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Ana Segura
Ana María Segura Pérez (born 5 February 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Segura reached a top singles ranking of 185 in the world, with her best WTA Tour performance a round of 16 appearance at the Swedish Open in 1990. As a doubles player, Segura was ranked as high as 103 and featured in the main draws of the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 1992, all partnering Janet Souto. She and Petra Langrová were runners-up in the doubles in the 1992 edition of the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo The Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, also known as the Palermo Ladies Open, is a women's tennis tournament in Palermo, Italy that is played on outdoor clay courts at the Country Time Club. The first two editions were part of the Satellite Circu ... WTA Tour tournament. WTA Tour finals Doubles (0–1) ITF finals Singles (2–4) Doubles (8–7) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Segura, Ana 1969 births Living people Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 French Open – Women's Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Jana Novotná were the defending champions, but participated with different partners in this tournament. Novotná played alongside Larisa Neiland, and lost in the semifinals to Conchita Martínez and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Gigi Fernández played alongside Natasha Zvereva, and successfully defended the title, defeating Martínez and Sánchez Vicario in the final 6–3, 6–2. This was Fernández and Zvereva's first Grand Slam Doubles title as partners; they would go on to win 14 Grand Slam titles, completing the Career Grand Slam together. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References Main draw at the |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilamoura
Vilamoura is a coastal resort in the Loulé municipality in Algarve, Portugal. It is one of the three corners of Algarve's Golden Triangle. Vilamoura comprises one of the largest single tourist complexes in Europe and with about 2,000 hectares of land. The nearest airport is in Faro. The area previously hosted the annual Almond Blossom Cross Country competition between 1996 and 2003, and the same course was selected as the venue for the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. History The resort developed around a small harbour, flanked by sandy beaches and close to the Roman ruins of Cerro da Vila. In Roman times this location was important in producing a fish paste known as "garum". The ruins also include the baths in which the mariners used to bathe. The resort was founded by Portuguese banker Cupertino de Miranda who, with the resort's management company Lusotur (now Lusort) started initial planning and building in 1966. In 1996 Vilamoura (i.e. Lusotur) was acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninoska Souto
Ninoska Souto-Garcia (born 3 December 1968) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Souto comes from the Galicia region of Spain and is of Venezuelan descent. Her sister, Janet Souto, also played on the professional tour. As a professional player, Souto reached a best singles ranking of 254 and was ranked as high as 154 in doubles. Her main draw appearances on the WTA Tour all came in doubles, which includes making the semi-finals of the 1988 Spanish Open, partnering sister Janet. Souto married Spanish footballer Xavier Escaich Xavier Escaich Ferrer (born 6 September 1968) is a former Spanish footballer who played as a forward. Club career Escaich began playing youth football for hometown club UE Castelldefels, before moving to CF Gavà and CF Blanca Subur. In 198 ... in 1992. ITF finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 9 (6–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Souto, Ninoska 1968 births Living people Spanish female tennis players Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaby Castro
Gabriela Castro (born 11 July 1966) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Biography Castro was a top 100 doubles player and had her most successful period on the WTA Tour when she became the doubles partner of Conchita Martínez in 1989. The pair were runners-up at the Estoril Open and won two ITF $25,000 titles that year. At the 1990 French Open, Castro and Martínez made the round of 16, beating third seeds and former Wimbledon champions Kathy Jordan and Liz Smylie Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also wo ... en route. When Castro retired from the tour in 1990 she became Martínez's coach. Since 2012, Castro has been a director and coach at CEI Tennis in Buenos Aires. She operates the centre with Spanish former professional player Ana Almansa, who runs the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titia Wilmink
Titia Wilmink (born 1 October 1968) is a former professional Dutch tennis player. Wilmink made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 1989 Citizen Cup, in the doubles event, partnering Julie Salmon Julie Salmon (born 8 July 1965) is a British former international tennis player. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times, from 1988 to 1993. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lone Vandborg
Lone Vandborg (born 5 August 1961) is a Danish former professional tennis player. Vandborg played Federation Cup tennis for Denmark in 1986 and 1987, appearing in a total of six ties. This included a World Group win over Great Britain, where Vandborg had a win over Anne Hobbs. While competing on the professional circuit she was most successful as a doubles player, with a career high ranking of 185 and seven ITF titles to her name. She featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at the 1990 Australian Open. ITF finals Doubles: 13 (7–6) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vandborg, Lone 1961 births Living people Danish female tennis players Tennis players from Copenhagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Bielsa
Rosa Bielsa-Hierro (born 9 January 1966) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Biography Bielsa competed in two Fed Cup, Federation Cup ties for Spain, both in the 1985 Federation Cup (tennis), 1985 edition, as the doubles partner of Ana Almansa. The pair won the deciding doubles rubber against Hong Kong Fed Cup team, Hong Kong, to advance to a second round fixture against Australia Fed Cup team, Australia, which they and their teammates lost 0–3. At the 1989 French Open she lost in the qualifying draw for the singles but featured in the main draw of the women's doubles, with Soviet player Eugenia Maniokova. Bielsa won two medals for Spain at the 1991 Summer Universiade in Sheffield, a bronze in the singles and a bronze in the mixed doubles. In 1996 she was a member of the Spanish women's team which finished runner-up in the Padel Tennis World Championship. ITF finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (8–10) See also *List of Spain Fed Cup team representatives Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bournemouth
Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the Southern England, English south coast, equidistant () from Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and Southampton. Bournemouth is part of the South East Dorset conurbation, which has a population of 465,000. Before it was founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, the area was a deserted heathland occasionally visited by fishermen and smugglers. Initially marketed as a health resort, the town received a boost when it appeared in Augustus Granville's 1841 book, ''The Spas of England''. Bournemouth's growth accelerated with the arrival of the railway, and it became a town in 1870. Part of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Hampshire, Bournemouth joined Dorset for administrative purposes following the Local Government Act 1972, reorganisation of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neus Ávila
Neus Ávila Bonastra (born 26 July 1971), known as Neus Ávila, is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Ávila was a bronze medalist in the women's doubles at the 1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens. In 1993 she won ITF singles titles in Bilbao and Vigo, both $25,000 tournaments, with her ranking climbing over 100 places by the end of the year. She competed in the main draw of several WTA Tour events in 1994, including a quarter-final appearance at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. In 1995 her ranking peaked at 105 in the world, earning her direct entry into both the French Open and Wimbledon. A member of Spain's Fed Cup winning campaign in 1995, Ávila featured in the quarter-final tie against Bulgaria. She partnered Virginia Ruano Pascual in a dead rubber doubles tie, which they lost to the Maleeva sisters, Katerina , ''Katerína'' , nickname = , variant forms = Katherina , related names = Caterina , seealso = Katarina, Ekaterina, Yeka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vigo
Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ria de Vigo, the southernmost of the Rías Baixas. The municipality, with an area of and a population of 299,321 on June 15, 2022 including rural parishes, is the most populous municipality in Galicia. The area of the municipality includes the Cíes Islands, part of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park. Vigo is one of the region's primary economic agents, owing to the French Stellantis Vigo Plant and to its Port of Vigo, port. Close to the Portugal–Spain border, Vigo is part of the Galicia–North Portugal Euroregion. The European Fisheries Control Agency is headquartered in Vigo. History In the Early Middle Ages, the small village of Vigo was part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
