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1991 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for women's singles at the 1991 Australian Open. Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier External links 1991 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1991 Australian Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying Australian Open (tennis) by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 singles Boris Becker defeated Ivan Lendl 1–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 * It was Becker's 5th career Grand Slam title and his 1st Australian Open title. He became the first male German player to win an Australian Open singles title. Women's singles Monica Seles defeated Jana Novotná 5–7, 6–3, 6–1 * It was Seles's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title. She became the only Yugoslav player – male or female – to win a Grand Slam singles title. Men's doubles Scott Davis / David Pate defeated Patrick McEnroe / David Wheaton 6–7(4–7), 7–6(10–8), 6–3, 7–5 * It was Davis' only career Grand Slam title. It was Pate's only career Grand Slam title. Women's doubles Patty Fendick / Mary Joe Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen
Ginger Helgeson (born September 14, 1968) is a former American professional tennis player, who is considered to be perhaps the greatest player ever to come out of Minnesota. She reached her highest singles ranking on January 2, 1995, when she became the No. 29 in the world. In doubles, she reached No. 38 in the same year, on January 9. Tennis career Helgeson-Nielsen was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, before moving to Edina after seventh grade. She was coached by her brother, Brace, throughout juniors and high school. She attended Edina High School and became a three-time consecutive Minnesota state singles champion, and was ranked No. 1 by the USTA Northern at all levels. Helgeson-Nielsen then received a scholarship to attend Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Whilst there, she was a four-year letter winner and a three-time All American, and holds the all-time best career winning percentage. She played professionally from 1987, spending her first few years on the ITF Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Maniokova
Eugenia Aleksandrovna Maniokova ( rus, Евгения Александровна Манюкова, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪə mənʲʊˈkovə ; born 17 May 1968) is a retired professional tennis player from Russia. She is a former world No. 18 in doubles. Biography Maniokova is best known for winning the mixed doubles event at the 1993 French Open partnering Andrei Olhovskiy. In her career, she won four titles in women's doubles on the WTA Tour, and three titles in singles and 24 in women's doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Maniokova represented Commonwealth of Independent States at both the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1992 Federation Cup The 1992 Federation Cup was the 30th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. For the first time, qualifying rounds were split among three regional zones, each sending teams to the main World Group tour ..., due to the separation of the Soviet Union. Maniokova retired after playing at the 1996 French Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Limmer
Joanne Limmer (born 29 March 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Limmer, a right-handed player from Melbourne, began playing tennis at the age of six and had a successful career in junior tennis. Most notably, she won the girls' singles title at the 1992 Australian Open, where she beat Lindsay Davenport in the final. This came after she had competed in the senior main draw that year and reached the second round, by beating world No. 38, Emanuela Zardo. As a professional player, she had a best ranking of 141 in the world, which she attained in 1993. Her best win on the WTA Tour came against Rosalyn Fairbank Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer (born 2 November 1960) is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance in 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 an ..., the ninth seed at the 1993 edition of the Brisbane Hardcourt Championships. In doubles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Scott
Alison Scott (born 8 February 1968) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Biography Scott grew up in Canberra and developed her tennis at the Australian Institute of Sport on a scholarship, before going on to compete on the WTA Tour. She was a girls' doubles finalist at the 1985 Australian Open. As a professional player she reached the top 100 in doubles, peaking at 93 in the world in 1988. She featured in the doubles main draws of all four grand slam tournaments, with her best performance a quarter-final appearance at the 1988 Australian Open, partnering Maria Lindström Maria Lindström (born 7 March 1963) is a Swedish former tennis player. She won two doubles WTA titles as well as a further ten doubles ITF tournaments during her career. On 15 February 1988, Lindström reached a singles ranking high of world n .... ITF finals Doubles: 10 (2–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Alison 1968 births Living people Australian femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Thompson
