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Simone Schilder
Simone Schilder (born 7 April 1967) is a former Dutch tennis player. She won a total of two singles and eight doubles ITF titles in her career. On 4 July 1988, she reached a singles ranking high of world No. 164. On 14 August 1989, she peaked at No. 71 in the doubles rankings. At the age of 17, Schilder became the 1984 French Open girls' doubles champion and represented the Netherlands at the 1984 Summer Olympics The Netherlands competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 136 competitors, 82 men and 54 women, took part in 74 events in 15 sports. Medalists Archery Both of the Dutch archers from the 1980 competition returned in .... WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (8–9) See also * List of French Open champions External links * * * 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Beverwijk Dutch female tennis players French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Defending champion Steffi Graf successfully defended her title, defeating Helena Suková in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1989 Australian Open. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Steffi Graf is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Steffi Graf ''(champion)'' # Martina Navratilova ''(quarterfinals)'' # Gabriela Sabatini ''(semifinals)'' # Pam Shriver ''(third round)'' # Helena Suková ''(finalist)'' # Zina Garrison ''(quarterfinals)'' # Barbara Potter ''(first round)'' # Claudia Kohde-Kilsch ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lori McNeil ''(first round)'' # Mary Joe Fernández ''(third round)'' # Sylvia Hanika ''(first round)'' # Patty Fendick ''(second round)'' # Raffaella Reggi ''(fourth round)'' # Anne Minter ''(second round)'' # Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valda Lake
Valda Lake (born 11 October 1968) is a former tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1983 and retired in 1997. Over the course of her career, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world number 172 in singles (achieved on 11 April 1988) and number 56 in doubles (achieved on 20 June 1994). During her career, Lake was more successful in doubles than she was in singles, winning eight ITF titles and reaching the final of the 1994 China Open. She represented Great Britain in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta playing doubles with Clare Wood and reaching the quarter-finals before losing to the Gold Medalist American Team- Gigi Fernández and Mary Joe Fernández Mary Joe Fernández Godsick (born María José Fernández; August 19, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up .... She currently lives in Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Barnard
Linda Barnard (born 10 August 1968) is a South African former professional tennis player. Barnard had a best singles ranking of 191 in the world and claimed three ITF titles, two of which came by beating Amanda Coetzer in the final. It was as a doubles player that she was most successful, with a career high ranking of 78. She made the third round of the women's doubles at both the 1989 US Open and 1990 Wimbledon Championships The 1990 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 104th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held .... ITF finals Singles: 5 (3–2) Doubles: 12 (8–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnard, Linda 1968 births Living people South African female tennis players White South African people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Aallonen
Anne Aallonen (born 15 July 1967) is a Finnish-born Hong Kong former professional tennis player. On 23 October 1989, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 179. On 20 August 1990, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 116. Anne Aallonen debuted for the Finland Fed Cup team in 1985, winning her singles match in the tie against the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team. In 1999 she competed for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team The Hong Kong Billie Jean King Cup team represents Hong Kong in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Hong Kong Tennis Association. They will compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2022. Team members 2015 F .... ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles Finals: 17 (9-8) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aallonen, Anne 1967 births Living people Finnish female tennis players Hong Kong people of Finnish descent Hong Kong female tennis players Finnish emigrants Immigrants to Hong K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciana Della Casa
Luciana Della Casa (born 24 February 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. She has career-high WTA rankings of 383 in singles, achieved on 26 November 1990, and 224 in doubles, reached on 17 July 1989. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 1990 Brasil Tennis Cup The Brasil Tennis Cup was a professional women's tennis tournament contested in various Brazilian cities since 1977. The last edition was played on outdoor hard courts in Florianópolis, Brazil. In 2015, the tournament was held on clay court .... ITF finals Doubles: 3 (0–3) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Della Casa, Luciana 1971 births Brazilian female tennis players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudia Chabalgoity
Cláudia Silvia Chabalgoity (born 13 March 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Biography Born in Brasilia, Chabalgoity began playing tennis at the age of three. She has an elder brother, Carlos, who also played briefly on the pro tour. Right-handed Chabalgoity began touring internationally in 1989 and won two ITF $25k titles that year, one at home in São Paulo and the other in the Spanish city of Pamplona. She had a best singles ranking of 121, attained in 1990. As a doubles player, she made it to 102 in the world and was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments. She appeared in the main draw of two Grand Slam events, the women's doubles at the 1990 US Open, then both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at the 1991 French Open. During her career, she represented Brazil in several international competitions. As a member of the Brazil Fed Cup team, she featured in a total of six ties, all across 1990 and 1991 (overall record: 1–7). Her only win was in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Sullivan
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Borneo
Belinda Borneo (born 10 November 1966) is a British former professional tennis player. Tennis career A right-handed player, Borneo reached a career best singles ranking of 238 in the world. She featured in the singles main draw at Wimbledon on three occasions, without making it past the first round. At the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, she held match points in her loss to Carrie Cunningham Carrie Cunningham (born April 28, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player who played on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Circuit from 1987 until 1994. She comes from the state of Michigan, United States. Career singles highli .... Borneo was ranked as high as 84 in doubles and won one WTA Tour title, the 1992 Wellington Classic. WTA Tour finals Doubles (1–1) ITF finals Doubles: 16 (6–10) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borneo, Belinda 1966 births Living people British female tennis players English female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Simpkin
Anne Simpkin Meredith (born 2 April 1969) is a British former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Leicestershire, Simpkin reached a career best ranking of 200 in the world while competing on the professional tour. Simpkin featured as a wildcard in the singles main draw at Wimbledon on three occasions. Her best performance on the WTA Tour came at Eastbourne in 1989, where she had a first round win over Julie Salmon, before losing in the second round to Mary Joe Fernandez Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also call .... She won one singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit. ITF finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 7 (3–4) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpkin, Anne 1969 births Living people British female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Tanvier
Catherine ("Cathy") Tanvier (born 28 May 1965) is a former tennis player from France. She peaked at number 20 in 1984, and won one singles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Career In 1982, Tanvier became Wimbledon girls' singles champion after defeating first-seeded Helena Suková in the final in straight sets. Tanvier won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 1983 Freiburg Open clay court tournament, defeating Laura Arraya in the final in straight sets. At the Wimbledon Championships she reached the fourth round in the singles event in 1985, which she lost to eight-seeded Zina Garrison. Reaching the fourth round was also her best singles result at the Australian Open (1989, 1990, 1991) and French Open (1983, 1988). Her best career result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the semifinal of the 1983 French Open women's doubles event with Ivanna Madruga. Tanvier published two biographies; in 2007 she wrote ''Déclassée – de Roland-Garros au RMI'', and in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Paradis
Pascale Paradis-Mangon (born 24 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France. Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did reach the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1988, defeating Manuela Maleeva, Nathalie Herreman, Robin White and Anne Minter before falling to Steffi Graf. She finished 1988 ranked number 20 on the WTA rankings. She won two doubles titles 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 tou ... during her career. She retired in 1993 with a 137–158 win–loss record in singles. WTA Tour finals Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–1) Doubles (2–3) External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Zvereva
Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings. Zvereva and her main doubles partner Gigi Fernández are the most successful women's doubles team (measured by WTA Tour and major titles) since Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. On 12 July 2010, Zvereva was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame alongside Fernández. Personal life Zvereva was born as Natalya Marataŭna Zvereva in Minsk, Belarus to parents Marat Nikolayevich Zverev and Nina Grigoryevna Zvereva. She started tennis at the age of seven at the encouragement of her parents, who were both tennis instructors in the Soviet Union. While her name is sometimes spelled Zverava, in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
