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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Five-time defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Steffi Graf in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships. It was her eighth The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon singles title and 16th Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title overall. Seeds Martina Navratilova (champion) Steffi Graf ''(final)'' Chris Evert ''(semifinals)'' Helena Suková ''(quarterfinals)'' Pam Shriver ''(semifinals)'' Gabriela Sabatini ''(quarterfinals)'' Manuela Maleeva, Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière ''(second round)'' Claudia Kohde-Kilsch ''(quarterfinals)'' Bettina Bunge ''(third round)'' Lori McNeil ''(second round)'' Catarina Lindqvist ''(fourth round)'' Wendy Turnbull ''(second round)'' Barbara Potter ''(second round)'' Katerina Maleeva ''(first round)'' Raffaella Reggi ''(fourth round)'' Sylvia Hanika ''(fourth round)'' Hana Mandlíková was originally seeded #4 but withdrew due to injury bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova ( cs, Martina Navrátilová ; ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech–American, former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, the most in the Open Era. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Navratilova was ranked as the world No. 1 in singles for a total of 332 weeks (second only to Steffi Graf), and for a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both disciplines for over 200 weeks. She won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles, both the Open Era records. She won a record six consecutive singles majors across 1983 and 1984 while simultaneously winning the Grand Slam in doubles. Navratilova claims the best professional season w ... [...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] |
Julie Salmon
Julie Salmon (born 8 July 1965) is a British former international tennis player. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times, from 1988 to 1993. at fedcup.com She was the last British survivor in singles competition at Wimbledon 1988, reaching the third round. References External links Julie Salmon at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Karlsson
Carina Karlsson (born 11 September 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Biography Karlsson is most noted for being the first qualifier to reach the ladies quarterfinals of Wimbledon, which she achieved at the 1984 Wimbledon Championships. She began the main draw with wins over Anne White and Christiane Jolissaint, then defeated former Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade in the third round, 11–9 in the deciding set. In the fourth round she upset 15th seed Andrea Temesvári to set up a quarterfinal against Chris Evert-Lloyd, which Evert won in straight sets. Her Wimbledon run took her ranking to 59 in the world, and she peaked at 42 the following year. She was a losing finalist to Katerina Maleeva at the 1985 Hewlett-Packard Trophy in Hilversum. Her performances began to experience a slump, attributed in part to eye problems, and in 1987, she started competing wearing eyeglasses. She made the round of 16 at the 1987 French Open, but retired from professional ten ... [...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] |
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] |
Peanut Louie Harper
Mareen "Peanut" Louie-Harper (born August 15, 1960) is a retired American tennis player, born in San Francisco, California to Ron and Alice Louie. She was a top-ranked junior tennis player and professional tennis player on the WTA tour. She reached a career high singles ranking of 19 in the world in 1985 and doubles ranking of 31 in the world in 1992. She is currently the co-founder and program director of Harper for Kids, a youth character development program. Professional tennis career During her career, she won 14 USTA National Junior titles and was the #1 ranked 16-and-under (1976) and 12-and-under tennis player (1972) in the United States. Peanut was the Junior Wimbledon finalist in 1977 and a semifinalist in 1978. She was also the #1 ranked junior in NorCal in all age divisions (10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 & unders). After a successful junior career, she turned pro in 1978. In her 16-year career, she won four singles titles and reached a career high ranking of No. 19 in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halle Cioffi
Halle Cioffi (born 5 August 1969 ) is a retired professional tennis player from the United States. She is also known as Halle Carroll. She has two kids named Christopher and Ellie Rae. Tennis Singles Halle Cioffi won her only WTA singles title in 1987 at Virginia Slims of Indianapolis after defeating Anne Smith in the final match 4–6, 6–4, 7–6. Doubles Halle Cioffi's only WTA doubles title was in 1992 with Argentinian María José Gaidano winning Internazionali Femminili di Palermo after beating Petra Langrová Petra Píchalová Langrová (born 27 June 1970) is a retired tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Czech Republic. Langrová gained professional status in 1986. She won one singles title and five double titles in her career on the WTA Tour ... and Ana Segura in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–3. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cioffi, Halle 1969 births Living people American female tennis players 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gould
Lisa Green (née Gould; born 27 May 1967) is a British former professional tennis player. Raised in Billericay, Essex, Gould competed on the professional tour in the 1980s and reached a career high singles ranking of 237 in the world. Most notably she won her first round match at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, over Cammy MacGregor. She faced Peanut Louie Harper in the second round, with the winner to play top seed Martina Navratilova, but she fell in straight sets. Gould married South African tennis player Warren Green Warren Everett Green (March 10, 1869 – April 27, 1945) was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of South Dakota. Green, a Republican from Hazel, South Dakota, served from 1931 to 1933. He was also a state senator from 191 ... and later relocated to Sydney, via South Africa. Their son, Chris Green, is a professional cricketer. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Lisa 1967 births Living people British female t ... [...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] |
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 collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ... (Seoul, South Korea). In 1982, she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games. WTA Tour finals Singles (2–0) References External links * * * 1964 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Japan Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1982 Asian G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Gompert
Kate Gompert (born January 11, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Gompert had a career record of 77–78. She had a career high singles ranking of world no. 18 in July 1987. Her biggest career win occurred in 1987 at the Virginia Slims of Florida when she defeated the defending champion and first-seeded Chris Evert in three sets. Her best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round of the 1985 US Open where she lost to sixth-seeded Zina Garrison. She did not compete in 1988 due to mononucleosis Author and tennis enthusiast David Foster Wallace used Gompert's name for an otherwise unrelated character in his novel Infinite Jest ''Infinite Jest'' is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, ''Infinite Jest'' is featured in ''TIME'' magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. .... WTA Tour finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
