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Netherlands At The Hopman Cup
Netherlands is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tournament on eight occasions, their first appearance coming at the 2nd annual staging of the event in 1990. They have been runner-up in one tournament in 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare .... Players This is a list of players who have played for the Netherlands at the Hopman Cup. References {{Hopman Cup Hopman Cup teams Hopman Cup Hopman Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Hopman Cup
The 1990 Hopman Cup was the second edition of the Hopman Cup, an international mixed teams tournament played at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, Western Australia. The event was held from 26 December 1989 through 1 January 1990. Twelve teams competed in the tournament with the top four seeded teams (United States, Spain, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union) each receiving a bye into the quarter-finals. The remaining eight teams played in the first round. In the final which was played on 1 January, Spanish pair, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Emilio Sánchez defeated the American pair, Pam Shriver and John McEnroe 2–1 to record Spain's first victory at the Hopman Cup. Teams Seeds # – Pam Shriver and John McEnroe ''(Final)'' # – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Emilio Sánchez ''(Champions) # – Helena Suková and Petr Korda ''(Semifinals)'' # – Natalia Zvereva and Andrei Chesnokov ''(Quarterfinals)'' # – Hana Mandlíková and Mark Woodforde ''(S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Hopman Cup
The 1995 Hopman Cup was the seventh edition of the Hopman Cup that was held at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, in Perth, Western Australia. Teams Seeds # – Jana Novotná and Petr Korda ''(Semifinals)'' # – Anke Huber and Boris Becker ''(Champions) # - Conchita Martínez and Albert Costa ''(Quarterfinals)'' # – Lindsay Davenport and Richey Reneberg ''(Quarterfinals)'' # - Natalia Medvedeva and Andrei Medvedev ''(Final)'' # - Julie Halard and Jean-Philippe Fleurian ''(Semifinals)'' # - Amanda Coetzer and Christo van Rensburg ''(First Round)'' # - Judith Wiesner and Horst Skoff ''(Quarterfinals)'' Unseeded * – Inés Gorrochategui and Javier Frana ''(First Round)'' * – Kristine Radford and Pat Cash ''(Quarterfinals)'' * – Brenda Schultz and Tom Nijssen ''(First Round)'' * – Åsa Carlsson and Mats Wilander ''(First Round)'' Draw First round Austria vs. Argentina Australia vs. South Africa Ukraine vs. Sweden France vs. Netherlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopman Cup Teams
Henry Christian Hopman CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach. Early life Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, Sydney as the third child of John Henry Hopman, a schoolteacher, and Jennie Siberteen, née Glad. His family then moved to Parramatta. Hopman started playing tennis at the age of 13 and, playing barefoot, won an open singles tournament on a court in the playground of Rosehill Public School where his father was headmaster. He was later a student at Parramatta High School where he played tennis and cricket. Davis Cup Hopman was the successful captain-coach of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams from 1939 to 1967. With players such as Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor, Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser, John Newcombe, Fred Stolle, Tony Roche, Roy Emerson, Ashley Cooper, Rex Hartwig, Mervyn Rose and Mal Anderson, he won the cup an unmatched 16 times. In late 1951, when it appeared that Davis Cup player Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wessels
Peter Wessels (born 7 May 1978) is a presently inactive tour professional male tennis player from the Netherlands. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 72 in February 2005. Biography Wessels had an excellent junior career, finishing No. 5 in singles and No. 18 in doubles in the 1995 world junior rankings. In that year he reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon and US Open juniors and captured Roland Garros junior doubles title with fellow countryman Raemon Sluiter. His best result on the professional tour was winning the 2000 ATP tournament in Newport beating German Jens Knippschild in the final 7–6, 6–3. He started 2006 by qualifying for the Hopman Cup tournament in Perth with Michaëlla Krajicek where the Dutch went all the way to the final only to be beaten in a very close mixed doubles by the American team of Taylor Dent and Lisa Raymond. Despite this, Wessels and Krajicek proved that they were a force to be reckoned with. At the Hopman Cup, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Siemerink
Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink (born 14 April 1970) is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. The former Dutch Davis Cup captain reached a career-high ATP ranking of 14. Career Tennis As a junior player, Siemerink was the Dutch 18-under champion in 1988. He also won the doubles title at the 1988 Orange Bowl junior championship in Florida. Siemerink turned professional in 1989. Over the course of his career, he won four top-level singles titles (at Singapore in 1991, Nottingham in 1996, and at Rotterdam and Toulouse in 1998). He also won ten tour doubles titles, the most significant of which were the Miami Masters in 1993 and the Monte Carlo Masters in 1996. Siemerink's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1998, where he reached the quarterfinals by defeating Ctislav Doseděl, David Prinosil, Jonas Björkman and Magnus Larsson before being knocked-out by Goran Ivanišević. Siemerink is also known for winning a fourth set tiebreak against comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a former Dutch tennis player. Primarily known by her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour , Players , Info (Biography) , Brenda Schultz-McCartney Schultz is known for her fast serve (tennis), serve; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiel Schapers
