1998 Family Circle Cup – Singles
Amanda Coetzer defeated Irina Spîrlea in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 1998 Family Circle Cup. Martina Hingis was the reigning champion, but did not compete that year. 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. # Lindsay Davenport ''(quarterfinals)'' # Jana Novotná ''(third round)'' # Monica Seles ''(semifinals)'' # Amanda Coetzer (champion) # Mary Pierce ''(second round)'' # Iva Majoli ''(second round)'' # Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario ''(second round)'' # Conchita Martínez ''(second round)'' # Irina Spîrlea ''(final)'' # Nathalie Tauziat ''(second round)'' # Sandrine Testud ''(first round)'' # Anke Huber ''(third round)'' # Ai Sugiyama ''(first round)'' # Patty Schnyder ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lisa Raymond ''(semifinals)'' # Natasha Zvereva ''(third round)'' Draw Finals Top half ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971, in Hoopstad) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam semifinals (Australian Open 1996 and 1997, French Open 1997) and one Grand Slam doubles final ( US Open 1993). Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin". Personal life Coetzer was born in Hoopstad, South Africa, to Nico and Suska Coetzer. She started playing tennis at the age of six. During her career, she resided primarily in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was coached by Gavin Hopper, later by Lori McNeil. She is married to the Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan. They have two children, Shimon (born 2009) and Olivia (born 2011). Career Coetzer's breakthr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973) is an American retired professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in Doubles (tennis), doubles tennis. Raymond has eleven Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles to her name: six in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. On June 12, 2000, she reached the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 ranking in doubles for the first time, becoming the 13th player to reach the milestone. Raymond was ranked No. 1 on five separate occasions in her career over a combined total of 137 weeks (the fourth-highest mark of all time) and finished as the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2001 and 2006. She currently holds the record of most doubles match wins (860) and most doubles matches played (1,206) in WTA history, and earned more than $10 million in prize money in her career. She is one of the few players to win a 'Career Grand Slam (tennis)#Women's doubles 2, Grand Slam' in doubles, which she accomplished af ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus (born 1 September 1970) is a former professional top-ten tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career, she won a total of seven WTA tournaments (six singles titles, one doubles title). Paulus competed for the Austria Fed Cup team on 21 occasions in singles and doubles, winning nine of her 22 matches. Career Paulus is one of the most successful Austrian female tennis players, being one of only two to be ranked in the top 10 (along with Barbara Schett), despite having a career plagued with injuries. She won six singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. Her best results include victories over Chris Evert, Mary Pierce, Gabriela Sabatini, Conchita Martínez, and Jana Novotná. After reaching as high as No. 12 in the world in 1990, she sustained injuries to her knee and both wrists which required her to have surgery and kept her sidelined for many months through 1992 and 1993. Her comeback from i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sandra Cacic
Sandra Cacic (born September 10, 1974) is a retired American tennis player. She is of Croatian American descent and her Croatian surname is . Her highest WTA singles ranking is 39th, which she achieved on May 9, 1994. Her career-high in doubles was world No. 87, reached in February 1999. In April 1998, she won the Amelia Island doubles tournament, partnering Mary Pierce. In singles, she won the Auckland Open in January 1996. While playing, Cacic kept a residence in Bradenton, Florida Bradenton ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Manatee County, Florida, Manatee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city's population is 55,698. History Late 18th and early 19th centuries .... WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (8–4) Doubles: 12 (4–8) External links * * American female tennis players Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida Sportspeople from Jol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Magdalena Grzybowska
Magdalena Grzybowska (born 22 November 1978) is a former Polish tennis player. Grzybowska, born in Poznań, won the juniors singles competition at one Grand Slam tournament, the 1996 Australian Open. She also competed for Poland in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where she lost in the first round. Since then, until her knee injury in 1998, she managed a rather successful career, culminating in the 30th position in the cumulative WTA rankings for that year, the highest ever standing for a Polish woman, until Agnieszka Radwańska. Her attempts to resume competition were ultimately unsuccessful and she retired in 2002, at the age of 24. Playing for Poland Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 8–10. After having retired from tennis, she completed her university studies in Paris, and is working as a tennis TV commentator for Eurosport in Warsaw, Poland. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (4–2) Doubles: 4 (3–1) Head-to-head record * Venus Williams 1–0 * Arantxa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Florencia Labat
