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Ximena Rodríguez
Ximena Rodríguez (born 15 September 1976) is a former Colombian female tennis player. Playing for Colombia 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 ... competition, Rodríguez has accumulated a win–loss record of 3–2. ITF Circuit finals Doubles (7-12) References External links * * 1976 births Living people Colombian female tennis players 20th-century Colombian women 21st-century Colombian women {{Colombia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizma Nortje
Elizma Nortje (born 1 February 1966) is a Namibian tennis coach and former professional player. She is the most successful Namibian woman to have played professionally and was the first to be ranked on the WTA Tour. Born in Windhoek in 1966, Nortje represented South Africa as a junior and early in her professional career, before Namibian independence. She played collegiate tennis for United States International University in San Diego, competing in the NCAA Division I Championships. In the early 1990s she made appearances in the doubles qualifying draws at Wimbledon and won two ITF doubles tournaments. Nortje served as president of the Namibian Tennis Association from 1996 to 1999 and was Namibia's team captain when the country made its 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Births
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ** The United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Liggan
Kelly Liggan (born 5 February 1979) is a retired tennis player from Ireland. Liggan resides in Marbella, Spain, but plays tennis for Ireland. She has had some success on the ITF Women's Circuit winning several titles in both singles and doubles, and in 2002 she won her sole WTA Tour doubles title. Liggan had two Grand Slam doubles main-draw appearances. She reached the second round at the 2003 US Open and 2004 Wimbledon Championships The 2004 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 118th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held fr .... Liggan had several WTA Tour main-draw appearances; however, she never reached a quarterfinal. Due to nagging injuries, Kelly retired in 2010. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (title) ITF Circuit finals Singles (4–4) Doubles (7–13) External links * * * References 1979 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Mesa
Mariana Mesa Pineda (born 1 April 1980) is a Colombian former professional tennis player. Biography Tennis career Mesa, who grew up in the city of Pereira, made her Fed Cup debut in 1995, having just turned 15. She featured in a total of 12 ties for Colombia during her career, mostly as doubles player, winning seven matches overall. On the WTA Tour, she made most of her main-draw appearances at her home event, the Copa Colsanitas, playing in every edition of the tournament from 1998 to 2000. She had her best performance in 1998, when she made the round of 16 of the singles and was a doubles semifinalist. Her only other singles main draw came at the 1999 Brasil Open, which she made as a qualifier. Mesa reached a best singles ranking on tour of 251 in the world and won five ITF Women's Circuit tournaments. As a doubles player she had a top ranking of 161, with seven ITF titles. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Mesa represented Colombia in the doubles competition, with Fabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Maia
Eugenia Maia (born 26 April 1974) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Maia competed on the professional tour in the 1990s and won seven ITF doubles titles. In both 1996 and 1997 she was a member of the Brazil Fed Cup team The Brazil Billie Jean King Cup team represents Brazil in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Brazilian Tennis Confederation. They currently compete in the Americas Zone of Group I. History Brazil competed in its ..., playing singles in a total of five ties. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (0–3) Doubles: 14 (7–7) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maia, Eugenia 1974 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players 20th-century Brazilian women 21st-century Brazilian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Díaz Oliva
Mariana Díaz Oliva (born 11 March 1976) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. She played professionally from September 1992 until 12 October 2006. Her highest ranks were world No. 42 for singles and No. 93 for doubles, both achieved in 2001. At the 2001 Bol Open, she defeated Kim Clijsters to reach the final, where she lost to Ángeles Montolio Ángeles Montolio (born 6 August 1975) is a former tennis player from Spain. Montolio reached a career high ranking of world No. 22 in February 2002, and won three WTA Tour titles at the small events in Porto, Estoril, and Bol, as well as .... In 2002, she won the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. In 2003, she also reached the Mexican Open singles final. WTA career finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 2 (runner-ups) ITF finals Singles: 27 (16–11) Doubles: 23 (15–8) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diaz Oliva, Mariana 1976 births Living people Tennis players from Buenos Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Menga
Vanessa Menga (born 10 October 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. Born in São Paulo, she started playing tennis at the age of 4, when she went to an academy along with her father. At the age of 14, Menga went to train tennis in Barcelona, where she won her first doubles championship. She's the only Brazilian female tennis player to play in two Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996 (doubles with Miriam D’Agostini, falling in round 1), and Sydney 2000 (with Joana Cortez, falling in round 2). Menga was also in two Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ..., Mar Del Plata 1995 and Winnipeg 1999, where she won the doubles gold medal with Joana Cortez. In 2001, Menga posed for ''Playboy'' Brazil. In 2003, she retired from ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joelle Schad
Joelle Schad (born 13 March 1973) is a former Dominican female tennis player. Playing for Dominican Republic at the Fed Cup, Schad has accumulated a win–loss record of 38–21. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (4–6) Doubles: 15 (10-5) References External links * * 1973 births Living people Sportspeople from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic female tennis players Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Dominican Republic Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for the Dominican Republic Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for the Dominican Republic Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for the Dominican Republic Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for the Domi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Kolbovic
Renata Kolbovic (born July 30, 1976) is a former tennis player, who was born in Czechoslovakia but competed for Canada. Kolbovic had a professional career from 1996 to 2002. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, Kolbovic reached her highest individual ranking in the WTA Tour on December 4, 2000, when she became the No. 159 in the world. Alongside Aneta Soukup, she won the bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ..., Canada. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–9) Doubles (12–13) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolbovic, Renata 1976 births Living people Canadian female tennis players Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Patrícia Segala
Patrícia Segala (born 8 May 1976) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Segala competed on the professional tour in the 1990s and reached a career high singles ranking of 350 in the world, with two ITF titles to her name. In 1993 she qualified for the main draw of the WTA Tour tournament in Curitaba. She was a member of Brazil's 1995 Fed Cup The 1995 Fed Cup was the 33rd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis, and the first to bear the name Fed Cup. Major changes to the tournament's structure went into effect for 1995. The format was chang ... team, appearing in four ties. From her four singles rubbers she was the winner in one, against Chile's Bárbara Castro. ITF finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles: 2 (0–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Segala, Patrícia 1976 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players 20th-century Brazilian women 21st-century Brazilian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
