Hives so far has won three ITF singles titles and two ITF doubles titles. In November 2017, Hives won the biggest doubles career title to date at the 2017 Bendigo Women's International, partnering Alison Bai. This resulted in them being awarded a wildcard into the Australian Open doubles event. Hives"
"Samantha Stosur Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she held for 61 weeks, and a former world No. 4 in singles. Additionally, Stosur was the top-ranked Australian singles player for 452 consecutive weeks, from October 2008 to June 2017. Stosur won the 2011 US Open, defeating Serena Williams in the final and becoming the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament. Stosur has won five other Grand Slam titles to"
"service to tennis, particularly as a competitor at national and international levels and as a coach and mentor to both amateur and professional players. Rose died on 23 July 2017 at the age of 87. Mervyn Rose Mervyn Gordon Rose AM (23 January 1930 – 23 July 2017) was an Australian male tennis player who won 7 Grand Slam titles (singles, doubles and mixed doubles). Rose was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959. He was ranked inside the world's Top 10 throughout much of his tennis career and represented Australia in the Davis Cup"
"2018 Australian Open The 2018 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played at Melbourne Park between 15–28 January 2018, and was the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2018 season. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players compete in singles and doubles tournaments. Roger Federer was the defending champion in the men's singles event and successfully retained his title (his sixth), defeating Marin Čilić in the final, while Caroline Wozniacki won the women's title, defeating Simona Halep in the final to win her first Grand Slam. The tournament"
"Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles. Three times a Grand Slam singles champion, her most famous success was winning Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, the tournament's centenary year, and the year of the Silver Jubilee of"
"apparel brand Qiaodan. Svetlana Kuznetsova appeared in video games Top Spin 2, Top Spin 3, Virtua Tennis 2009 and Virtua Tennis 4 as a playable character. ""Current through the 2018 US Open"". General Specific Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (; born 27 June 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player. Kuznetsova has appeared in four Grand Slam singles finals, winning two, and has also appeared in seven doubles finals, winning twice. As a doubles player, Kuznetsova has reached the finals of each Grand Slam at least once, winning the Australian Open twice. Born to an athletic family, Kuznetsova moved at"
"Grand Slam women's singles final (the second Japanese able-bodied player overall after Kei Nishikori at the 2014 US Open, and fourth player overall after Nishikori, Yui Kamiji and Shingo Kunieda), and was attempting to become the first able-bodied Japanese player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title. Osaka's personal admiration for Williams as a primary inspiration for her tennis career was a focal point of the media's interest in her rise. Upon defeating Maria Sharapova in her successful 2018 Indian Wells campaign, Osaka quipped, ""There are three people I wanted to play, Venus, [Sharapova] and Serena. Now"
"ranking at the start of the tournament. 2012 Australian Open – Women's Singles Kim Clijsters was the defending champion, but was defeated in the semifinals by eventual champion Victoria Azarenka. Azarenka went on to win her maiden Grand Slam title in the final, beating 2008 champion Maria Sharapova 6–3, 6–0. For the first time since its formation of the women's singles match in 1922, all of the quarterfinalists were European. Azarenka became the new WTA No. 1 singles player for the first time in her career following the tournament by reaching the final. Caroline Wozniacki, Petra Kvitová and Sharapova were"
"Azarenka stepped up her game as Li started to suffer multiple injuries, and eventually won in three sets to successfully defend her Australian Open title and become the first world No. 1 to win a Major since Serena Williams won Wimbledon in 2010. Azarenka lost the pair's last meeting in straight sets at the 2013 WTA Tour Championships, playing through a back injury and winning just three games in the process. ""Only main-draw results in WTA Tour are considered. This table is current up to the 2012 Summer Olympics."" Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódorovna Azárenka (; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born"
"first time grand slam finalist, Petra Kvitová. Sharapova finished the year ranked World No. 4, her best finish since 2008. In January 2012, Sharapova reached her first Australian Open final since winning the title in 2008 but lost to in straight sets to first time grand slam singles finalist, Victoria Azarenka. She avenged that defeat three months later by defeating Azarenka in the final at Stuttgart before successfully defending her title at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia by defeating Li Na in the final after trailing by a set and 4–0 and having been down championship point in the deciding set."
