Eva Bes Ostariz
Eva Bes Ostáriz (born 14 January 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. She won a total of six singles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit during her career. On 4 March 2002, she reached a singles ranking high of world No. 90. On 22 May 2000, she peaked at No. 71 in the WTA doubles rankings. As a junior, Bes was the 1991 French Open girls' doubles champion. She retired from professional tennis in 2003. Personal Coached by her brother, Pablo Bes, Eva's favorite surface has been clay; best shot is forehand. Father, Rafael, is a doctor; mother, MaPilar, is a housewife; has three brothers, Rafael, Pablo and Jorge, two of whom are tennis coaches. Admires Gabriel Urpi, her first coach. Favorite tournament has been Roland Garros. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (6–8) Doubles: 49 (29–20) Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles (1–0) See also * List of French Open champions The following is a list of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the Huerva and the Gállego, roughly in the center of both Aragon and the Ebro basin. On 1 January 2021 the population of the municipality of Zaragoza was 675,301, (the fifth most populated in Spain) on a land area of . The population of the metropolitan area was estimated in 2006 at 783,763 inhabitants. The municipality is home to more than 50 percent of the Aragonese population. The city lies at an elevation of about above sea level. Zaragoza hosted Expo 2008 in the summer of 2008, a world's fair on water and sustainable development. It was also a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2012. The city is famous for its folklore, local cuisine, and landmarks such as the Basílica del Pilar, La Seo Cathedral and the A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ana Alcázar
Ana Alcázar (born 8 June 1979) is a former Spanish female 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. She has won six singles titles ITF career. On 8 June 1998, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 119. On 16 February 1998, she peaked at world number 252 in the doubles rankings. ITF finals Singles finals (6–2) Doubles finals (0–2) External links * * 1979 births Living people Spanish female tennis players Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games 20th-century Spanish women {{Spain-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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María José Llorca
María José Llorca (born 3 March 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Llorca is originally from Valencia and was trained in Barcelona as a junior. A a right-handed player, she appeared in a total of four Federation Cup ties for Spain, the first two in 1986 when she was still only 16. In 1987 she featured in another two ties, including a World Group second round fixture against Australia which they lost, despite Llorca winning the opening rubber against Anne Minter. From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She and Anna-Karin Olsson were runners-up in the doubles at the 1988 Spanish Open, which included a win over top seeds Bettina Fulco and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Both of her grand slam main draw appearances came at the 1988 French Open, where she featured in the main draw of the women's doubles and mixed doubles, partnering Alison Scott and Jordi Arrese respectively. In 2003 she took up the sport of padel tennis and was ranked as high as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caroline Vis
Caroline Vis (born 4 March 1970 in Vlaardingen) is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles final at the 1991 French Open, playing with countryman Paul Haarhuis Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He won six Grand Sla .... Her career-high doubles ranking was No. 9 in the world, which she reached in August 1998. Vis retired in 2006. Grand Slam mixed doubles finals Runner-up (1) WTA Tour finals Doubles finals (9-17) ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (5-5) External links * * * 1970 births Living people Dutch female tennis players People from Vlaardingen Sportspeople from South Holland {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Simone Schilder
Simone Schilder (born 7 April 1967) is a former Dutch tennis player. She won a total of two singles and eight doubles ITF titles in her career. On 4 July 1988, she reached a singles ranking high of world No. 164. On 14 August 1989, she peaked at No. 71 in the doubles rankings. At the age of 17, Schilder became the 1984 French Open girls' doubles champion and represented the Netherlands at the 1984 Summer Olympics. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (8–9) See also * List of French Open champions The following is a list of French Open champions in tennis: Champions † Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. A French club members only tournament. †† Disputed champions: Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. Not sanctioned or recogn ... External links * * * 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Beverwijk Dutch female tennis players French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Viktoria Milvidskaia Belinsky
Viktoria Mikhailovna Belinsky (née Milvidskaia, 20 April 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. Her highest WTA rankings were 168 in singles and 145 in doubles. Early life Belinsky began playing tennis at the age of seven in Moscow. She played for the famous Spartak tennis club, and her coaches were Alexandra Granaturova and Larisa Preobrazhenskaya. In 1983, she won the First International Tournament in Moscow which earned her the honour of Master of Sports of the USSR, International Class (equates to international champion). Professional career She was a member of the USSR national tennis team (1983–1989) and represented the USSR in many different tournaments around the world. In 1984, she became the youngest USSR national champion. Belinsky played in all Grand Slam tournaments. She had career wins over Manon Bollegraf, Tami Whitlinger, Sandra Wasserman, Nicole Arendt, Inés Gorrochategui, Lubomira Bacheva, Regina Maršíková, Andrea Strnadová ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Silvia Ramón-Cortés
