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Violet Apisah
Violet Apisah (born 11 February 2000) is an Australia, Australian-Papua New Guinea, Papuan tennis player. Tennis career In 2016, Apisah won the Women's Tennis Association, WTA Future Stars Under-16 Tournament, which was an exhibition tournament in Singapore during the 2016 WTA Finals. On the junior tour, Apisah has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of 24, achieved on 26 March 2018. In 2018, Apisah reached the final of the 2018 Australian Open 2018 Australian Open – Girls' doubles, girls' doubles event, partnering Lulu Sun. Apisah made her Fed Cup debut for Pacific Oceania Fed Cup team, Pacific Oceania in 2019 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, 2019. Personal life Apisah is the niece of Abigail Tere-Apisah, Abigail and Marcia Tere-Apisah, who are also tennis players. Her sister, Patricia, is also a junior tennis player. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles ITF junior finals Singles (10–2) Doubles (12–4) References External links * * * 2000 births Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of former World No. 1 Billie Jean King. The Billie Jean King Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete. The current Chairperson is Katrina Adams. The Czech Republic dominated the BJK Cup in the 2010s, winning six of ten competitions in the decade. The men's equivalent of the Billie Jean King Cup is the Davis Cup, and the Czech Republic, Australia, Russia and the United States are the only countries to have held both Cups at the same time. After the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine, the International Tennis Federation suspended Russia and Belarus from Billie Jean King Cup competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese tennis player. Coaching team Wang's current team consists of her father Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at 2009 Summer Universiade and once trained with Novak Djokovic when young; a fitness coach from Croatia; and a Chinese physio from Nanjing. With the help of Slović, Wang was able to train with a few Serbian players abroad. She currently trains at the Tennis & Badminton Centre of the Shenzhen Sports Centre. Personal life Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Her father, Wang Peng (born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang), is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang En-shuo
Liang En-shuo (; ; in Chinese mainland born 2 October 2000) is a tennis player from Taiwan. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 150, achieved on 13 May 2019. On 20 February 2023, she peaked at No. 165 in the doubles rankings. Liang has won one WTA 125 doubles title, as well as one singles title and three doubles titles in ITF Circuit tournaments. Junior career Liang had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 2, achieved on 29 January 2018. In January 2018, she won the Australian Open girls' singles title, defeating Clara Burel in the final, in straight sets. Professional career She made her Grand Slam debut as a qualifier at the 2021 French Open The 2021 French Open was a major level tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 30 May to 13 June 2021, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. The qualifiers t .... Performance timeline Singles ''Current after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. The Australian Open starts in the middle of January and continues for two weeks coinciding with the Australia Day holiday. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's, and mixed doubles; junior's championships; and wheelchair, legends, and exhibition events. Novak Djokovic has the most Australian Open mens singles titles of all time with 9. Before 1988, it was played on grass courts, but since then three types of hardcourt surfaces have been used: green-coloured Rebound Ace up to 2007, blue Plexicushion from 2008 to 2019, and blue GreenSet since 2020. First held in 1905 as the Australasian championships, the Australian Open has grown to become one of the biggest sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere. Nicknamed "the happy sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Tere-Apisah
Abigail Agivanagi Tere-Apisah (born 13 July 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Papua New Guinea. Tere-Apisah has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 276, achieved on 6 August 2018. She is the daughter of Kwalam Apisah and Verenagi Tere. Her sister Marcia, and her nieces, Violet and Patricia Apisah, are also tennis players. Tennis career In 2010, Abigail graduated from Albury High School in Albury, Australia. She then attended Georgia State University, playing tennis for the Panthers, and graduated in 2014 with a BS in Health and Physical Education. Apisah is a two time All-American tennis player (2012 and 2014). On 24 May 2014, Apisah reached the semifinals of the NCAA Championship, losing in the third-set tiebreak to Lynn Chi. She reached a collegiate national ranking of No. 8 in singles. On 3 December 2017, in the Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff final for the 2018 Australian Open, she was looking to become the first player from Papua New Guinea to compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
The Asia/Oceania Zone is one of three zones of regional competition in the 2019 Fed Cup. Group I * Venue: Daulet National Tennis Centre, Astana, Kazakhstan (indoor hard) * Date: 6–9 February The seven teams were divided into one pool of 3 teams (Pool A) and one pool of 4 teams (Pool B). The two pool winners took part in a play-off to determine the nation advancing to the World Group II Play-offs. The teams that finished third in each pool took part in a play-off to determine which nation will be relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2020. The nation finishing fourth in Pool B was automatically relegated. Seeding * 1Fed Cup Rankings as of 12 November 2018 Pools Play-offs Final placements * was promoted to the 2019 Fed Cup World Group II Play-offs. * ' and ' were relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2020. Group II * Venue 1: Pamir Stadium, Dushanbe, Tajikistan (hard) * Dates: 12–15 June * Venue 2: National Tennis Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Oceania Fed Cup Team
The Pacific Oceania Fed Cup team represents the island nations of Oceania in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Oceania Tennis Federation. In 2015 they took part in Fed Cup competition for the first time in ten years. Current team The 2022 Fed Cup roster for Pacific Oceania. * Patricia Apisah * Violet Apisah * Kalani Soli * Abigail Tere-Apisah History Pacific Oceania competed in its first Fed Cup in 1995. Their best result was reaching Group I in 1999, 2001, and 2019. Nations represented Former squad members Active players listed in bold See also *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 ... * Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team External links * Billie Jean King Cup teams Tennis in Oceania {{FedCup-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lulu Sun
Lulu Sun (formerly known as Lulu Radovcic; born 14 April 2001) is a Swiss tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 226, achieved on 3 April 2023, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 329, reached on 27 June 2022. Career Sun played college tennis at the University of Texas at Austin. She won her first major ITF title at the 2022 Saint-Gaudens Open, partnering Fernanda Contreras in doubles. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2022 Morocco Open just two days later, where she received a wildcard into the singles draw. Personal life Having moved with her family from New Zealand to Geneva when still a toddler, she represented Switzerland as a junior, finishing runner-up with Violet Apisah in the 2018 Australian Open girls' doubles, but played under the New Zealand flag at junior Wimbledon that year while waiting for a new Swiss passport, losing in the second round in singles Singles are people not in a committed relationship. Singles may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Australian Open
The 2018 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played at Melbourne Park between 15 and 28 January 2018, and was the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2018 season. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players compete in singles and doubles tournaments. Roger Federer was the defending champion in the men's singles event and successfully retained his title (his sixth), his record twentieth Grand Slam major overall, defeating Marin Čilić in the final, while Caroline Wozniacki won the women's title, defeating Simona Halep in the final to win her first Grand Slam. The tournament was the 106th edition of the event (the 50th edition of the Open Era). Additionally, it was the 200th Major tournament of the Open Era. It also marked the 30th anniversary of the Australian Open moving from the Kooyong Tennis Club to Melbourne Park. The tournament had a record attendance of 743,667 spectators. Tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The National (Papua New Guinea)
''The National'' is a weekday English language newspaper published in Papua New Guinea. It is also published online. The paper is owned by Malaysian logging company Rimbunan Hijau. See also * List of newspapers in Papua New Guinea This is a list of newspapers in Papua New Guinea. *'' The National'' *''Papua New Guinea Post-Courier'' *''Wantok Niuspepa'' *''The Independent'' (defunct) See also *Communications in Papua New Guinea * List of newspapers {{Oceania topic, List o ... References External links''The National''’s website Companies of Papua New Guinea Newspapers published in Papua New Guinea Publications with year of establishment missing {{oceania-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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