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Frederica Piedade
Frederica Piedade (born 5 June 1982) is a former Portuguese 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. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is No. 142, which she reached on 15 May 2006; her best doubles ranking is No. 158, achieved on 16 February 2009. Piedade has competed for he Portugal Fed Cup team, having a total win–loss record of 12–4. Though not officially retired, she hasn't played in the professional circuit since 2009. In the summer of 2014, Frederica toured the Portuguese communities on Long Island, New York as she prepared for the US Open. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 23 (11 titles, 12 runner-ups) Doubles: 38 (19 titles, 19 runner-ups) See alsoLuso Ténis Profile (in Portuguese) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Michálková
Michaela (Hebrew מיכאלה) is a female given name. It is a female form of the Hebrew name Michael (מִיכָאֵל), which means "Who is like God". As of 2008, it was 357th in rank for newborn girls in the United States, and 325th in England and Wales. It is very prevalent in the Czech Republic, ranking at number 9 in January 2002, and number 16 in January 2006. Variant forms There are numerous variant spellings. Equivalents in other languages include: *Meical (Welsh) *Micaela (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) *Michaëla (Dutch) *Michaiła (Polish) *Michailina (Czech, Lithuanian) *Michajlina (Belarusian) *Michala (Estonian) *Michalina (Polish) *Micheáilín (Irish) *Michela (Italian) *Michèle (French) *Michelina (Italian) *Michelle (English, French) *Micheline (French) *Miguela (Portuguese, Spanish) *Miguelina (Spanish) *Mihaela ( Croatian, Romanian) *Mihaéla ( Hungarian) *Mihaila (Bulgarian) *Mihajla (Serbian) *Mikaela (Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish) *Mikela (Basque) *Miķela ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teliana Pereira
Teliana Santos Pereira (born 20 July 1988) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. On 19 April 2015, she became the first Brazilian in 27 years to win a title on the WTA Tour, beating Yaroslava Shvedova in Bogotá 7–6, 6–1. She achieved a singles ranking of world No. 48 in August 2015, after having won her second WTA title at Florianópolis by defeating German Annika Beck in three sets. On 19 October 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 43. Pereira won 22 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 26–11 in international competition. Early and personal life Teliana Pereira was born on 20 July 1988 in Águas Belas, and was coached by her brother, Renato. Pereira's parents are Jose, who worked at a sugar cane plantation, and Maria; she has three brothers and three sisters. At a very young age, her father moved to Curitiba, where he had two brothers, and once he got a job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorgelina Cravero
Jorgelina Cravero (born 23 January 1982) is a retired Argentine tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 106 in singles (achieved on 10 September 2007) and 114 in doubles (set on 17 November 2008). Cravero has not won a title on the WTA Tour in singles or doubles. However, she won 15 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In 2007, Cravero qualified for three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, losing in the opening round every time: to Justine Henin at Wimbledon, to Martina Müller at the Australian Open and to Aravane Rezaï at the US Open. Playing for Argentina Fed Cup team, Cravero has a win–loss record of 6–7. Most memorable experiences were qualifying for the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2007. Cravero enjoys the clay surface best of all and started playing tennis at the age of five. She turned professional in 2000. In 2011, she announced her retirement from professional tennis. Personal Cravero was born in San Francisco, Córdoba. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Vymetálková
Olga Vymetálková (née Blahotová; born 24 January 1976) is a Czech retired tennis player. She won six singles and 40 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit during her career. On 20 March 2006, Vymetálková reached her best singles ranking of world No. 143. On 13 September 2004, she peaked at No 82 in the WTA rankings, WTA doubles rankings. Vymetálková retired from professional tennis 2012. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 16 (6–10) Doubles: 73 (40–33) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vymetalkova, Olga 1976 births Living people Czech female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenifer Widjaja
Jenifer Widjaja (born 7 December 1986) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Widjaja, a right-handed player, is originally from São Roque near the city of São Paulo and is of Indonesian descent. Coached by her father Tony, she was only 14 when she began competing in local ITF circuit tournaments. In 2004, she had her breakthrough year when she won three $10,000 events in the space of a month, at Guayaquil, La Paz and Asuncion. Her biggest tournament win was a $25,000 tournament in San Luis Potosi in 2006. She featured in a WTA Tour main draw for the first time at the 2007 Copa Colsanitas (Bogota), in the women's doubles with Larissa Carvalho. They were defeated in the first round by Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci. Straight after that event, she travelled to Acapulco and made the main singles draw of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel WTA tournament, as a lucky loser from qualifying, where she was beaten again in the opening round, by sixth seed Gisela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Torres Sandoval