Silvia Ramón-Cortés Montaner (born 9 August 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography A right-handed player from Barcelona, Ramón-Cortés represented the Spanish national team as a junior and was runner-up to countrywoman Pilar Pérez in the 1990 Orange Bowl. Ramón-Cortés reached a highest singles ranking of 125 on the professional tour. Her biggest title win was a $25k tournament in Vigo in 1994. On the WTA Tour, she was a quarterfinalist at the 1995 Styrian Open and also made the round of 16 that year at Amelia Island, beating world No. 39, Miriam Oremans Miriam Oremans (born 9 September 1972) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25. She did not win any singles titles (Oremans did have two Satel ... en route. She retired from pro circuit in 1996 and now works as a communications consultant. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (3–0) Doubles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cláudia Chabalgoity
Cláudia Silvia Chabalgoity (born 13 March 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Born in Brasilia, Chabalgoity began playing tennis at the age of three. She has an elder brother, Carlos, who also played briefly on the pro tour. Right-handed Chabalgoity began touring internationally in 1989 and won two ITF $25k titles that year, one at home in São Paulo and the other in the Spanish city of Pamplona. She had a best singles ranking of 121, attained in 1990. As a doubles player, she made it to 102 in the world and was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments. She appeared in the main draw of two Grand Slam events, the women's doubles at the 1990 US Open, then both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at the 1991 French Open. During her career, she represented Brazil in several international competitions. As a member of the Brazil Fed Cup team, she featured in a total of six ties, all across 1990 and 1991 (overall record: 1–7). Her only win was in sing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual (; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three career Women's Tennis Association (WTA) titles as well as reaching two Grand Slam quarterfinals and a top-30 ranking, but she had been far more successful in doubles. She won 43 career WTA doubles titles, including eleven at Grand Slam tournaments: ten in women's doubles (eight partnering Paola Suárez, and two partnering Anabel Medina Garrigues) and one in mixed doubles (partnering Tomás Carbonell). Between 2002 and 2004, along with Suárez, she reached nine consecutive Grand Slam tournament finals (won five) and they reached at least the semifinals of the last twelve Grand Slam tournaments they played. Their winning run came to an end when they lost in the 2009 Wimbledon semifinals. Alongside Suarez, the pair was names as a ITF World Champions for the three consecutive years in-a-row (2002-2004). Personal life Her father, Jua ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Sandu
Raluca Sandu (born 3 February 1980) is a Romanian retired tennis player and professional padel player. On 18 January 1999, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 68 whilst her best doubles ranking was 228 on 13 September 1999. Raluca turned pro at the age of 15 and reached WTA top 100 by the time she was 17 years old. She was also ranked top 10 in the world ITF juniors ranking, reaching the semifinals at the 1995 US Open. Raluca was forced to retire early due to shoulder injury (2004). Personal Raluca is the daughter of former Romanian football player and former president of the Romanian Football Federation, Mircea Sandu and her late mother, Simona Arghir former handball player and captain of Romanian national handball team. Raluca has one more sibling, older brother Dan Mircea. In her youth she was dating former world number 1 Carlos Moya for two years. ITF Circuit finals Singles (4–7) Doubles (1–2) Head-to-head records ''Players who have been ranked wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gloria Pizzichini
Gloria Pizzichini (born 24 July 1975) is an Italian former tennis player. On 18 November 1996, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 45. In the same year, she won her only WTA Tour title. In the 1996 "M" Electronika Cup final, she defeated domestic player Silvija Talaja 6–2, 6–0 to collect the trophy. In her career, Pizzichini defeated players such as Julie Halard, Iva Majoli and Ruxandra Dragomir. She was the first player to be beaten by Elena Dementieva in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 1999 Australian Open. Personal life Born to Enzo and Maria Pizzichini, Gloria began playing tennis aged seven. She has a sister, Francesca, and a brother, Paolo. Pizzichini cited Stefan Edberg Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 ... as her role ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (; born 5 July 1979) is a French former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player and tournament director. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles titles at the 2006 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2006 Australian Open and 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon Championships, and also won the silver medal in singles at the Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, 2004 Summer Olympics and the singles title at the 2005 WTA Tour Championships – Singles, 2005 year-end championships. Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on 13 September 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was known for her powerful one-handed backhand and strong net play. She officially announced her retirement from professional tennis on 3 December 2009, ending a career of 15 years. The following year, she started coaching several Women's Tennis Association, WTA and Associ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |