Anna Chakvetadze was born March 5, 1987, Moscow. Anna is a Russian professional tennis player. On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high pro singles ranking of #5 in the world.She began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother, Natalia. She travels for tournaments with her father. She speaks both Russian and English.

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Maria Kirilenko was born January 25, 1987. Maria is a Russian professional tennis player. Born in Moscow, she won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-4 in the China Open. Kirilenko reached #20, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in June 2006. She is a good friend of Maria Sharapova. She is affectionately called Makiri.

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Daniela Hantuchová was born April 23, 1983 in Poprad, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia.She is a Slovak professional tennis player.She is currently working with a number of coaches who work out of the Sánchez-Casal Academy, primarily Ángel Giménez and occasionally with Eduardo Nicolás. Her WTA Tour mentor in the “Partners for Success” program was Martina Navratilova, who was her doubles partner for a brief period in early 2005. As of the end of the 2007 season, Hantuchová was ranked at No. 9 in singles. She has twice topped the ACE tennis magazine’s Hot List of the world’s sexiest tennis players

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Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai, brought up in Hyderabad. Coached by her father, Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. She was ranked 31st in the singles category and 18th in the doubles category in the WTA rankings of January 7, 2008

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Justine Henin was born June 1, 1982 in Liège. She is a Belgian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked number 1 in the world.
She has won 40 career titles and exceeding $19 million in prize money. Seven of these are Grand Slam singles titles, including four French Open titles (four of the last five and the last three, consecutively), one Australian Open and two U.S. Open titles. She also has won 2 WTA Tour Championships singles titles and the singles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Tennis experts cite her mental toughness, the completeness and variety of her game, her footspeed and footwork, and her one-handed backhand (which John McEnroe has described as the best single-handed backhand in the women’s or men’s game) as the principal reasons for her success

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