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1986 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. Qualifiers # Dinky Van Rensburg # Diane Farrell # Julie Richardson # Kay McDaniel # Jana Novotná # Gretchen Rush # Anna-Maria Fernandez # Kim Steinmetz Lucky losers # Rebecca Bryant # Jane Forman # Ronni Reis # Penny Barg Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier External links *1986 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com at the [...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] |
Akiko Kijimuta
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. She was born on May 1, 1968, in Japan and played on the WTA tour from 1986 to 1992. She reached the fourth round at Roland Garros in 1992, where she led the world number-one-ranked player Monica Seles Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Slam ... 4 games to 1 in the final set. Seles won the match 6–4 in the third set. She retired with a 63–100 singles record. WTA finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (0–1) ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (1–1) References External links * * Japanese female tennis players 1968 births Living people People from Ebina, Kanagawa Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Dahlström
Helena Dahlström (born 13 May 1968) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player from Linköping, Dahlström was the girls' singles runner-up at the 1984 Australian Open. Dahlström competed on the professional tour in the late 1980s and reached a top singles ranking of 166. She won the Australian Hard Court Championships in 1985 and featured in the main draw of the 1986 French Open as a qualifier. She appeared in two Federation Cup ties for Sweden in 1986, playing both singles and doubles in a World Group fixture against France, then in the consolations rounds against Belgium. ITF finals Singles (3–4) Doubles (1–1) See also *List of Sweden Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Sweden Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. Sweden have taken part in the competition since 1964. Players References External linksSvenska Tennisförbundet {{DEFAULTSORT:Sweden ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécille Calmette
Cécille Calmette (born 2 July 1968) is a French former professional tennis player. Calmette is most noted for her performance as a wildcard at the 1985 French Open, making the third round with wins over Mercedes Paz and Anne Minter, before her run was ended by 10th-seed Bonnie Gadusek Bonnie Gadusek (born September 11, 1963) is a retired American professional tennis player. Career Gadusek started a career in gymnastics, training for the 1980 Olympics, but fell from uneven parallel bars and landed on her neck, dislocating two .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calmette, Cecille 1968 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammy MacGregor
Cammy MacGregor (born October 11, 1968) is an American former tennis player from the mid-1980s until 1995. Her elder sister Cynthia Cynthia is a feminine given name of Greek origin: , , "from Mount Cynthus" on Delos island. The name has been in use in the Anglosphere since the 1600s. There are various spellings for this name, and it can be abbreviated to Cindy, Cyndi, Cyndy, ... was also a tennis player, and they sometimes partnered in doubles. WTA Tour finals Singles (1 runner-up) Doubles 10 (3 titles – 7 runners-up) External links * * American female tennis players 1968 births Living people 21st-century American women Tennis people from California {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Zvereva
Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings. Zvereva and her main doubles partner Gigi Fernández are the most successful women's doubles team (measured by WTA Tour and major titles) since Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. On 12 July 2010, Zvereva was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame alongside Fernández. Personal life Zvereva was born as Natalya Marataŭna Zvereva in Minsk, Belarus to parents Marat Nikolayevich Zverev and Nina Grigoryevna Zvereva. She started tennis at the age of seven at the encouragement of her parents, who were both tennis instructors in the Soviet Union. While her name is sometimes spelled Zverava, in 1994 she of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa O'Neill (tennis)
Lisa O'Neill (born 8 August 1968 is a retired 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 player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player from Australia. ITF finals Singles (1–2) Doubles (3–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:ONeill, Lisa 1968 births Living people Australian female tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Billingham
Caroline Billingham-Jones (born 12 July 1967) is a British former professional tennis player. Biography Billingham is a daughter of Labour politician Angela Billingham, Baroness of Banbury. Educated at Banbury School, Billingham joined the international tennis circuit in the late 1980s. She competed regularly in Wimbledon qualifying during her career and made a main draw appearance in the women's doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships The 1987 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 101st edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from .... Her four ITF doubles titles included one $25,000 tournament, in Nigeria in 1991. As a singles player she reached a best ranking of 359 in the world and was the joint winner of the 1992 Scottish Championships. She is a former captain of the Oxfordshire women's county side, holding the positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisele Miró
Gisele Miró (born November 1, 1968) is a former tennis player from Brazil. Miró competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won two singles and one doubles titles in the ITF Women's Circuit, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ... on April 25, 1988, when she became the No. 99 of the world. ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (1–2) References External links * * 1968 births Sportspeople from Curitiba Living people Brazilian female tennis players Brazilian people of Spanish descent Olympic tennis players of Brazil Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Ga ... [...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] |
Elisabeth Ekblom
Elisabeth Ekblom (born 10 February 1958) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Biography Ekblom was a semifinalist at the 1976 Australian Open as a 17-year-old. She started her run with a straight sets win over second seed Kerry Reid, then defeated unseeded players Kathleen Harter and Christine Matison. In the semifinal, she was beaten by Czechoslovakia's Renáta Tomanová. In 1978, she made her Fed Cup debut for Sweden in a first round tie against France. She played other Fed Cup ties in 1981 against Denmark and Czechoslovakia. Her only title on the WTA Tour came in the doubles at Hamburg in 1982 with Lena Sandin Lena Sandin (born 8 June 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Biography Sandin won the girls' singles title at the 1979 French Open, with a win in the final over American Mary-Lou Piatek. She represented the Sweden Fed Cu .... WTA Tour finals Doubles (1-0) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekblom, Elisabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Karin Olsson
Anna-Karin Olsson (born 10 May 1967) is a Swedish former professional tennis and bandy player. Biography Olsson grew up in Värmland. As a tennis player, Olsson competed on the professional tour in the 1980s and had a best singles ranking of 248. She was most successful as a doubles player, reaching the final of the 1988 Spanish Open and featuring in the main draw of both the French Open and US Open that year. She played bandy as a forward and started her career at IF Boltic, where she remained until 1989. From 1989 from 2004 she played for AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ... and was a member of eight championship winning AIK teams, giving her a record 12 titles in total, having won four while at IF Boltic. She was the league's top shooter in 1998, 1999 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