Clare Thompson (born 10 June 1963) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Thompson spent the early years of her career in the United States, playing college tennis for the United States International University, which was based in San Diego. Her professional career included an appearance at the 1988 Australian Open, where she received a wildcard into the main draw and played Janine Tremelling in the first round, with the winner to face top seed Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, .... Thompson was beaten by Tremelling in three sets. ITF finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 5 (1–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Clare 1963 births Living people Australian female tennis players United States International Gull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Kunce
Kristine Kunce (née Radford; born 3 March 1970), is a former professional tennis player from Australia who competed during the mid-1980s through the 1990s. Kunce reached a career-high ranking of world No. 45 on 15 August 1994, and a career high in doubles of 25 on 19 September 1994. She won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. Her best performance at a Grand Slam was at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships, where she was knocked out in the fourth round by eventual champion Conchita Martínez "Conchita" Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in 1994. Martínez also was the runner-up at the 1998 Australi .... WTA finals Doubles: 13 (6 titles, 7 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (6–6) Doubles (15–16) References External links * * * 1970 births Australian female tennis players Hopman Cup competitors Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Mawdsley
Robyn Mawdsley (born 3 May 1971) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Biography Mawdsley competed on the professional tour in the 1990s, after playing college tennis in the United States for Texas A&M. In her career, Mawdsley reached a best singles ranking of No. 366 in the world. She was more successful on tour as a doubles player. Ranked as high as 182 for doubles, she twice featured in the main draw of the Australian Open, in 1991 and 1994. She won a total of six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental ..., four of which came in 1995. ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (6–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mawdsley, Robyn 1971 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Keller
Lisa Keller (born 15 July 1969) is an Australian former professional tennis player. While competing on the professional tour she reached a career high singles ranking of 468. In doubles she peaked at 280 in the world and won an ITF doubles title at Setúbal Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the ti ..., Portugal in 1989. Keller featured in the women's doubles main draw at the 1991 Australian Open, as a wildcard pairing with Robyn Mawdsley. They were beaten in the first round by Cathy Caverzasio and Sandra Wasserman. ITF finals Doubles: 4 (1–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Keller, Lisa 1969 births Living people Australian female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Lindström
Maria Lindström (born 7 March 1963) is a Swedish former tennis player. She won two doubles WTA titles as well as a further ten doubles ITF tournaments during her career. On 15 February 1988, Lindström reached a singles ranking high of world number 87 and on 23 October 1995 ranked world number 44 in doubles. Lindström appeared 22 times for the Sweden Fed Cup team and represented her country in women's doubles with Catarina Lindqvist at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... WTA Tour finals Doubles 4 (2-2) ITF finals Singles: (1-1) Doubles: (13-4) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindstrom, Maria 1963 births Living people Swedish female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Sweden Tennis players at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alysia May
Alysia May (born January 31, 1971) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography May, who grew up in California, is the daughter of the late David May II, who was an heir to the May Department Stores Co retail giant. The company, acquired by Macy's in 2005, was founded by Alysia's great grandfather, German born businessman David May. Her maternal step-grandfather was Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy. She is a younger sister of tennis player Kathy May and has another sister Anita, as well as four half-sisters and two adopted brothers. She is also the aunt of ATP pro Taylor Fritz. After attending Westlake High School in Los Angeles, May was recruited by the UCLA Bruins to play collegiate tennis, then in 1990 turned professional. In the early 1990s she competed on the professional tour, most prominently as a doubles player, reaching a top ranking of 58 in the world. She featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at all four grand slam tournaments and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elly Hakami
Elly Hakami (born August 25, 1969) is a former professional tennis player from the U.S. She played from the mid-1980s until 1997. Hakami is from Tiburon, California. She was ranked world No. 32 in 1988. After beating Hakami in 1987, 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 maj ... said of Hakami: "She's a very good player. She seems to be very bright and she's a lot better all-court player than I thought she would be. I thought she served well and she comes out tough." Family Hakami is married to Polo Cowan, a tennis pro at the Tiburon Peninsula Club. They have two children, Sonya and Polo, and live in Tiburon, California. References American female tennis players Tennis players from California Living people 1969 births People from Tiburon, Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |