For countries like the USA, Australia, and Canada, almost every player will make it onto this list in some form.

 

:lol: there is no such ethnicity as American, Australian or Canadian.

So are all WASPy US, Australian and Canadian players 'English'? :lol:

 

Rebecca Peterson from Sweden is Estonian

And isn't Petkovic Bosnian?

Yana Morderger is also Ukrainian. Chakvetadze is Georgian/Ukrainian. Puchkova and Sharapova are Belarussian. Alicia Molik is Polish. Susanne Celik is Turkish. There are more if you want more A lot of the Russians are from Ukraine.

Good thread BTW

 

Thanks, but I'm only including players with WTA rankings so Chak and Molik won't count

Stosur polish??

Lepchenko russian? Isn't she from Uzbekistan with an ukrainian surname?

Isn't Vesnina ukrainian as well?

I once read that Lepchenko faced persecution in Uzbekistan for being "Russian" :shrug:

And I think Vesnina was just born in Ukraine

She isn't. Her (great?) grandfather is. Or does that count?

I mean, should she really be put in the same category as Kerber and Lisicki? Don't really know.

I'm not sure. I guess then I shouldn't count Stosur as Polish or Oudin as French? I'm not sure how to go about that :lol:

Although Vesnina was born in L'Viv, she is ethnically Russian. This having been said, Lepchenko is Ukrainian but grew up in Uzbekistan

Simple rules:

-dze and -vili=Georgian
-o=Ukrainian
-ova=Russian or at least Russified.

The others are a mix

I know the names thing but are you sure Lepchenko is Ukrainian and not Russian or maybe both? I remember her once saying she was Russian :shrug:

Isn't her dad Turkish?

She's a crazy mix of things, not Turkish though :lol:

 

there're so many Polish

 

Stosur polish??

Lepchenko russian? Isn't she from Uzbekistan with an ukrainian surname?

Isn't Vesnina ukrainian as well?

 

Although Vesnina was born in L'Viv, she is ethnically Russian. This having been said, Lepchenko is Ukrainian but grew up in Uzbekistan

Simple rules:

-dze and -vili=Georgian
-o=Ukrainian
-ova=Russian or at least Russified.

The others are a mix

 

Petkovic is Bosnian and Serbian, so how is Serbian taken over Bosnian?

 

Because she's Serbian that born in Bosnia & Herzegovina


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Laura Robson was born Australian, but is Australian an ethnicity?

If that's the case, It would be ridiculous if the only ethnically Canadian tennis player ever born is named Greg Rusedski.

 

Laura Robson was born Australian, but is Australian an ethnicity?

Im interested in what is Laura's real ethnic origins

 

Thanks for this thread! I had no idea Stosur was polish.

 

She isn't. Her (great?) grandfather is. Or does that count?

I mean, should she really be put in the same category as Kerber and Lisicki? Don't really know.

 

Chilean
Tamira Paszek AUT

Isn't her dad Turkish?

 

No Tanzanian

Bencic doesn't sound Slovak. Croatian?

It was originally Bencicova

 

German
Maria-João Koehler

 

Bencic doesn't sound Slovak. Croatian?

 

Distant Croatian ancestry.

Why was her last name Manasieva then?

Some Serbian names end in -ev or -ov. And since she lived in Russia, she also adopted their feminine form.

 

I was talking to my friend about this the other day. Half the WTA tour is Polish / of Polish decent

 

Are Cetkovska and Jovanovski Macedonian I could believe Bojana but Petra Amra Sadikovic is also

Also Jamie Hampton is Korean

Pernilla Mendesova is something but I don't know what :lol: Same with Annabel Ossombi

Karin Knapp I am sure has some German/Austrian in her given she speaks German fluently and is from a very German area of Italy

McHale is Irish/Cuban

I don't know if you have this already but Kristina Mladenovic is Serbian

Although Teliana Pereira is Brazilian, she is from an Indigenous tribe

I think Sharon Fichman is Eastern European as she is an Orthodox Jew

 

