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Kathy Foxworth
Kathy Foxworth (born November 4, 1964) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Originally from St. Louis, she is the daughter of boxer Bob Foxworth, who once fought an exhibition bout with Joe Louis. Foxworth played college tennis for the University of Houston, where she was an NCAA All-American for singles in 1987 and twice earned All-American honors for doubles. During her career on the professional tour she featured in the women's doubles main draw of the US Open on three occasions and played in the mixed doubles at the 1988 Wimbledon Championships The 1988 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 102nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from .... She had best rankings of 267 in singles and 128 in doubles. Her brother, Bruce Foxworth, was also a professional tennis player. ITF finals Doubles: 20 (11â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Seeds # Emmanuelle Derly ''(first round)'' # Sabine Auer ''(first round)'' # Donna Faber ''(second round)'' # Jana PospĂšilová ''(second round)'' # Cathy Caverzasio ''(first round)'' # Veronika Martinek ''(first round)'' # Kumiko Okamoto (qualified) # Anna-Maria Fernandez ''(first round)'' # Pilar Vásquez ''(first round)'' # Penny Barg (qualified) # Cammy MacGregor ''(first round)'' # Ronni Reis (qualified) # Julie Richardson ''(first round)'' # Louise Field (qualified) # Lisa O'Neill ''(qualifying competition, ''Lucky loser'')'' # Tina Mochizuki ''(first round)'' Qualifiers # Ronni Reis # Penny Barg # Lise Gregory # Jo-Anne Faull # Karen Hunter # Louise Field # Kumiko Okamoto # Sandy Collins Lucky losers # Lisa O'Neill # Karine Quentrec # Shaun Stafford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingelise Driehuis
Ingelise Driehuis (born 17 September 1967) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Biography Driehuis played collegiate tennis in the United States, first at Clemson University, before transferring to the University of Florida in 1987. She is a member of the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame. In the early 1990s she competed as a professional, mainly in doubles, with a best ranking of 87 in the world. As a singles player her most notable achievement was qualifying for the main draw of the 1991 Australian Open, where she lost a close first-round match to Andrea Leand, 6–8 in the third set. She was a regular in the doubles draws of grand slam tournaments and made the quarter-finals of the women's doubles at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Maja Murić. She now works as a lawyer and runs her own firm in Wassenaar Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and Dorp (town), town located in the Provinces of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Thomas (tennis)
Jane Thomas (born March 24, 1966) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Thomas, who grew up in Washington State, played tennis for the UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). ... and was a three-time All-American. She won the 1987 Pac-10 singles championship. From 1987 to 1990 she competed on the professional tour. As a doubles player she featured in the main draw of all four grand slam tournaments in 1989, reaching her best ranking that year of 106 in the world. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Jane 1966 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players from Washington (state) UCLA Bruins women's tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heliane Steden
Heliane Marie Steden (born 18 July 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Born in West Germany, Steden later emigrated to Mexico City, where she was raised. As a junior she competed at Wimbledon and was a girls' singles quarter-finalist at the 1981 US Open. Tennis career She debuted for the Mexico Fed Cup team in 1981, as a 17-year-old. In 1982 she secured a win for Mexico over Belgium when she had a straight sets win over Marion De Witte. This set up a second round tie against the United States and she came up against Martina Navratilova in the singles, which she lost in two sets. She also played a Fed Cup rubber against top Australian player Wendy Turnbull, in 1983, which she came close to winning having held four match points. At the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas she won a bronze medal in the women's singles, with a win over Brazil's Silvana Campos in the playoff. From 1983 to 1986 she attended the University of Southern California on a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city. In 1808, Greensborough (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the county's geographical center, a location more easily reached at the time by the majority of the county's citizens, who traveled by horse or on foot. In 2003, the previous Greensboro–Winston-Salem– High Point metropolitan statistical area was redefin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg is a city in and the county seat, seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city of Spartanburg has a municipal population of 38,732 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the 11th-largest city in the state. For a time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) grouped Spartanburg and Union County, South Carolina, Union Counties together as the Spartanburg metropolitan statistical area, but as of 2018,the OMB defines only Spartanburg County as the Spartanburg MSA. Spartanburg is the second-largest city in the greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area, Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,385,045 as of 2014. It is part of a 10-county region of northwestern South Carolina known as "Upstate South Carolina, The Upstate", and is located northwest of Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia, west of Charlotte, North Carolina, and about northeast of Atlanta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Adams
Katrina M. Adams (born August 5, 1968) is an American tennis executive and former professional tennis player from Chicago. She was president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and chair of the US Open (tennis), US Open, as well as the chair of the International Tennis Federation Fed Cup and Gender Equality in Tennis committees. As a player, Adams was a doubles specialist, reaching the quarterfinal stage or better at all four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slams as well as achieving a career-high doubles ranking of no. 8 (August 1989). Her book, ''Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One'' was published in 2021. Early life Adams joined a tennis program on Chicago's West Side, Chicago, West Side when she was six years old. She attended Whitney Young Magnet High School, Whitney Young High School, becoming Illinois High School Association the first Chicago Public School and first African American singles champion in 1983 and 1984. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until 1829, the city was named after Fayetteville, Tennessee, from which many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated on November 3, 1836, and was rechartered in 1867. The three-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 102nd in terms of population in the United States with 560,709 in 2021 according to the United States Census Bureau. The city had a population of 95,230 in 2021. Fayetteville is home to the University of Arkansas, the state's flagship university. When classes are in session, thousands of students on campus change up the pace of the city. Thousands of Arkansas Razorbacks alumni and fans travel to Fayetteville to attend football, basketball, and baseball games. The city of Fayetteville is collo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seabrook Island, South Carolina
Seabrook Island, formerly known as Simmons Island, is a barrier island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,714 at the 2010 census, up from 1,250 in 2000. Seabrook Island is part of the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area. Geography Seabrook Island is located in southwestern Charleston County at (32.582173, -80.163332), bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west by the North Edisto River, and to the north by Bohicket Creek. To the east along the Atlantic shoreline as far as the Kiawah River, across which is the town of Kiawah Island. Most of the eastern border of the town, however, is next to unincorporated land. The city of Charleston is to the northeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Seabrook Island has a total area of , of which is land and , or 14.74%, is water. Geography and climate The Köppen Climate Classification System rates the climate of Seabrook Island as humi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Fuchs
Jennifer Fuchs (born July 2, 1967) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Fuchs grew up in Long Island, New York and began to play tennis at the age of nine. She went to University of California, Los Angeles on a full scholarship, where she played collegiate tennis for two years before turning professional in 1987. Fuchs made the 1988 Australian Open as a qualifier and was beaten in the first round by 13th seed Catarina Lindqvist. She suffered a serious shoulder injury during a tour of Italy in 1988 after being struck by a car while walking on the side of the road. The injury didn't keep her off the circuit for long but would cause issues throughout her career. In 1989 she qualified for the Australian Open singles main draw a second time. As a doubles player she appeared in all four grand slam tournaments during her career, with her best performance a round of 16 appearance at the 1989 Australian Open. She was a semi-finalist in the doubles at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
