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Tamara Čurović
Tamara Čurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Чуровић; born 31 October 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Čurović was an official member of Serbia Fed Cup team in 2011, 2011 Fed Cup World Group IISerbia vs. Canada Tie Details''(6 February 2011)'' but she is yet to play her first Fed Cup match. She has won five singles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 27 May 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 394. On 19 May 2014, she peaked at No. 208 in the WTA doubles rankings. Čurović made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in doubles at the 2013 Gastein Ladies, partnering Chiara Scholl. They defeated Michaela Hončová and Conny Perrin in the first round and top seeds Mandy Minella and Chanelle Scheepers in the quarterfinals, before losing to eventual champions, Sandra Klemenschits and Andreja Klepač. At the same tournament, Čurović lost in the first round of the singles qualifying. To date, her only other WTA Tour main-dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreja Klepač
Andreja Klepač (born 13 March 1986) is a professional Slovenian tennis player. On 14 July 2008, Klepač reached her career-high singles rankings of world No. 99. On 11 April 2022, she peaked at No. 11 in the WTA doubles rankings. Career She has made one WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in 2008 and won ten WTA Tour doubles titles and appeared in twelve other finals. In July 2013, she won her first WTA doubles title in Bad Gastein with Sandra Klemenschits. In 2015, Klepač reached quarterfinals at the Australian Open with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and US Open with Lara Arruabarrena. In 2017, together with María José Martínez Sánchez, she reached at the US Open her third consecutive quarterfinal at this major. In 2018, they also reached three finals, defeating in the way to them top pairs like Latisha Chan/Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (Brisbane) and Timea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic (Doha). They lost two tie-breakers in the semifinal of the Madrid Open against Ekaterina M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelena Pandžić
Jelena Pandžić (; born 17 March 1983) is a retired tennis player from Croatia. Tennis career She began playing tennis at the age of seven and was considered a very promising junior player, achieving a world No. 1 ranking in the under-14 category. In the mid-1990s, she was spotted by Nick Bollettieri who personally coached her for a time. 1999–2002 Pandžić's first senior tournament on the ITF Circuit was in April 1999 where she qualified and reached the quarterfinals of the Makarska $10k tournament. By 2002, she had made some progress up the rankings, winning three ITF singles titles, but had not yet fulfilled her initial promise. Her highest ranking was 374, achieved in October 2002. 2003–2006 In 2003, Pandžić only played one game of tennis before a car crash put her out of action. Over the next few years, she did not play in any professional ranking tournaments. Instead, she attended university in the USA and played on the college tennis circuit, representing Fresno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Njirić
Silvia Njirić (born 9 July 1993) is a Croatian tennis player. Having already played in 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 ... for Croatia, Njirić made semifinals at the 2010 Junior French Open, losing to Elina Svitolina. She has won seven singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 4 May 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 370. On 23 July 2012, she peaked at No. 290 in the doubles rankings. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner–ups) Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' doubles: 2 runner–ups Fed Cup participation Singles Doubles References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Njiric, Silvia 1993 births Croatian female tennis players Tennis players from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matea Mezak
Matea Mezak (; born 5 March 1985) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. 2004, she started on the ITF Circuit, where she won six singles and six doubles titles. Her preferred surface is hardcourt, and her coach was Ivan Humić. Along with Svetlana Kuznetsova, she reached 2002 Australian Open junior doubles competition, where they lost to Indonesian Angelique Widjaja and Argentine Gisela Dulko. Mezak also was on the Croatia Fed Cup team The Croatia women's national tennis team represents Croatia in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Croatian Tennis Association. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. History ''Prior to 1992 see Yugoslavia Fed ..., in 2005 and 2006. In April 2014, she played her last match on the pro circuit. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 14 (6–8) References External links * * Croatian female tennis players Tennis players from Zagreb 1985 births Living people Mediterranean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former tennis player. A former world No. 1, Janković reached the top ranking before her career-best major performance, a runner-up finish at the 2008 US Open. Janković won 15 WTA Tour singles titles and two doubles titles, with career highlights that include winning the 2007 Wimbledon mixed-doubles title partnering Jamie Murray. Family and early life Janković was born in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the third child of Veselin and Snežana, both economists. She has two brothers, Marko and Stefan. She is a student at the Megatrend University in Belgrade, studying economics. However, she has put her course of study on indefinite hold as she continues to pursue her tennis career. Janković learned her first tennis skills at the Tennis Club 'Red Star'. As a -year-old she was introduced to tennis by her elder brother and fitness coach Marko. She later trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Schweinsteiger ( sr, Ана Швајнштајгер / ''Ana Švajnštajger''; born 6 November 1987), professionally known by her birth name Ana Ivanovic (Ана Ивановић / ''Ana Ivanović'', ), is a Serbian former world No. 1 tennis player. She gained the top ranking in 2008 after she won the 2008 French Open, and held it for a total of 12 weeks. She was also the runner-up at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open, losing to Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova respectively. She qualified for the year-end WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007, 2008 and 2014 and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 and 2011. Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour singles titles, and one Grand Slam singles title, the French Open in 2008. Additionally during this time, she earned over $15.5 million in prize money, which is the 25th highest in the all-time rankings. In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ( , ; rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова, p=mɐˈrʲijə ʂɐˈrapəvə, a=Maria_sharapova.ogg; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. She competed on the WTA Tour from 2001 to 2020 and was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to achieve the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women's singles at the 2012 London Olympics. Sharapova became the world No. 1 for the first time on 22 August 2005 at the age of 18, becoming the first Russian woman to top the singles rankings, and last held the position for a fifth time for four weeks from 11 June 2012, to 8 July 2012. She won five major titles — two at the French Open and one each at the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. She won 36 titles in total, including the year-end championships in her debut in 2004. She also wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teniski Klub Partizan
Teniski klub Partizan is a tennis club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is part of the sports society JSD Partizan. History Notable players Men * Novak Djokovic * Janko Tipsarević * Nenad Zimonjić * Dušan Lajović * Filip Krajinović * Miomir Kecmanović * Marko Tepavac * Dušan Vemić * Ilija Bozoljac * Nikola Mektić * Goran Tošić * Nikola Čačić * Darko Mađarovski * Alex Vlaški * Vladimir Obradović * Arsenije Zlatanović * Srđan Muškatirović * Nikola Špear * Radmilo Armenulić * Ivko Plećević * Sima Nikolic * Ika Panajotovic * Bojan Zdravkovic Women * Ana Ivanovic * Andrea Petkovic * Bojana Jovanovski * Jelena Dokic * Marija Mirkovic * Dea Herdželaš * Olga Danilović * Milana Spremo * Andrea Popović * Ana Jovanović * Teodora Mirčić * Tamara Čurović * Nataša Zorić * Vojislava Lukić * Ana-Maria Zubori * Dragana Zarić * Katarina Mišić * Dora Alavantić * Sonja Požeg * Bilj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Telephony Of Serbia
Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd is a Serbian state-owned telecommunications operator. It was founded in May 1997 as a joint-stock company, by spinning off the telecommunications business from PTT Srbija (present-day „ Pošta Srbije"). In April 2015, Telekom Srbija started providing all services in Serbia under the mts brand. As of 2020, Telekom Srbija (combined, with Moja Supernova brand of Telekom Srbija) is the largest Internet provider with market share of 53.15%, the second largest cable operator with a market share of 44%, and the largest fixed-line telecommunication network with market share of 77.5%. Also, it is the largest mobile telephony operator with market share of 37.27%. History Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd was set up in 1997, during the process of transformation of PTT sistema Srbije. In June that same year, it became the ownership of three shareholders – JP PTT Saobraćaja Srbija (present-day JP Pošta Srbije) (51%), Telecom Italia (29%), and OTE Greece (20%). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Prudnikova
Svetlana Prudnikova (russian: Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Пру́дникова, translit=Svetlána Aleksándrovna Prúdnikova; born 18 March 1967) is a Russian- Serbian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won twice both the Russian women's championship, in 1992 and 1998, and the FR Yugoslavia women's championship, in 2000 and 2002. Prudnikova played for the Russian national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1992 and 1996, contributing to a 3rd-place finish in the latter event. Representing her adopted country FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ... in 2000, 2002 and 2004, she helped her team to reach a creditable 5th place at the 34th Chess Olympiad in 2000. She won two olympic individual gold meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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