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1974 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1974 Federation Cup was the 12th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 29 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Naples Tennis Club in Naples, Italy, from 13–19 May. Australia defended their title, defeating United States in the final, in what was the fifth final featuring both United States and Australia. Participating teams Draw All ties were played at the Naples Tennis Club in Naples, Italy, on clay courts. First Round Italy vs. Belgium * This match currently holds the record for the most games in a Fed Cup doubles set (pre-tiebreak). Indonesia vs. Israel Great Britain vs. Ireland Chile vs. Norway Romania vs. Argentina Denmark vs. Sweden New Zealand vs. Spain Canada vs. West Germany Netherlands vs. France Philippines vs. Austria Luxembourg vs. Poland Second Round Australia vs. Japan Italy vs. Israel Great Britain vs. Norway Switzerland vs. South Africa Romania vs. Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1973 Federation Cup was the 11th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 30 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club in Bad Homburg, West Germany from 30 April–6 May. Australia defeated South Africa in the final, winning the title without losing a rubber. Participating Teams Draw All ties were played at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club in Bad Homburg, West Germany on clay courts. First Round Japan vs. Ireland New Zealand vs. Indonesia United States vs. Italy Norway vs. South Korea Spain vs. Canada South Africa vs. Greece Switzerland vs. Belgium Denmark vs. Yugoslavia Netherlands vs. France Sweden vs. Argentina Romania vs. Brazil Mexico vs. Austria Second Round Australia vs. Japan Luxembourg vs. Indonesia United States vs. South Korea Spain vs. West Germany South Africa vs. Belgium Denmark vs. Netherlands Sweden vs. Romania Mexico vs. Great Britain Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Barniville
Geraldine Barniville (nee Houlihan; born 7 November 1942) is an Irish former squash and tennis player. Barniville is a native of Birr in County Offaly and comes from a prominent legal family (of the D.A. Houlihan law firm). As a tennis player, Barniville won a record nine Carrickmines titles during her career, the first in 1963. At the 1964 U.S. National Championships she faced the eighth-seeded Carole Caldwell in the second round and pushed her to deep in the third set. She played in 10 Federation Cup ties for Ireland between 1964 and 1977. Despite not picking up squash until the age of 24, Barniville ended up competing at the World Championships. She competed three times with the Irish national team at the World Teams Championships and from 1978 to 1983 she was part of the team that was six times in a row runner-up in the European Teams Championships. Barniville was married to the late tennis player Harry Barniville and their son David David (; , "beloved one") (tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Sandberg
Christina Sandberg (born 11 January 1948) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She reached the quarterfinals of the 1970 Australian Open in both the singles and doubles. She played for Sweden in the Federation Cup in 25 matches, and she notably defeated Virginia Wade in the first round of the 1968 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles. Federation Cup Sandberg first played for Sweden in the Federation Cup on 10 May 1966 in Turin against Italy, beating Jacqueline Morales 7–9, 6–3, 6–2. She played her last Federation Cup match in May 1974 against Poland in Naples, losing to Barbara Kral 6–1, 6–1. Retrieved 2008-05-01 All together, she played 16 singles, winning 9, and 9 doubles, winning 5. Swedish Open Sandberg became the first Swedish player to win the Swedish Open Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Weisenberger
Elvira Weisenberger (born 24 December 1949) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player, Weisenberger competed in 12 Federation Cup ties for Argentina, from 1973 to 1977. Her best grand slam performance was a third round appearance at the 1974 French Open, beating Lindsay Blachford and Mariana Simionescu. Weisenberger, who lives in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ..., is a former president of the Women's International Tennis Association (WITA), an organisation which ran parallel to the WTA in the 1970s. See also * List of Argentina Fed Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weisenberger, Elvira 1949 births Living people Argentine female tennis players 20th-century Argenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Araujo
Beatriz Araujo (born 4 July 1955) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Araujo won back to back Argentine Opens in 1969 and 1970. She made her grand slam main draw debut at the 1974 Wimbledon Championships and played a match against Martina Navratilova at the 1975 French Open, which she lost 4–6, 4–6. During her career she featured in a total of 10 Federation Cup ties for Argentina, going 2/4 in singles and 4/4 in doubles. She is married to former Argentine Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... player Héctor Romani. See also * List of Argentina Fed Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Araujo, Beatriz 1955 births Living people Argentine female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Simionescu
Mariana Simionescu (born 27 November 1956) is a retired tennis player from Romania. Career Simionescu won the French Junior Championships in 1974. She played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1980. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1977. She won one singles title and one doubles title. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 36 in 1978. Simionescu married Björn Borg Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ... on 24 July 1980, but the marriage ended in 1984. She never remarried, but lived with former F1 racer J.-L. Schlesser for a few years, with whom she has a son (Anthony).Andru Nenciu (26 October 2015)O viaţă ca-n poveşti şi un gol în suflet. "Aud şi acum vocea Florenţei Mihai. Cine îmi va mai spune mie Zu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Giscafré
Raquel Giscafré (born 15 May 1949) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She was Argentina's No. 1 female player from 1973 to 1976. She competed in the Fed Cup from 1966 to 1978. She was a tennis promoter and ran the WTA's Acura Classic The Southern California Open currently known as The San Diego Open is an ATP 250 and WTA 500 tournament held at the Barnes Tennis Centre in San Diego, California. The event originated as the Southern California Championships that ran from 1887 ... each year from 1984 until 2007.Keith Kattan ''Raising Big Smiling Tennis Kids: A Complete Roadmap for Every Parent and Coach'' 2006 Page 208 "Ranging from corporations like Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment, which promotes a variety of sporting events, including tennis, to players-turned-entrepreneurs like Jane Stratton and Raquel Giscafré, who run a prestigious WTA tournament in San Diego, now in its 20th year." References External links * * * 1949 births Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici (born 31 January 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship. Career Ruzici became a professional tennis player in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand. In a career spanning 12 years, Ruzici won 12 career singles titles, including one Grand Slam title, the 1978 French Open. In the final, she beat 1977 French Open champion Mima Jaušovec 6–2, 6–2. Ruzici also won the French Open doubles event with Jaušovec in 1978 and reached the mixed doubles final in 1978. She appeared in the French Open singles final in 1980 French Open, 1980, but lost in straight sets to Chris Evert. Ruzici remained in the world's top 20 from 1977 to 1983. She regularly featured in the Romania Fed Cup team throughout her career, and began playing for them in 1973, two years before turning professional. At Wimbledon 1978, Ruzici lost a notable match in the quarterfinal to the Australian Evonne Gool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Robsahm
Kirsten is both a given name and a surname. Given name Kirsten is a female given name. It is a Scandinavian form of the names Christina and Christine. Behind the Name, retrieved 15 December 2009. * Kirsten (given name)
Kirsten is a Swedish, Danish and Norwegian form of the name Christina (given name), Christina.
B ... Surname People with the surname Kirsten include: *Amy Beth Kirsten (born 1972), American composer *Benjamin Kirsten (born 1987), German footballer *Dorot ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Rodríguez (tennis)
Michelle Boulle-Rodríguez is a French and Chilean former professional tennis player. When she started her career she was known as Michelle Boulle and represented France, then married tennis player Patricio Rodríguez in 1966 and became a naturalised Chilean. Rodríguez played three ties for the Chile Federation Cup team, one in 1968 and another two in 1974. She won all three of her singles rubbers and lost all three doubles matches that she played. During her career, she featured in the main draws of all four 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 ... tournaments. Most of her singles appearances came in the 1960s, and from the 1970s, she primarily played doubles. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Michelle Year of birth missing (livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Grindvold
Ellen Louise Grindvold (born July 30, 1946) is a former Norwegian female basketball and professional tennis player. She played for the Norwegian Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... team in 1983. References External linksProfileat snl.no 1946 births Living people Norwegian women's basketball players Norwegian female tennis players {{Norway-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