"title on her third match point in the second set. With this victory Williams surpassed both, Evert and Navratilova, for second most Grand Slam singles titles won in the Open Era. The title was also her sixth Grand Slam singles title since turning 30 years of age, three more than the next closest to do so (Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova with three each). She is the only player in history to win all four Grand Slams at least once after having turned 30. The following weekend, Serena and sister Venus traveled to Buenos Aires to face Argentina in a World"
"of the set, or when the opposing player was taking a medical timeout or toilet break. Elena Dementieva started the season on a hot streak, taking the title in Sydney, beating Dinara Safina in the final, as well as winning a smaller tournament in Auckland the week before, putting her as a firm contender at the season's opening Grand Slam, the Australian Open. During the Australian Open fortnight, Venus Williams became the first big casualty when she lost in the second round to Carla Suárez Navarro. Jelena Dokić made a fairytale run to the quarterfinals, the furthest she'd been in"
"The win completed what has become popularly known as the ""Serena Slam""; Serena Williams became the first player since Steffi Graf to hold all four Grand Slams at the same time. In addition Venus Williams became the first player since Martina Hingis in 1997 to make four consecutive Grand Slam finals, and the sisters together became the first players in the open era to contest four consecutive finals at the majors. Together they won the doubles title. This consistent play at recent Grand Slams led some to remark that the Williams sisters had a stranglehold on women's tennis. The Williams"
"6-1 Shingo Kunieda defeated Michael Jeremiasz, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 Esther Vergeer defeated Florence Gravellier, 6–1, 6–0 Robin Ammerlaan / Shingo Kunieda defeated Maikel Scheffers/ Ronald Vink, 6–2, 6–0 Jiske Griffioen / Esther Vergeer defeated Florence Gravellier/ Korie Homan, 6–0, 3–6, [10–6] The seeded players are listed below with the round in which they exited. The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking: Coverage of the 2007 Australian Open was as follows: 2007 Australian Open The 2007 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Melbourne, Australia from 15 January until 28 January"
"first grand slam main draw match win in four years. She followed this up with the biggest tournament win of her career at the Central Coast Pro Tennis Open, an ITF $60K event. At the Auckland Open in January, Vickery made it to her first WTA semifinal, the best result of her career. She knocked out defending champion Lauren Davis and former world No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska along the way before losing to world No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki. She backed up this performance by qualifying for the main draw of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, where she upset"
"2018 Australian Open – Women's singles final The 2018 Australian Open Women's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Women's Singles tournament at the 2018 Australian Open. It was contested between the world's top two players, Simona Halep and Caroline Wozniacki, then ranked first and second in the world respectively. They had both been world number one without winning a Grand Slam title, and they had also both lost two Grand Slam finals each (Halep at the 2014 and 2017 French Opens and Wozniacki at the 2009 and 2014 US Opens). The winner would win their first Grand"
"2016 Australian Open The 2016 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 18–31 January 2016. It was the 104th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. Novak Djokovic successfully defended the men's singles title and thus won a record-equaling sixth Australian Open title. Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles but failed to defend her title, losing to Angelique"
"qualified for the main draw. Viktoria Kamenskaya Viktoria Vladimirovna Kamenskaya (; born 26 November 1991) is a Russian tennis player. Kamenskaya has a career high WTA singles ranking of 188 achieved on 10 October 2016 and a career high WTA doubles ranking of 648, achieved on 25 October 2010. Kamenskaya has won 8 ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles titles. On the junior tour, Kamenskaya had a career high ranking of 14, achieved in October 2008. Kamenskaya reached the Quarterfinals of both the 2009 Australian Open – Girls' Doubles events. Kamenskaya made her WTA main draw debut at the"