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| Birth Name(s) : Lindsay Davenport |
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Full Lindsay Davenport Biography
Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8, 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional female tennis champion. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments: the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon, and the 2000 Australian Open. She also won an Olympic gold medal in singles in 1996. Davenport has earned over US $21 million in prize money.
She announced at the end of the 2005 season that she would play fewer events in 2006. As a result of this schedule, and a lower back injury, her ranking fell to #25, marking the first time since the computer singles rankings were established in 1975 that no American has been ranked in the top 10.
Davenport is the daughter of Wink Davenport, who was a member of the U.S. volleyball team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and Ann Davenport. She attended both Chadwick School in Palos Verdes Peninsula, California and Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta, California.
In 1994, Davenport came back to win another title; winning her first tournament that she entered in Brisbane. The next tournament Davenport was the 1994 Australian Open, reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, defeating number 5 Mary-Joe Fernandez in the fourth round before taking a beating from number one Steffi Graf. Her doubles success was better, where she again had success at the European Open and lost in the doubles final. Davenport's great results continued as she made semifinal showings at the Indian Wells and Miami Masters and won the title in Lucerne. At Wimbledon, Lindsay reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal in three showings at a Grand Slam. Ranked ninth, Davenport defeated Gabriela Sabatini before losing to Conchita Martínez.
Doubles in 1994 was much improved for Davenport. She won the Indian Wells Masters with Lisa Raymond. She reached the 1994 French Open doubles final with Raymond before losing to Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva. She won a title in Oakland as well.
1996 for Davenport saw her reach the finals of Sydney, but lose in the fourth round of the Australian Open. Davenport reached the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters, but lost in a hard match to Steffi Graf. Later that year, Davenport went on to reach her career-first win over Graf, beating her 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals, where Davenport won the title. She won the Strasbourg later that year and reached the French Open quarterfinals.
In doubles that year, Davenport teamed up with Mary-Joe Fernandez to win the Sydney title before losing in the final of the Australian Open to Chanda Rubin and Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario. Davenport and Fernandez went on, however, to get to the Miami Masters semifinals. Davenport built on her Olympic medal by winning the French Open doubles title with Fernandez won the title, defeating Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva in the final. Two other doubles titles were picked up and won and Davenport and Fernandez captured the year-end championships.
1997 saw Davenport lose before the quarterfinals of the 1997 Australian Open, losing to Kimberly Po in the fourth round. She went on to win in Oklahoma City, and then at Indian Wells for the first time in her career, defeating Irina Spirlea 6-2, 6-1. Davenport also won at the Bausch & Lomb Championships. She lost to Iva Majoli, the eventual champion, in the fourth round at the French Open and to Denisa Chládková in the second round at Wimbledon. She lost in the finals at Los Angeles after beating top-ranked Martina Hingis in the semifinals but lost to Monica Seles in the final. After winning in Atlanta, Davenport reached the 1997 US Open semifinals. She went on to win the titles in Zurich and Chicago before going down in the finals of Philidelphia to Martina Hingis 7-5, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (4).
Her next victory on tour was her first Grand Slam at the 1998 US Open, defeating fifth-ranked Venus Williams in the semifinals and top-ranked Martina Hingis in the championship match.
In doubles, Davenport impressively reached the finals of the 1998 Australian Open with Natalia Zvereva, but lost to wildard team of Hingis and Mirjana Lučić. Davenport and Zvereva would go on to lost to Hingis and Lučić again in the Tokyo finals, and then won both Indian Wells and Berlin, both times defeating Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat in the final.
On February 22, 2006, Davenport became just the eighth woman in WTA history to win 700 singles matches, when she handed out her fourth career "double bagel," defeating Elena Likhovtseva 6-0, 6-0 in the second round of the [Dubai Duty Free Women's Open.
After the loss in Los Angeles, Davenport returned to the Pilot Pen Tournament in New Haven, defeating Katarina Srebotnik and Schiavone in her first two matches. Davenport then faced world #1 Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, posting a 6-4, 7-5 victory. In the semifinals, Davenport defeated Stosur (who had beaten Davenport in Los Angeles) 7-6, 7-6. Davenport was forced to retire with a right shoulder injury while playing Justine Henin in the final.
Despite injury concerns, Davenport reached the 2006 U.S. Open quarterfinals where she again lost to Henin, 6-4, 6-4.
Davenport's last competitive match before the announcement of her pregnancy was a quarterfinal loss in Beijing at the China Open to Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3, who was at the time the top ranked player in the world. It was Mauresmo's first win over Davenport after losing nine straight times. |
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