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Louise Pleming
Louise Pleming (born 22 June 1967) is an Australian former professional tennis player who participated in both the ITF Circuit and the WTA Tour. Background Pleming was born in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. She began to play tennis for fun when she was six years old. She attended the Vic Edwards Tennis School. In 1982 she began playing professionally. Championships Pleming played in 11 championships between 1991 and 2001. Out of a total 17 matches played, she won four (three in doubles, one in singles). She won 177 games, lost 239 games; won four tie-breaks and lost three tie-breaks. Her highest singles ranking was 290 in 1996 and her highest doubles ranking was 87 in 1998. Achievements In 2006 Tennis Australia appointed her a national touring coach. A year later she was the captain of the Australian Junior Fed Cup team that won. In 1999, she played the World Team Tennis with Martina Navratilova for the New York Buzz team. Between 1998–2002 she was an expert commentator for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
The women's doubles competition at the 1993 Australian Open was held between 18 January and 31 January 1993 on outdoor hard courts at the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park in Melbourne, Australia. Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva won the title, defeating Pam Shriver and Elizabeth Smylie in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 External links 1993 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there a ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1993 Australian Open - Women's Doubles Women's Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's doubles 1993 in Australian women's sport 1993 in women's tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Wejnert
Monika Wejnert (born 6 April 1992) is an Australian former tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 324, which she reached on 30 November 2009. Her career high ranking in doubles is No. 315, which she reached on 31 January 2011. Career Born in Brisbane, during the 2009 Australian Open wildcards round robin, Wejnert Defeated Jelena Dokić Jelena Dokic ( sr, Јелена Докић, Jelena Dokić; ; born 12 April 1983) is an Australian tennis coach, commentator, writer, and former professional tennis player. Her highest ranking as a tennis player was world No. 4, in August 2002. ... in three sets. They met again in the final where She lost to Dokic in a three-set thriller. At the Brisbane International Wejnert lost to finalist Marion Bartoli 6–1, 6–2. At the Australian Open Wejnert lost in the first Round to Karin Knapp in a tight match 7–6, 6–4, Monika has recently played in the AEGON trophy in Nottingham where she beat Mandy Minella in the first round be ... [...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] |
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] |
Cascais
Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Portugal, tourist destination. Its Cascais Marina, marina hosts events such as the America's Cup and the town of Estoril, part of the Cascais municipality, hosts conferences such as the Horasis Global Meeting. Cascais's history as a popular seaside resort originated in the 1870s, when King Luís I of Portugal and the House of Braganza, Portuguese royal family made the seaside town their residence every September, thus also attracting members of the Portuguese nobility, who established a summer community there. Cascais is known for the many members of royalty who have lived there, including King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, when he was the Duke of Windsor, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and King Umberto II of Italy. Exiled Cuban president Fulgencio Batista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Wiesner
Judith Wiesner (née Pölzl; born 2 March 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. During her career, she won five top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were world No. 12 in singles (in 1997), and No. 29 in doubles (in 1989). In 1996, Wiesner was a quarterfinalist at both Wimbledon and the US Open. Fed Cup Wiesner played her first match for the Austria Federation Cup team in 1983, and her last match in the Fed Cup in 1997. All together, she played in 14 different years, which is the most played by any player for Austria. She also holds the Austrian Fed Cup records for the most wins, the most singles wins, the most doubles wins jointly with Barbara Schett, and the most ties played. Post-tennis Initially, Wiesner turned her hand to golf, achieving a handicap of 2. She was the team captain of Austria's Fed Cup team for 2001. She married Roland Floimair in 2001. From 1999 until 2004 she was a member of the Salzburg city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Sprung
