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Alison Scott
Alison Scott (born 8 February 1968) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Biography Scott grew up in Canberra and developed her tennis at the Australian Institute of Sport on a scholarship, before going on to compete on the WTA Tour. She was a girls' doubles finalist at the 1985 Australian Open. As a professional player she reached the top 100 in doubles, peaking at 93 in the world in 1988. She featured in the doubles main draws of all four grand slam tournaments, with her best performance a quarter-final appearance at the 1988 Australian Open, partnering Maria Lindström Maria Lindström (born 7 March 1963) is a Swedish former tennis player. She won two doubles WTA titles as well as a further ten doubles ITF tournaments during her career. On 15 February 1988, Lindström reached a singles ranking high of world n .... ITF finals Doubles: 10 (2–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Alison 1968 births Living people Australian femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Australian Open – Women's Singles
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Sonia Hahn
Sonia Hahn (born August 25, 1967) is an American former professional tennis player. She is of Korean descent. Biography Hahn is originally from Carrollton, Georgia and played college tennis at the University of Kentucky. During her collegiate career she was a four-time All-American in singles and twice a doubles All-American. She won the university's Female Athlete of the Year award in 1987, then was SEC Player of the Year in 1988. While in college Hahn represented the United States internationally, winning a gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games, with Ronni Reis in the doubles event. She and Reis went on to feature together in the women's doubles at the 1987 US Open, which was her only grand slam main draw appearance. In 1987 she also won a doubles bronze, with Katrina Adams, at the 1987 Summer Universiade The 1987 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIV Summer Universiade, took place in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. It involved participants from 111 countries an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanna Wibowo
Suzanna Wibowo (born 25 November 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is sometimes known by her maiden name Suzanna Anggarkusuma. She first represented Indonesia in the Fed Cup in 1981. She made her debut as a professional in July 1986, aged 22, in the doubles competition of an ITF tournament in Brindisi, Italy, which she and partner Yayuk Basuki won. She played her last professional tournament in June 2006 in New Delhi at the age of 43. She was part of Indonesia's Fed Cup team in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 2003. Wibowo won the gold medal in the women's doubles at the 1986 Asian Games and 1990 Asian Games, partnered both times with Yayuk Basuki. She also won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles at both of those tournaments. Through 1991, she qualified for the main draw in the women's doubles at the Australian Open and French Open, and both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Jill Smoller
Jill Smoller (born September 4, 1964) is an American sports agent and former professional tennis player. Considered a pioneer for women sports agents, Smoller started her career in the late 1990s and counts Allyson Felix and Serena Williams as some of her clients. As a tennis player she competed in college tennis for the Arizona Wildcats, before going on to tour professionally and featuring in the main draw of all four Grand Slam (tennis), grand slam tournaments. ITF finals Doubles: 4 (3–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smoller, Jill 1964 births Living people American female tennis players American sports agents Arizona Wildcats women's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Anne Eldredge
Leigh-Anne Eldredge (born December 14, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Eldredge was born in Pasadena played college tennis at Stanford for four years. A three-time All-American, she partnered with Linda Gates to win the 1985 NCAA Division I doubles title. From 1987 to 1989, Eldredge competed on the professional tour and reached a best singles ranking of 112 in the world. She featured in the main draw of all four grand slam tournaments, which included a third round appearance at the 1988 Australian Open File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicentenni .... Her best performance on the WTA Tour came at the 1989 Wellington Classic, where she made it through to the semi-finals. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eldredge, Leigh-Anne 1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Savides
Stephanie Savides (born February 6, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. Savides was raised in Los Altos Hills, California and is of Greek descent. She played varsity tennis for Stanford University, earning All-American honors in singles and doubles. A three-time member of an NCAA championship winning team, she was also a NCAA doubles finalist in 1986. On the professional tour, Savides reached a best singles world ranking of 263 and had a main draw appearance at the 1988 Australian Open, as a lucky loser from qualifying. She also featured at the 1988 French Open The 1988 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 92nd staging of the French Open, and the second Grand ... in the women's doubles and made a best doubles ranking of 174 in the world. ITF finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Paquet
Virginie Paquet Ottaway (born 6 May 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. Tennis career A right-handed player, Paquet competed on the professional tour in the 1980s and early 1990s. She reached a career high singles ranking of 208 in the world and was ranked as high as 116 in doubles. Paquet appeared in the main draws of both the Australian Open and French Open during her career. Her best grand slam performance came at the 1986 French Open, where she had a first round win over Maria Lindström, before falling in the second round to fifth seed and eventual semi-finalist Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. During her career she won four Grand Slam singles titles - the 1980 Australian Open, 1981 French Op .... ITF finals Doubles: 5 (4–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paquet, Virginie 1967 births Living people Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denisa Krajčovičová
Denisa Krajčovičová (born 18 November 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. From 1991 to 1996, she was known under her married name Denisa Szabová. Biography Krajčovičová began playing professionally in the late 1980s, originally under the flag of Czechoslovakia. She made the semifinals of the 1991 San Marino WTA Tour tournament. In 1993, she began competing as a Slovakian and represented the Slovakia Fed Cup team The Slovakia women's national tennis team represents Slovakia in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Slovak Tennis Association. History Slovakia competed in its first Fed Cup in 1994. They won the Cup in 2002, being led by then t ... in their 1995 World Group playoff tie against Paraguay. She made another WTA Tour semifinal at Zagreb in 1995. Towards the end of her career, she peaked as a doubles player, making a WTA Tour final at the 1995 Warsaw Cup and the following year winning a $75k Bratislava ITF Circuit tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Sprung
Heidi Sprung Vasudevan (born 10 January 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Biography Sprung, who is originally from Salzburg, played Fed Cup tennis for Austria in 1988. She teamed up with Judith Wiesner to win the deciding doubles rubber over Belgium, setting up a second round tie with the USSR. Against the USSR she beat world number 16 Larisa Savchenko in the singles, but this time lost the live doubles rubber. On the WTA Tour she was most successful as a doubles player, with a career best ranking of 97. She was a doubles finalist at the 1989 Fernleaf Classic in Wellington. Since retiring she has lived in Switzerland and is married to former India Davis Cup team representative Srinivasan Vasudevan. The pair run a tennis club in Zofingen Zofingen (french: Zofingue) is a city in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district of Zofingen. Zofingen is a walled city and home of an ancient monastic settlement. History In ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Cordwell
Belinda Jane Cordwell (born 21 September 1965) is a sports commentator and a former professional tennis player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. A former world top 20 player, her best result in the Grand Slam events was reaching the semifinals of the 1989 Australian Open. Biography During her career Cordwell won one WTA singles title (at Singapore) and two WTA doubles titles (at Singapore & Tokyo). Cordwell reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 4 December 1989, when she became No. 17 in the world. Her most notable result was reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1989, where she lost to Helena Suková. She represented New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics, losing in the first round to Great Britain's Sara Gomer. After retiring Cordwell has worked as a television tennis commentator for One Sport TVNZ Sport is a division of TVNZ which airs many of the sports telecasts in New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Field
Louise Field (born 25 February 1967) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Ope ... from 1984 to 1994. at australianopen.com WTA Tour finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (2–1) Career finals Singles (4–3) Doubles (6–7) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Louise[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
