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Alison Riske (born July 3, 1990 in Pittsburgh) is an American professional tennis player. She has won one WTA title, six singles and one doubles title on the ITF tour. She reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2014, the third round at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2014 and the fourth round of the US Open in 2014. She reached her career high singles ranking of world number 40 on June 9, 2014 and she won her first WTA tour title on October 12, 2014, when she won the Tianjin Open. ==Early life and career== The daughter of Al and Carol Riske,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Local Girl at US Open )〕 she first played tennis at the age of 3 years old after her dad took her out to hit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alison Riske interview )〕 Her father worked in the Secret Service and later as an FBI investigator, while her mother was a school teacher, but both are now retired.〔 Her sister, Sarah, is also a tennis player who played for Vanderbilt and had a brief professional career,〔 reaching as high as No. 372.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah Riske )〕 Her brother, Dan, played college tennis for West Liberty State, and is now an accountant. Educated by the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School,〔 she played the fall of 2006 for Peters Township High School, where she led the girls' tennis team to the Pennsylvania State championship, and won the championship in singles.〔 The following year, she won the USTA National Collegiate Clay Court Championship to earn a spot in the US Open qualifying draw, where she won her first match over Sorana Cîrstea before losing to Julie Ditty. She also won the ITA Summer Claycourt Championship and finished second at the USTA National Hardcourts that year. In early 2008, she earned the No. 1 ranking in her country in Girls 18s competition.〔 She got her first taste of the professional circuit later that year, when she served as a hitting partner for the United States Fed Cup team in their semifinal against Russia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peters Township's tennis star weighing future options )〕 Riske was coached by Brandon Stewart at Peters Township when she won the state title in 2006. Stewart currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and coaches at Oxford Athletic Club. In her early career, Riske was coached by Janice Irwin, coach of the girls' tennis team at nearby Upper St. Clair High School. She later began working with Yves Boulais, the husband of former professional Patricia Hy-Boulais, alongside her sister, Sarah. She briefly trained at the USTA training center in Boca Raton, Florida as well as Van Der Meer Tennis Academy in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. She returned to training with Yves Boulais at the end of 2012 and currently trains with him at the JTCC Tennis Academy in College Park, Maryland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alison Riske」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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