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2022 Ladies Real Tennis World Championships
The 2022 Ladies Real Tennis World Championships was the 19th edition of the biennial Ladies Real Tennis World Championships, held at the Palace of Fontainebleau in April 2022. It was delayed from its original date in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic It was the first time the event was held in France since 2013 as the event follows a rotation through the four tennis-playing countries. Fontainebleau had previously hosted the men's World Championship in 2008 and the men's World Doubles Championships in 2005. The singles event was won by defending champion Claire Fahey, her sixth victory equalling the record previously held by Penny Lumley. Fahey also won the doubles with her sister Sarah Vigrass. Lea van der Zwalmen Léa van der Zwalmen (born 15 February 1996) is a French Rackets (sport), rackets and real tennis player and the current rackets Rackets World Championships, World Champion. She is undefeated in rackets since the inaugural Ladies World Championsh ... made her World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau (; ) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the ''arrondissement'' of Fontainebleau. The commune has the largest land area in the Île-de-France region; it is the only one to cover a larger area than Paris itself. The commune is closest to Seine-et-Marne Prefecture, Melun. Fontainebleau, together with the neighbouring commune of Avon and three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 36,724 inhabitants (2018). This urban area is a satellite of Paris. Fontainebleau is renowned for the large and scenic forest of Fontainebleau, a favourite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historic Château de Fontainebleau, which once belonged to the kings of France. It is also the home of INSEAD, one of the world's most elite business schools. Inhabitants of Fontainebleau are sometimes called '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Garside
Jess is a unisex given name, often a short form ( hypocorism) of Jessica, Jesse, Jessie, etc., and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Jess Atkinson (born 1961), American football player * Jess Cain (1926–2008), American radio host * Jess Cates (born 1976), American songwriter * Jess Collins (1923–2004), American visual artist * Jess Conrad (born 1936), British actor * Jess H. Dickinson (born 1947), American judge * Jess E. DuBois (born 1934), American painter * Jess Folley (born 2003), English singer * Jess Glynne (born 1989), English singer and songwriter * Jess Hahn (1921–1998), American actor * Jess Harnell (born 1963), American voice actor * Jess Hartley (born 1967), American writer * Jess Herbst (born 1958), American politician * Jess Hill (1907–1993), American athlete and coach * Jess Hill, Australian investigative reporter and author * Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr. (1930–2011), American wine entrepreneur * Jess Klein (born 1974), American sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederika Adam
Frederika may refer to: *Frederika, Iowa, United States * Frederika Township, Bremer County, Iowa, United States See also * Frederica (given name) *Frederica (other) *Fredrika (other) * Princess Frederica (other) *Federica Federica is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Federica Di Giacomo * Federica Gori * Federica Luppi * 12817 Federica (1996 FM16), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1996 * Federica Angeli (born 1975), Italian journalist * Feder ... * Frédérique {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Garside
Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multiple people *Alex Harris (other), multiple people *Alex Jones (other), multiple people *Alexander Johnson (other), multiple people *Alex Taylor (other), multiple people Politicians * Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat * Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician *Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician * Alex Salmond (born 1954), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland Baseball players *Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player *Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Gardner (baseball) (1861–1921), Canadian baseball player * Alex Katz (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player * Alex Pompez (1890–1974), American executive in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball scout * Alex Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthe Ranger
Xanthe (; Greek: Ξανθή, meaning "blond-haired") is a name with origins in Greek mythology. People with this first name include: * Xanthe Elbrick (born 1978), British actress * Xanthe Huynh, American actress *Xanthé Mallett, British anthropologist and criminologist In Greek mythology: *One of the Oceanids ( sea nymphs), daughters of Oceanus and Tethys *One of the Amazons *The wife of Asclepius is sometimes called Xanthe It may also refer to: * 411 Xanthe, main belt asteroid * Xanthe Canning, a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Xanthe Montes, mountain range on the planet Mars *Xanthe Terra, a region on Mars See also *Xanthi Xanthi ( el, Ξάνθη, ''Xánthi'', ) is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi (regional unit), Xanthi regional unit of the modern regions of Greece, region of East Macedonia and Thrace. A ... {{disambiguation Naiads Amazons (Greek mythology) Feminine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Bollerman
