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Stephanie Rottier
Stephanie Rottier (born 22 January 1974) is a former professional Dutch tennis player. Results Rottier reached the second round of the 1994 French Open. She reached the final of the WTA singles tournament in Tokyo in 1993, losing to Kimiko Date in straight sets. She reached the final of the WTA doubles tournament in Beijing in 1995 partnering Wang Shi-ting, and losing to Claudia Porwik and Linda Wild, also in straight sets. Federation Cup Rottier played three Federation Cup singles matches for the Netherlands in 1993, winning against Maja Murić of Croatia 6–2, 6–0 and against Oksana Bushevitsa of Latvia 6–4, 6–2, before losing to Conchita Martínez of Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ... in two sets. WTA career finals Singles: (1 runner-up) Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint-Niklaas
Sint-Niklaas (; french: Saint-Nicolas, ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Sint-Niklaas proper and the towns of Belsele, Nieuwkerken-Waas, and . Sint-Niklaas is the capital and major city of the Waasland region straddling the East Flanders and Antwerp provinces. The city is known for having the largest market square in Belgium. At one point this square also boasted the largest Christmas tree, and the largest easter egg in Europe. History Thirteenth-century origins Although some traces of pre-Roman activity have been found on the territory of Sint-Niklaas, the regional centre during Roman times was neighbouring Waasmunster, better located on the river Durme. Belsele was already mentioned in a 9th-century document. The history of Sint-Niklaas proper, however, starts in 1217, when the bishop of Tournai, following advice from the local clergy, founded a church dedicated to Saint Nicholas he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 1993 Japan Open Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the Championship Series of the 1993 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 1993 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 5 April through 11 April 1993. Pete Sampras and Kimiko Date won the singles titles. Finals Men's singles Pete Sampras defeated Brad Gilbert 6–2, 6–2, 6–2 * It was Sampras' 3rd title of the year and the 16th of his career. Women's singles Kimiko Date defeated Stephanie Rottier 6–1, 6–3 * It was Date's 1st title of the year and the 2nd of her career. Men's doubles Ken Flach / Rick Leach defeated Glenn Michibata / David Pate 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 Women's doubles Ei Iida / Maya Kidowaki defeated Li Fang / Kyōko Nagatsuka 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 References External links Official website Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile {{1993 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. A town, and seat of an archbishop, it is known for its car industry since the factories of the famous Italian upper-class sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani (automobile), Pagani and Maserati are, or were, located here and all, except Lamborghini, have headquarters in the city or nearby. One of Ferrari's cars, the Ferrari 360, 360 Modena, was named after the town itself. Ferrari's production plant and Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari are based in Maranello south of the city. The University of Modena, founded in 1175 and expanded by Francesco II d'Este in 1686, focuses on economics, medicine and law, and is the second oldest :wikt:athenaeum, athenaeum in Italy. Italian military officers are trained at the Milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Chmelinová
Gabriela Chmelinová (née Navrátilová; born 2 June 1976) is a retired Czech tennis player. Chmelinová has won six singles titles and 55 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 23 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 258. On 25 July 2005, she peaked at No. 55 in the doubles rankings. Until 2003, Navrátilová played mainly on the ITF Women's Circuit in Europe, garnering over 60 titles. From 2004, she began to play exclusively in doubles and became a more active participant on the WTA Tour. She reached six finals and the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, partnering with Michaela Paštiková. She announced her retirement in November 2008. In November 2014, in a comeback in an ITF tournament in Poland, she reached the finals partnered with Karolína Muchová Karolína Muchová (; born 21 August 1996) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved on 17 May 2021. Muchová has reached two fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misumi Miyauchi
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Born in Ibaraki, Miyauchi played on the professional tour in the 1990s and had a best ranking of 115 in the world. Miyauchi partnered with Ai Sugiyama in the women's doubles at the 1993 Australian Open and featured in the women's singles main draw at the 1993 French Open The 1993 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 24 May until 6 June. It was the 97th staging of the French Open, and the second Gran .... She was a two-time quarter-finalist at the Asian Open, a WTA Tour tournament in Osaka, as well as reaching the quarter-finals of the 1991 Pattaya Open and 1994 Salem Open-Beijing. Her ITF titles include the $50,000 Gifu tournament in 1998. ITF finals Singles (3–3) Doubles (1–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miyauchi, Misumi 1971 births Living people Japanese female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of the 1948 constitution. According to the 2020 census, Seoul has a population of 9.9 million people, and forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area with the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha – City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), Seoul was the world's fourth largest metropolitan economy in 2014, following Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. Seoul was rated Asia's most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis in 2015, with a GDP per capita (PPP) of around $40,000. With major technology hubs centered in Gangnam and Digital Media City, the Seoul Capital Area is home to the headquarters of 15 ''Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot (born 24 July 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Career Sidot turned professional in 1994. Her best Grand Slam singles performances were reaching the third round exactly once in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments. She won two WTA Tour doubles titles in Leipzig in 2000 and Nice in 2001, and was the runner-up in Los Angeles and Zürich in 2000. She also reached the quarterfinals of the 1999 Wimbledon women's doubles with Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands. She represented her country in 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 cha ... in 1997, and retired from the tour in 2002. WTA career finals Doubles 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles (7–4) Doubles (3–1) External links * * * {{DEFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Würzburg
Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is situated approximately east-southeast of Frankfurt am Main and approximately west-northwest of Nuremberg (). The population (as of 2019) is approximately 130,000 residents. The administration of the ''Landkreis Würzburg'' ( district of Würzburg) is also located in the town. The regional dialect is East Franconian. History Early and medieval history A Bronze Age (Urnfield culture) refuge castle, the Celtic Segodunum,Koch, John T. (2020)CELTO-GERMANIC Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West p. 131 and later a Roman fort, stood on the hill known as the Leistenberg, the site of the present Fortress Marienberg. The former Celtic territory was settled by the Alamanni in the 4th or 5th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Allen (tennis)
Louise Allen (born January 7, 1962) is a retired American tennis player. Allen attended Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she was a four-time All-American (1981-1984) and won the 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Doubles Championship and the 1983 Pan American Games women's doubles, both times with partner Gretchen Rush. The same year, she received the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award, awarded annually to the best collegiate athletes in 12 sports) for tennis. She graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Allen played in all four Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ... tournaments, with her best results coming in 1983, when she reached the third round at Wimbledon in singles and the US Open with doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Ramón-Cortés
Silvia Ramón-Cortés Montaner (born 9 August 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography A right-handed player from Barcelona, Ramón-Cortés represented the Spanish national team as a junior and was runner-up to countrywoman Pilar Pérez in the 1990 Orange Bowl. Ramón-Cortés reached a highest singles ranking of 125 on the professional tour. Her biggest title win was a $25k tournament in Vigo in 1994. On the WTA Tour, she was a quarterfinalist at the 1995 Styrian Open and also made the round of 16 that year at Amelia Island, beating world No. 39, 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 Satel ... en route. She retired from pro circuit in 1996 and now works as a communications consultant. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (3–0) Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
