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1987 WTA Argentine Open – Doubles ...
Lori McNeil and Mercedes Paz were the defending champions but only Paz competed that year with Gabriela Sabatini. Paz and Sabatini won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Jill Hetherington and Christiane Jolissaint. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes into the second round. Draw Final Top half Bottom half External links 1987 WTA Argentine Open Doubles Draw WTA Argentine Open 1988 WTA Tour ATP ATP may refer to: Companies and organizations * Association of Tennis Professionals, men's professional tennis governing body * American Technical Publishers, employee-owned publishing company * ', a Danish pension * Armenia Tree Project, non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori McNeil
Lori McNeil (born December 18, 1963) is an American tennis coach and former top 10 professional tennis player. McNeil was a singles semifinalist at the US Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1994, a women's doubles finalist at the Australian Open in 1987 with Zina Garrison and French Open mixed-doubles winner in 1988 with Jorge Lozano. Personal McNeil was born the youngest of four siblings to mother Dorothy and father Charlie McNeil, who played professional football with the San Diego Chargers during the 1960s. Moving from San Diego to Houston, McNeil developed her tennis skills at MacGregor Park playground, a public facility in the Third Ward district. It was there she became close childhood friends with fellow future professional tennis player, Zina Garrison. Career Lori McNeil attended Oklahoma State University for two years and played tennis for the Cowgirls, reaching the 1983 NCAA quarterfinals (losing to eventual champion Beth Herr from USC). McNeil played on the WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Fulco
Bettina Fulco (born 23 October 1968) is a retired professional women's tennis player from Argentina. She reached her highest ranking of world No. 23 on 10 October 1988. Fulco began playing tennis at age ten, at the university club in her hometown of Mar del Plata, having been inspired to start because of the increased interest in the sport in Argentina due to Guillermo Vilas' success. As a junior, Bettina was among the best in the world, reaching the finals of the Orange Bowl 18-and-under championships in 1986, and finishing second in the junior rankings in 1986. She turned professional in 1987. Like many South American players, Bettina Fulco was considered a clay-court specialist, and reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1988. Bettina beat Martina Navratilova in Houston 1994 for her biggest career victory. She also achieved victories over Conchita Martínez, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Hana Mandlíková, Katerina Maleeva, Manuela Maleeva, Magdalena Maleeva, Claudia Kohde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Jones
Cheryl Jones (born May 3, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Jones played college tennis for the USC Trojans in 1983 and 1984, then joined the professional tour. As a doubles player she reached a best world ranking of 91 and won one WTA Tour title, the 1987 Brasil Open, partnering Katrina Adams Katrina M. Adams (born August 5, 1968) is an American tennis executive and former professional tennis player from Chicago. She was president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and chair of the US Open (tennis), US Open, as well as t .... In 1988 she featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. From 1989 to 1995, Jones was the women's tennis head coach of the USC Trojans. She is the first African-American woman to have coached an NCAA Division I tennis team. WTA Tour finals Doubles (1–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Cheryl 1964 births Living people American female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Adams
Katrina M. Adams (born August 5, 1968) is an American tennis executive and former professional tennis player from Chicago. She was president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and chair of the US Open (tennis), US Open, as well as the chair of the International Tennis Federation Fed Cup and Gender Equality in Tennis committees. As a player, Adams was a doubles specialist, reaching the quarterfinal stage or better at all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slams as well as achieving a career-high doubles ranking of no. 8 (August 1989). Her book, ''Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One'' was published in 2021. Early life Adams joined a tennis program on Chicago's West Side, Chicago, West Side when she was six years old. She attended Whitney Young Magnet High School, Whitney Young High School, becoming Illinois High School Association the first Chicago Public School and first African American singles champion in 1983 and 1984. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Oberleitner
Karin Oberleitner (born 14 March 1968) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Oberleitner represented Austria in a 1985 Federation Cup tie against the USSR in Nagoya, where she featured in a dead rubber doubles match with Barbara Pollet, losing to Svetlana Cherneva and Larisa Savchenko. She competed on the international circuit through the late 1980s and reached a career best singles ranking of 290 in the world. Her husband is former ATP Tour player Alex Antonitsch and their daughter Mira has played Fed Cup for Austria. The couple also have a son Sam who is a professional ice hockey player. ITF finals Singles: 2 (0–2) Doubles: 2 (1–1) See also *List of Austria Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Austria Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. Austria have taken part in the competition since 1963. Players References External linksÖsterreichischer Tennisverband {{DEFAULTSOR ... References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Diesner
Bettina Diesner (born 8 February 1970) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Diesner competed on the international tour in the 1980s and achieved a career high singles ranking of 272 in the world. Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a second round appearance at the 1989 Brighton Championships. ITF finals Doubles: 5 (2–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diesner, Bettina 1970 births Living people Austrian female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natacha Marcucci
Natacha Marcucci (born 26 September 1970) is an Argentine former professional tennis player.Tennis databases list her given name as Natasha but the correct spelling of her name is Natacha, according news sources. Marcucci, a native of San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to: Places Argentina * San Juan Province, Argentina * San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province * San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province * San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ..., was ranked as high as nine in the world on the junior circuit. While competing on the professional tour she had a career high singles ranking of 234 and won an ITF tournament in Rio de Janeiro in 1986. Her best performances on the WTA Tour were second round appearances at the 1987 Argentine Open and the 1988 Brasil Open. ITF finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcucci, Natacha 1970 births Living people Argentine female tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Der Kinderen
Yvonne der Kinderen (born 26 October 1965) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Der Kinderen had a career high singles ranking of 208 in the world and a best doubles ranking of 183. Her best singles performance on the WTA Tour came at the 1987 Argentine Open, where she won main draw matches against Gisele Faria and Karmen Skulj, then took a set off second seed 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 ha ... in a third round loss. Her daughter Merel Hoedt is a tennis player and competes on the professional tour. ITF finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 3 (2–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinderen, Yvonne der 1965 births Living people Dutch female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Strohmeier
Karim Strohmeier-Merino (born 1 November 1969) is a Peruvian former professional tennis player. A right-handed player, Strohmeier featured in three 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 Peru in 1987, against Brazil, Malta and Norway. She won two ITF singles titles during her career and featured in the qualifying draw for the 1989 US Open. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (2–0) Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Strohmeier, Karim 1969 births Living people Peruvian female tennis players South American Games medalists in tennis South American Games silver medalists for Peru South American Games bronze medalists for Peru Competitors at the 1990 South American Games 20th-century Peruvian women 21st-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisele Faria
Gisele Faria (born 16 August 1968) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Faria, who grew up in Santos, competed on the professional tour in the 1980s. She made her only Grand Slam main-draw appearance at the 1988 French Open, partnering Luciana Corsato Luciana Corsato-Owsianka (born 21 January 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Corsato began competing on the professional tour in 1984. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament was a second round appearanc ... in the women's doubles. ITF finals Singles: 0–1 Doubles: 4–0 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faria, Gisele 1968 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players Sportspeople from Santos, São Paulo 21st-century Brazilian women 20th-century Brazilian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Christian (tennis)
Carol Pat Christian (born 1962) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Christian grew up in San Bernardino, California and while at Pacific High School won back to back Southern Section doubles titles, with Pat Shellhammer. Collegiate tennis In 1980 and 1981, Christian played collegiate women's tennis at Cal State Fullerton for Titans Head Coach Jan Billings. Professional tennis As a professional player she reached a best singles ranking of 111 in the world. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament was a third round appearance at the 1988 Australian Open File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicentenni .... Christian had a WTA professional record of 45 wins and 47 losses during her career. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Christian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Bartlett
Lindsay Bartlett-Montero (born July 31, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Bartlett, who grew up in California, played college tennis at the University of Oregon from 1981 to 1984 and amassed a 59-11 singles record. As a professional player she reached a best singles ranking of 175 in the world. At the 1988 Australian Open she made the main draw as a qualifier and won through to the second round with a win over Kim Steinmetz Kim Steinmetz (born December 22, 1957) is an American former professional Women's Tennis Association (WTA) player. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She retired from professional tennis in 1989. Career highlights Steinmetz compet .... She was ranked as high as 91 in doubles, with her best performance on the WTA Tour a runner-up finish at the 1988 Cincinnati Open. Her younger sister Shelly also played on the professional tour. WTA Tour finals Doubles (0–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |