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Barbara Pócza
Barbara Pócza (born 6 April 1986) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player from Győr, Pócza was ranked as high as 63 in the world as a junior. Pócza won two professional titles on the ITF circuit, at Carcavelos in 2003 and Dubrovnik in 2004. In 2005 she featured in two Federation Cup ties for Hungary. She played a doubles rubber against Estonia, which she and partner Ágnes Szávay won, then appeared against Luxembourg in a singles match, losing to Mandy Minella. Pócza finished up on the professional tour in 2005 and later played college tennis in the United States for Barry University. She helped Barry University claim the NCAA Women's Division II Tennis Championship The NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual tennis tournament to determine the team champions of women's collegiate tennis from Division II institutions in the United States. From its ... title as a seni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Győr
Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of the important roads of Central Europe. It is the sixth largest city in Hungary, and one of its seven main regional centres. The city has City with county rights, county rights. History The area along the Danube River has been inhabited by varying cultures since ancient times. The first large settlement dates back to the 5th century BCE; the inhabitants were Celts. They called the town ''Ara Bona'' "Good altar", later contracted to ''Arrabona'', a name which was used until the eighth century. Its shortened form is still used as the German (''Raab'') and Slovak (''Ráb'') names of the city. Roman merchants moved to Arrabona during the 1st century BCE. Around 10 CE, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsuzsanna Babos
Zsuzsanna is the Hungarian form of the feminine given name Susanna. Notable bearers * Zsuzsanna Budapest (born 1940), American author of Hungarian origin who writes on feminist spirituality *Zsuzsanna Csobánki (born 1983), female Hungarian swimmer, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece *Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (born 1966), Hungarian historian specialising in Manichaean art *Zsuzsanna Jakab (born 1951), director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark *Zsuzsanna Jakabos (born 1989), Hungarian swimmer, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008 *Zsuzsanna Kézi (born 1945), former Hungarian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics *Zsuzsanna Krajnyák (born 1978), Hungarian Paralympic wheelchair fencer *Zsuzsanna Laky (born 1984), former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 2003 *Zsuzsanna Lorántffy (born 1602), the wife of György Rákóczi I, prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Târgu Mureş
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Târgu (Romanian for "the market") starts off the names of several places in Romania: *Târgu Bujor *Târgu Cărbunești *Târgu Frumos * Târgu Gânguleşti *Târgu Jiu *Târgu Lăpuș * Târgu Logreşti *Târgu Mureș *Târgu Neamț *Târgu Ocna *Târgu Secuiesc * Târgu Trotuș See also *Târg A târg was a medieval Romanian periodic fair or a market town. Originally established on the places where periodic fairs were held, some of them (but not all) became permanent settlements, as craftsmen built their workshops near the place where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Bratchikova
Nina Bratchikova (russian: Нина Олеговна Братчикова; born 28 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Bratchikova won nine singles and 35 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 10 December 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 79. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings. Tennis career 2010 In 2010, Bratchikova entered the ITF tournament in Moscow, where she won the doubles event partnering French Irena Pavlovic against Ukrainian sisters Lyudmyla Kichenok & Nadiia Kichenok. She also won the ITF singles event in Johannesburg, beating Tamarine Tanasugarn in the final. 2012 In January, Bratchikova qualified and made it to the third round of the Australian Open main draw in which she beat Flavia Pennetta in the first round, Alberta Brianti in the second and lost to Iveta Benešová. She made her top-100 debut (No. 92) the following week. In May, she reached to the third round of French O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Antypina
Olena Volodymyrivna Antypina (also known as Olena Schmelzer) ( uk, Олена Володимирівна Антипіна; born 19 March 1979) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Her highest singles ranking is world No. 180, which she reached in November 2005. She played on the ITF Circuit from 2000 through to 2006. In her professional career, Antypina won 14 titles, of which one was in singles and 13 in doubles. She tried qualifying for Grand Slam tournaments on multiple occasions, but was unsuccessful with each one. She qualified for one WTA Tour event in 2005, where she lost in round one of the Tier IV tournament in Tashkent to compatriot Kateryna Bondarenko. Her biggest ITF title came when she won the doubles of the $75k tournament at Washington D.C. in 2005, partnering Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Kapshay
Veronika Kapshay ( uk, Вероніка Капшай; born 2 December 1986) is a Ukrainian former tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. Kapshay won three singles titles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 14 May 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 227. On 20 April 2009, she peaked at No. 114 in the doubles rankings. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups) Doubles: 51 (23 titles, 28 runner-ups) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapshay, Veronika 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Lviv Ukrainian female tennis players 21st-century Ukrainian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Schmidt
Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to: People *Jennifer (given name) * Jenifer (singer), French pop singer * Jennifer Warnes, American singer who formerly used the stage name Jennifer * Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer * Daniel Jenifer Film and television * ''Jennifer'' (1953 film), a film starring Ida Lupino * ''Jennifer'' (1978 film), a horror film by Brice Mack * ''Jennifer'', a 1998 Ghanaian film starring Brew Riverson Jnr * "Jenifer" (''Masters of Horror''), an episode of ''Masters of Horror'' Music * The Jennifers, a British band, some of whose members later formed Supergrass * ''Jenifer'' (album), an album by French singer Jenifer * ''Jennifer'' (album), a 1972 album by Jennifer Warnes * "Jennifer", a 1974 song by Faust from ''Faust IV'' * "Jennifer", a 1983 song by Eurythmics from ''Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'' (album) * "Jennifer", a 2001 song by M2M from ''The Big Room'' Other uses * Hurricane Jennifer * Project Jennifer, a CIA attempt to recover a Soviet subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Pereira Viplav
Liza may refer to * Liza (name), including a list of people named Liza * ''Liza'' (fish), a genus of mullets * ''Liza'' (1972 film), a 1972 Italian film * ''Liza'' (1978 film), a 1978 Malayalam horror film * Hurricane Liza (other), the name of four tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean * "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)", a 1929 song by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn * Zapadnaya Liza, a river in northern Russia near Murmansk * Liza Alert nonprofit search-and-rescue volunteer organization See also * Eliza (other) ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, E ... * Lizza (other) * * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tlemcen
Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the port of Rachgoun. It had a population of 140,158 at the 2008 census, while the province had 949,135 inhabitants. Former capital of the central Maghreb, the city mixes Berbers, Berber, Arabs, Arab, Hispano-Moorish, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman, and Western influence on Africa, Western influences. From this mosaic of influences, the city derives the title of capital of Andalusian art in Algeria. According to the author Dominique Mataillet, various titles are attributed to the city including "the pearl of the Maghreb", "the African Granada" and "the Medina of the West". Etymology The name Tlemcen (''Tilimsān'') was given by the Zayyanid King Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan. One possible etymology is that it comes from a Berber languages, Berber word ''tilma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karina Jacobsgaard
Karina Ildor Jacobsgaard (born 1 January 1980) is a Danish former tennis player. In her career, she won three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. On 27 May 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 432. On 20 May 2002, she peaked at No. 463 in the WTA doubles rankings. Jacobsgaard has a 13–25 record for Denmark in 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 ... competition. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups) References External links * * * 1980 births Living people Danish female tennis players {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Teller
Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jebel al-Madhbah, Jabal Al-Madbah, in a Depression (geology), basin surrounded by mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, and the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of Nabataean Kingdom, their kingdom as early as the 4th century BC. Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence dating back to the second century BC, by which time Petra had become their capital. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub. The trading business gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
