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Demi Schuurs
Demi Schuurs (born 1 August 1993) is a professional Dutch tennis player who has specialized in doubles. She has won 15 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In February 2015, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 512. On 22 October 2018, she peaked at No. 7 in the WTA doubles rankings. Juniors Schuurs won the junior events of the doubles tournaments at 2011 Australian Open and 2011 US Open. Professional career She qualified for the 2018 WTA Finals doubles event, partnering Elise Mertens where she reached the quarterfinals. In 2022, she qualified for her fourth WTA Finals in a row with a fourth different partner, Desirae Krawczyk. Personal life Schuurs is a daughter of former Dutch international handball player Lambert Schuurs. Her younger brother Perr is a professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Wimbledon Championships
The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday 1 July 2019 and finished on Sunday 14 July 2019. The defending gentlemen's singles champion Novak Djokovic retained his title, while the defending ladies' singles champion Angelique Kerber lost in the second round to Lauren Davis. Simona Halep won the ladies' singles title. This was the first Grand Slam tournament where both singles titles were won by players born in the Balkans. This was the first edition of the tournament to feature a standard tie break in the final set when the score in the set was 12 games all. The winner was the first player or pair to reach seven points whilst leading by two or more points or, in the case of a 6-6 point score, to establish a subsequent lead of two points. Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the first such tie break played in Wimbledon his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tournaments Structure (2021–present) The WTA Tour underwent slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were organized on par with the nomenclature used on ATP Tour: *Grand Slam tournaments (4) *Year-ending WTA Finals (1) *WTA 1000 tournaments (9): ** Mandatory: Four combined tournaments with male professional players with prize money ranging from US$6.5 million to US$8.3 million. These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and China Open (tennis), Beijing. However, Beijing tournament could not be held in 2021–22 due to the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic. ** Non-mandatory: Five events in Qatar Ladies Open, Doha/Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, Italian Open (tennis), Rome, Canadian Open (tennis), Montreal/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women and was founded to create a better future for women's tennis. The WTA's corporate headquarters is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with its European headquarters in London and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Beijing. The Women's Tennis Association was founded in June 1973 by Billie Jean King, and traces its origins to the inaugural Virginia Slims tournament, arranged by Gladys Heldman, sponsored by Joe Cullman, CEO of Philip Morris, and held on 23 September 1970 at the Houston Racquet Club in Houston, Texas. Rosie Casals won this first event. When the Women's Tennis Association was founded, Billie Jean King was one of nine players that comprised the WTA, also referred to as the Original 9, that included Julie Heldman, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Judy Dalton, Kristy Pigeon, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kerry Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perr Schuurs
Perr Schuurs (born 26 November 1999) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Torino. Club career Schuurs made his senior league debut for Sittard on 14 October 2016 in an Eerste Divisie 2–0 home win against VVV-Venlo. He scored his first goal on 6 February 2017 in Fortuna's 5–2 home victory over Jong Ajax. For the 2017–18 season, Schuurs, aged 17, was made captain of Fortuna Sittard. In January 2018, Schuurs became a player of Ajax, who sent him back on loan to Fortuna Sittard for the remainder of the season. On 7 October 2018, Schuurs made his Eredivisie debut, as a substitute, for Ajax in a 5–0 win against AZ. Schuurs transferred to Italian club Torino in August 2022. International career Schuurs was called up to the senior Netherlands squad for the UEFA Nations League matches against Poland and Italy in September 2020. Personal life Schuurs is a son of former Dutch international handball player Lambert Schuurs and his sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambert Schuurs
Lambert Schuurs (born 15 October 1962) is a Dutch retired handball player and ultra-long distance runner. He is the Netherlands' record international player with 312 caps. Career Handball Schuurs made his debut for the senior team of hometown handball club Sittardia in 1978 and played the majority of his career for them. After being demoted to the reserves team in 2000, he moved abroad to play for Neerpelt in Belgium and joined BFC a few months later.Schuurs loopt altijd met de strijdbijl voorop - Trouw He later became player/manager at Limburg Lions. Running In 2001, Schuurs finished 5th and best Dutch runner in the 50 kilometer[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins. Modern handball is played on a court of , with a goal in the middle of each end. The goals are surrounded by a zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "diving" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball, Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact is permitted for the def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desirae Krawczyk
Desirae Marie Krawczyk (; born January 11, 1994) is an American professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. Krawczyk has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 10, achieved in July 2022, and has won seven titles on the WTA Tour, including two at the WTA 500 level. Krawczyk is a four-time major champion in mixed doubles, having won the 2021 French and US Opens partnering Joe Salisbury, as well as the 2021 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships alongside Neal Skupski. She was also runner-up at the 2020 French Open – Women's doubles, 2020 French Open in women's doubles, partnering Alexa Guarachi, and the pair were semifinalists at the 2021 US Open – Women's doubles, 2021 US Open. Professional career 2018: Maiden doubles title and Major debut In July 2018, she won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the WTA Swiss Open, Swiss Open, partnering with Chilean Guarachi. 2020: First major doubles final She reached her first m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 WTA Finals
The 2022 WTA Finals was the professional women's championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) from October 31 to November 7, 2022. It was the 51st edition of the singles event and the 46th edition of the doubles competition. The tournament was held on an indoor hardcourt at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, marking the return of the tournament to the United States after 17 years, and was contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2022 WTA Tour. Champions Singles * Caroline Garcia def. Aryna Sabalenka 7–6(7–4), 6–4 This is Garcia's fourth title of the year and eleventh of her career. Doubles * Veronika Kudermetova / Elise Mertens def. Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková 6–2, 4–6, 1–9 Tournament The 2022 WTA Finals is the 51st edition of the singles event and the 46th of the doubles competition. It is currently being contested by the season's top eight singles players and top ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Mertens
Elise Mertens (; born 17 November 1995) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles. Mertens is a three-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open partnering Aryna Sabalenka, and the 2021 Wimbledon Championships with Hsieh Su-wei. Mertens also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships with Zhang Shuai. She became world No. 1 for the first time in May 2021, the third Belgian to hold the top ranking across both disciplines after Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin. Mertens has won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2022 WTA Finals with Veronika Kudermetova, four at WTA 1000 level, and finished runner-up at the 2021 WTA Finals alongside Hsieh. She is also a successful singles player, and reached her first major semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open, also reaching the US Open quarterfinals in 2019 and 2020. Mertens achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 WTA Finals
The 2018 WTA Finals, also known by its sponsored name BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore, was a women's tennis tournament held in Kallang, Singapore. It was the 48th edition of the singles event and the 43rd edition of the doubles competition. The tournament was contested by eight singles players and eight doubles teams. This was the final year for Singapore to hold this tournament. Champions Singles * Elina Svitolina def. Sloane Stephens, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2 Doubles * Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic def. Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková, 6–4, 7–5 Tournament The 2018 WTA Finals took place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium the week of October 21, 2018, and was the 48th edition of the event. This was the final year in which Singapore hosted the event. The tournament was run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as part of the 2018 WTA Tour. Singapore was the ninth city to host the WTA Finals since its inauguration in 1972. Qualifying In singles, point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 US Open (tennis)
The 2011 US Open was a tennis tournament played on the outdoor hard courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York City, United States. It began on 29 August and was originally scheduled to end on 11 September, but the men's final was postponed to 12 September due to rain. Rafael Nadal and Kim Clijsters were the defending champions. Due to an abdominal muscle injury, Clijsters opted not to defend her title. In the women's singles, Australia's Samantha Stosur defeated Serena Williams in straight sets 6–2, 6–3 for her first Grand Slam title. Stosur thus became the first Australian female player to win a Grand Slam since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980. In the men's singles, both Nadal and Novak Djokovic played the final for the second consecutive year. This time, Djokovic won 6–2, 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 6–1 for his first US Open title. Points and prize money Point distribution Below is a series of tables for each of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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