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1990 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards ''Wild Cards'' is a series of science fiction superhero shared universe anthologies, mosaic novels, and solo novels. They are written by a collection of more than forty authors (referred to as the "Wild Cards Trust") and are edited by George R. ... to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event. Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier References External links1990 French Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1990 French Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying French Open by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winning a qualifying stage. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. In Olympics, countries that fail to produce athlet ... [...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] |
Carin Bakkum
Carin Bakkum (born 25 July 1962) is a Dutch former 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. During her career, Bakkum won two ITF singles titles as well as one WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. She reached a singles ranking high of world number 141 on 27 March 1989 and on 22 June 1987 reached a doubles ranking high of world number 69. Career finals Doubles (1 title, 4 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles finals: (2–2) Doubles finals: (12–2) External links * * * 1962 births Living people People from Heemskerk Dutch female tennis players Sportspeople from North Holland 20th-century Dutch women 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Vis
Caroline Vis (born 4 March 1970 in Vlaardingen) is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles final at the 1991 French Open, playing with countryman Paul Haarhuis Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He won six Grand Sla .... Her career-high doubles ranking was No. 9 in the world, which she reached in August 1998. Vis retired in 2006. Grand Slam mixed doubles finals Runner-up (1) WTA Tour finals Doubles finals (9-17) ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (5-5) External links * * * 1970 births Living people Dutch female tennis players People from Vlaardingen Sportspeople from South Holland {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Gauvain
Florence Gauvain (born 25 March 1962) is a French former professional tennis player. Gauvain had a career high singles ranking of 297 and appeared three times in the qualifying draw for the French Open. On the WTA Tour, Gauvain made two main draw appearance at the Clarins Open in Paris. In 1988 she won her first round match (over Louise Field) and in 1989 she took the fifth seed Bettina Fulco to three sets in a first round loss. Both her husband Hervé Gauvain Hervé Gauvain (born 4 March 1955) is a French former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Châlon sur Saone, Gauvain featured on the professional tour in the 1970s and early 1980s. His best performance was a semi-final appear ... and daughter Sybille Gauvain have played professional tennis. ITF finals Singles: 1 (0–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauvain, Florence 1962 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Giusto
Sabrina Giusto (born 31 August 1971) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Giusto reached a best ranking of 171 in the world and twice featured in the qualifying draw for the French Open. She played 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 ... tennis for Brazil in 1991, featuring in three ties, with her only win coming against Paraguay's Larissa Schaerer. ITF finals Singles: 3 (2–1) Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Giusto, Sabrina 1971 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players 20th-century Brazilian women 21st-century Brazilian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ekstrand
Maria Ekstrand (born 2 March 1970) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. Ekstrand, who reached a best singles ranking of 149, claimed two $25,000 ITF titles during her career, in Benin City in 1988 and York, Pennsylvania in 1990. Most notably, Ekstrand won through to the second round of the 1991 Australian Open The 1991 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 79th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 14 through 27 January 1991. Seniors Men's s ..., where she was eliminated by fourth seed Gabriela Sabatini. ITF finals Singles: 5 (3–2) Doubles: 8 (1–7) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekstrand, Maria 1970 births Living people Swedish female tennis players 20th-century Swedish women 21st-century Swedish women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanne Spadea
Luanne Spadea-Nachmann (born December 28, 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Spadea, who grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, is the elder sister of tennis player Vince Spadea. Her mother Hilda is Colombian and she is of Italian descent on her father's side. While still a junior she began competing in WTA Tour main draws late in 1987, aged 14. In 1989, Spadea was the Orange Bowl (18 & Under) champion, her third Orange Bowl title, having earlier won the event in the 12s and 14s age divisions. She won her first ITF title in 1990 in Key Biscayne, an $25,000 event. On the WTA Tour, she achieved her biggest success as a doubles player, reaching a career-high doubles ranking of 98 in the world. She was a doubles finalist at São Paulo in 1990 partnering Mary Pierce and the following year made the singles quarter-finals of the same tournament. All of her grand slam main draw appearances were in women's doubles. After finishing up on tour in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Gregory
Lise Gregory (born 29 August 1963) is a South African former tennis player who played primarily doubles. She played left-handed. Her career-high doubles ranking in 1990 was no. 18. She reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and was one of the top eight teams participating in the year-end Virginia Slims Championships. She played in college for the University of Miami, earning seven NCAA All-American awards in both singles and doubles and the NCAA doubles championship in 1986 with long-time doubles partner Ronni Reis. After her playing career, she became a college coach, first assistant coach at Vanderbilt University, then head coach at Florida State University and the University of North Carolina at Asheville, earning numerous coaching awards. WTA Tour finals Doubles 13 (7–6) ITF finals Singles (1–2) Doubles: (7–1) External links * * Biography on the UNC Asheville siteUniversity of Miami women's tennis records South African female tenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Strnadová
Andrea Strnadová (born on 28 May 1972) is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic. She is married to Australian former tennis player Jason Stoltenberg. Strnadová was awarded the WTA Most Impressive Newcomer in 1991. WTA career finals Singles: 5 (5 runner-ups) Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (4–0) Doubles (2–2) References External links * * * Living people 1972 births Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Czech female tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Czechoslovak female tennis players Tennis players from Prague {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Ibrac
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Kirrily Sharpe
Kirrily Sharpe (born 25 February 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Sharpe, a left-handed player from Sydney, trained with the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She was a member of the Australian team which won the 1988 World Youth Cup, now known as the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup, Junior Fed Cup. While still only 17, she competed in the main draw of the 1990 French Open as a qualifier and scored an upset win over 14th seed Raffaella Reggi, en route to the third round. She also competed in junior Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam events that year and made three finals. At the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, she was runner-up to Andrea Strnadová in the girls' singles, and was also a losing finalist in the girls' doubles, partnering Nicole Pratt. She won the girls' doubles title at the 1990 US Open (tennis), 1990 US Open with Kristin Godridge. The same pair won a WTA Tour doubles title at the 1990 Open Clarins in Paris. A knee inj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |