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1985 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Seeds # Marie-Christine Calleja ''(second round)'' # Kim Sands ''(second round)'' # Nathalie Tauziat ''(second round)'' # Lea Plchová ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Nathalie Herreman ''(second round)'' # Kris Kinney ''(qualifying competition, lucky loser)'' # Jennifer Mundel ''(second round)'' # Kim Steinmetz ''(first round)'' # Maeve Quinlan ''(first round)'' # Andrea Betzner (qualified) # Csilla Bartos ''(second round, retired)'' # Patty Fendick (qualified) # Linda Howell ''(qualifying competition)'' # Jamie Golder ''(second round)'' # Hu Na (qualified) # Barbara Jordan (qualified) Qualifiers # Barbara Jordan # Molly Van Nostrand # Elna Reinach # Jenny Byrne # Patty Fendick # Hu Na # Andrea Betzner # Elisabeth Ekblom Lucky losers # Lea Plc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts, with retractable roofs over the two main courts since 2019. Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. Wimbledon is the only major still played on grass, the traditional tennis playing surface. Also, it is the only Grand Slam that retains a night-time curfew, though matches can now continue until 11.00 pm under the lights. The tournament traditionally takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, starting on the last Monday in June and culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Singles Finals, scheduled for the Saturday and Sunday at the end of the second week. Five major events are held each year, with addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Van Nostrand
Molly Van Nostrand (born March 12, 1965) is a retired American professional tennis player. Career Van Nostrand turned professional in 1983. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1985. She had career wins over Natasha Zvereva, Helena Suková, Manuela Maleeva, Wendy Turnbull, and Dianne Fromholtz. She reached a career-high ranking of World No. 37 in 1986. She retired in 1989. She is the younger sister of the late John Van Nostrand John Van Nostrand (July 17, 1961 – April 15, 1984) was a professional tennis player from the United States. His sister Molly Van Nostrand also played tennis professionally. Career Van Nostrand was a dual NCAA All-American for Pepperdine Univ ..., who was also a professional tennis player. WTA Tour finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 1 (0–1) Grand Slam singles tournament timeline References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Nostrand, Molly 1965 births Living people American female tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Rimes
Susan Rimes Seiler (born April 15, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Rimes and her sisters were trained in ballet and tennis as children, with her older sister Tamara going on to dance professionally. It was in tennis that Rimes excelled and around the age of ten she was tutored by Chris Evert's father Jimmy. Rimes, who attended Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, played four years of college tennis for Clemson University. From 1983 to 1987, Rimes competed on the professional tennis tour and reached a career high singles ranking of 179 in the world. During her career she played at all four grand slam tournaments, which included the 1983 Wimbledon Championships The 1983 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 97th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from ..., wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Gulley
Annette "Dolly" Gulley (born 27 February 1964) is an Australian tennis player who won the Swedish Open in 1984. Gulley was born in Sydney, and trained at the Australian Institute of Sport. Playing career Gulley was Australian CBA Champion in her age group from 1976 to 1979 and New South Wales Under-18 Champion in 1980. In 1982, as a junior, she and compatriot Kim Staunton Kim Staunton (born 24 March 1966) is an Australian former professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each playe ... won the Australian Open girls' doubles. She won the women's Swedish Open in 1984, defeating Carin Anderholm. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gulley, Annette Living people 1964 births Tennis players from Sydney Australian female tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles 20th-century Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Hetherington
Jill Hetherington-Hultquist (born October 27, 1964) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She played college tennis for the University of Florida, and was women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington until May 2014. College career Born in Brampton, Ontario, Hetherington attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team from 1984 to 1987. While playing for the Gators, she won four straight Southeastern Conference (SEC) singles championships, three as the team's No. 2 singles player, and once as the No. 1 singles player. She also won three consecutive SEC doubles championships from 1985 to 1987. Hultquist was recognized as a four-time first-team All-SEC selection and received four All-American honors. She was inducted into the List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members, University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1999.F Club, Hall of Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Cordwell
Belinda Jane Cordwell (born 21 September 1965) is a sports commentator and a former professional tennis player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. A former world top 20 player, her best result in the Grand Slam events was reaching the semifinals of the 1989 Australian Open. Biography During her career Cordwell won one WTA singles title (at Singapore) and two WTA doubles titles (at Singapore & Tokyo). Cordwell reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 4 December 1989, when she became No. 17 in the world. Her most notable result was reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1989, where she lost to Helena Suková. She represented New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics, losing in the first round to Great Britain's Sara Gomer. After retiring Cordwell has worked as a television tennis commentator for One Sport TVNZ Sport is a division of TVNZ which airs many of the sports telecasts in New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumiko Okamoto
Kumiko Okamoto ( ja, 岡本久美子, born February 19, 1965) is a retired female tennis player from Japan, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea). In the doubles competition she partnered Etsuko Inoue is a retired tennis player from Japan. Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and .... Okamoto 6 singles and doubles finals. She has won 4 singles titles and 2 doubles titles on the ITF finals. WTA Career finals Singles (1 win) ITF Finals Singles (4–2) Doubles (2–4) External links * * * References 1965 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Japan Sportspeople from Osaka Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Derly
Emmanuelle Derly (born 30 April 1970) is a French former professional tennis player. In 1988, she was French Open girls’ doubles champion with Alexia Dechaume and was the runner-up in Wimbledon in the girls’ singles final, losing to Brenda Schultz 6–7(5), 1–6. Derly played for France in the 1985 Federation Cup. She also won the Clarins Open The Open Clarins is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1987 to 1992. It was held in the Paris in France and played on the outdoor clay courts of the Racing Club de France. It was a Tier V tournament until 1989 and was su ... in 1988 with Alexia Dechaume. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1–1) ITF finals Singles (1-1) Doubles (1-3) References External links * * * French female tennis players 1970 births Living people French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbie Bramblett
Barbara Christine Bramblett (born September 14, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. Tennis career Bramblett, a right-handed player from Houston, was an Orange Bowl champion in 1980 and competed on the professional tour from 1982 to 1985. She made several main draw appearances in grand slam tournaments, without registering a win. In WTA tournaments she twice reached quarter-finals, at Tokyo in 1982 and the 1984 Miami Classic. Comebacks Her career is perhaps best remembered for two matches she played in 1983, where she saved a combined 38 match points. At the 1983 US Open she trailed Ann Hulbert Ann Hulbert (now Ann Hopper; born October 28, 1965) is a retired American tennis player. In 1982, she captured the Canadian Junior Open singles championship and reached the doubles finals of the Italian Junior Open and the girls draw at the US Ope ... during the qualifiers 0–6, 0–5 and 0–40, before saving 18 match points to claim the second set 7–5, then t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
