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Karin Ptaszek
Karin Ptaszek (born 24 December 1971) is a former professional Danish tennis player. Playing for Denmark at the 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 ..., Ptaszek has a win–loss record of 23–16. ITF finals Singles (3–6) Doubles (6–4) References External links * * 1971 births Living people Danish female tennis players {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub ... [...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] |
Claudine Toleafoa
Claudine Punipuao Toleafoa (born 28 February 1970) is a former professional tennis player from New Zealand. Biography Early years Toleafoa was born in Auckland and is of Samoan heritage, with her father Afamasaga Fa'amatala coming from Fasito'o Tai on the island of Upolu. Her mother, Phillipa Lousley, is from Dunedin. As a child she lived for a time in Samoa and represented the country in tennis at the 1985 South Pacific Mini Games. During her junior career she made the girls' doubles quarter-finals at both the 1987 and 1988 US Open competitions. Tennis career Toleafoa began playing for the New Zealand Federation Cup team in 1989 and won her debut match over Italy's world number 25 Sandra Cecchini, 10–8 in the third set, to help the side win the World Group tie. On the WTA Tour her best results came at her home tournament, the Wellington Classic. In 1990 she beat two seeded players, Donna Faber and Sandra Wasserman, to reach the semi-finals, then in 1991 made the quarter-fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annica Lindstedt
Annica Lindstedt (born 13 April 1978) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. During her career, she won three singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career highlights On 5 January 1998, Lindstedt reached her highest doubles ranking: world number 139. Her highest singles ranking was on 17 June 1996, when she became world number 401. In her career, she won $ US20,446. In October 1996, with her partner Anna-Karin Svensson, she won the $25,000 Flensberg. In September 1997, she won the $25,000 Kyiv, partnering with Germany's Caroline Schneider Caroline Schneider (born 1 June 1973) is a German professional tennis player. During her career, she won several titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career highlights On 25 April 1994, Schneider reached her highest doubles ranking: World Number .... ITF finals Singles finals: (3-1) Doubles finals (15-5) References External links * * * Swedish female tennis players 1976 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Finér
Sofia Tillström (born 15 May 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She competed during her career as Sofia Finér. Career Finér played on the professional tour in the 1990s, reaching a best singles ranking of 289 in the world, with two ITF titles. As a doubles player she had a top ranking of 254 and won three doubles titles on the ITF circuit. In 1997 she featured as a doubles player in three Fed Cup ties. Partnering Annica Lindstedt, the pair won two of their three matches together for Sweden. Now known as Sofia Tillström, she is a coach at the Ekerö Tennisklubb in the Stockholm region. Her husband is former ATP Tour player Mikael Tillström. ITF finals Singles (2–3) Doubles (3–6) See also *List of Sweden Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Sweden Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. Sweden have taken part in the competition since 1964. Players References External linksSvenska T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Jansson
Linda Jansson (born 10 September 1974) is a Finnish former professional tennis player. Biography Jansson comes from Åland, a Swedish speaking autonomous region of Finland. As a professional player she was most successful in doubles, with a best ranking of 233 and six ITF titles. She played the doubles rubber in ten Fed Cup ties for Finland, including a World Group quarterfinal against Australia in 1993, which was the team's best ever run in the competition. Outside of tennis, she also competed in the sport of racketlon and was the world champion in 2006, by which stage she was competing for Sweden. Since retiring she has remained involved in tennis, as an administrator and coach in Sweden. She has served on the board of the Swedish Tennis Federation and was a tournament director for the WTA Tour event Nordic Light Open The Nordic Light Open (sponsored by Nordea) was a women's tennis tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden (in 2002 and 2003 the tournament was played in Espoo, Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Savoldi
Elena Savoldi (born 11 November 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography Savoldi, who comes from Brescia, began her career on the ITF circuit in 1990. At the 1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens she won a silver medal in the women's doubles event, partnering Francesca Romano. She reached a career high singles ranking of 134 on the professional tour, with her best WTA Tour performances including a third round appearance at the 1993 Italian Open and a win over Miriam Oremans to make the round of 16 at Taranto Taranto (, also ; ; nap, label= Tarantino, Tarde; Latin: Tarentum; Old Italian: ''Tarento''; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important com ... in 1994. On the ITF circuit she won six singles titles. It was as a doubles player that she made her only grand slam main draw appearance, at the 1994 US Open with partner Susanna Attili. ITF final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Attili
Susanna Attili (born 7 March 1973) is an Italian former professional tennis player. In the early 1990s, Attili competed at WTA Tour level as a doubles specialist and reached a best doubles ranking of 131 in the world. She featured in the main draw of the 1994 US Open, with regular partner Elena Savoldi. Attili is married to former ATP Tour player Francesco Cinà, who coached Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci (; born 18 February 1983) is an Italian professional padel and former tennis player. In doubles tennis, she won five major tournaments and reached the world No. 1 position. She also reached a career-high ranking of world No. 7 in ... to the 2015 US Open final. ITF finals Doubles: 5 (1–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Attili, Susanna 1973 births Living people Italian female tennis players 20th-century Italian women Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the ''préfecture'' (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Seibold
Michaela Seibold (born 15 August 1975) is a German former professional tennis player. Seibold, who grew up in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Kuddewörde, reached a career high singles ranking of 223 while competing on the professional tour in the 1990s. Her only WTA Tour main draw appearance came in doubles, partnering Maja Palaveršić Maja Palaveršić-Coopersmith (born 24 March 1973) is a Croatian former tennis player that played for Yugoslavia and Croatia. Together with Nadin Ercegović, Gorana Matić and Maja Murić she was a member of the original Croatian Fed Cup team ... at the 1995 Amelia Island Championships. ITF finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 6 (4–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seibold, Michaela 1975 births Living people German female tennis players Sportspeople from Schleswig-Holstein People from Herzogtum Lauenburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Jehs
Julia Jehs (born 29 March 1975) is a German former professional tennis player. Jehs, who had a career high ranking of 223 in the world, played on the professional tour in the 1990s, with two WTA Tour main draw appearances. At the 1992 Strasbourg Open she won her first round match over Jenny Byrne, then lost in the second round to eighth seed Debbie Graham. She was beaten in the first round of the 1994 Linz Open. Following her professional career, Jehs was successful at collegiate level in the United States, competing for Lynn University from 1997 to 2000. She was a member of Lynn's 1997 and 1998 NCAA Division II Championship winning teams. Her three ITA All-American singles selections included an undefeated season in 1998 and she earned All-American honors a further four times for doubles. She is a member of the Sunshine State Conference The Sunshine State Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Els Callens
Els Callens (born 20 August 1970) is a former professional female tennis player from Belgium. Callens became professional in January 1990. Her biggest achievement came in 2000 during the Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the bronze medal in women's doubles, partnering Dominique Van Roost-Monami. She retired on 26 October 2005, after losing her second-round match at the Gaz de France Stars tournament in Hasselt. She startet a comeback, and finally retired from professional tennis in 2011. Nowadays, she works as sports commentator for the Belgian public broadcast Eén Eén (stylized as één; en, "one") is a public Dutch-language TV station in Belgium, owned by the VRT, which also owns Ketnet, Canvas and several radio stations. Although the channel is commercial-free, short sponsorship messages are broadca .... WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (11–3) Doubles: 17 (10–7) E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
