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1982 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1982 Federation Cup was the 20th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The tournament was held at the Decathlon Club in Santa Clara, CA, United States, from 19–25 July. The United States won their record seventh consecutive title, defeating West Germany in the final without losing a rubber. Participating Teams Draw All ties were played at the Decathlon Club in Santa Clara, CA, United States, on hard courts. 1st Round losing teams play in Consolation Rounds First Round United States vs. Indonesia Belgium vs. Mexico Brazil vs. France Hong Kong vs. Chinese Taipei Czechoslovakia vs. Canada Philippines vs. Senegal Austria vs. Israel Italy vs. Great Britain Switzerland vs. New Zealand Japan vs. China Portugal vs. West Germany Soviet Union vs. Spain Peru vs. Argentina Denmark vs. Netherlands South Korea vs. Australia Second Round United States vs. Mexico Hong Kong vs. Brazil Czec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1981 Federation Cup (also known as the 1981 Federation Cup by NEC for sponsorship purposes) was the 19th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The tournament was held at the Tamagawa-en Racquet Club in Tokyo, Japan, from 9–15 November. The United States won their sixth consecutive title, defeating Great Britain in the final, in what was a rematch of the 1967 Federation Cup. Participating Teams Draw All ties were played at the Tamagawa-en Racquet Club in Tokyo, Japan, on clay courts. 1st and 2nd Round losing teams play in Consolation Rounds First Round United States vs. South Korea Spain vs. Mexico Indonesia vs. Israel Hungary vs. Romania Switzerland vs. Greece New Zealand vs. Chinese Taipei Brazil vs. Ireland Japan vs. West Germany Czechoslovakia vs. Sweden Denmark vs. Soviet Union France vs. Canada Belgium vs. Great Britain Netherlands vs. Hong Kong Italy vs. Yugoslavia Thailand v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Thibault
Frédérique Thibault (born 2 June 1954) is a former professional tennis player from France. Between 1977 and 1982, Thibault featured in 16 Federation Cup ties for France, winning nine matches. Thibault competed in all four grand slam tournaments during her career, with her best performance a round of 16 appearance at the 1978 French Open, where she was beaten by eventual champion Virginia Ruzici. See also *List of France Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the France Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thibault, Frederique 1954 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Pelletier
Hélène Pelletier (born January 2, 1959) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Biography Born in Charlesbourg, Quebec City, Charlesbourg, Pelletier showed talent in water skiing as a child and only took up tennis at the age of 14. She trained for a short time at the Hopman Academy in Florida before injuring her ankle and played tennis for Rollins College. In 1979 she won a 1979 Pan American Games, Pan American Games silver medal in women's doubles and a mixed doubles bronze at the 1979 Summer Universiade, Summer Universiade in Mexico City. Pelletier played a total of 12 Fed Cup, Federation Cup ties for Canada, from 1981 to 1985. She was most prominent on the professional tour as a doubles player, often partnering Federation Cup teammate Jill Hetherington, with whom she won the 1984 Santista Textile Open, 1984 Brasil Open in Rio de Janeiro and made the round of 16 at the 1984 French Open. The pair's biggest win was over Martina Navratilova and Gigi Fernández at the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iva Budařová
Iva Budařová (born 30 July 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Budařová played on the WTA Tour from 1978 until 1991, winning four doubles titles. She achieved a career high singles ranking of world No. 24 (in 1983) and a doubles ranking of No. 55 (in 1987). Budařová was a member of the Czechoslovakia Fed Cup team that won the Federation Cup 1983 and 1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas .... WTA Tour finals Singles Doubles (4–2) ITF finals Singles (3–5) Doubles (1–1) References External links * * * 1960 births Living people Czechoslovak female tennis players Czech female tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade silver medalists for Czechoslovakia People from Duchcov Medalists at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Blackwood
Marjorie Blackwood-Schelling (born 1 May 1957) is a Canadian retired tennis player. Partnering the Australian Susan Leo, she reached the doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 1981 and 1982, and with Pam Whytcross, also Australian, the French Open in 1980. She was the coach/captain of the Canadian Federation Cup team in 1983. She was Tennis Canada's 1982 female player of the year. Born to a Canadian government officer in Karachi, she grew up in Detroit and Ottawa and attended the University of Texas. After her retirement, she and her husband Peter Schelling were tennis directors at Whistler Tennis Club. They continue to coach in the Gulf Islands. She was inducted into the Lisgar Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal. History In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students ... Athletic Wall of Fame in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. During her career she won four Grand Slam singles titles - the 1980 Australian Open, 1981 French Open, 1985 US Open and 1987 Australian Open. She was also runner-up in four Grand Slam singles events - twice at Wimbledon and twice at the US Open. The graceful right-hander secured one Grand Slam women's doubles title, at the 1989 US Open with Martina Navratilova. Inducted into thInternational Tennis Hall of Famein 1994, Mandlíková was one of the brightest stars of her generation and is considered one of the greatest female players of the Open Era. Mandlíková had a career-high singles ranking of No. 3, and was ranked in the top 50 for 12 consecutive seasons (1978–89), including seven in the top 10. She led Czechoslovakia to three consecutive Federation Cup victories from 1983–1985, and was only the third woman to win Grand Slam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carling Bassett
Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso (born 9 October 1967) is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. Tennis career In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior indoor tennis title. In 1982, she was ranked No. 2 junior player in the world, after winning events in Tokyo and Taipei. That year, she also became the youngest winner of the Canadian closed championship at the age of 14. She won the title again in 1983 and in 1986. By age 16, Bassett was Canada's top tennis player. At the same time, she had a successful second career as a fashion model, working for the world-famous Ford modeling agency. She also dabbled in acting, being promoted as one of the stars of a 1982 teen comedy film ''Spring Fever'', and later appearing in a 1984 episode of ''The Littlest Hobo' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Suková
Helena Suková () (born 23 February 1965) is a Czech former professional tennis player. During her career, she won 14 major doubles titles, nine in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. She is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in doubles, a four-time major singles runner-up, and won a total of 10 singles titles and 69 doubles titles. Personal life Suková comes from a prominent Czech tennis family. Her mother, Věra Pužejová Suková, was a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1962. Her father, Cyril Suk II, was president of the Czechoslovak Tennis Federation. Her brother, Cyril Suk III, is a former professional player on the men's tour who teamed with Suková to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, at the French Open in 1991 and at Wimbledon in 1996 and 1997. Career Suková turned professional in 1981. Her career-high world rankings were fourth in singles and first in women's doubles. Suková was a singles runner-up at the Australian Open twice (in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ling Yuen-Yuen
Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character from the mobile game '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'' * Ling Bouvier, a fictional character from ''The Simpsons'' * Ling Woo, a fictional character from ''Ally McBeal'' * Ling Xiaoyu, a fictional character from the ''Tekken'' series * Ling Yao, a character from the manga series ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and its 2009 anime adaption ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'' * Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from ''American Dad!'' Fish * Atlantic cod, formerly called ''ling'' when salted * Blue ling (''Molva dypterygia'') * Burbot (''Lota lota'') or freshwater ling * Cobia (''Rachycentron canadum'') * Common ling (''Molva molva'') * Pink cusk-eel (''Genypterus blacodes''), pink ling or northern ling Plants * ''Calluna'', a flowering plant in the heather family * Water caltrop or ling nut Religio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Chiu-mei
Ho Chiu-mei (; born 10 September 1962) is a Taiwanese former professional tennis player. Ho comes from the city of Chiayi in southwestern Taiwan and is the youngest of five siblings. She took up tennis in sixth grade, encouraged by her physical education teacher who thought her build would suit a tennis player. Debuting in 1978, Ho played on and off for the Chinese Taipei Federation Cup team over 16-years, featuring in a total of 24 ties, for four singles and six doubles wins. She also represented Chinese Taipei at the 1994 Asian Games and won a bronze medal in the team event. Ho, who won eight successive national championships, began to have hearing loss in the 1990s, which was a hereditary condition in her family. When her hearing got bad enough that she could no longer hear the racket hit the ball she had to give up professional tennis. In 2009 she represented Chinese Taipei at the Summer Deaflympics being hosted in her home country. She partnered with one of her elder sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hy
Patricia Hy-Boulais (born 22 August 1965) is a former tennis player. She turned professional on 12 October 1986. Early in her career she represented Hong Kong (since the beginning until the end of the 1987 season). She became a citizen of Canada in 1991. However, she represented Canada since the beginning of the 1988 season. Her best performance at a Grand Slam came when she got to the quarter finals of the 1992 US Open, defeating Eva Švíglerová, Judith Wiesner, Jennifer Capriati and Helena Suková before losing to eventual champion Monica Seles. After Hy-Boulais did it in 1992, Canada did not have another woman to survive into the second week at the French Open until Aleksandra Wozniak did it in 2009. Hy-Boulais represented her new country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was eliminated in the second round by the number one seed Monica Seles. Hy-Boulais reached her highest ranking in the WTA Tour on 8 March 1993, when she became the number 28 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Hsiu-tsuan
Wen, wen, or WEN may refer to: * WEN, New York Stock Exchange symbol for Wendy's/Arby's Group * WEN, Amtrak station code for Columbia Station in Wenatchee, Washington, United States * WEN, ICAO airline designator for WestJet Encore * Wen (surname) (文, 温, 闻, 问), pinyin romanization of several Chinese surnames ** Wen Jiabao (born 1942), Chinese premier beginning in 2003 * Wen, alternate spelling for Wynn (Ƿ ƿ), a letter of the Old English alphabet * Wen, common name for trichilemmal cyst or pilar cyst ** Wen, sebaceous cyst, a form of trichilemmal cyst * Wen, alternate name for lipoma, a benign tumor composed of adipose tissue * wen, the ISO 639-2 code for the Sorbian languages, also known as Wendish languages See also *The Great Wen, a derogatory nickname for London *文 (other) (Wén) *Wen County (other) Wen County may refer to two counties of the People's Republic of China: *Wen County, Gansu (文县), county of Longnan City *Wen County, Henan We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |