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Karin Palme (daughter Of Mattias Palme)
Karin Palme (27 December 1977 - 10 February 2024) was a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Born in Guadalajara, Palme made her debut for the Mexico Fed Cup team in 1994. She played Fed Cup ever year up until 1999, by which time she was in her second season of college tennis at Arizona State University. In 2000 she earned All-American honors for singles. After graduating she continued to compete on the professional tour and represent Mexico in international events. She won two medals at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games and was a doubles bronze medalist at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. In 2003 she made a comeback to Fed Cup tennis for a further two ties, finishing her career with appearances in 26 ties, second only to Jessica Fernández. In 2024, Palme passed away. ITF finals Singles (1–4) Doubles (3–3) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Palme, Karin 1977 births 2024 deaths Mexican female tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642 people, making it the Metropolitan areas of Mexico#List of metropolitan areas in Mexico by population, third-largest metropolitan area in the country and the List of metropolitan areas in the Americas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the Americas Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico, with over 10,361 people per square kilometer. Within Mexico, Guadalajara is a center of business, arts and culture, technology and tourism; as well as the economic center of the Bajío region. It usually ranks among the 100 most productive and globally competitive cities in the world. It is home to numerous landmarks, including Guadalajara Cathedral, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Lucía Migliarini De León
Ana Lucía Migliarini de León (born 16 December 1983) is a Uruguayan former professional tennis player. Migliarini de León won three singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 March 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 338. On 25 November 2002, she peaked at No. 338 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Uruguay Fed Cup team The Uruguay Billie Jean King Cup team represents Uruguay in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Asociación Uruguaya de Tenis. They currently compete in the Americas Zone Group II. History Uruguay competed in its ..., Migliarini de León has a win–loss record of 16–24. ITF finals Singles (3–5) Doubles (8–11) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Migliarini de León, Ana Lucía 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Montevideo Uruguayan female tennis players 20th-century Uruguayan women 21st-century Uruguayan women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keri Phebus
Keri Phebus (born May 1, 1974) is a professional tennis player from the United States. During her pro career from 1991 to 1998, she won five titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, received a wildcard entry and won her first round match at the 1995 US Open. Phebus is the most decorated player in the history of UCLA women's tennis. Early career While a student at Corona del Mar High School, Phebus was the nation's top-ranked girl in juniors for multiple seasons. College While at UCLA, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female tennis player in 1995. In 1995, she was the first UCLA player ever to win the national singles championship and became the second woman in history to win both the NCAA singles and doubles titles in the same year. Phebus was the first women's tennis player inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. No other player has been so decorated in the history of women's tennis at UCLA. Professional career In professional tennis, on December 8, 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adria Engel
Adria Engel Raines (born December 21, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. Born in Chicago, Engel is of Czech heritage through both of her parents, who were noted sportspeople in their native Czechoslovakia. Her mother played tennis and trained with Věra Suková, while her father was a professional soccer player. She also has an elder brother, Marty, who played some professional tennis. Engel was a member of the Arizona State Sun Devils (ASU) varsity tennis team and amassed an ASU record 132 career-singles wins. In 2001, as a sophomore, she became the first player from ASU to claim a Pac-10 The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its College football, football teams compete in the NCAA D ... singles title. ITF finals Singles: 6 (2–4) Doubles: 9 (3–6) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. In the Low Country, it is the fourth largest municipality and largest town in South Carolina, and for several years was one of the state's fastest-growing areas, doubling in population between 1990 and 2000. The population was 90,801 at the 2020 census. The estimated population in 2019 was 91,684. At the foot of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge is Patriots Point, a naval and maritime museum, home to the World War II aircraft carrier , which is now a museum ship. The Ravenel Bridge, an eight-lane highway that was completed in 2005, spans the Cooper River and links Mount Pleasant with the city of Charleston. History The site of Mount Pleasant was originally occupied by the Sewee people, an Algonquian language-speaking tribe. The first European settlers arrived from England on July 6, 1680, under the leadership of Captain Florentia O'Sullivan. Captain O'Sullivan had been granted , which includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Montalvo
Laura Montalvo (born 29 March 1976) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Montalvo won eight ITF singles titles and reached a career high of No. 191 in singles in June 1995. Her win–loss record for singles is 143–76, 266–152 for doubles. Being a "doubles specialist" on the WTA Tour, she reached the ranking of No. 23 in doubles in May 2001. She played on doubles teams with both Liezel Huber and Paola Suárez. With Huber, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2000. They regularly competed together in Grand Slam tournaments and tour events for the next two years. She also frequently partnered her countrywoman Suárez, including at the 2000 Sydney Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ..., where they lost in the second round. The pair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Lopez Palacios
