|
Pamela Jung
Pamela Jung (born July 3, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Jung grew up in California as one of four tennis playing siblings, coached by their father Eugene. The Jungs were the "USTA Tennis Family of the Year" in 1984. One of her brothers, Steven, made the title match at the 1989 NCAA Division I singles championships and competed professionally. A two-time All-American for Pepperdine University, Jung has the distinction of being the first player from the school to receive this honor (in 1983). Jung, who had a career high ranking of 215 on the professional tour, qualified for the main draw of the 1988 Australian Open. Her best performance on the WTA Tour came at the 1988 Auckland Open, where she beat sixth seed Elizabeth Minter Elizabeth Minter (born 23 August 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was born on 23 August 1965 in Australia and played on the WTA tour from 1980 to 1990. She now helps train young children. Tennis ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Steffi Graf defeated Chris Evert in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–3) to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1988 Australian Open. It was her first step towards completing the first, and so far only Grand Slam (tennis)#Golden Slam, Golden Slam in the history of pedestrian tennis. Hana Mandlíková was the defending champion, but was defeated by Graf in the quarterfinals. This tournament marked Evert's 34th (and last) appearance in a major singles final, an List of Grand Slam–related tennis records#Women's singles, all-time record. It was also her sixth Australian Open final in as many attempts. This was the first major final played under a roof. There was a 1-hour and 23-minute delay to close the roof at 1–1 in the first set. Martina Navratilova's streak of eleven consecutive Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major final appearances ended (starting from the 1985 French Open – Women's singles, 1985 French Open) when she lost to Evert in the semifinals. This was the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepperdine Waves Women's Tennis Players
Pepperdine University () is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California. Pepperdine's main campus consists of 830 acres (340 ha) overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, California. Founded by entrepreneur George Pepperdine in South Los Angeles in 1937, the school expanded to Malibu in 1972. Courses are now taught at a main Malibu campus, four graduate campuses in Southern California, a center in Washington, DC, and international campuses in Buenos Aires, Argentina; London, United Kingdom; Heidelberg, Germany; Florence, Italy; and Lausanne, Switzerland. The university is composed of an undergraduate liberal arts school (Seaver College) and four graduate schools: the Caruso School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, the Graziadio Business School, and the School of Public Policy. History Early years In February 1937, against the backdrop of the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Female Tennis Players
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleni Rossides
Eleni Rossides (born October 23, 1967) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Rossides, who is of Greek descent, grew up in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Eugene T. Rossides, a college football player at Columbia who was drafted by the New York Giants. Her father instead studied for a law degree, serving as Assistant to the Undersecretary of the Treasury in the Eisenhower administration and later Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon. While still in high school, Rossides made her WTA Tour main draw debut at the 1985 Virginia Slims of Washington and came up against Martina Navratilova. The match-up had only come about when Navratilova's original opponent, Andrea Leand, had to withdraw with an allergic reaction from a bee sting. She competed in the main draw of the 1985 US Open as a qualifier and took up a scholarship that year to attend Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Juni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Cooper
Allison Cooper (born August 4, 1966) is an American former professional tennis player. Cooper, a California native, played college tennis for the UCLA Bruins and won the 1988 NCAA Division I Women's Doubles Championship, partnering Stella Sampras. She and Sampras subsequently received entry into the doubles main draw at the 1988 US Open, where they came up against Louise Allen and Anna-Maria Fernandez Anna-Maria Fernandez (born October 22, 1960) is an American former professional tennis player active during the 1980s. She won five WTA titles during her career, all in doubles. Her career high ranking in singles was number 19, in approximately ... for their first round match, which they lost in a third set tiebreak. ITF finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 5 (1–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Allison 1966 births Living people American female tennis players UCLA Bruins women's tennis players Tennis people from California 21st-century A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which grew 4.6% between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, to 151,662, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. People in Midland are called Midlanders. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for oil and natural gas production. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; It was the onetime home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of former First L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Tiezzi
Andrea Tiezzi Rojas (born 26 November 1964) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Biography Tiezzi, a top-10 junior, played on the professional tour in the 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Tiezzi won silver medals for Argentina in both the women's doubles and mixed doubles events. She featured once in the singles main draw of a grand slam tournament, as a qualifier at the 1988 French Open The 1988 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 92nd staging of the French Open, and the second Grand .... Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a quarter-final appearance at Guaruja in 1989. ITF finals Singles (1–5) Doubles (2–11) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiezzi, Andrea 1964 births Living people Argentine female tennis players Pan American Games silver meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Mosca
Gabriela Mosca (born 12 August 1969) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Biography Born and raised in San Francisco, Córdoba, Mosca was based in Key Biscayne during her career, moving there at the age of 15. As a junior, she reached as high as second in the ITF rankings. Mosca competed as a professional player for nine years, with a best singles ranking of 192 in the world. She was a top 100 player in doubles and was featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at the French Open, Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... and the US Open. She is now living in Buenos Aires and works as a sports-lawyer. ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–2) Doubles (1–5) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mosca, Gabriela 1969 births Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Newman
Judy Newman Rakela (born May 11, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player. A native of Santa Cruz, Newman was the second born of four children and attended Harbor High School. She studied at the University of San Diego on a tennis scholarship and played on tour after graduating in 1984. Newman competed on the professional circuit until 1990, featuring on the WTA Tour and in grand slam qualifying. Following her time on tour she earned a master's degree in sports psychology at John F. Kennedy University John F. Kennedy University was a private university based in California with offices in Pleasant Hill, California, Pleasant Hill, San Jose, California, San Jose in California; Natick, Massachusetts; and Willemstad, Curaçao. The university was ... and plays on the ITF Senior circuit, where she has represented her country in World Championships. ITF finals Doubles: 1 (1–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Newman, Judy 1962 births Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.svg "Click for more on -> Mexico City"){kind=logo}