María Florencia Labat (born 12 June 1971) is an Argentinian former professional female tennis player. She joined the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ... in 1988 and retired in 2000. On 12 September 1994, Labat reached a career-high singles ranking of number 26 in the world. WTA Tour finals Singles 4 (0–4) Doubles 17 (7–10) ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (4–2) External links * * * 1971 births Living people Argentine female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Argentina People from Pergamino Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Pan American ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wiltrud Probst
Wiltrud Probst (born 29 May 1969, in Nuremberg) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She was ranked World No. 31 on 4 February 1991. Probst won in singles two individual titles on the WTA Tour . In 1990 she won the tournament in the New Zealand capital Wellington by a final victory over Leila Meskhi . In 1992 she won the Waregem against her compatriot Meike Babel in the final. Her most successful Grand Slam tournament she played in 1990, when she reached the knockout stages at the French Open , in which she defeated the No. 10 in the world rankings , the Spanish 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 .... Probst retired from tennis 1999. WTA Tour finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (0–7) ITF finals Singles (0–5) Doubles (1–4) Exter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Meike Babel
Meike Babel (born 22 November 1974) is a former tennis player from Germany. She was women's tennis assistant coach at Tulane University and at Vanderbilt University. In her ten years on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ..., she ranked 27 in singles and 45 in doubles. WTA career finals Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (2–1) Doubles (2–3) References External links * * * * German female tennis players 1974 births Living people People from Offenbach (district) Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) Tennis people from Hesse {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ruxandra Dragomir
Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 1997, when she became the No. 15 of the world. Between 2009 and 2013 she was the president of Romanian Tennis Federation. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1997 French Open, defeating Sonya Jeyaseelan, Yayuk Basuki, Karina Habšudová and Nicole Arendt before losing to the eventual champion, Iva Majoli. Dragomir retired from professional tennis in 2005. WTA career finals Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (8–6) Grand Slam singles performance timeline Head-to-head records * Serena Williams 0-1 * Venus Williams 0-3 * Martina Hingis 0-4 * Lindsay Davenport 0-7 * Anna Kournikova 2-1 * Domi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yayuk Basuki
Yayuk Basuki (born 30 November 1970) is an Indonesian former professional tennis player who is now a politician. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached No. 19 in singles in the WTA rankings in October 1997. She retired from playing singles in 2000, but remained an active doubles player on the circuit until 2013. She sat in the Indonesian House of Representatives between 2014 and 2019. In January 2018, she was elected Chair of the Indonesian Olympian Association (IOA) for a four-year term. She unsuccessfully ran for re-election in 2019. Sporting career She began playing tennis at the age of seven and turned professional in 1990. In 1991, she became the first Indonesian player to win a major professional tennis event when she captured the singles titles at Pattaya. She won six WTA Tour singles titles during her career (all of them in Asia). Her best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1997, where she reached the qu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Naoko Sawamatsu
is a former professional tennis player. In her career, she won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Sawamatsu reached a career-high ranking of world No. 14, on 6 February 1995. At the time of the 1995 Australian Open, her family survived the Great Hanshin earthquake, and Sawamatsu went on to achieve her best Grand Slam result at Melbourne Park, reaching the quarterfinals by defeating compatriot Ai Sugiyama, Laurence Courtois, Kimiko Date in the third round, Mary Joe Fernandez in the fourth round before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Her most significant title came in 1993 at Strasbourg, when she defeated clay-courter Judith Wiesner in the final. Sawamatsu had much success at Strasbourg reaching the semifinals in 1991, final in 1992 losing to Judith Wiesner. She retired from professional tennis after losing in the second round of the 1998 Japan Open to Monica Seles in a three-set match. Sawamatsu had wins over the following players during her career: Martina Hingis, Lindsay ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |