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1989 Virginia Slims Of Indian Wells – Singles
This was the first edition of the tournament for women. Manuela Maleeva won in the final 6–4, 6–1 against Jenny Byrne. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round. # Chris Evert ''(second round)'' # Helena Suková ''(semifinals)'' # Pam Shriver ''(quarterfinals)'' # Manuela Maleeva (champion) # Lori McNeil ''(first round)'' # Catarina Lindqvist ''(quarterfinals)'' # Nicole Provis ''(second round)'' # Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberl ... ''(second round)'' Draw Final Section 1 Section 2 References 1989 Virginia Slims of Indian Wells Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1989 Virginia Slims of Indian Wells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began representing Switzerland officially from January 1990 until her retirement in February 1994. One of the most consistent players on tour in the 1980s and early 1990s, Maleeva reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 3 in the world in February 1985 and finished with a year-end top 10 ranking for nine consecutive years (1984 till 1992). A winner of 19 WTA singles titles and four doubles titles, she also reached a total of 14 Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career, including two US Open semifinals in 1992 and 1993, which are her career-best Grand Slam results. She was a semifinalist at the 1987 Virginia Slims Championships. Maleeva was the bronze medalist in singles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, winning Bulgaria's first (and thus far, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Durie
Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a former world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates. Born in Bristol, England, Jo Durie was the last British woman to reach the semifinal of a Grand Slam tournament until Johanna Konta reached the semifinal of the 2016 Australian Open, and the last British woman to win a Grand Slam title in any discipline until Heather Watson won the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Henri Kontinen. Singles career After a successful junior career which included winning junior British titles on all three surfaces (grass, hard court and indoor) in 1976; Jo Durie turned professional in 1977, and played her first match at Wimbledon that year against the eventual champion Virginia Wade. In 1980 Durie suffered a major back injury which kept her out of the game for eight months. However, she made a successful return to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a former Dutch tennis player. Primarily known by her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour , Players , Info (Biography) , Brenda Schultz-McCartney Schultz is known for her fast serve (tennis), serve; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Paz
Mercedes MarÃa Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fourth round at the 1986 French Open and the 1990 French Open. Paz unexpectedly defeated defending champion Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the second round of the 1990 French Open. Later that year, at the Virginia Slims of Worcester, Paz also defeated Sánchez Vicario in the round of 16. Five years before, in the semifinals of the 1985 Brazil Open, she beat top-seeded Gabriela Sabatini en route to beating Peruvian Laura Arraya for the title. In so doing, Paz became the first Argentinian woman to capture a major WTA event. In addition to wins over Sánchez Vicario and Sabatini, she also defeated top-seeded Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998, and was runner-up in three other majors. Novotná also won 12 major women's doubles titles (completing a double career Grand Slam), four major mixed doubles titles, and three Olympic medals. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in 1997, and held the No. 1 ranking in doubles for 67 weeks. Career Jana Novotná turned professional in February 1987. In the early years of her career, she was known primarily for her success as a doubles player. In the early 1990s, Novotná began to have success in singles once four-time Grand Slam singles champion Hana MandlÃková became her coach. MandlÃková would coach her for nine years. Previously she had been coached by Mike Estep. 1990 At the 1990 French Open, Novotnà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Austin
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles: the women's singles titles at the 1979 and 1981 US Opens, and the mixed doubles title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. Additionally, she won the WTA Tour Championships in 1980 and the year-ending Toyota Championships in 1981, both in singles. Austin remains the youngest US Open female singles champion (age 16) and the youngest inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at age 29. She won thirty singles titles during her career, on all playing surfaces: clay (both red and green), indoor carpet, grass, and hard courts. A series of injuries and a serious automobile accident in 1989 cut short her career. Playing style Austin possessed a solid baseline game, with a strong flat-hit forehand and reliable two-handed backhand. Her favorite shot was the backhand down the line and she considered her backhand to be more powerful and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianne Fromholtz
Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat (née Fromholtz; born 10 August 1956) is an Australian former professional tennis player who reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1979. Career Fromholtz began playing tennis at the age of seven. She left school at the age of 16 to play in international tournaments. She turned pro in 1973 and joined the WTA Tour. At the age of 17, she actively participated in the professional tennis circuit, winning the singles title at a dozen tournaments in 1973, but the rules at the time did not permit prize money to be paid to participants under 18 years of age. She reached the finals of the Australian Open in January 1977, losing to fellow Australian Kerry Melville Reid in two sets. She was a semifinalist at the French Open in 1979 and 1980. She also reached the semifinals of the US Open in 1976. Fromholtz won 8 WTA Tour singles titles and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in 1979. Partnering with Helen Gourlay Cawley, she won the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Magers
Gretchen Anne Rush (born February 7, 1964), also known by her married name Gretchen Magers, is a former professional tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1980s and early 1990s. Rush played tennis at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas from 1983 to 1986, where she was a four-time All-American. While at Trinity, she won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's top collegiate tennis player in 1986. During her career, Rush reached the singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon, the US Open and the French Open. She won three top-level singles titles: Auckland in 1987, Schenectady in 1988, and Moscow in 1989, and she reached a career-high singles ranking of no. 22 on March 12, 1990. She was runner-up in the 1988 mixed doubles at Wimbledon, partnering Kelly Jones Kelly Jones (born 3 June 1974) is a Welsh singer-songwriter and a founding member, lead singer, and guitarist of the rock band Stereophonics. Early life and debut Kelly Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akemi Nishiya
Akemi Nishiya-Kinoshita (born 11 March 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Nishiya, who comes from Tokyo, played collegiate tennis at Pepperdine University in 1984. As a singles player on the professional tour she reached a highest ranking of 112 in the world. She had a win over Pascale Paradis at the 1988 Australian Open and also competed in the main draws of the French Open and Wimbledon Championships. On the WTA Tour her best singles performance was a quarter-final appearance at the 1988 OTB Open, held in Schenectady. Her only WTA title came in doubles, partnering Kerry-Anne Guse at the 1991 Volvo San Marino Open. They defeated top seeds Laura Garrone and Mercedes Paz in the final. She was ranked as high as 61 in doubles and appeared in the main draw 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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 with Candy Reynolds Candy Reynolds (born March 24, 1955) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Career During her career, Reynolds won the women's doubles title at the French Open in 1983 (partnering Rosalyn Fairbank). She was also a runner .... She won 317 singles and 472 doubles matches on the tour during her career. Grand Slam finals Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fairbank, Rosalyn 1960 births South African people of British descent Sportspeople from Durban South African female tennis players S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elna Reinach
Elna Reinach (born 2 December 1968) is a South African former professional tennis player. With Patrick Galbraith, she won the US Open mixed doubles championship in 1994. She played in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Reinach was runner-up at the French Open with Danie Visser in 1993. Her brother, Fanie, coached her and their sister, Monica, as well as Lori McNeil, 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 singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ..., and Laura Gildemeister. After retiring in 1995, she had a daughter named Lané and another daughter named Liezel. Grand Slam tournament finals Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) WTA career finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 19 (10 titles, 9 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (6–1) Doubles (7–2) References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Phelps
Terry Phelps (born December 18, 1966) is a former professional women's tennis player who is best known for reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1985. She reached No. 20 in the world rankings on May 26, 1986, her career high. Career finals Singles (2 runner-ups) Grand Slam singles performance timeline References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Phelps, Terry 1966 births American female tennis players Living people People from Larchmont, New York Sportspeople from Westchester County, New York Tennis people from New York (state) 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
