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1987 WTA Argentine Open – Singles
Gabriela Sabatini was the defending champion and won in the final 6–0, 6–2 against Isabel Cueto. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round. # Gabriela Sabatini (champion) # Isabel Cueto ''(final)'' # Bettina Fulco ''(semifinals)'' # Patricia Tarabini ''(quarterfinals)'' # Christiane Jolissaint ''(second round)'' # Laura Garrone ''(quarterfinals)'' # Mercedes Paz ''(quarterfinals)'' # Barbara Paulus ''(semifinals)'' # Vicki Nelson-Dunbar ''(third round)'' # Adriana Villagrán ''(first round)'' # Gisele Miró ''(quarterfinals)'' # Pilar Vásquez ''(second round)'' # Katrina Adams ''(first round)'' # Lea Antonoplis ''(second round)'' # n/a # n/a Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 External links 1987 WTA Argentine Open Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:WTA Argentine Open - Singles,1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine-Italian former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles. In singles, Sabatini won the 1990 US Open, the Tour Finals in 1988 and 1994, and was runner-up at Wimbledon 1991, the 1988 US Open, and the silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics. In doubles, Sabatini won Wimbledon in 1988 partnering Steffi Graf, and reached three French Open finals. Among Open era players who did not reach the world No. 1 ranking, Sabatini has the most wins over reigning world No. 1 ranked players. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2018 ''Tennis'' Magazine ranked her as the 20th-greatest female player of the preceding 50 years. Childhood and junior career Sabatini was born 16 May 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Osvaldo and Beatriz Garofalo Sabatini. Her father was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Cohen
Céline Meinecke-Cohen (born 5 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. Biography Tennis career Cohen, who grew up in Cartigny near Geneva, represented Switzerland in 11 Federation Cup ties, the first in 1986. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament came at the 1988 Australian Open, where she made it to the round of 16. After beating Jill Hetherington to start her run, she won two close matches, over Catherine Suire 11–9 in the final set and then Lea Antonoplis 9–7 in the decider. She lost in the round of 16 to third seed Chris Evert. She reached her career high singles ranking of 114 in the world in 1988. The following year she had a win over world number 17 Lori McNeil at the 1989 European Open The 1989 European Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Drizia-Miremont Tennis Club in Geneva, Switzerland that was part of the Category 2 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 22 May unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Pennington
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Carin Bakkum
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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 appearance at the 1988 French Open, which she competed in as a lucky loser from qualifying. In 1989 she was a doubles finalist at the WTA Tour event in Guaruja and made the quarter-finals of the singles at Taranto. She had her best WTA Tour result in singles at São Paulo in 1990, when she made it through to the semi-finals, in a run which included a win over top seed Eva Švíglerová. As a member of Brazil's Fed Cup team she featured in a total of seven ties. In a World Group play off tie against Argentina in 1991 she won her only singles match, over Patricia Tarabini Patricia Tarabini (born 6 August 1968) is a former tennis player from Argentina. She represented her country and won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Schilder
Simone Schilder (born 7 April 1967) is a former Dutch tennis player. She won a total of two singles and eight doubles ITF titles in her career. On 4 July 1988, she reached a singles ranking high of world No. 164. On 14 August 1989, she peaked at No. 71 in the doubles rankings. At the age of 17, Schilder became the 1984 French Open girls' doubles champion and represented the Netherlands at the 1984 Summer Olympics. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (8–9) See also * List of French Open champions The following is a list of French Open champions in tennis: Champions † Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. A French club members only tournament. †† Disputed champions: Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. Not sanctioned or recogn ... External links * * * 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Beverwijk Dutch female tennis players French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciana Tella
Luciana Camargo Tella (born 31 December 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Born in Campinas, Tella first appeared on the WTA Tour in the 1986 season and went on to reach a top ranking 154 in the world in singles. At the 1988 French Open, she competed in the main draw of both the women's doubles and mixed doubles events. She featured in a total of 19 Fed Cup ties for Brazil, which included World Group fixtures against Czechoslovakia in 1988 and Canada in 1989. Her representative career included appearing at the 1995 Pan American Games File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ... in Mar del Plata, where she partnered with Andrea Vieira to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles. Since 1998, she has run the Tella Tennis Academy in Campinas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Reinstadler
Beate Reinstadler (born 20 May 1967) is a former professional Austrian tennis player. Career Reinstadler played on the WTA Tour between 1986 and 1997. During that time she won two ITF titles, one in Ashkelon and one in Flensburg. Despite no standout performance in Grand Slam events, Reinstadler did reach the third round at the Australian Open in 1994 and at the French Open in 1995. Reinstadler reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 60 on 20 June 1994. Her highest doubles ranking was No. 147, achieved on 6 February 1995. During her career she defeated many top ten players, including No. 3 Helena Suková and No. 7 Lisa Raymond at Stratton Mountain in 1993. Reinstadler played for Austria in the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... on four occasions. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherri Norris
Sheri Norris (born February 2, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Topeka, Kansas, Norris was a three-time All-American at Arizona State and an NCAA semi-finalist as a senior in 1986. Following her graduation, Norris spent the remainder of the 1980s competing on the professional tour. Most notably, she qualified for the singles main draw of the 1988 Australian Open and also played mixed doubles at Wimbledon. Norris now lives in Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co .... ITF finals Singles: 2 (0–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Norris, Sheri 1964 births Living people American female tennis players Arizona State Sun Devils women's tennis players Tennis players from Kansas Sportspeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Düll
Katharina Düll (born 9 April 1973) is a German former professional tennis player. Düll was a member of West Germany's World Youth Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when ... (Junior Fed Cup) winning team in 1989. On the professional tour, she reached a career high singles ranking of 225 in the world. She made the second round of the 1987 Argentine Open in Buenos Aires and 1989 Citizen Cup in Hamburg. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dull, Katharina 1973 births Living people West German female tennis players German female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanne Spadea
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Pascale Etchemendy
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