Abigail Spears

Abigail Spears
Spears at the 2015 French Open
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	12th July 1981 (age 39)
Size:	175 cm
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Larry Willens
Prize money:	$ 2,994,112
singles
Career record:	285: 262
Career title:	0 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	66 (June 6, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	555: 411
Career title:	21 WTA, 21 ITF
Highest ranking:	10 (March 2, 2015)
Current placement:	42
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Abigail Spears (born July 12, 1981 in Valley Center , San Diego County ) is an American tennis player . She achieved her greatest success so far in 2017 when she was victorious in mixed at the Australian Open .

Career

Spears started playing tennis when he was seven. In 1998 and 1999 she was number 1 in doubles in the United States, and in 1999 she was in the top ten of the singles ranking.

She has been a professional tennis player since October 2000. So far, she has won eight singles tournaments on the ITF Women's Circuit . In doubles, she has already achieved 21 successes in ITF tournaments and 21 on the WTA Tour .

In 2012 she and her doubles partner Raquel Kops-Jones reached the final of a WTA tournament six times (defeats in Brisbane, Doha), and they all won the tournaments in San Diego , Seoul , Tokyo and Osaka . In Sydney, Birmingham and Moscow they lost to the doubles specialists Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik or Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond and Marija Kirilenko / Nadja Petrowa in the semi-finals .

With her outstanding performance in doubles, Spears reached 10th place in the WTA ranking in March 2015, her previous record.

At the Australian Open in 2014 she was together with Raquel Kops-Jones for the first time in the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament ; they were defeated by Ekaterina Makarowa and Jelena Wesnina in three sentences.

At the 2019 US Open, Spears gave a positive doping test for prasterone , testosterone and metabolites , after which she was banned for 22 months.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 2000	Edmond	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Chang Kyung-mi	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
2.	October 2003	Mackay	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Trudi Musgrave	5: 2 task
3.	February 2004	Saint Paul	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Jill Craybas	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	June 2006	Gunma	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Akiko Yonemura	6: 3, 2: 6, 7: 6 6
5.	June 2006	Tokyo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Chiaki Okadaue	6: 2, 6: 2
6th	February 2009	Burnie	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Lu Jingjing	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	February 2009	Mildura	ITF $ 25,000	race	Ksenia Palkina	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	February 2010	Surprise	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Kurumi Nara	6: 1, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	January 4, 2003	Auckland	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Teryn Ashley	Cara Black Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 0
2.	August 15, 2004	Vancouver	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Bethanie Mattek	Els Callens Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	July 24, 2005	Cincinnati	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Laura Granville	Květa Peschke María Emilia Salerni	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
4th	May 10, 2009	Oeiras	WTA International	sand	Raquel Kops-Jones	Sharon Fichman Katalin Marosi	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
5.	September 27, 2009	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Chan Yung-jan	Carly Gullickson Nicole Kriz	6: 3, 6: 4
6th	September 18, 2011	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Raquel Kops-Jones	Jamie Hampton Anna Tatishvili	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 6]
7th	July 22, 2012	Carlsbad	WTA Premier	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Vania King Nadja Petrowa	6: 2, 6: 4
8th.	23rd September 2012	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Oqgul Omonmurodova Vania King	2: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
9.	29th September 2012	Tokyo	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	6: 1, 6: 4
10.	October 14, 2012	Osaka	WTA International	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Kimiko Date Crooked Heather Watson	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	July 28, 2013	Stanford	WTA Premier	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Julia Görges Darija Jurak	6: 2, 7: 6 4
12.	4th August 2013	Carlsbad	WTA Premier	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Chan Hao-ching Janette Husárová	6: 4, 6: 1
13.	15th June 2014	Birmingham	WTA Premier	race	Raquel Kops-Jones	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	7: 6 4 , 6: 1
14th	August 18, 2014	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	6: 1, 2: 0 task
15th	February 28, 2015	Doha	WTA Premier	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Hsieh Su-wei Sania Mirza	6: 4, 6: 4
16.	June 14, 2015	Nottingham	WTA International	race	Raquel Kops-Jones	Jocelyn Rae Anna Smith	3: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
17th	October 18, 2015	Linz	WTA International	Hard court	Raquel Kops-Jones	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6: 3, 7: 5
18th	23rd July 2016	Stanford	WTA Premier	Hard court	Raquel Atawo	Darija Jurak Anastassija Rodionova	6: 3, 6: 4
19th	18th February 2017	Doha	WTA Premier	Hard court	Katarina Srebotnik	Olha Sawtschuk Jaroslawa Schwedowa	6: 3, 7: 6 7
20th	August 6, 2017	Stanford	WTA Premier	Hard court	Coco Vandeweghe	Alizé Cornet Alicja Rosolska	6: 2, 6: 3
21st	17th June 2018	Nottingham	WTA International	race	Alicja Rosolska	Mihaela Buzărnescu Heather Watson	6: 3, 7: 6 5

Mixed

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	29th January 2017	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Sania Mirza Ivan Dodig	6: 2, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2004	2005	Career
Australian Open	-	1	1
French Open	-	1	1
Wimbledon	-	1	1
US Open	1	1	1

Double

competition	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	2	1	AF	1	2	HF	VF	2	1	2	2	HF
French Open	-	-	-	-	1	2	AF	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	2	2	1	AF	AF
Wimbledon	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	AF	1	-	AF	1	1	2	VF	AF	AF	HF	HF	1	HF	AF	HF
US Open	1	1	-	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	VF	1	1	1	AF	2	1	AF	1	1	1	2	VF

Mixed

competition	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF	AF	AF	AF	-	S.	VF	VF	S.
French Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	AF	AF	1	AF	VF	1	AF
Wimbledon	2	2	1	2	1	-	-	1	-	1	2	2	2	1	-	AF	VF	1	VF
US Open	AF	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	AF	1	AF	F.	F.	1	AF	VF	AF	AF	F.

Personal

Abigail Spears is the daughter of a computer analyst. She has an older sister and lives in San Diego .

Web links

Commons : Abigail Spears  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• WTA profile Abigail Spears (English)
• ITF profile Abigail Spears (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Provisional suspension imposed on Abigail Spears
2. ↑ Double specialist Spears banned for 22 months