Saskia Bollerman (born 20 September 1994) is a Netherlands, Dutch real tennis player. She holds two singles and seven doubles Grand Slam (real tennis), Open titles, and has reached the final of the Real Tennis World Championship, World Doubles Championship on three occasions. She has held the Nederlandse Real Tennis Bond, Dutch Women's Champion title between 2016 and 2018 and continuously since 2022, and reached the final of the Dutch Closed Championship on two occasions, losing both times to her brother Paul Bollerman. Career Bollerman grew up in the Netherlands, a country which has not had active real tennis courts since the 17th century. Bollerman started playing real tennis as her father jointly initiated the Nederlandse Real Tennis Bond, Dutch Real Tennis Association, initially playing occasionally at Seacourt Tennis Club, but later moving to Radley College in Oxfordshire once that court was built in 2008. As such, Bollerman would only play real tennis once or twice per year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Candy
Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popular in England in the 13th century following the marriage of Isabella of Angoulême to the king of England. Today sometimes abbreviated to Isa. Etymology This set of names is a Spanish variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba through Latin and Greek represented in English and other western languages as Elisabeth.Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 337a.Chantal Tanet et Tristan Hordé, ''Dictionnaire des prénoms'', Larousse, Paris, 2009, p. 38 These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John the Bapt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariane Huynh-Lendhardt
Ariane may refer to: * Ariana (name), also Ariane, Arianne Arts * ''Ariane'' (Martinů), an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, first performed 1961 * ''Ariane'' (Massenet), an opera by Jules Massenet, first performed 1906 * ''Ariane'' (film), a 1931 German film directed by Paul Czinner * Ariane Films, a former French film production company * ''Ariane'', a play by Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) * ''Ariane'', the name of the 1957 film '' Love in the Afternoon'' in French speaking markets Transportation * Simca Ariane, a French car by Simca, 1957–1963 * Ariane (automobile), a French car by Automobiles Ariane, 1907 * French ship ''Ariane'', the name of several French ships * Ariane (rocket family), European rockets operated by Arianespace Other uses * Ariane (apple), an apple cultivar * 1225 Ariane, an asteroid * Tour Ariane (Ariane Tower), an office building west of Paris See also * Ariadna (other) * Ariadne (other) * Arianna (other) * Ariana (disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Lumley
Tara Lumley (born 10 August 1994) is a British real tennis and rackets player and current women's World Doubles Champion. She is currently ranked world number 3 in both singles and doubles at real tennis. She holds 2 Open singles and 7 Open doubles titles. She won the inaugural women's doubles Rackets World Championship with India Deakin, and has challenged for the women's singles Rackets World Championships on three occasions, playing in the eliminator process in each occasion. Career Real Tennis Tara Lumley started playing real tennis as a junior at Holyport Real Tennis Club alongside her older brother John Lumley. Her mother, Penny Lumley is a 6-time Ladies Real Tennis World Championship and 28-time Open Champion and her father Colin Lumley worked as a real tennis professional and won two Australian Opens. John would go on to challenge for the 2023 Real Tennis World Championship and become a real tennis professional at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. Lumley attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Doble
Nicola may refer to: People * Nicola (name), including a list of people with the given name or, less commonly, the surname ** Nicola (artist) or Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest * Nicola people, an extinct Athapaskan people of the Nicola Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a modern alliance now residing there ** Nicola language, an extinct Athabascan language Places * Nicola River, British Columbia, Canada ** Nicola Country, a region of British Columbia around the river ** Nicola Lake, a lake near the upper reaches of the river Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Nicola'' (album) (1967), by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch * (magazine), a Japanese fashion magazine * ''Nicola'' (composition), a piano composition by Steve Race Other uses * Nicola (apple), trade name of an apple cultivar * MV ''Nicola'', a ferryboat in British Columbia, Canada * ''Nicola'' (sponge), a genus of sponges in the family Clathrinidae * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
