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Désirée Leupold
Désirée Leupold (born 11 November 1972) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Leupold played on the professional tour in the 1990s and reached a best singles ranking of 375 in the world. She featured in four 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 tourna ... main draws as a doubles player, otherwise spending her career on the ITF Circuit. ITF finals Singles: 2 (0–2) Doubles: 5 (0–5) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leupold, Desiree 1972 births Living people Austrian female tennis players 20th-century Austrian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Prazeres
Sofia Prazeres (born 19 June 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Portugal. Biography Born in Porto, Prazeres started playing tennis at the age of seven. Prazeres debuted on the WTA Tour as a 16 year old at the 1990 Estoril Open, featuring in both the singles and doubles draws. In 1991, she began representing Portugal in Fed Cup competition and went on to become the most capped player in the team's history, with 30 wins from 49 matches. She made main draw appearances in singles at the 1995 Moscow Ladies Open and the 1997 Styrian Open. After making it to the final round of qualifying at the 1997 French Open, she reached her highest singles ranking of 152 in the world. This was the highest rank attained by a female player from Portugal until surpassed by Frederica Piedade. She retired in 1998, soon after winning Portugal's national championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time he legal time scale its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuria Montero
Nuria Montero (born 8 October 1978) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Montero reached a career-best singles ranking of 297 and made her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance as a qualifier at the 1998 Madrid Open. She was beaten in the first round by María Sánchez Lorenzo, after securing qualifying wins over Conchita Martínez Granados, Syna Schmidle and Alicia Ortuño Alicia Ortuño (; born 2 May 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. From 1990 to 2001, she won 30 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. She appeared in six Grand Slam events. Career highlight ..., the latter in a walkover. As a doubles player, Montero had a career-high ranking of 193, and won eleven titles on the ITF Circuit. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 14 (11 titles, 3 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Montero, Nuria 1978 births Living people Spanish female tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Cano
Marta Cano (born 27 September 1975) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Cano competed on the professional tour in the 1990s and reached a career high singles ranking of 356 in the world. Her only WTA Tour main draw appearance came in doubles, at the 1997 Madrid Open. She had a best doubles ranking of 213 and won seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental .... ITF finals Singles: 3 (0–3) Doubles: 13 (7–6) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cano, Marta 1975 births Living people Spanish female tennis players 20th-century Spanish women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Riera
Gisela Riera Roura (born 7 May 1976) is a retired Spanish tennis player. Riera won four singles and eight doubles ITF titles during her career and on 7 June 1999 reached a singles ranking high of world number 136. On 12 June 2000, she peaked at number 71 in the WTA doubles rankings. Riera retired from professional tennis 2003. Personal Born in Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ..., Riera started playing tennis at age eight. She prefers clay over hard courts. Her father's name is Jose Maria; mother's name is Angel; has four older siblings: Jose Maria, Carina, Leo and Rafael. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 runner-up ITF finals Singles (4–4) Doubles (8–12) Grand Slam doubles performance timeline External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riera, Gis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Popescu
Maria Popesco, wife of Victor Popescu (September 4, 1919 – 2004), was a Romanian-born socialite, convicted murderer and memoirist, whose case was at the center of one of the few miscarriages of justice in Switzerland. Born in Bucharest and the daughter in law of Stelian Popescu, a political figure and former Justice Minister, Popesco was arrested in 1945 in Geneva and accused of having murdered her mother in law Lelia Popescu (on June 26, 1945) and her maid Lina Mory (died on July 25, 1945), and for an assassination attempt against her father in law. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, even though critics believe that her guilt has never been proven. Particularly Georges Brunschvig and Anton Gordonoff, two main scientific experts in the case, accused the involved François Naville for wrong arguments concerning the confusion between Veronal and Quadronox. She was finally amnestied in 1957. The following years Popescu wrote her memoires; she married, lived in Valais and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Noszály
Andrea Noszály (born 7 January 1970) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. Biography Noszály, who grew up in Budapest, was raised in a sporting family. Her father Sandor Sr represented Hungary in high jump at the 1960 Rome Olympics and her younger brother Sándor Jr competed on the ATP Tour. During her career she reached a best singles ranking of 208 in the world and appeared in a total of three Federation Cup ties for Hungary, across 1989 and 1990 (overall win/loss 3–2). This included a World Group second round fixture against reigning champions Czechoslovakia, in which she lost to Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbled ... but won a dead rubber doubles. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (5–2) Doubles: 12 (2–10) See also * List of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Nagy
Kira Nagy (born 29 December 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. She won 18 singles and ten doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Kira won her first match on the WTA Tour in 2007 at the Palermo Ladies Open, defeating German Tatjana Malek 6–2, 7–5, before losing to Émilie Loit Émilie Loit (; born 9 June 1979) is a retired tennis player from France. Besides her three career singles titles, all on clay, included Estoril and Casablanca both in 2004, and Acapulco in 2007, she won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her hi .... She competed in the 2007 US Open, where she drew Venus Williams in the first round, losing 2–6, 1–6. This was her second Grand Slam tournament, after qualifying for the US Open in 2000. Nagy retired from professional tennis 2014. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 33 (18 titles, 15 runner-ups) Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups) ITF Junior Circuit Singles (3–2) Doubles (0–2) External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Pedroso
Joana Pedroso (born 6 February 1974) is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. Pedroso was runner-up in the 1994 national singles championships to Sofia Prazeres, which whom she partnered to three national doubles championships. She was also a two-time national champion in mixed doubles. While competing on the professional tour in the 1990s, Pedroso reached career best rankings of 488 in singles and 266 in doubles. She won two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Between 1993 and 1997 she featured in 18 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 ... ties for Portugal, winning seven singles and nine doubles matches, from a total of 30 rubbers. ITF finals Doubles: 6 (2–4) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pedroso, Joana 1974 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
