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Mariana Simionescu
Mariana Simionescu (born 27 November 1956) is a retired tennis player from Romania. Career Simionescu won the French Junior Championships in 1974. She played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1980. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1977. She won one singles title and one doubles title. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 36 in 1978. Simionescu married Björn Borg Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ... on 24 July 1980, but the marriage ended in 1984. She never remarried, but lived with former F1 racer J.-L. Schlesser for a few years, with whom she has a son (Anthony).Andru Nenciu (26 October 2015)O viaţă ca-n poveşti şi un gol în suflet. "Aud şi acum vocea Florenţei Mihai. Cine îmi va mai spune mie Zu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Târgu Neamț
Târgu Neamț (; german: Niamtz, hu, Németvásár, he, נאמץ טרגו, la, Ante Castrum Nempch) is a town in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania, on the river Neamț. It had, , a population of 20,496. Three villages are administered by the town: Blebea, Humulești, and Humuleștii Noi. History Originally a market town, hence its name (in Romanian "târg" = ''market''), it had an important role in Moldavian culture. It was first mentioned in a late-14th century document. The name '' neamț'' is a generic name of Slavic origin for the German people in the Romanian language. This has led to speculation of a German foundation of Târgu Neamț, according to which Saxon colonists crossed the Carpathians from the Bistrița area and built a commercial township. Some Romanian historians, including Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu consider that Târgu Neamț was probably a German settlement from the 13th century, when the Teutonic Order made incursions from Transylvania against t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 WTA Tour
The 1974 WTA Tour was composed of the fourth annual Virginia Slims Circuit and Women's International Grand Prix, a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes. The WTA signed their first television broadcast contract in 1974, with the broadcasting network CBS with Brent Musburger announcing. Schedule This is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1974, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the 1974 Virginia Slims Championships and the 1974 Federation Cup. ;Key December (1973) January February March April May June July August September October November December Earnings Statistical information These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. They also include data for the Grand Slam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 WTA Tour
The 1973 WTA Tour was composed of the third annual Virginia Slims Circuit and Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix, a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes. It was also the year that the WTA Tour was officially formed by Billie Jean King following a meeting held in the Gloucester Hotel in London during the week before Wimbledon. Schedule This is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1973, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the 1973 Virginia Slims Championships and the 1973 Federation Cup. ;Key December (1972) January February March April May June July August September October November Grand Prix points system The Grand Prix tournaments were divided into four groups. Group AA consisted of the Triple Crown – the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open – while the other to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hallquist
Barbara Hallquist DeGroot (born May 1, 1957) is a retired professional tennis player from the U.S. She was the first female student to receive an athletic scholarship from the University of Southern California (USC) as a result of Title IX legislation. She played tennis for USC from 1976 to 1979. College titles Hallquist won the national collegiate singles title in 1976 and 1977. She also won four team national championships. She was a four-year letter winner (1976-1979) and a four-time All-American. Hallquist won seven national collegiate tournaments. She was the winner of the USTA singles titles in 1976 and 1977. She earned MVP honors in 1977 as a member of three US Junior Federation Cup teams. Professional career After college, Hallquist turned pro, and she attained a world ranking of 30, completing all four Grand Slam events. In 1980, Hallquist reached the singles quarterfinals at the US Open and advanced twice to the doubles quarterfinals. Her last major appearance was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Desfor
Diane Desfor (born June 15, 1955), is an American former tennis player who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her best result at a Grand Slam singles event was reaching the third round at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships with she lost in straight sets to seventh-seeded Billie Jean King. At the three other Majors she reached the second round in singles. In doubles, with partner Barbara Hallquist, she reached the quarterfinals of the US Open in 1979 and 1980. In December 1979, she won the doubles title at the New South Wales Open with Barbara Hallquist. In June 1981, she reached the semifinals of the singles event at Surbiton, which she lost to Hallquist in three sets. Desfor won the WTA Player Service Award in 1980 and 1982. She attended the University of Southern California and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977 with a degree in psychology. After her tennis career, Desfor became a lawyer, specializing in employment law Labour laws (also known as labor laws or em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Hunt
