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1997 Wismilak International – Doubles
Alexandra Fusai and Kerry-Anne Guse were the defending champions but only Guse competed that year with Rika Hiraki. Guse and Hiraki won in the final 6–1, 7–6 against Maureen Drake and Renata Kolbovic. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Rachel McQuillan / Nana Miyagi ''(first round)'' # Kerry-Anne Guse / Rika Hiraki (champions) # Sung-Hee Park / Shi-Ting Wang ''(quarterfinals)'' # Henrieta Nagyová / Dominique Van Roost Dominique Monami (born 31 May 1973) is a former tennis player from Belgium. She is her country's first ever top-10 tennis professional. Monami was born in Verviers. In 1995, she married her coach Bart Van Roost, with whom she has a daughter, an ... ''(first round)'' Draw External links 1997 Wismilak International Doubles Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Doubles Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic 1997 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Fusai
Alexandra Fusai (born 22 November 1973) is a former professional tennis player from France. Fusai was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine. Starting from September 1989 when she turned professional, Fusai played four tournaments (all of them part of the ITF Women's Circuit) on the international tennis circuit in 1989. She played right-handed and lived in Nantes during her career. She retired from the professional tennis circuit in April 2003 when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. Fusai's highest WTA rankings were No. 37 and No. 6 respectively, both attained in 1998. Her career prize money earnings reached the one million USD-mark in 1999. Fusai won six singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached her only career WTA Tour singles final in Warsaw in 1995, losing to Barbara Paulus of Austria in three sets. She was a losing singles quarterfinalist on six occasions and a losing singles semifinalist on three occasions in WTA tournaments. Fusai neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika DeLone
Erika deLone (born October 14, 1972) is an American retired tennis player who turned professional in 1992. She reached one WTA Tour singles final in her career, finishing runner-up to Åsa Svensson at the Wismilak International in 1999. In April 2000, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 65. DeLone won one WTA Tour doubles title in her career, winning the 2000 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, partnering Australian Nicole Pratt. She reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 45 in December 2000. In 2003, she retired from professional tennis. Her sister Amy Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886– ... was a professional tennis player as well. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn ( th, แทมมารีน ธนสุกาญจน์, , ; born 24 May 1977) is a Thai former tennis player. Born in Los Angeles, she turned professional in 1994, and has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles. Tanasugarn's career-high WTA ranking is No. 19, achieved on 13 May 2002, which is the highest ranking ever achieved of a Thai female player. She won four singles and eight WTA doubles titles, and was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova, with whom she won two titles in 2003. Her career-high doubles ranking was 15, which she achieved on 13 September 2004. With Liezel Huber, she reached the 2004 US Open doubles quarterfinals, and at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, she reached the women's doubles semifinal with Marina Erakovic. Her biggest success came in 2008, when she reached the singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon. In her career, Tanasugarn has defeated former and current No. 1 players, including Amélie Mauresmo, Jennif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Barclay
Catherine Barclay (born 12 June 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Barclay's parents were the owners of a tennis facility in Sydney, and she began playing tennis at the age of eight. In her junior career, she was a winner of the Wimbledon girls' doubles. In her professional career, she won three ITF titles in singles and 30 in doubles. She was a quarterfinalist in the Wimbledon women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the 2002 season, she won two double titles on the WTA Tour. On 30 August 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal The Australian Sports Medal is an award given to recognise achievements in Australian sport to commemorate Australian participation in major sporting events. Original recipients of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, offi ... for her strong commitment to tennis. Catherine Barclay retired in 2004. In 2003, she married field hockey player Christopher Reitz of Germany, and they reside in Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marketa Kochta
Marketa Kochta (born 14 July 1975) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Early life and family Kochta was born in Prague, then part of Czechoslovakia, but later emigrated to Munich, where her father Jiří was a noted ice hockey coach. As a junior, she was coached by her father and in 1991 was a member of the German team that won the World Youth Cup (now Junior Fed Cup). Her elder sister Renata also played on the WTA Tour. Kochta is married to Czech former tennis player Jiří Vaněk Professional career As a 16-year old, Kochta made the third round of the 1992 Australian Open. In 1993, she made the semifinals of the Mazda Classic, a WTA Tour tournament in San Diego. Her 1994 season was the strongest of her career, culminating in a mid-year ranking of 45, which remained her highest. She was nominated for the WTA Most Impressive Newcomer Award. Highlights for the year included beating Tracy Austin and Katerina Maleeva to make the third round of the 1994 Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana Endo
