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Budapest Grand Prix
The Budapest Grand Prix (also Hungarian Grand Prix) is a women's tennis tournament held in Budapest, Hungary. This WTA Tour event is an International-level tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was formerly known as ''Poli-Farbe Budapest Grand Prix'', ''Gaz de France Grand Prix'', ''GDF Suez Grand Prix'', ''Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix'', ''Colortex Budapest Grand Prix'', ''Westel 900 Budapest Open'', ''Budapest Lotto Open'', ''Budapest Open'', and ''Budapest Grand Prix''. The event was replaced in the 2014 WTA Tour with a new tournament Bucharest Open held in Bucharest, Romania. It returned in 2021 as the Hungarian Grand Prix. Past finals Singles Doubles See also *List of tennis tournaments * Hungarian Ladies Open *Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open The Hungarian Pro Circuit Ladies Open ''(previously known as the Sport11 Ladies Open)'' is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event was classifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971, in Hoopstad) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam semifinals (Australian Open 1996 and 1997, French Open 1997) and one Grand Slam doubles final ( US Open 1993). Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin". Personal life Coetzer was born in Hoopstad, South Africa, to Nico and Suska Coetzer. She started playing tennis at the age of six. During her career, she resided primarily in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was coached by Gavin Hopper, later by Lori McNeil. She is married to the Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan. They have two children, Shimon (born 2009) and Olivia (born 2011). Career Coetzer's breakthr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix – Singles
Martina Müller was the defending champion from 2001, but lost in the first round. Magüi Serna won the second straight title in two weeks, having won the 2003 Estoril Open in the previous week. Seeds # Iva Majoli ''(second round)'' # Magüi Serna (champion) # Alicia Molik ''(final)'' # Henrieta Nagyová ''(first round)'' # Virginie Razzano ''(second round)'' # Klára Koukalová ''(second round)'' # Cristina Torrens Valero ''(first round)'' # Antonella Serra Zanetti Antonella Serra Zanetti (born 25 July 1980; ) is a retired female tennis player from Italy. On 30 January 2006, Serra Zanetti achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. On 8 May 2006, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings ... ''(second round)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References {{DEFAULTSORT:2003 Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix - Singles Tippmix Budapest Grand Prix - Singles Budapest Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myriam Casanova
Myriam Casanova (born 20 June 1985) is a former tennis player from Switzerland. She was ranked as high as No. 45 on the WTA Tour in singles and won one WTA singles title in her career. In doubles she reached the semifinals of the 2003 US Open, partnering Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She also ... of France, and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 19. WTA career finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (7–0) Doubles (3–1) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Casanova, Myriam 1985 births Living people Swiss female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Switzerland Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics People from Altstätten Sportspeople from the canton of St. Gallen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Müller (tennis)
Martina Müller-Skibbe (; born 11 October 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She won one singles title and one doubles title on the WTA tour. Career Coached by her father, Reinhard Müller, Martina had her best success on clay courts: she won her only WTA Tour singles title at the Budapest Grand Prix and one WTA Tour doubles title in 's-Hertogenbosch. On the ITF Women's Circuit, she won ten singles and ten doubles titles in her career. On 2 April 2007, she reached a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 33. In February 2008, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. In 2007, she started the year with middling results, reaching the second round at the Australian Open, losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets. From January to April, Müller never came past the second round of a tournament. In May, at the Qatar German Open in Berlin, she defeated Eleni Daniilidou and 13th seed Shahar Pe'er to reach the round of 16 where she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Kremer
Anne Kremer (born 17 October 1975) is a Luxembourgish retired tennis player. Anne won two singles titles on the WTA Tour. On 29 July 2002, she achieved her best WTA ranking of world No. 18. Anne completed her schooling at the Athénée de Luxembourg and subsequently studied English and history at Stanford University in California. Kremer is a member of the Democratic and Liberal Youth in Luxembourg, and has entered politics. She ran for the Democratic Party in the 2009 election to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg. Running in Centre, she finished 15th on the DP list, and was thus not elected. Biography Kremer was born in 1975 to father Jean (an engineer), and mother Ginette (a physical education teacher). Early in her career, Kremer was coached by her younger brother, Gilles. Later, she was coached by Stephane Vix. Kremer is a baseliner right-handed player with a strong backhand and a preference for grass and hard pack playing surfaces. Beside Luxembourgish, Kremer i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to October 2005 and has won ten career singles titles. Her best WTA singles ranking was world No. 4. Biography Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the youngest of the three children of Yuliya Berberyan and Georgi Maleev. Yuliya, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was one of the best Bulgarian tennis players in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started on a coaching career. She trained all of her three daughters, Magdalena, Katerina and Manuela, each of whom eventually became WTA top six players. In 1988, Maleeva became the youngest ever national tennis champion of Bulgaria, at the age of 13 years and four months. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert (born 16 December 1973) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands who retired in 2003 due to chronic elbow pain. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29. She has not won any singles titles, but did win three titles in doubles. At the 1994 French Open championships she won the mixed doubles title with countryman Menno Oosting. Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the silver medal in doubles, partnering Miriam Oremans. They were beaten by Venus and Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ... in the final. Major finals Olympic finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA finals Singles 1 Doubles 10 (3–7) Mixed doubles 1 ITF F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tathiana Garbin
Tathiana Garbin (; born 30 June 1977) is an Italian retired tennis player. She was best known for her surprise defeat of the defending champion and the reigning world No. 1, Justine Henin, in the second round of the 2004 French Open. The winner of one singles and eleven doubles WTA Tour titles, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 22 on 21 May 2007, and her highest doubles ranking of No. 25 on 27 August 2001. Other high–ranked players she defeated include Jelena Dokić, Chanda Rubin, Flavia Pennetta, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova, Marion Bartoli, and Samantha Stosur Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten s .... WTA career finals Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 18 (11 title, 7 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 17 (10–7) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Torrens Valero
Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002. In 1993, Torrens Valero helped Spain recapture the 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 chan ... title. WTA career finals Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 9 (5–4) Grand Slam singles performance timeline External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Torrens Valero, Cristina 1974 births Living people Spanish female tennis players Sportspeople from Pamplona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999. Pitkowski won her only career WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens Valero in the final. She was also the runner-up at the WTA tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin. She has won a total of ten singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit but never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie, and saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans 4–6, 6–4, 6–1. Pitkowski married the French professional tennis player Olivier Malcor, who has served as a coach for Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January 1982) is a French professional tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open – Singles
The 1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open singles was the singles event of the second edition of the Budapest Grand Prix; a WTA Tier IV tournament and the most prestigious women's tennis tournament held in Hungary. Virginia Ruano Pascual was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Amanda Hopmans. Sarah Pitkowski won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Cristina Torrens Valero Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002. In 199 .... Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Lucky losers # Sandra Dopfer Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier External links 1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Singles Budapest Grand Prix Westel 900 Budapest Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
