- Caroline Maes
Infobox Tennis player
playername = Caroline Maes
country = BEL
residence = Bree, Belgium
datebirth = birth date and age|1982|11|9
placebirth =Zele , Belgium
height = height|m=1.67
weight = convert|65|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro = 1997
plays = Right; Two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney = $131,695
singlesrecord = 229–163
singlestitles = 0 WTA, 8 ITF
highestsinglesranking = No. 151 (May 28 ,2007 )
AustralianOpenresult = DNP
FrenchOpenresult = DNP
Wimbledonresult = Q1 (2007)
USOpenresult = Q1 (2007)
doublesrecord = 106–111
doublestitles = 0 WTA, 8 ITF
highestdoublesranking = No. 143 (July 9 ,2007 )
updated =September 10 ,2007 Caroline Maes (born
November 2 1982 atDendermonde ,Belgium ) is a Belgiantennis player .Maes is active in the singles game since 1997 and doubles since 1999. The highest place she ever achieved on the WTA-ranking in singles is 151th on
May 28 ,2007 . In doubles she got to the 143rd place onJuly 9 ,2007 . She has yet to win her first WTA-tournament, but has won eight ITF-tournaments in singles and nine in doubles. Her last and most important ITF-title was the 2007 $100,000Rome - Tiro A Volo tournament on May 19, defeatingYulia Beygelzimer andStéphanie Cohen-Aloro in her way to the final, where she beat former top-50 playerMarta Marrero from Spain. So far, she performed three top-100 wins:Yuliana Fedak (WTA-66, Hasselt 2006),Jelena Kostanić (WTA-46, Dubai 2 2006),Akiko Morigami (WTA-51, Strasbourg 2007). In 2006 she also made it to the last 16 of the doubles tournament of Miami together withKim Clijsters .Since May 28, 2007 she is the second best Belgian player on the
WTA Rankings , afterJustine Henin , due to the retirement of Kim Clijsters and the right arm injury of former top-100 playerKirsten Flipkens , forcing the latter in a long interruption off the WTA Tour. since november 2007 she is ranked third Belgian : second Belgian at WTA 151 is Yanina Wickmayer.Fed Cup Experience
Maes was a member of the Belgian
Fed Cup team in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She made 3 singles and 4 doubles appearances. However, she did not win any singles match and won only one doubles match partneringEls Callens against the Slovak Republic.She is very close friends with Kim Clijsters. She made herself unavailable for selection in Fed Cup tie against China in 2007, because she wished to attend the wedding of Clijsters and American basketball player Brian Lynch that week-end (14th of July 2007) instead.
Titles
ingles Titles
External links
Official fansite: http://users.skynet.be/carolinemaes
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