Jennifer Hopkins
Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Residence | Leawood, Kansas |
Born | Kansas City, Missouri | February 10, 1981
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Turned pro | 1999 |
Retired | 2005 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | US$ 644,372 |
Singles | |
Career record | 226–203 (52.7%) |
Career titles | 7 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 52 (September 24, 2001) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2002) |
French Open | 1R (2000, 2001, 2002) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2004) |
US Open | 2R (2001) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 102–118 (46.4%) |
Career titles | 1 WTA, 5 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 55 (August 15, 2005) |
Jennifer Dent (born February 10, 1981, as Jennifer Hopkins) is an American former professional tennis player.
Career
She won seven singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career and nearly cracked the top 50. In 2001, she reached her only WTA Tour singles final in Hobart (which she lost to Italian Rita Grande). In 2003, she played some ITF Circuit events, reaching the final in Atlanta and the semifinals at Dothan. In 2002, she won her only WTA doubles title at Strasbourg, partnering with Jelena Kostanić. However, she has never gone beyond the second round in any of the four major tournaments that make up the Grand Slam. She last played in an ITF tournament in October 2005 in Bangkok.
Personal life
Jennifer married Taylor Dent on December 8, 2006, in Sarasota, Florida. On January 26, 2010, she gave birth to a baby boy named Declan James Phillip Dent. Hopkins and Dent currently reside in Keller, Texas, where the two along with Taylor's father, Phil Dent, are opening The Dent Tennis Academy located at The Birch Racquet and Lawn Club[1]
References
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use mdy dates from July 2011
- ITF template using Wikidata property P8618
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kansas City, Missouri
- American female tennis players
- People from Leawood, Kansas
- Sportspeople from Johnson County, Kansas
- Tennis players from Kansas
- Tennis players from Missouri
- 21st-century American women