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Nathalie Viérin
Nathalie Viérin (born 15 October 1982) is a retired Italian professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is No. 103, which she reached on May 15, 2006. Her career high doubles ranking is No. 304, set 24 September 2007. She has won 6 singles ITF titles. Nathalie Viérin retired from professional tennis 2010. She is coached by Franco Bonaiti. Personal life Born and raised in Sarre, Aosta Valley Sarre ( Valdôtain: ; Issime wae, Soaru) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Twin towns — sister cities Sarre is twinned with: * La Turbie La Turbie (; oc, A Torbia; in Italian "Turbia" from ''t ..., her parents, Angela Sirianni and Robert Viérin, run a tennis club, where she began playing when she was 3. Viérin has two younger brothers, Matthieu and Julien. Baseliner who prefers clay; favorite shot is forehand. Nickname is Natha. Admires Monica Seles. Likes to visit the beach in Bol, Croatia. Favorite movie is Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarre, Aosta Valley
Sarre ( Valdôtain: ; Issime wae, Soaru) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Twin towns — sister cities Sarre is twinned with: * La Turbie La Turbie (; oc, A Torbia; in Italian "Turbia" from ''tropea'', Latin for trophy) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. History La Turbie was famous in Roman times for the large monument, the Trophy of Augus ..., France References Cities and towns in Aosta Valley {{Aosta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Pichet
Virginie Pichet (; born 28 January 1983) is a retired French tennis player. In her career, she won seven singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 June 2004, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 120. On 22 June 2009, she peaked at No. 239 in the doubles rankings. Pichet, who started playing tennis at the age of seven, competed in the main draw of the French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ... in singles 2003, 2004, 2006, and in doubles in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 she lost her first round. Virginie Pichet retired from tennis 2014. ITF finals Singles: 22 (7–15) Doubles: 12 (5–7) External links * * 1983 births Living people French female tennis players 21st-century French women {{France-te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campobasso
Campobasso (, ; nap, label= Campobassan, Cambuàsce ) is a city and ''comune'' in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso. It is located in the high basin of the Biferno river, surrounded by Sannio and Matese mountains. Campobasso is renowned for the craftsmanship of blades (including scissors and knives), a fact well documented since the 14th century. It is also famous for the production of pears and scamorza (cheese). The city is the home of the University of Molise and of the Archdiocese of Campobasso-Boiano. History The origins of Campobasso are disputed. According to the most widely held theory, the city was founded by the Lombards before the 8th century as a fortified camp on the slope of the hill where the castle stands. The original name was ''Campus vassorum'', suggesting that the city was the seat of the vassals of the duke of Spoleto. After the Norman conquest of Southern Italy, Campobasso lost its importance as a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathrin Wörle-Scheller
Kathrin Wörle-Scheller (née Wörle, born 18 February 1984) is a former German tennis player. Wörle-Scheller won three singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 22 February 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 119. On 16 May 2011, she peaked at No. 99 in the WTA doubles rankings. She played her last match on the ITF Circuit in August 2015. Playing for the Germany Fed Cup team, Wörle-Scheller has a win–loss record of 0–2 in 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 ... competitions. In September 2012, she married. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Minella
Mandy Minella (born 22 November 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Luxembourg. Having made her debut on the WTA Tour in 2001, she peaked at No. 66 in the WTA singles rankings in September 2012, and No. 47 in doubles in April 2013. Minella won two doubles tournaments on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title and three doubles events of WTA 125 tournaments. She also won 16 singles and ten doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Minella was coached by Norbert Palmier from May 2008 until 2011. She is coached by Tim Sommer, her husband since October 2014. Tennis career Early years: 2000–2005 In 2000, Minella debuted for the Luxembourg Fed Cup team, partnering Celine Francois in the doubles matches against the teams of Ukraine and Great Britain, losing both times. After again participating in Fed Cup in 2001 (where she won her first rubber), she began competing on the ITF Women's Circuit in the same year. In 2002, she received a qualifying wildcard in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monteroni D'Arbia
Monteroni d'Arbia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italy, Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about southeast of Siena in the area known as the Crete Senesi. It takes its names from the Arbia (river), Arbia torrent, a tributary of the Ombrone River. Main sights The ''pieve'' of Saint John the Baptist, at Corsano, dates from before 1031. With a nave and two aisles, it is an example of Romanesque architecture with Pisan and Lombard Romanesque, Lombard influences. It houses two canvasses by Alessandro Casolari. The church of Saints James and Christopher in Cuna, Monteroni d'Arbia, Cuna, has remains of 14th-century frescoes. People *Cesare Maccari, painter, lived in the hamlet of Quinciano References External links Official website Crete Senesi Monteroni d'Arbia, {{Siena-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maret Ani
Maret Ani (born 31 January 1982) is a retired tennis player from Estonia. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi. Ani was a junior basketball champion, but devoted herself to tennis from the age of 14. She moved to Italy three years later, after finding sponsorship for coaching. She was coached initially by Aita Põldma and later by Pierfrancesco Restelli. Ani first played for the Estonia Fed Cup team in 1998. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 runner-ups ITF Circuit finals Singles (7–14) Doubles (17–15) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ani, Maret 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Tallinn Estonian female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Estonia Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Franca
Martina Franca, or just Martina ( Martinese: ), is a town and ''municipality'' in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy. It is the second most populated town of the province after Taranto, and has a population (2016) of 49,086. Since 1975, the town has hosted the annual summer opera festival, the Festival della Valle d'Itria.''Festival della Valle d'Itria'' Official Website History Jewish presence In 1495 one third of the population of Martina was made of practising Jews or Jews converted to Christianity. The escape involved one third of the population: 150 to 200 families (at least one thousand people). Among the privileges granted the city council of Martina in 1495, King Frederick of Aragon forbade Jews and Crypto-Jews and Neofiti to press ch ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Gerards
Michelle Gerards (born 8 July 1984) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Biography A right-handed player from Limburg, Gerards was the Dutch Under-18 champion at the age of 13 and was a junior quarterfinalist at the 1999 French Open. Most of her professional career was spent on the ITF Circuit, reaching a best ranking in singles of 207 in the world. She made WTA Tour main-draw appearances at the 1999 Sanex Trophy in Knokke-Heist and 2000 Belgian Open, both times as a wildcard. Gerards featured in four Fed Cup ties for the Netherlands. In 2005, she played two doubles matches, partnering Dutch veteran Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, winning both, over Poland and Luxembourg. When she returned to the Fed Cup team in 2009, it was as a singles player and she won one match, over Claudine Schaul Claudine Schaul (born 20 August 1983) is a former tennis player from Luxembourg. Her career-high rankings are world No. 41 in singles, which was achieved on 24 May 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Hrdinova
Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), a fictional character in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series * Evangelion (mecha), commonly referred to as "Eva" or "EVA", a fictional cyborg in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise Films * ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film Music Artists *Eva (singer), French singer * E.V.A. (band) (Eve Versus Adam), an Italian female pop band * Banda Eva, a Brazilian axé band formerly fronted by Ivete Sangalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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