In the singles event at the 2008 Heineken Open tennis tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, David Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Julien Benneteau.
The Women's Doubles competition at the 1994 Australian Open was held between 17 January and 30 January 1994 on outdoor hard courts at the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park in Melbourne, Australia.
 Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva won the title, defeating Patty Fendick and Meredith McGrath in the final.
The 1994 Volkswagen Cup was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne in England that was part of Tier II of the 1994 WTA Tour.
 The tournament was held from 13 June until 18 June 1994.
 Unseeded Meredith McGrath won the singles title.
Richard Gasquet (] ; born 18 June 1986) is a French professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 30 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
 He won the mixed doubles Grand Slam title at the 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin.
 He also won an Olympic bronze medal in 2012 with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau.
 His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in July 2007.
 In singles, his best achievements in Grand Slams are reaching the semifinals of the 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships and the semifinals of the 2013 US Open.
 Gasquet is best known for his long-winding groundstrokes and his one-handed backhand.
This page is a list of the main career statistics of French tennis player, Richard Gasquet.
 To date, Gasquet has won fourteen ATP singles titles.
 He was also the runner-up at the 2005 Hamburg Masters and Canada Masters in 2006 and 2012, a semi-finalist at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and 2013 US Open and a bronze medallist in men's doubles with Julien Benneteau at the 2012 London Olympics.
 On July 9, 2007, Gasquet achieved a career high singles ranking of World No. 7.
Athletic DNA (ADNA) is an American sports apparel company.
 Founded in Seattle in 2007, ADNA began by training young tennis athletes, which evolved into sponsoring Select Junior Tennis players, and then expanded to manufacturing clothing for youth and adult tennis players.
 ADNA has since spread to professional tennis, and currently sponsors players on the ATP Tour & WTA Tour.
Édouard Roger-Vasselin (] ; born 28 November 1983) is a male tennis player from France.
 He won the men's doubles title at Roland Garros in 2014, partnering Julien Benneteau.
 He is the son of 1983 French Open semifinalist Christophe Roger-Vasselin.
The "Challenge of Champions" was created to be one of the richest prize money tennis events in the world.
 Created by Leo E. Fenn III in 1985 as an Invitation Only Tennis Tournament which would feature daily matches which were the equivalent to the Finals of the US Open or Wimbledon.
 It was usually held before the Masters and invited only the top eight men's tennis players in the world according to their rankings on the ATP poll.
 In 1985, creator & founder 24-year-old Leo E. Fenn III partnered with 28-year-old Mark Myden to form a company called Special Events Productions.
 SEP produced the "Challenge of Champions" Tournament which became a major player in professional tennis.
 These two entrepreneurs became the youngest producers in history of professional tennis.
 Leo & Mark acquired major fortune 500 corporate sponsors such as AT&T, VISA, Cadillac, Fila Sportswear, DeBeers Diamonds as well as negotiated two days of live weekend television coverage on NBC.
 Their title sponsorship package sold to AT&T was the largest single vent sponsorship package in professional tennis that year.
 Leo negotiated with the brand new Thomas Mack Center Arena in Las Vegas to host the inaugural event.
 The event rights were eventually sold to Pro Serve and concluded following the 1989 Challenge.
Julien Benneteau (] ; born 20 December 1981) is a French professional tennis player.
 His career-high singles ranking is ATP world no. 25, which he reached in November 2014.
 He formerly resided in Boulogne-Billancourt and now lives in Geneva.
 Benneteau is generally regarded as one of the best singles players on the tour who has not won a title, finishing as runner-up in ten ATP tournaments.
 He reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open and the semifinals of the 2014 Cincinnati Masters.
Meredith McGrath (born April 28, 1971) is a former professional tennis player.
 She was born in Midland, Michigan, USA and made her debut on the Women's Tennis Association tour in 1988.
 In her eight-year professional career Meredith achieved career-high world rankings of #18 in singles and #4 in doubles.
 She notched victories over such players as Martina Navratilova, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova, Jana Novotna, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, and Gigi Fernandez.
 The pinnacle of her career came in reaching the singles semi-finals and doubles finals at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships.
 In the singles she defeated Mana Endo, Amanda Coetzer, Nancy Feber, Katarína Studeníková and Mary Joe Fernandez before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
 An injury the week prior to the 1996 Wimbledon Championships eventually ended her career.
 Meredith won the 1995 U.S. Open Mixed Doubles Championship (she was runner-up in 1989) and was the runner-up in the 1994 Australian Open Doubles Championship.
 Meredith won three WTA singles titles: Oklahoma City and Eastbourne in 1994 and Birmingham in 1996, 25 doubles titles.
 She retired with a 140–83 record in singles and a 189–40 record in doubles.
 Meredith was recognized by Tennis Magazine as the WTA Comeback Player of the Year as she overcame near career-ending injuries to having her most successful competitive season in 1996.
 In 1994 she received the WTA Tour Comeback Player of the Year.

Question: Are both Meredith McGrath and Julien Benneteau professional tennis players?
Answer: yes