Lindsay Lee-Waters
Lindsay Lee -Waters ( born June 28, 1977 in Oklahoma City ) is an American tennis player. With her husband and Trainier, Heath Waters, she has been married since March 2000, the couple has two children.
Career
1994 Lee played the first time on the ITF tour and reached the finals twice in the same year of $ 10,000 tournaments. In January 1995, she won her first in Woodlands $ 10,000 tournament in late February won Lee the 25,000 dollar tournament of Miami. The first WTA final reached the American in May the same year in Bournemouth, which she lost to the Canadian Patricia Hy - Boulais. At Wimbledon, Lee reached after recovering from the 2nd qualifying round, she lost in three sets against Natallja Swerawa. Once Lee reached the third round of San Diego, she stood in the summer for the first time in the top 100 end of the year, the quarter - and semi-finals to reach Lee in Leipzig and Quebec City.
1996 Lee played a $ 50,000 tournament, which they lost in the final against Anna Kournikova. In Indian Wells Lee reached the quarterfinals and also her until today Bestplatzierung with space 33 due to injuries, the American end of the year flew out of the top 100. Only in May 2004, Lee -Waters to get back in the top 100. Meanwhile, Lee married her husband and took his last name. These brought Lee -Waters in early 2001 their first child into the world.
At the Australian Open in 2005, it reached great popularity with the public, as they played against Maria Sharapova in the second round and lost in three sets. While Sharapova was partially booed by the audience (because of wrong decisions in favor for Sharapova ), there was after the match for Lee -Waters standing ovation.
2006 saw Lee -Waters her second child and fell back into the world rankings to 943. Since 2009, Lee -Waters to find the first time since 2005 in the top 200 after she won the $ 50,000 tournament in Charlottesville ( her first tournament win since 2005) and the finale of Raleigh (also a $ 50,000 tournament ) reached.
In 2010, Lee -Waters until the end of April, not a match on the WTA Tour, still on the ITF Tour, win. Only in Charlottesville, which she won last year, she won her first match in the 2010 season. This year they lost this time in the quarterfinals, so she fell briefly out of the first 200 in the world. The biggest success of the season reached the American in May with the finals of the $ 50,000 Tournament of Raleigh, and in September with the $ 75,000 tournament in Albuquerque, so Lee -Waters can be found again in the top 200 in the WTA world rankings. In the doubles competition Lee -Waters won with Megan Moulton -Levy the tournament in Albuquerque.
2011 Lee-Waters played only a few tournaments in singles, so they forfeited many points in the individual rankings. The biggest success was Lee -Waters with a win over Arantxa Rus in the Wimbledon qualifying. In doubles, she reached the semifinals of Bogota and Quebec City.
Early 2012 was Lee -Waters only on place 404 in the world rankings in singles, so they mainly focused only on the doubles competition. Along with Megan Moulton -Levy end of March 2012, she won the $ 50,000 tournament of Osprey. On the way to the title, the team beat the top-seeded duo Natalie Grandin and Vladimira Uhlířová. Just like in 2011 survived Lee -Waters and Megan Moulton -Levy of qualifying for Wimbledon where she, however, in the main field were subject to Spanish duo Carla Suarez Navarro and Lourdes Dominguez Lino in three sets. In Carlsbad, the duo failed in the quarterfinals against the set of three duo Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops- Jones.