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1982 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual US Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held over several days before the event. Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier References External links1982 US Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1982 US Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying US Open (tennis) by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carling Bassett-Seguso
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] |
Lucila Becerra
Lucila "Lucy" Becerra González (born 22 July 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Tennis career Becerra reached a best singles ranking of 253 in the world and won nine professional titles on the ITF circuit. As a doubles player she was ranked as high as 194 and won 22 ITF titles. A three-time Pan American Games medalist, Becerra won the mixed doubles gold at Indianapolis in 1987, to go with her women's doubles bronze medal in the same tournament. She won a further women's doubles bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Her Fed Cup career for Mexico spanned 10 years and she appeared in a total of 15 ties. She won 11 matches overall, five in singles and six in doubles. Personal life Becerra lives in Mazatlán Mazatlán () is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding ''municipio'', known as the Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at on the Pacific coast, across f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Blackstad
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * '' Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Konanz
Helena Konanz (née Manset) is an American tennis player and Canadian politician. College career Manset attended UCLA for her undergraduate. In 1982, Manset as well as her partner Kathy O'Brien were defeated in the finals of the NCAA Women’s Doubles and in 1982 and 1983 she was named as an All-American. She graduated from UCLA in 1984 with a degree in political science. Professional career After being narrowly defeated in the NCAA Women's Doubles Finals Manset began to compete professionally. Manset had competed across the world including in the US Open and Wimbledon. She reached her peak in 1987 when she was ranked 228 overall in women's doubles. She retired from professional tennis on August 17, 1987 after 5 years as a pro player. Political career After she retired from tennis Manset began working for Nike which eventually lead to her moving to Canada to work in the sport equipment uniforms. After spending some time in the private sector, Manset (now Konanz) ran for the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Gordon
Shannon may refer to: People * Shannon (given name) * Shannon (surname) * Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958) * Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998) * Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939) * Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory" Places Australia * Shannon, Tasmania, a locality * Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916 * Shannon River (Western Australia) Canada * Shannon, New Brunswick, a community * Shannon, Quebec, a city * Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia * Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia Ireland * River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland ** Shannon Cave, a subterranean sectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Randall
Bernadette Randall (born 27 September 1965) is a retired tennis player from Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... She won the US Girls Doubles with American Ann Hulbert in 1983 Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles: 3 (2–1) Career finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (4–0) References External links * * Australian female tennis players Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles 1965 births Living people Tennis people from New South Wales US Open (tennis) junior champions Australian Open (tennis) junior champions 20th-century Australian women Sportswomen from New South Wales {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cissie Donigan
Cissy, Cissie or Cissi may refer to : People * Cissy Chandler (died 1954), wife of American author Raymond Chandler * Cissie Caudeiron (1909–1968), Creole nationalist and folklorist * Cissi Elwin Frenkel (born 1965), Swedish journalist and television presenter * Zainunnisa Gool (1897–1963) anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader in South Africa, nicknamed "Cissie" * Cissy Houston (born 1933), American singer * Cissy Jones, American BAFTA-award-winning video game voice actress * Cissy King (born 1946), American-born singer and dancer * Cissi Klein (1929-1943), Norwegian Jewish girl who is commemorated every year as one of the victims of the Holocaust * Cissy Patterson (1884-1948), American writer and newspaper owner * Cecilia Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish actress and singer, nicknamed "Cissie" or "Cissy" * Cecilia Östlund (born 1988), Swedish curler, nicknamed "Cissi" * Cissie Stewart (1911–2008) British swimmer Film and TV * Cissy (''Pokémon''), a ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Newton (tennis)
Christine Newton (born 13 February 1956) is a New Zealand former professional tennis player. While competing on tour in the 1970s and 1980s, Newton featured in the main draws of four grand slam tournaments, which included a doubles semi-final appearances at the 1979 Australian Open (with Jenny Walker). She played in the singles second round of the 1976 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Mona Guerrant. Newton won a doubles title at the Auckland Open in 1978 and was the singles runner-up in 1981. From 1975 to 1981 she competed in Federation Cup Federation Cup or Fed Cup is the former name of the premier world team competition in women's tennis. Federation Cup may also refer to: * Capital Football Federation Cup, an Australian territory-based association football tournament *Federation Cup ... ties for New Zealand, playing in a total of 19 rubbers. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Chris 1956 births Living people New Zealand female tennis players 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Filkoff
Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhavan featuring Lakshmi * ''Julie'' (1998 film), a British public information film about seatbelt use * ''Julie'' (2004 film), a Hindi film starring Neha Dhupia * ''Julie'' (2006 film), a Kannada film starring Ramya * ''Julie'' (TV series), a 1992 American sitcom starring Julie Andrews Literature * '' Julie; or, The New Heloise'', a 1761 novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Julie'' (George novel), a 1994 novel, the second book of a trilogy, by Jean Craighead George * ''Julie'', a 1985 novel by Cora Taylor Music * ''Julie'' (opera), a 2005 opera by Philippe Boesmans Albums * ''Julie'' (album), by Julie London, 1957 * ''Julie'' (EP) or the title song, by Jens Lekman, 2004 Songs * "Julie", by Doris Day, 1956 * "Julie" (Daniel song), b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hepner
Jean Hepner (born October 25, 1958) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Hepner is notable for holding the record for participating in the longest women's tennis match in a match against Vicki Nelson-Dunbar at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, which lasted six hours and 31 minutes. Additionally, this match contains two other records. It featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history. This was also the longest professional match completed in a single day. Hepner reached the second round of the 1978 US Open, the 1983 French Open, and the 1983 US Open. See also *Longest tennis match records This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games. The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken. However, among the four majors, the US Open, Australian Open ... References External links * * 1958 births American female tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Ohaco
Germaine Ohaco (born 8 December 1962) is a Chilean former professional tennis player. Ohaco reached a best singles world ranking of 162 on the professional tour. She qualified for the singles main draw of the 1982 US Open and featured in three doubles rubbers for the Chile Federation Cup team in 1984. Her niece, Dominique Ohaco Dominique Ohaco (born 19 December 1995 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean skier. She competed for Chile at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the premier of Women's slopestyle. She was selected to be Chile's flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Sh ..., is an Olympic skier. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohaco, Germaine 1962 births Living people Chilean female tennis players 20th-century Chilean women Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |