Nana Smith was born in the United States but spent much of her childhood in Japan . In 1988 she became a professional tennis player and competed in both singles and doubles in all Grand Slam tournaments . Her only success over a top ten player she celebrated in 1994 against Lindsay Davenport , at that time number 8 in the WTA world rankings . Smith achieved her best individual ranking in 1995 with 51st. In 1996 she reached the final in Surabaya , Indonesia, but she did not win a tournament on the WTA Tour .
Her career was much more successful in doubles. She won a total of ten WTA tournaments and in 1997 she was ranked 12th in the double world rankings. In 1993 she was in the semifinals of the US Open with Indonesian Yayuk Basuki as a partner . She was able to celebrate another great success at the side of Naoko Kijimuta in 1998 at the Australian Open , when they defeated Serena and Venus Williams .
From 1989 to 2000, Smith went to the Japanese Fed Cup team ; their record shows ten wins and six defeats.
Nana Smith later married James Rogers, a great-grandson of actor and comedian Will Rogers .
Japan
Schenectady
Linda Ferrando Wiltrud Probst
Pattaya
Suzanna Anggarkusuma
Taipei
Jo-Anne Faull Kristine Radford
Ruxandra Dragomir Silvia Farina
Auckland
Julie Halard Janette Husárová
Svetlana Kuznetsova Arantxa Sánchez Vicario