Miles Tu

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Miles Tu Tennis player
Miles Tu
Miles Tu 2007 at the Australian Open
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: 17th January 1978
Size: 163 cm
1st professional season: 1994
Resignation: 2008
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 1,590,412
singles
Career record: 333: 304
Career title: 1 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 35 (June 11, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (1997, 1999, 2001-2002, 2004, 2007)
French Open 2R (2001, 2007)
Wimbledon 3R (2002)
US Open 2R (2001)
Double
Career record: 184: 207
Career title: 4 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 28 (October 22, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2005, 2008)
French Open AF (2006)
Wimbledon VF (2008)
US Open AF (2006, 2007)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2008)
French Open -
Wimbledon 2R (2004)
US Open 1R (2007)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Miles Tu ( chin .: 涂 美倫; born January 17, 1978 in Tarzana , Los Angeles , California ) is a former American tennis player of Taiwanese descent.

Career

Miles Tu won one single and four double titles on the WTA Tour as well as four single and double titles at ITF tournaments in her career . In 2006 she reached the semifinals of the DFS Classics in Birmingham , which she lost to the eventual winner Vera Swonaryova . She won her only WTA singles title in 2001 in Auckland with a two-set win in the final against the Argentinean Paola Suárez .

Today Meilen Tu is an agent for Groupe Lagardère . In this role she works closely with tennis players such as Wiktoryja Asaranka , Caroline Wozniacki and Anna Tschakwetadze .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 6, 2001 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland WTA Tier V Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Paola Suarez 7: 6 10 , 6: 2

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. February 10, 2002 FranceFrance Paris WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) FranceFrance Nathalie Dechy RussiaRussia Jelena Dementjewa Janette Husárová
SlovakiaSlovakia  		without a fight
2. September 15, 2002 United StatesUnited States Waikoloa WTA Tier IV Hard court VenezuelaVenezuela Maria Vento-Kabchi South AfricaSouth Africa Nannie de Villiers Irina Selyutina
KazakhstanKazakhstan  		1: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
3. June 15, 2003 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Birmingham WTA Tier III race BelgiumBelgium Els Callens AustraliaAustralia Alicia Molik Martina Navrátilová
United StatesUnited States  		7: 5, 6: 4
4th February 21, 2004 United StatesUnited States Memphis WTA Tier III Hard court (hall) SwedenSweden Åsa Svensson RussiaRussia Maria Sharapova Vera Svonaryova
RussiaRussia  		6: 4, 7: 6 0

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personal data
SURNAME Do, miles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarzana , Los Angeles , California , United States