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Tracey Hiete
Tracey Hiete Smith (born January 29, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player. Hiete, who grew up in Pacific Palisades, played college tennis for Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James .... Graduating from Duke in 1993, Hiete played on the professional tour until 1998 and reached a career high singles ranking of 334 in the world. As a doubles player she made a WTA Tour main draw appearance at the 1996 Acura Classic and won three titles on the ITF Circuit, reaching a career best ranking of 257. Hiete married Australian rugby league personality Jimmy Smith in 2009 and now lives in Sydney. ITF finals Doubles: 5 (3–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiete, Tracey 1971 births Living people American female tennis pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments. Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125K series. There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125k series and the bigger money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucila Becerra
Lucila "Lucy" Becerra González (born 22 July 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Tennis career Becerra reached a best singles ranking of 253 in the world and won nine professional titles on the ITF circuit. As a doubles player she was ranked as high as 194 and won 22 ITF titles. A three-time Pan American Games medalist, Becerra won the mixed doubles gold at Indianapolis in 1987, to go with her women's doubles bronze medal in the same tournament. She won a further women's doubles bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Her Fed Cup career for Mexico spanned 10 years and she appeared in a total of 15 ties. She won 11 matches overall, five in singles and six in doubles. Personal life Becerra lives in Mazatlán Mazatlán () is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding ''municipio'', known as the Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at on the Pacific coast, across f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Blue Devils Women's Tennis Players
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below princess nobility and grand dukes. The title comes from French ''duc'', itself from the Latin ''dux'', 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. In most countries, the word ''duchess'' is the female equivalent. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a ''dux'' became the military commander in each province. The title ''dux'', Hellenised to ''doux'', survived in the Eastern Roman Empire where it continued in several contexts, signifying a rank equivalent to a captain o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Female Tennis Players
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Living People
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1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Dolores Campana
María Dolores Campana (born 5 April 1975) is an Ecuadorian former professional tennis player. Biography Born in Quito, Campana competed on the professional tour in the 1990s and reached a best singles ranking of 287 in the world. She made her only WTA Tour main draw appearance at the 1995 Zagreb Open, where she featured in the doubles. During her career she was a regular member of the Ecuador Fed Cup team and is the country's most successful Fed Cup player, with 28 overall wins, 20 of which came in singles. Campana now lives in Guayaquil and has two daughters. Her elder brother is Ecuadorian politician Pablo Campana Pablo Campana (born 16 December 1972 in Quito, Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republ ..., who was also a tennis player. ITF finals Singles: 8 (4–4) Doubles: 18 (8–10) References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Muciño
Claudia Muciño (born 16 December 1971) is a Mexican former professional tennis player. A right-handed player, Muciño appeared in five ties for Mexico as a doubles player in the 1994 Federation Cup. Muciño won six ITF doubles titles while competing on the professional tour and played college tennis at Brenau University Brenau University is a private university with its historic campus in Gainesville, Georgia. Founded in 1878, the university enrolls more than 2,800 students from approximately 48 states and 17 foreign countries who seek degrees ranging from asso ... in the United States, earning NAIA All American honours in 1997. ITF finals Doubles: 13 (6–7) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mucino, Claudia 1971 births Living people Mexican female tennis players Brenau Golden Tigers women's tennis players Mexican expatriate tennis players in the United States 20th-century Mexican women 21st-century Mexican women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coatzacoalcos
Coatzacoalcos () is a major port city in the southern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz, mostly on the western side of the Coatzacoalcos River estuary, on the Bay of Campeche, on the southern Gulf of Mexico coast. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It is the state's third largest city, after Veracruz City and Xalapa. Etymology Coatzacoalcos comes from a Nahuatl word meaning "site of the Snake" or "where the snake hides." According to the legend, this is where the god Quetzalcoatl made his final journey to the sea in around 999 and he made his promise to return. History Coatzacoalcos sits within the Olmec heartland. Excavations in 2008 for a tunnel under the Coatzacoalcos River indicate a substantial pre-Hispanic population. By the time of the Spanish arrival the area was under Mayan influence. In 1522, Hernán Cortés ordered Gonzalo de Sandoval to fund a settlement near Guazacualco. Sandoval named it Villa del Espíritu Santo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Palme
Karin Palme (born 27 December 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Born in Guadalajara, Palme made her debut for the Mexico Fed Cup team in 1994. She played Fed Cup ever year up until 1999, by which time she was in her second season of college tennis at Arizona State University. In 2000 she earned All-American honors for singles. After graduating she continued to compete on the professional tour and represent Mexico in international events. She won two medals at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games and was a doubles bronze medalist at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. In 2003 she made a comeback to Fed Cup tennis for a further two ties, finishing her career with appearances in 26 ties, second only to Jessica Fernández Jessica Fernández (born 19 July 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico. Biography Fernández holds the Mexico Fed Cup record for most ties played, which stands at 29. She started out as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Paulenková
Alena Paulenková (born 5 January 1979) is a Slovakian former professional tennis player. Born in Zvolen, Paulenková reached a best singles ranking of 392 in the world during her career and won two ITF titles, both in 1997. Paulenková made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in the doubles at the 1999 Slovak Indoor, where she and partner Radka Zrubáková were beaten in the first round by eventual champions, Kim Clijsters and Laurence Courtois. She featured in the doubles at Bratislava again in the 2000 edition, as a main-draw qualifier, partnering Martina Suchá Martina Suchá (; born 20 November 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. On 22 April 2002, Suchá reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 37. She helped the Slovak team to win the 2002 Fed Cup, beating Nathal .... ITF finals Singles: 2 (2–0) Doubles: 11 (3–8) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paulenková, Alena 1979 births Living people Slovak female tennis ... [...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] |
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