Are Cetkovska and Jovanovski Macedonian I could believe Bojana but Petra Amra Sadikovic is also

Also Jamie Hampton is Korean

Pernilla Mendesova is something but I don't know what :lol: Same with Annabel Ossombi

Karin Knapp I am sure has some German/Austrian in her given she speaks German fluently and is from a very German area of Italy

McHale is Irish/Cuban

I don't know if you have this already but Kristina Mladenovic is Serbian

Although Teliana Pereira is Brazilian, she is from an Indigenous tribe

I think Sharon Fichman is Eastern European as she is an Orthodox Jew

Karin is just from a bilingual region of north italy where everyone can speak German

 

a lot of polish players who left. at least we have one player who s better in ranking then those all who decided

 

Burnett is polish...

 

Really? Nastassja Burnett is my absolute favourite tennis name, and I'd be interested to know a little more about her ethnicity..

 

Minella is Italian
So surprised at some of these

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Azra Hadzic - Bosnia
Viktorija and Monika Rajicic - Serbia
Chieh-yu Hsu - Taiwan
Alize Lim - French/Viet


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Naiktha Bains - English/Indian?
Olivia Tjandramulia - Indonesia
Ellen Perez - well Perez is Spanish name so Spanish/South American
Nicole Hoynaski - Polish
Priscilla hon - HK I I think
Alison Bai - China I think
Nives Baric - some Yugoslavic country
Masa Jovanovic - Serbian
Does Kimberly Birrell count as she was born in Germany but has Australian parents?

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Most Frenchies have foreign names.

Mathilde Johansson - Swedish
Kristina Mladenovic - Serbian
Irena Pavlovic - Serbian
Caroline Garcia - Spanish
Virginie Razzano (could have Italian ancestors?)
Claire Feuerstein (could have German or Swiss ancestors?)

 

Bartoli is Corsican -- isn't she therefore technically Italian (ethnicity-wise)?

The name suggests she is Jewish And Jewish people can be from anywhere, thanks to WWII.
Giorgi is Jewish too.
There are some others I suspect, but without prove I won't talk
Peer's father is from South Africa, but who knows how his parents got there and where from...wikipedia doesn't tell
Glushko is Ukrainian.

In Judaism the Jewish roots are only count till 3rd generation. 4th generation isn't considered to be Jewish. Maybe you guys should use that too. Grandparents count as ethical background, great-grandparents don't :shrug:

Other yentas:

- Julia Cohen
- Sara Errani

 

How is Vesnina Greek? Source?

 

Pernilla Mendesova - I think some part of her family is from Angola from what I know

Tamira Paszek is a mix of Austria, Chile, Canada, Poland, Tanzania

well to say Karin Knapp has Austrian background just because she is from the German speaking part of Italy which used to be Austria once is def. not correct

 

burnett polish? :spit: i don't think so...

anyway, that's Czech Pernilla Mendesova. Angola sounds believable

 

neither nastassja is a polish first name or burnett is anything close to a polish surname

unless it's something like magda linette or mariusz fyrstenberg, whose families have been living in poland for very very long and just surnames indicate not polish origins that even the players don't know details about

 

i quickly asked google and it said Burnett's mother heritage is Dutch, maybe ?

 

What is Tara Moore's ancestry?

Danish
Julia Boserup DEN

Russian
Anastasia Rodionova RUS
Arina Rodionova RUS

Aren't these supposed to be:

Julia Boserup USA
Anastasia Rodionova AUS
Arina Rodionova AUS?

 

What is Tara Moore's ancestry?

Wiki says she was Born in Hong Kong and has Hong Kong descent but why does she has a surname "Moore"?

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As others have pointed out:

Paszek is multi-racial and not just Chilean!!
"Her mother is a Chilean-born Austrian of Polish and French descent;[2] and her father, Ariff Mohamed, a Tanzanian-born, Kenyan-raised Canadian Muslim of Indian descent"

Hingis has a double ranking and has Czech roots.

Heather Watson has Papua New Guinean roots

 

Zarina Diyas is Kazak.