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She was born on February 6, 1971, in Hiroshima and resides in Fukuyama, Hiroshima. She started playing tennis at age seven with her father and coach Hiroshi and played on the WTA Tour from 1991 until 1998. She graduated from the University of Tsukuba while on the tour in March 1993. Career highlights * Her career-high ranking was 26th worldwide in singles (1994), and 98th in doubles (1995) * She played 22 Grand Slam tournaments in singles with her best result being the round of 16 at the 1994 US Open. That tournament marked the first time two Japanese women reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam (Kimiko Date was the other player). * Her career record is 144–108. She won a singles title in Hobart in 1994, defeating Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Olsza
Aleksandra Olsza (; 8 December 1977) is a retired Polish tennis player. Her career highlights include winning of 1995 Wimbledon Championships in both girls' singles and doubles. At the 1996 US Open, Olsza defeated world No. 12, Magdalena Maleeva.IndependentTennis: Henman now to face Brazilian(27 August 1996) Achievements * At the 1995 Wimbledon Championships, Olsza won titles in both girls' singles and girls' doubles (with Cara Black). * At the 1996 US Open, Olsza defeated world No. 12 player Magdalena Maleeva in the first round. * Olsza represented Poland at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but lost in the first round. Equipment Olsza used the Prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ... racquet model Precision 720. WTA career finals Doubles: 3 (3 losses) ITF Circuit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenka Němečková
Lenka Němečková (born 20 April 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Němečková was born in Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic .... She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 72, achieved on 12 January 1998. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 85 achieved on 28 April 1997. Němečková has won one WTA doubles title, and four ITF singles titles and 16 ITF doubles titles. Němečková (married Janoušková) retired from professional tennis in 2006. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (4–9) Doubles (16–15) External links * * 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Brno Czech female tennis players {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999. Pitkowski won her only career WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens Valero in the final. She was also the runner-up at the WTA tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin. She has won a total of ten singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit but never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie, and saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans 4–6, 6–4, 6–1. Pitkowski married the French professional tennis player Olivier Malcor, who has served as a coach for Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January 1982) is a French professional tennis p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open. At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion Ana Ivanovic. She had a match point during the second set before losing 7–6, 6–7, 8–10. Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tournament organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. This tournament is part of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) category and has $80,000 in prize money. Grand Slam finals Women's doubles: 2 (2 titles) Mixed doubles: 1 (title) Grand Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Ellwood
Annabel Ellwood (born 2 February 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is the sister of former ATP Tour professional Ben Ellwood. Ellwood, a right-handed player, born in Canberra, competed at seven Australian Open tournaments from 1995 to 2001. At the 1998 Australian Open, she was beaten by Amanda Coetzer in the third round, her best singles result at a Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ... event. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (9–9) Doubles (14–5) References External links * * * Australian female tennis players Hopman Cup competitors Sportspeople from Canberra Tennis people from the Australian Capital Territory Living people 1978 births Sportswomen from the Australian Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhan Drake-Brockman
Siobhan Drake-Brockman (born 7 April 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She won the girls' singles title at the 1995 Australian Open. Biography Drake-Brockman, a right-handed player out of Bunbury, Western Australia, attended St Hilda's Anglican School in Perth and was a member of the Australian team which won the World Youth Cup in 1993. At the age of 16 she defeated world number 61 Rachel McQuillan to win a $25,000 ITF tournament in Port Pirie in 1994. She made her WTA Tour main draw debut in one of the opening tournaments of the 1995 season, the Tasmanian International, held in Hobart. At the 1995 Australian Open she was granted a wildcard into the women's singles and made the second round, with a win over Japanese qualifier Naoko Kijimuta. She then won the Australian Open girls' singles title, by beating World Youth Cup teammate Annabel Ellwood in the final. In 1996 she made the second round again at the Australian Open and competed that year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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