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Paula Marama
Paula Marama (born 13 February 1984) is a retired New Zealand female tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title and ten doubles titles on the ITF circuit. On 27 September 2004, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 443. On 26 April 2004, she peaked at world number 289 in the doubles rankings. Playing for New Zealand at the 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 chan ..., Marama has a win–loss record of 5–3. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (1–0) Doubles: 12 (10–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marama, Paula New Zealand female tennis players 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Wellington City 21st-century New Zealand women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes urbanised ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volos
Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos is also the only outlet to the sea from Thessaly, the country's largest agricultural region. With a population of 144,449 (2011), the city is an important industrial centre, and its port provides a bridge between Europe and Asia. Volos is the newest of the Greek port cities, with a large proportion of modern buildings erected following catastrophic earthquakes in 1955. It includes the municipal units of Volos, Nea Ionia and Iolkos, as well as smaller suburban communities. The economy of the city is based on manufacturing, trade, services and tourism. Home to the University of Thessaly, the city also offers facilities for conferences, exhibitions and major sporting, cultural and scientific events. Volos parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaysie Smashey
Kaysie Smashey (born April 11, 1980) is an American former professional tennis player. Smashey, who was born and raised in El Paso, played college tennis on a scholarship for the Texas Longhorns between 1999 and 2002. On the professional tour, Smashey reached a best ranking of 451 in singles and 146 in doubles. She made four doubles main-draw appearances on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ..., with her best performance a quarterfinal appearance at Memphis in 2005. Her four ITF doubles titles included the $50,000 Waikoloa tournament. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 14 (4 titles, 10 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smashey, Kaysie 1980 births Living people American female tennis players Texas Longhorns women's tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Breadmore
Lauren Breadmore (born 1 June 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Biography Born in Melbourne, Breadmore attended Wesley College where she graduated in 2001 with an VCE score of 99.1 and was awarded the Alexander Wawn Scholar Dux Award. From 2002, she competed on the international tennis circuit. In 2003, she won both the singles and doubles titles at an ITF tournament in Wellington. In 2004, she made the first of her three main-draw appearances in women's doubles at the Australian Open. At the beginning of the 2005 season, she made her WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the Canberra Women's Classic, which remained her only appearance at that level. She featured in a total of 36 professional tournaments in 2005, as well as at the Summer Universiade in Turkey. Her titles in 2005 included a $25,000 tournament in Lyneham, Canberra. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2006 Australian Open and was beaten in the first round by 14th seed Sve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benalla
Benalla is a small city located on the Broken River gateway to the High Country north-eastern region of Victoria, Australia, about north east of the state capital Melbourne. At the the population was 10,822. It is the administrative centre for the Rural City of Benalla local government area. History Prior to the European settlement of Australia, the Benalla region was populated by the Taungurung people, an Indigenous Australian people. A 1906 history recounts that prior to white settlement "as many as 400 blacks would meet together in the vicinity of Benalla to hold a corrobboree". The area was first sighted by Europeans during an expedition of Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824 and was noted as an agricultural settlement called "Swampy". The expedition was followed by that of Major Thomas Mitchell in 1834. Rev. Joseph Docker settled in 1838 creating a pastoral run called ''Benalta Run'', said to be from an Aboriginal word for musk duck. Docker's property was int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaslyn Hewitt
Jaslyn Hewitt-Shehadie (born 23 February 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is the younger sister of Lleyton Hewitt. Biography Tennis career A right-handed player from Adelaide, Hewitt was highly ranked in junior tennis and represented Australia at the 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games in Edinburgh. Hewitt had a best singles ranking of 304 in the world on the professional circuit. In 2001 she featured in the main draws of two WTA Tour tournaments, the Croatian Bol Ladies Open and Belgium's Sanex Trophy, which was followed by home appearances at the 2002 Sydney International and 2005 Gold Coast Hardcourt. Her biggest title win came at the Canberra ITF in 2004, where she beat top seed Evie Dominikovic in the final of the $25,000 tournament. As a doubles player she competed as a wildcard in the main draw of the women's doubles at the Australian Open every year from 2002 to 2005. Personal life During her career she was in a relationship with Swedish te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua ( ; born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Masters and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she also won 22 ITF singles titles. Dellacqua's career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA Tour doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed-doubles title at the 2011 French Open. She reached the finals of all four Grand Slam events in women's doubles, appearing in seven major finals from 2008 to 2017, however failed to win a title. Dellacqua won her biggest women's doubles title at the Premier Mandatory 2015 Madrid Open, partnered with Yaroslava Shvedova. Dellacqua achieved her highest singles ranking of world No. 26 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrnambool
Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Allansford) marks the western end of the Great Ocean Road and the southern end of the Hopkins Highway. History Origin of name The name "Warrnambool" originated from Mount Warrnambool, a scoria cone volcano 25 kilometres northeast of the town. Warrnambool (or Warrnoobul) was the title of both the volcano and the clan of Aboriginal Australian people who lived there. In the local language, the prefix Warnn- designated home or hut, while the meaning of the suffix -ambool is now unknown. William Fowler Pickering, the colonial government surveyor who in 1845 was tasked with the initial planning of the township, chose to name the town Warrnambool. The traditional Indigenous owners of the land today are the Dhauwurd Wurrung people, also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Kozhokina
Ekaterina Kozhokina (russian: Екатерина Кожокина; born 27 April 1983) is a Russian retired tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 264, reached on 19 March 2001. Kozhokina also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 170, achieved on 8 July 2002. Kozhokina won four singles titles and six doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Kozhokina made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2003 Kremlin Cup in the doubles event, partnering Maria Kondratieva Maria Alexandrovna Kondratieva (russian: Мария Александровна Кондратьева; born 17 January 1982) is a retired Russian tennis player. Kondratieva, who started playing tennis aged seven and turned professional in 1999, .... ITF finals Singles (4–3) Doubles (6–12) References External links * * 1983 births Living people Russian female tennis players Tennis players from Moscow 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Gourevitch
Raissa Gourevitch (russian: Раиса Гуревич, born 1 March 1984) is a former Russian tennis player. In her career, she won twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 September 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 396. On 2 February 2004, she peaked at No. 257 in the doubles rankings. Gourevitch made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2001 Tashkent Open in the doubles event partnering Yuliya Beygelzimer Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Career She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Op .... She retired from the professional tour in 2010. ITF finals Single ...
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Ekaterina Bychkova
Ekaterina Andreevna Bychkova (russian: Екатерина Андреевна Бычкова; born 5 June 1985) is an inactive tennis player from Russia. In her career, Bychkova won ten singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit. On 20 February 2006, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 66. On 29 January 2007, she peaked at No. 106 in the doubles rankings. Bychkova defeated defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round of the 2005 US Open (tennis), 2005 US Open. She was coached by her mother, Liudmila Bychkova. Her father's name is Andrey Bychkov. Introduced to tennis by her mother, she began playing at the Spartak and Chajka tennis clubs. Currently coaches players and commentates with Eurosport, She co-hosted, with Irish-born Russia-based sportsperson, sports journalist and administrator Alan Moore (Russian athlete), Alan Moore, on Capital Sports from 2017-18. She also reported for ''The Bookmaker Ratings''. [...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] |