Melissa Torres Sandoval (born 3 February 1984) is a Mexican former tennis player who now serves as a federal lawmaker. Life Torres Sandoval was born in Mexico City. She is an alumna of the Universidad Anáhuac, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in business administration in 2008 and a master's degree in journalism in 2014. Tennis career Torres Sandoval has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 227, achieved on 18 February 2008. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 207, set on 25 November 2002. Torres Sandoval won six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Mexico Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 18–13 in Fed Cup competition. Torres Sandoval made her WTA Tour debut at the 2007 Abierto Mexicano Telcel. Having entered the tournament with a wildcard in the main draw, she defeated Nicole Pratt and Eva Birnerová in the quarterfinals, before losing to Julia Schruff. She retired from tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucía Jiménez (tennis)
Lucía Jiménez Arranz (born 21 November 1978) is a Spanish actress. She started with a David Trueba movie, '' The Good Life'', and she became very popular thanks to the TV series ''Al salir de clase ''Al salir de clase'' is a Spanish teen drama television series produced by BocaBoca. The 1,199-episode-long broadcasting run on Telecinco spanned from September 1997 to July 2002. Premise The fiction, set in the Madrilenian ''Instituto Siete ...''. Filmography Cinema Television References External links * 1978 births Living people Spanish film actresses People from Segovia Spanish television actresses 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Kirkland
Jessica Kirkland (born November 10, 1987) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Played on the WTA tour 2002-2009. Career high 151. In 2004, she was the Girls Singles Finalist at the U.S. Open in New York City, New York. Kirkland also won Wimbledon juniors mix doubles with Andy Murray. A highlight of her career was making the 4th round at Indian Wells in 2005. She dominated Marion Bartoli (FRA) 6-0, 6-1. She Had Numerous wins over players in the top 50 and top 25 in her career. In her career, Kirkland won a total of four ITF titles, of which three were in singles and one in doubles. As a junior, she was ranked #1 in the World (2005). Won The Girls 18’s Orange Bowl & Easter Bowl. USTA National Hardcourt Girls 18’s Champion. ITF Winter International Girl’s 18’s Champion 2004 (in the quarterfinals she defeated Caroline Wozniacki). ITF International Hard Courts Girl’s 18’s Champion. USTA Winter Nationals Champion Girls 14’s. USTA National Clay Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheli Bargil
Cheli is a Spanish-language juvenile sociolect or jargon diatopically restricted to the Madrid area, developed in the 1970s, primarily associated to the post-Francoist counterculture. It drew influence from the hampa and drug-dealing jargons, and it has been noted for Spanishizing Caló and English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ... words as well as rescuing archaic Spanish-language words. Some popular Cheli words (such as ''privar'', ''molar'' or ''vasca'') were actually recorded already in the early 20th century in dictionaries of argot, even if frequently with different meanings. Other phenomena related to the sociolect include the distortion of words, modified with ''-ata'', ''-ota'' and ''-eta'' suffixes. While as a non-technical jargon, many, if not most, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Bratchikova
Nina Bratchikova (russian: Нина Олеговна Братчикова; born 28 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Bratchikova won nine singles and 35 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 10 December 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 79. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings. Tennis career 2010 In 2010, Bratchikova entered the ITF tournament in Moscow, where she won the doubles event partnering French Irena Pavlovic against Ukrainian sisters Lyudmyla Kichenok & Nadiia Kichenok. She also won the ITF singles event in Johannesburg, beating Tamarine Tanasugarn in the final. 2012 In January, Bratchikova qualified and made it to the third round of the Australian Open main draw in which she beat Flavia Pennetta in the first round, Alberta Brianti in the second and lost to Iveta Benešová. She made her top-100 debut (No. 92) the following week. In May, she reached to the third round of French O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Schmidt
Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to: People *Jennifer (given name) * Jenifer (singer), French pop singer * Jennifer Warnes, American singer who formerly used the stage name Jennifer * Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer * Daniel Jenifer Film and television * ''Jennifer'' (1953 film), a film starring Ida Lupino * ''Jennifer'' (1978 film), a horror film by Brice Mack * ''Jennifer'', a 1998 Ghanaian film starring Brew Riverson Jnr * "Jenifer" (''Masters of Horror''), an episode of ''Masters of Horror'' Music * The Jennifers, a British band, some of whose members later formed Supergrass * ''Jenifer'' (album), an album by French singer Jenifer * ''Jennifer'' (album), a 1972 album by Jennifer Warnes * "Jennifer", a 1974 song by Faust from ''Faust IV'' * "Jennifer", a 1983 song by Eurythmics from ''Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'' (album) * "Jennifer", a 2001 song by M2M from ''The Big Room'' Other uses * Hurricane Jennifer * Project Jennifer, a CIA attempt to recover a Soviet subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
