Shelby Rogers
Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Charleston, South Carolina, US |
Born | Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, US | October 13, 1992
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Turned pro | 2009 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $744,404 |
Singles | |
Career record | 160–124 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 4 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 48 (January 30, 2017) |
Current ranking | No. 68 (June 12, 2017) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2017) |
French Open | QF (2016) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2015, 2016) |
US Open | 3R (2015) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 40–41 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 2 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 147 (September 21, 2015) |
Current ranking | No. 198 (May 23, 2016) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2015) |
French Open | 1R (2015, 2017) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2016) |
US Open | 2R (2016) |
Mixed doubles | |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
US Open | 1R (2014) |
Last updated on: 6 June 2016. |
Shelby Rogers (born October 13, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. She won the girls junior national championship at 17. Her best result on the WTA Tour came at the 2016 French Open where she reached the quarterfinals.
Personal life
Following her sister, Sabra, into tennis at the age of 6. Shelby was quickly identified by her coaches for her natural athletic ability and started competing on the national stage by the age of 11. Home-schooled during high school, Shelby was able to focus on her tennis and quickly started receiving scholarship offers from the top schools in the US.[1] In 2009, she decided to forgo college and become a professional tennis player. She is good friends with fellow American players Coco Vandeweghe and Irina Falconi.
Her tennis idol is Steffi Graf.
Career
Early years
In 2010, Rogers won the USTA 18s Girls National Championship to earn a wild card into the U.S. Open, her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam.[2] She lost to Peng Shuai in the first round in three sets.
Rogers earned another wild card into the main draw of the 2013 French Open three years later by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. With the wild card, she won her first career Grand Slam match over Irena Pavlovic.
She finished 2014 ranked inside the Top 100 at No. 72.
2015
In 2015, Rogers played in all four Grand Slam main draws for the first time in her career, reaching the 3rd round at the U.S. Open.
2016
Although she missed the Australian Open due to injury, Rogers began the year strongly by reaching her second career WTA final, losing to Francesca Schiavone at the Rio Open on clay in February.
At the French Open, she continued her success on clay by becoming the first American other than Serena Williams to reach the quarterfinals since Venus Williams in 2006.[3] Along the way, she defeated three seeded players including No. 12 Petra Kvitová. With this run, she also rose to a career high ranking inside the Top 60.
2017
Rogers started out the year with a stunning upset, 6-3, 6-1, over World No.4 Simona Halep in the first round of the Australian Open.[4] [5]
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)
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Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 13 July 2014 | Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria | Clay | Andrea Petkovic | 3–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 2. | 21 February 2016 | Rio Open, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Clay | Francesca Schiavone | 6–2, 2–6, 2–6 |
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Legend |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
Premier (0–0) |
International (0–1) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 19 April 2015 | Copa Colsanitas, Bogotà, Colombia | Clay | Irina Falconi | Paula Cristina Gonçalves Beatriz Haddad Maia |
3–6, 6–3, [6–10] |
ITF career finals
Singles: 7 (4–3)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
Runner-up | 1. | May 4, 2010 | Indian Harbour Beach, United States | Clay | Edina Gallovits-Hall | 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1. | July 10, 2012 | Yakima, United States | Hard | Samantha Crawford | 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | September 25, 2012 | Las Vegas, United States | Hard | Lauren Davis | 6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 2. | April 23, 2013 | Charlottesville, United States | Clay | Allie Kiick | 6–3, 7–5 |
Winner | 3. | July 28, 2013 | Lexington, United States | Hard | Julie Coin | 6–4, 7–6(7–3) |
Winner | 4. | September 16, 2013 | Albuquerque, United States | Hard | Anna Tatishvili | 6–2, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | September 28, 2015 | Las Vegas, United States | Hard | Michaëlla Krajicek | 3–6, 1–6 |
Doubles 7 (2–5)
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Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
Runner-up | 1. | June 15, 2010 | Mount Pleasant, United States | Hard | Petra Rampre | Kaitlyn Christian Caitlin Whoriskey |
6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 1. | July 3, 2012 | Denver, United States | Hard | Marie-Ève Pelletier | Lauren Embree Nicole Gibbs |
6–3, 3–6, [12–10] |
Runner-up | 2. | April 23, 2013 | Charlottesville, United States | Clay | Nicole Gibbs | Nicola Slater Coco Vandeweghe |
6–3, 7–6(7–4) |
Runner–up | 3. | April 14, 2014 | Dothan, United States | Hard | Olivia Rogowska | Anett Kontaveit Ilona Kremen |
1–6, 7–5, [5–10] |
Winner | 2. | June 5, 2015 | Eastbourne, United Kingdom | Grass | Coco Vandeweghe | Jocelyn Rae Anna Smith |
7–5, 7–6(7–1) |
Runner–up | 4. | February 7, 2016 | Midland, United States | Hard (i) | Naomi Broady | CiCi Bellis Ingrid Neel |
2–6, 4–6 |
Runner–up | 5. | April 30, 2016 | Charlottesville, United States | Clay | Alexandra Panova | Asia Muhammad Taylor Townsend |
6–7(4–7), 0–6 |
Singles performance timeline
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | W–L | |||||||||||
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Grand Slam Tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | A | 2R | 1–2 | |||||||||||
French Open | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | 1R | QF | 3R | 7–5 | |||||||||||
Wimbledon | A | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | 1R | 0–2 | ||||||||||||
US Open | 1R | A | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 3R | 2R | 4–5 | ||||||||||||
Win–Loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–4 | 5–3 | 1–1 | 10–13 | |||||||||||
Year-end Ranking | 341 | 434 | 217 | 123 | 72 | 146 | 60 |
Wins over top 10 players
# | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Rd | Score | SR Rank |
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2014 | |||||||
1. | Eugenie Bouchard | No. 8 | Montreal, Canada | Hard | 2R | 6–0, 2–6, 6–0 | 113 |
2017 | |||||||
2. | Simona Halep | No. 4 | Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia | Hard | 1R | 6–3, 6–1 | 57 |
References
- ^ "Tennis Recruiting".
- ^ "Getting to Know: Shelby Rogers". US Open. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "Shelby Rogers' emotional run to Paris quarters". ESPN. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ Rothenberg, Ben (January 15, 2017). "Shelby Rogers Ousts Fourth Seed Simona Halep at Australian Open". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
- ^ Garber, Greg (January 16, 2017). "Americans Shelby Rogers, Venus Williams advance in straight sets". ESPN. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
External links
- Shelby Rogers at the Women's Tennis Association
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Template:ITF junior profile