Michiel Schapers (born 11 October 1959) is a former tennis player from the Netherlands. Tennis career Turning professional in 1982, Schapers represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in quarterfinals by eventual winner Miloslav Mečíř of Czechoslovakia. In 1987 at Wimbledon, he was the only player to take a set against eventual champion Pat Cash in their third-round match. His most famous victory was over reigning Wimbledon champion Boris Becker in the second round of the 1985 Australian Open. Schapers went on to reach the quarterfinals, his best singles result at a Grand Slam, and later equaled that result at the 1988 Australian Open. In 1988, he reached the final of the mixed-doubles draw at the French Open together with Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in which they lost to Lori McNeil and Jorge Lozano. Schapers reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 25 April 1988 when he became world No. 25. After his playing career, he bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Hopman Cup
The 1994 Hopman Cup was the sixth edition of the Hopman Cup that was held at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, in Perth, Western Australia. Jana Novotná and Petr Korda of the Czech Republic defeated Anke Huber and Bernd Karbacher of Germany in the final to win the title. Teams Seeds # – Jana Novotná and Petr Korda ''(Champions)'' # – Mary Joe Fernandez and Ivan Lendl # – Conchita Martínez and Emilio Sánchez # – Nathalie Tauziat and Cédric Pioline # – Nicole Provis and Wally Masur # – Natalia Medvedeva and Andrei Medvedev # – Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere and Jakob Hlasek # – Amanda Coetzer and Marcos Ondruska Unseeded * - Judith Wiesner and Alex Antonitsch * - Anke Huber and Bernd Karbacher ''(Finalists)'' * - Miriam Oremans and Jan Siemerink * - Catarina Lindqvist and Mikael Pernfors Draw Results First Round Switzerland vs. Netherlands Australia vs. Sweden Austria vs. Ukraine Germany vs. South Africa ---- Quarterfinals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Oremans
Miriam Oremans (born 9 September 1972) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25. She did not win any singles titles (Oremans did have two Satellite tournament wins in 1989), but did win three titles in doubles. In 1992 she was runner-up together with Jacco Eltingh in the Mixed Doubles finals of Wimbledon. Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the silver medal in doubles, partnering Kristie Boogert, losing the final match to Venus and Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for .... Major finals Olympic finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA Tour finals Singles 5 Doubles 12 (3–9) ITF finals Singles Finals: ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Nijssen
Tom Nijssen (born 1 October 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. He went pro in 1984 and played at the ATP World Tour for 15 years. Nijssen's highest ATP singles ranking was No. 87 on 17 April 1989. He reached his best doubles ranking on 11 May 1992 when he became world No. 10. A doubles specialist, he won two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with Manon Bollegraf, the French Open in 1989 and the US Open in 1991. They were runner-up at the Wimbledon mixed doubles tournament in 1993. In 1992 Nijssen and Helena Suková were the US Open mixed-doubles finalists. Career finals Doubles (11 titles, 14 runner-ups) Doubles performance timeline See also *List of Grand Slam Mixed Doubles champions List of Mixed Doubles Grand Slam tennis tournament champions: Although several players have won at least one title in each of the four majors to achieve the Career Grand Slam, only three players have won the Grand Slam, all four titles in a si ... Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an international eight-team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament that played mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.It was held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, before being replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the now defunct ATP Cup. It is set to return in July 2023 in Nice, France. Format Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments such as the Davis Cup and the Fed Cup, which are for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition in which male and female players are on combined teams and represent their countries. Players are invited to attend and national coaches are not involved in selecting teams. The tournament is a sanctioned official event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) but, while individual player results are tallied, they are not regarded as official ATP matches or included in the calculation of ATP or WTA rankings. Eight nations are selected annually to compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Hopman Cup
The 2005 Hopman Cup (also known as the Hyundai Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th edition of the Hopman Cup. Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchová and Dominik Hrbatý of Slovakia were the champions, when they defeated Argentina in the final. It was Slovakia's second Hopman Cup win. The event took place at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth from 1 January 2005 through 8 January 2005. The round robin event had one African nation that played in the main draw of this year's Hopman Cup: Zimbabwe, who lost 1–2 to The Netherlands. Play-off Netherlands vs. Zimbabwe Group A Teams and standings Teams and seeds of the 2005 Hopman Cup in Group A were: * – Gisela Dulko and Guillermo Coria (Round robin win–loss: 3–0; match win–loss: 6–3) * – Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Tommy Haas (Round robin win–loss: 2–1; match win–loss: 5–4) * – Francesca Schiavone and Davide Sanguinetti (Round robin win–loss: 1–2; match win–loss: 4–5) * – Anastasia Myski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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