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Ashley Harkleroad

Tennis is an outdoor sport, which can be played between two players or four players. Players utilize a stringed racquet to hit a rubber ball, hollow inside covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court.

Ashley Harkleroad is a tennis player residing in Wesley Chapel, Florida, and United States of America. She plays for the team of USA , United States of America. She was born on May 2, 1985 in Rossville, Georgia. The right-handed playing Ashley possesses a height of 5 feet 5 inches and a weight of 121 pounds. She got the nickname Pebbles while living in Flintstone, Georgia, USA.

Ashley has a very impressive playing statistics. She had debuted at the ITF, International Tennis Federation in Largo In the year of 1999. She played first at the tour qualifying at the Miami and the first Grand Slam qualifying at the US Open in 2000. In 2001 she was a runner-up at the ITF in Dothan. In 2002 she was winner of ITF in Los Gatos and also won the first tour matches to reach second runner-up at San Diego, Hawaii and Bratislava, where she reached first Tour doubles semifinals.

In 2003 she had a breakthrough season, highlighted by the Charleston run losing just eleven games to reach the semifinal. In 2004 she reached her career-first tour final at Auckland to a defending champion. In 2005 won the second and third ITF doubles titles and played only four tour singles main draws, falling first runner-up each time that includes the Wimbledon and US Open. In the same year she fell in the tour singles qualifying twice and reached at the second tour doubles final of the career at Quebec City.

She was undefeated in the singles and doubles to lead the United States to the 2000 ITF Connolly Continental Cup title. She had the best showing of any American at the 2000 US Open girls’ singles championship while reaching at the quarterfinals. She won the girls’ 18s title at the 2000 Easter Bowl Championship. She had won the 2001 Wimbledon doubles title and also was a singles semifinalist in the 2001 Australian and Roland Garros championships. She had won the 2001 Astrid and Asuncion Bowls. In juniors she had reached 2002 final at the Roland Garros. Ashley Harkleroad is a player who is totally dedicated in her play, which has led her to the zenith of achievements.

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