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Emmanuelle Curutchet
Emmanuelle Pironneau (born 19 December 1978) is a former tennis player from France. She competed during her career as Emmanuelle Curutchet. Biography Curutchet played on the professional tour in the 1990s and had a best ranking in singles of 160 in the world. She appeared in the women's singles main draw at the French Open on three occasions. At the 1999 French Open she won a first-round match against Jelena Dokic 11–9 in the third set. Dokic would famously upset Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (, sk, Martina Hingisová; 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Hingis is the first Swiss player, male or female, to win a major title and attain a world No. 1 ranking. She spent a total of 209 weeks a ... at Wimbledon a month later. Now known as Emmanuelle Pironneau, she retired after the 1999 season and currently runs a sports management company in Pau. ITF finals Singles: 6 (3–3) Doubles: 7 (4–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 French Open – Women's Singles
Steffi Graf defeated Martina Hingis in the final, 4–6, 7–5, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1999 French Open. It was her Open Era record-extending 22nd and final major singles title, and she equaled Chris Evert's record of nine French Open final appearances. Graf also became the first player in the Open Era to defeat the top-three ranked players at the same major; defeating world No. 2 Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals, No. 3 Seles in the semifinals and No. 1 Hingis in the final. Hingis was attempting to complete the career Grand Slam in singles. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion, but lost to Hingis in the semifinals. This was the first major appearance for future world No. 1 and four-time French Open champion Justine Henin. Seeds Qualifying draw Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links1999 French Open – W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year since 2012. Etymology The name derives from Classical Latin ''insula maior'', "larger island". Later, in Medieval Latin, this became ''Maiorca'', "the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in tennis, helped establish Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis with Kim Clijsters, and led the country to its first Fed Cup crown in 2001. She was known for her all-court style of play and for being one of the few female players to use a single-handed backhand. Henin won seven Grand Slam singles titles: winning the French Open in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the US Open in 2003 and 2007 and the Australian Open in 2004. At Wimbledon, she was the runner-up in 2001 and 2006. She also won a gold medal in the women's singles at the 2004 Olympic Games and won the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 2006 and 2007. In total, she won 43 WTA singles titles. Tennis experts cite her mental toughness, the completeness and variety of her game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Basting
Yvette Basting (born 8 June 1977) is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. During her professional career from 1992–2002, she won seventeen titles on the ITF Women's Circuit and qualified twice for the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Career highlights On 5 March 2001, Basting reached her highest singles ranking: world number 92. Her best doubles ranking came on 28 May 2001, when she became world number 106. In her career, Yvette Basting reached the singles final 14 times in ITF Women's Circuit tournaments, winning eight titles. In 1994, she won the $25k Flensburg tournament in Germany and the $25k Poitiers tournament in France. In 1999, Basting won the $25k Jaffa tournament in Israel, and in 2000, she won the $25k Pamplona tournament in Spain and the $50k Naples tournament in the United States. In October 2000, with her partner Katalin Marosi, she won the $75k Poitiers. In February 2001, partnering Elena Tatarkova, she won the $75k Dow Corning Tennis Classic The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelos
Gelos (; oc, Gelòs) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department The following is a list of the 546 Communes of France, communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 202 ... References Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pyrénées-Atlantiques communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{PyrénéesAtlantiques-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Wöhr
Jasmin Wöhr (; born 21 August 1980) is a retired German tennis player. Biography During her career, Wöhr won four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 14 December 1998, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 188. On 23 July 2007, she peaked at No. 46 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Germany Fed Cup team, Wöhr accumulated a win–loss record of 3–1. In 1997, she won the Australian Open girls' doubles title with Mirjana Lučić Mirjana (; ) is a Slavic feminine given name meaning ′''mir''′ ("peace, world, prestige, area, space"). The name is widespread throughout Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. Mirjana is possibly a form of Miriam a .... Wöhr retired from professional tennis in 2012. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 title) WTA career finals Doubles: 10 (4–6) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 38 (23–15) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Feber