Heidi Sprung Vasudevan (born 10 January 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Biography Sprung, who is originally from Salzburg, played Fed Cup tennis for Austria in 1988. She teamed up with Judith Wiesner to win the deciding doubles rubber over Belgium, setting up a second round tie with the USSR. Against the USSR she beat world number 16 Larisa Savchenko in the singles, but this time lost the live doubles rubber. On the WTA Tour she was most successful as a doubles player, with a career best ranking of 97. She was a doubles finalist at the 1989 Fernleaf Classic in Wellington. Since retiring she has lived in Switzerland and is married to former India Davis Cup team representative Srinivasan Vasudevan. The pair run a tennis club in Zofingen Zofingen (french: Zofingue) is a city in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district of Zofingen. Zofingen is a walled city and home of an ancient monastic settlement. History In ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Brown
Justine may refer to: People * Jean-Lou Justine (born 1955), male French scientist * Saint Justine of Padua (died 304), a Christian martyr * Justine Bateman (born 1966), American film actress * Justine Clarke (born 1971), Australian actress * Justine Damond (1977–2017), Australian-American woman fatally shot by police * Justine Ezarik (born 1984), American YouTube personality * Justine Frischmann (born 1969), Britpop musician, lead singer of Elastica * Justine Henin (born 1982), Belgian tennis player * Justine Larbalestier, science fiction writer and critic * Justine Lévy (born 1974), French writer and editor * Justine Lindsay (born 1992), American cheerleader and dancer * Justine Littlewood care kid from The Story of Tracy Beaker (Series 1–5) * Justine Paris (1705–1774), French procurer * Justine Pasek (born 1979), model and Miss Universe 2002 from Panama * Justine Cathrine Rosenkrantz (1659–1746), Danish spy * Justine Siegal (born 1975), American baseball coach and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühel is one of the most famous and exclusive ski resorts in the world. It is frequented primarily by the international high society and has the most expensive real estate in Austria. The proximity to Munich has made it a preferred location for vacation homes among the German elite. Geography Kitzbühel is situated in the Kitzbühel Alps between Zell am See and Innsbruck. It lies in the Leukental valley on the Kitzbüheler Ache river. The town is subdivided into the municipalities of Am Horn, Aschbachbichl, Badhaussiedlung, Bichlach, Ecking, Felseneck, Griesenau, Griesenauweg, Gundhabing, Hagstein, Hausstatt, Henntal, Jodlfeld, Kaps, Mühlau, Obernau, Schattberg, Seereith, Siedlung Frieden, Am Sonnberg, Sonnenhoffeld, Staudach, Stockerdör ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian retired professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she reached No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for 10 weeks. Srebotnik won four singles titles on the WTA Tour and was ranked inside the top 30 for several years. However, her best results have been on the doubles circuit, where she has won 39 WTA titles, including one Grand Slam title, at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke. She has also won five Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010, the US Open in 2003 and the Australian Open in 2011. Career As a junior, she won the 1998 Wimbledon singles title and was runner-up at the US Open. Srebotnik was ranked No. 2 in the junior rankings in 1997 and 1998. She was mentored by Gabriela Sabatini. 1995–1999: WTA Tour debut and historic Guinness World record Srebotn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Golarsa
Laura Golarsa (born 27 November 1967) is a former Italian professional tennis player. Golarsa was born in Milan and played on the WTA Tour from 1985 to 2001. She did not win any senior titles but did reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 1989. Her singles record included victories over Zina Garrison and Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbl .... She won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 23 in August 1995. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (6–4) Doubles (3–3) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Golarsa, Laura 1967 births Hopman Cup competitors Italian female tennis players Living people Tennis players from Milan Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy (born April 13, 1979 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American former professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in 2001 and won six titles on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. Her best doubles ranking was world No. 4, and she won 17 WTA Tour doubles titles, including the WTA Championships in 2004. She is best known for her serve, which was one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match. Shaughnessy was coached and managed by Rafael Font de Mora for most of her career. She is the niece of Dan Shaughnessy, a ''Boston Globe'' sports columnist. Career Shaughnessy made her debut on the WTA Tour in 1996 in Budapest and broke into the top 100 in 1998. In 2000, she won her first WTA singles title in Shanghai, defeating Iroda Tulyaganova in the final, and breaking into the top 50. In her breakout year of 2001, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 11, won the second singles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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