Lesley Hunt (born 29 May 1950) is a former tennis player from Perth, Western Australia. Particularly noted as a junior player, in 1964 at the age of 14 she won a rare double in the Western Australian Women's open, taking both the Open and Junior titles. She won the Australian junior championship in 1967 and 1968 and reached the final of the Wimbledon Junior Invitational in 1968. That year she also won the French and United States Junior Championships.''W.A. Hall of Champions'' inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport In 1968, she won the Australian and French Open Junior titles and the Australian Open Junior title again the following year. In 1974 she was ranked number 3 in Australia. Between 1967 and 1979 she was never outside the top six in Australia, playing among contemporaries Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull. Hunt was seeded once in the United States championships (number 8 in 1974); twice at the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Kloss
Ilana Sheryl Kloss (born 22 March 1956) is a former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and commissioner of World TeamTennis from 2001-21. She was the World's No. 1 ranked doubles player in 1976, and World No. 19 in singles in 1979. She won the Wimbledon juniors singles title in 1972, the US Open juniors singles title in 1974, and the US Open Doubles and French Open Mixed Doubles titles in 1976. She won three gold medals at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Personal life Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is Jewish. Kloss is married to Billie Jean King, the US tennis player. The two were married in a secret ceremony in 2018 and have been together for over 40 years. The two of them became minority owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team in September 2018 and Angel City FC, a Los Angeles-based team set to start play in the National Women's Soccer League in 2022, in October 2020. Tennis career Before turning professional, she won the juniors sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linky Boshoff
Delina Ann Boshoff-Mortlock, commonly known as Linky Boshoff (born 12 November 1956), is a former professional tennis player who won the 1976 US Open women's doubles title with her partner Ilana Kloss. In 1973 she won the South African Open doubles title with Ilana Kloss after a victory in the final against Chris Evert and Virginia Wade. In 1977, she won the singles title, defeating Brigitte Cuypers in the final in straight sets. In December 1975, Boshoff was the first selection in the 1976 World Team Tennis Draft by the San Diego Friars; however, she didn't sign with the team. In 1976, she won several doubles titles with Kloss, including the German Open, Italian Open and U.S. Clay Court Championships and reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles. She retired in 1978 to study computer science at the University of Port Elizabeth. She is married with three children and has continued to play the tennis at a recreational level. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Open (tennis)
The Italian Open ( it, Internazionali d'Italia; literally: ''Italy's Internationals''), originally called the Italian International Championships, is a tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most important clay tennis tournaments in the world with the men's competition being an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour, and the women's competition being a WTA 1000 event on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. The two events were combined in 2011. The tournament is played on clay courts, currently during the second week of May. The event is also known as the "Rome Masters" for male edition, as well as sponsored name "Internazionali BNL d'Italia". Rafael Nadal has won the men's singles title a record ten times. History The Italian tennis championship was first held in 1930 in Milan at the Tennis Club and was initiated by Count Alberto Bonacossa. The singles events at the tournament were won by Bill Tilden and Lilí Á ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianne Fromholtz
Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat (née Fromholtz; born 10 August 1956) is an Australian former professional tennis player who reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1979. Career Fromholtz began playing tennis at the age of seven. She left school at the age of 16 to play in international tournaments. She turned pro in 1973 and joined the WTA Tour. At the age of 17, she actively participated in the professional tennis circuit, winning the singles title at a dozen tournaments in 1973, but the rules at the time did not permit prize money to be paid to participants under 18 years of age. She reached the finals of the Australian Open in January 1977, losing to fellow Australian Kerry Melville Reid in two sets. She was a semifinalist at the French Open in 1979 and 1980. She also reached the semifinals of the US Open in 1976. Fromholtz won 8 WTA Tour singles titles and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in 1979. Partnering with Helen Gourlay Cawley, she won the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