Nancy Feber (born 5 February 1976) is a retired Belgian tennis player. As a junior player, she won four Grand Slam titles – one in singles and three in doubles. Feber won French Open twice, in 1992 and 1993, both times in doubles with Laurence Courtois. At the 1993 Wimbledon Championships, she triumphed in both singles and doubles.Player Activity: Nancy Feber at the Junior Profile Feber played as a professional tennis player from 1991 to 1998. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Plischke
Sylvia Plischke (Czech: Plischkeová, born 20 July 1977) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic, representing Austria. Her career high ranking was No. 27 in the world, achieved in 1999. Biography Sylvia Plischke was born in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, to Lubomír Plischke and Alena Plischkeová. The family moved to Austria when Sylvia was six years old and Sylvia went on to represent Austria in the Fed Cup and the Olympic Games. Her mother had also been an Olympian, having represented Czechoslovakia in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ... in the high jump. WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (1-0) ITF finals Singles Finals (2-1) Doubles (2-3) External links * * * 1977 births Living people Austrian female te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Križan
Tina Križan (born 18 March 1974) is a former Slovenian professional tennis player. Known primarily for her achievements playing doubles, as the first Slovenian in the 90' she reached a career-high singles ranking of 95, including a win over Jana Novotna and a career-high doubles ranking of 19 in 2002, including wins over Martina Navratilova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Ana Ivanovic and Flavia Pennetta. She has won 6 WTA doubles titles and has been runner-up in more than 10 WTA doubles events, she has also won 10 ITF tournaments. Tina represented Slovenia in doubles at the Olympics in 1992, 2000 and 2004 (both latter years partnered with Katarina Srebotnik Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian retired professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she reached No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ...). She qualified twice for the doubles season end Masters Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neustadt An Der Donau
Neustadt an der Donau is a town in Lower Bavaria on the Danube in Bavaria, Germany. Lying on the western border of Landkreis Kelheim, Neustadt is primarily known for the thermal spa Bad Gögging. Neustadt had a population of 12,753 as of December 31, 2003. Geography The city is located halfway between Ingolstadt and Regensburg, on an approximately wide gravel plain of the Danube valley, which at this point is south of the wooded foothills of the tertiary Donau-Isar hill country of the Hallertau and bounded on the north by the limestone slope of the southern Franconian Alb. The rivers Ilm and Abens flow into the Danube in the city. The township includes 22 districts Arresting, Bad Gögging, Deisenhofen, Eining, Geibenstetten, Haderfleck, Heiligenstadt, Hienheim, Irnsing, Irnsing-Steinbruch, Karpfenstein, Lina, Marching, Mauern, Mulhouse, Niederulrain, Oberulrain, Schwaig, Sittling, Umbertshausen and Wöhr . The area heavily dominated by agriculture; asparagus and in pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Rösch
Angelika Rösch (born 8 June 1977) is a retired female tennis player from Germany. She reached her career-high ranking in singles of No. 69 in the world on 24 February 2003, and retired from professional tennis in 2010. Rösch turned professional in 1996 and spent several years in mostly ITF Women's Circuit events before enjoying her best year in 2002, reaching the top 100 and making her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon. She also beat Elena Dementieva Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva (, ; born 15 October 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. ... three times during that season, with Dementieva being ranked in the top 20 in all three of the meetings. She went on to play in all four Grand Slams during 2003, but failed to advance past the first round in any of them. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 runner-up ITF finals Singles (5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphanie Rizzi
Stéphanie Rizzi (born 23 August 1981) is a French former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Grenoble, Rizzi spent her career on the ITF Circuit and reached a best ranking of 257 in the world. She won two ITF singles titles, including the $25k Les Contamines tournament in 2002. Rizzi competed in the qualifying draw of the French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ... on four occasions, without making it through to the main draw. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (2–4) Doubles: 4 (2–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rizzi, Stephanie 1981 births Living people French female tennis players Sportspeople from Grenoble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
