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1986 Athens Trophy
The 1986 Athens Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Athens, Greece that was part of the 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 15 September until 21 September 1986. Sylvia Hanika won the singles title. Finals Singles Sylvia Hanika defeated Angeliki Kanellopoulou 7–5, 6–1 * It was Hanika's only title of the year and the 3rd of her career. Doubles Isabel Cueto / Arantxa Sánchez defeated Silke Meier / Wiltrud Probst 4–6, 6–2, 6–4 * It was Cueto's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Sánchez's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. See also * 1986 Athens Open – men's tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:Athens Trophy, 1986 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series 1986 Athens Trophy The Athens Trophy is a defunct Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament held annually in Athens in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika (born 30 November 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Year End Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed. Career Hanika turned professional in 1977. In 1981, Hanika reached the women's singles final at the French Open, where she was defeated 6–2, 6–4 by Hana Mandlíková. In 1982, Hanika posted the biggest win of her career when she defeated world No. 2 Martina Navratilova 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final of the Avon Series Championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Garden was also the site of Hanika's last big singles win: a 6–4, 6–4 defeat of No. 3 Chris Evert in the first round of the Virginia Slims Championships in 1987. Hanika won her final top-level singles title in Athens, Greece in 1986. She retired from the tour in 1990, having won six professional singles titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Cueto
Isabel Cueto (born 3 December 1968) is a retired professional tennis player from Germany. Her career-high ranking was No. 20, which she achieved in 1989. Early life Isabel Cueto was born in Kehl to her father, Toni, an electrical engineer who had immigrated from Bolivia, and her mother, Jutta, a German. She grew up in Aspach and attended school in Backnang. Career In 1984, Cueto became the youngest German national champion, winning the final against Elke Renz. She also won the German championship in 1986 and 1987. Cueto won a total of six titles on the main WTA Tour over the course of her career; five in singles, one in doubles. She also won four titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She progressed to the third round at the French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player. She won 14 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles: four in singles, six in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She also won four Olympic medals and five Fed Cup titles representing Spain. In 1994, she was crowned the ITF World Champion for the year. Career Arantxa Sánchez Vicario started playing tennis at the age of four, when she followed her older brothers Emilio Sánchez and Javier Sánchez (tennis), Javier Sánchez (both of whom became professional players) to the court and hit balls against the wall with her first racquet. As a 17-year-old, she became the youngest winner of the women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final. (Monica Seles broke the record the following year when she won the title at age 16.) Sánchez Vicario quickly developed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series
The 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 14th season since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on March 24, 1986, and concluded in December, 1986 after 41 events. The season was abbreviated in order to return the tour to a calendar year basis. The Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was held in place of the WTA Tour from 1983 until 1987 and featured tournaments that had previously been part of the ''Toyota Series'' and the ''Avon Series''. It included the four Grand Slam tournaments and a series of other events. ITF tournaments were not part of the tour, although they awarded points for the WTA World Ranking. No Australian Open was held during 1986 due to the tournament start date being moved from November to January. Schedule The table below shows the 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series schedule. March April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeliki Kanellopoulou
Angeliki Kanellopoulou ( el, Αγγελική Κανελλοπούλου; born 18 December 1965) is a Greek former tennis player who competed on the WTA Tour. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 43 in April 1987. During her career, she twice reached the third round of the French Open. She competed in the Federation Cup multiple times and participated in the tennis demonstration in the 1984 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals. Another career highlight was reaching the finals of the 1986 Athens Trophy, where she lost to Sylvia Hanika. Kanellopoulou is the mother of pro tennis player Maria Sakkari Maria Sakkari ( gr, Μαρία Σάκκαρη, ; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her .... WTA career finals Singles: 1 (0–1) ITF Finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (0–1) External links * * * 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Meier
Silke Meier (born 13 July 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Germany who played on the WTA tour from 1985 to 1999. She reached the third round of the US Open in 1990 and, over her career, recorded victories against Jana Novotná, Helena Suková and Manuela Maleeva Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began re .... WTA Tour finals Singles 1 Doubles 4 (1–3) ITF finals Singles (3–0) Doubles (4–7) External links * * * German female tennis players West German female tennis players 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Wiesbaden Tennis people from Hesse {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiltrud Probst
Wiltrud Probst (born 29 May 1969, in Nuremberg) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She was ranked World No. 31 on 4 February 1991. Probst won in singles two individual titles on the WTA Tour . In 1990 she won the tournament in the New Zealand capital Wellington by a final victory over Leila Meskhi . In 1992 she won the Waregem against her compatriot Meike Babel in the final. Her most successful Grand Slam tournament she played in 1990, when she reached the knockout stages at the French Open , in which she defeated the No. 10 in the world rankings , the Spanish Conchita Martínez. Probst retired from tennis 1999. WTA Tour finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (0–7) ITF finals Singles (0–5) Doubles (1–4) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Probst, Wiltrud 1969 births Living people German female tennis players Sportspeople from Nuremberg West German female tennis players Tennis people from Bavaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Athens Open
The 1986 Athens International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Athens in Greece that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition and was held from 16 June until 23 June 1986. Henrik Sundström won the singles title. Finals Singles Henrik Sundström defeated Francisco Maciel 6–0, 7–5 * It was Sundström's only title of the year and the 5th of his career. Doubles Libor Pimek / Blaine Willenborg defeated Carlos di Laura / Claudio Panatta 5–7, 6–4, 6–2 * It was Pimek's 2nd title of the year and the 6th of his career. It was Willenborg's only title of the year and the 5th of his career. See also * 1986 Athens Trophy The 1986 Athens Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Athens, Greece that was part of the 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 15 Sept ... – women's tournament References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens Trophy
The Athens Trophy is a defunct Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament held annually in Athens in Greece from 1986 to 1990, played on outdoor clay courts at Athens Lawn Tennis Club. In 1990 the tournament was classed as a WTA Tier IV tournaments, Tier V event. In 2008 the tournament was renewed under the new name of the Vogue Athens Open, an International Tennis Federation, ITF $100,000 tournament. Finals Singles Doubles See also * ATP Athens Open – men's tournament References WTA Results Archive Athens Trophy, Clay court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in Greece Annual sports competitions in Athens, Trophy WTA Tour {{WTAtour-competition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