Mariana may refer to: Literature * ''Mariana'' (Dickens novel), a 1940 novel by Monica Dickens * ''Mariana'' (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson * ''Mariana'' (Vaz novel), a 1997 novel by Katherine Vaz Music *"Mariana", a song by Alberto Cortez *"Mariana", a song by Collectif Métissé *"Mariana", a song by Gibson Brothers Places * Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil **Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana *Mariana Lake, Alberta, Canada *Mariana, Corsica **Roman Catholic Diocese of Mariana in Corsica *Mariana, Humacao, Puerto Rico, a barrio *Mariana, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, a barrio *Mariana, Spain *Mariana, Quezon City, a barangay in Metro Manila, the Philippines; better known as New Manila *Mariana Islands, a group of islands in the north-western Pacific Ocean * Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world's oceans * Terra Mariana, alternative name (sobriquet) of modern Estonia, a medieval HRE principality in Estonia and Latvia Zoology * ''Mariana'', a synon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Maštalířová
Monika Maštalířová (born 22 January 1977) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Maštalířová reached a career high singles ranking of 412, competing in ITF Circuit tournaments, with all of her WTA Tour main draw appearances coming in doubles. She won 10 ITF doubles titles during her career. From 2001 to 2004, Maštalířová played college tennis at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ( ; es, Boca Ratón, link=no, ) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It was first incorporated on August 2, 1924, as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The population was 97,422 in the .... She was a member of Lynn's 2001 NCAA Division II Championship winning team and in 2003 was named SSC Player of the Year. ITF finals Singles: 4 (1–3) Doubles: 18 (10–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mastalirova, Monika 1977 births Living people Czech female tennis players Lynn Fighting Knights wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities by population, third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which is formed by La Paz, El Alto, Achocalla Municipality, Achocalla, Viacha Municipality, Viacha, and Mecapaca Municipality, Mecapaca makes up the second most populous urban area in Bolivia, with a population of 2.0 million, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra with a population of 2.3 million. It is also the capital of the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department. The city, in west-central Bolivia southeast of Lake Titicaca, is set in a canyon created by the Choqueyapu River. It is in a bowl-like depression, part of the Amazon basin, surrounded by the high mountains of the Altiplano. Overlooking the city is the towering, triple-peaked Illimani. Its peak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Jidkova
Alina Vladimirovna Jidkova (russian: Алина Владимировна Жидкова; born 18 January 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. In her career, she won one WTA doubles title, at the 2005 Mexican Open and reached the finals three other times, at the Memphis Open 2003, Québec 2006 and Cincinnati Masters 2007. She also won nine singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In March 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 51, while in August 2003, she peaked at No. 50 in the doubles rankings. Early life ''Alinka'', as is her nickname, was born in Moscow, then capital of the Soviet Union, to Vladimir, an engineer and a former professional weight lifter, and Lina, a school teacher and a former 100 meter sprinter. She has one brother, Dmitriy, former boxer, who now owns a construction business. She spent her early years in the Spartak Moscow tennis Club, but later she moved to the United States and attended Nick Bollettier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Arrangoiz
Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include: People In arts and entertainment *Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer *Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born in Milan, Italy *Paola Foka (born 1982), Greek singer *Paola Gaviria known as Power Paola (born 1977), Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist *Paola Oliveira, Brazilian actress *Suzanne Paola (born 1956), American poet and author *Paola Rey (born 1979), Colombian actress *Paola Rojas (born 1976), Mexican television news personality *Paola Turbay (born 1970), Colombian actress *Danna Paola (born 1995), Mexican actress and singer *Paola Lázaro (born 1994), Puerto Rican actress and playwright In politics *Paola Balducci (born 1949), Italian politician and jurist *Paola Concia (born 1963), Italian politician *Paola De Micheli (born 1973), Italian politician *Paola Pabón (born 1978) Ecuadorian politician and feminist *Paola Pinna (born 1974), Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad Victoria
Ciudad Victoria () is the seat of the Municipality of Victoria, and the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located in the northeast of Mexico at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental. It borders the municipality of Güémez to the north, Llera to the south, Casas Municipality to the east, and the municipality of Jaumave to the west. The city is located from Monterrey and from the US - Mexico border. Ciudad Victoria is named after the first president of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria. In 1825 Ciudad Victoria became the state capital. It is home to higher education institutions such as the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas and the Technological Institute of Ciudad Victoria. General Pedro José Méndez International Airport is located on the outskirts of the city. As a state bureaucratic centre, it is the seat of the three political powers and has sites of tourist and cultural interest. Pre-foundation The Viceroy of New Spain, Juan Francisco Güémez and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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