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1983 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event. Seeds Qualifiers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier References External links1983 French Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 nat ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1983 French Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying French Open by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Karlsson
Carina Karlsson (born 11 September 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She was nicknamed "Kid Carina". Biography Karlsson is most noted for being the first qualifier to reach the ladies quarterfinals of Wimbledon, which she achieved at the 1984 Wimbledon Championships. She began the main draw with wins over Anne White and Christiane Jolissaint, then defeated former Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade in the third round, 11–9 in the deciding set. In the fourth round she upset 15th seed Andrea Temesvári to set up a quarterfinal against Chris Evert-Lloyd, which Evert won in straight sets. Her Wimbledon run took her ranking to 59 in the world, and she peaked at 42 the following year. She was a losing finalist to Katerina Maleeva at the 1985 Hewlett-Packard Trophy in Hilversum. Her performances began to experience a slump, attributed in part to eye problems, and in 1987, she started competing wearing eyeglasses. She made the round of 16 at the 1987 French Open, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrizia Murgo
Patrizia Murgo (born 26 March 1962) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Tennis career Murgo, a native of Florence, was the first Italian to reach an Orange Bowl final when she finished runner-up to Kathy Horvath in 1979. She was also a women's doubles bronze medalist at that year's Mediterranean Games in Split, with Antonella Rosa Antonella Rosa (1 February 1957 – 2020) was an Italian professional tennis player. Rosa, a native of the Liguria region of Italy, had an unusual technique of using a forehand on both sides of her body. She stopped hitting a backhand on the rec ... as her partner. In 1981 and 1982, Murgo was a member of the Italy Federation Cup team as a doubles specialist, usually partnering Sabina Simmonds. She won six of her eight Federation Cup doubles rubbers. While competing on the WTA circuit her best result in a singles tournament came at the 1981 Italian Open, where she reached the round of 16. As a doubles player she had a runner-up finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanette Schutte
Nanette Schutte (born 6 April 1962) is a Dutch former professional tennis player who was active during the 1980s. Schutte was junior singles champion of the Netherlands in the age categories Under-12, 14, 16 and 18. She reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 190 in 1987. During her career, Schutte reached the second round of the singles event in three Grand Slam tournaments. Her best result at a major championship was reaching the third round of the doubles event at the 1980 US Open, where she and her teammate Marcella Mesker lost to Candy Reynolds and Paula Smith. In October 1981, she partnered Marianne van der Torre to win the doubles title at the Kyoto Classic in Japan, defeating Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also won three ... and Kim Steinmetz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Krapl
Eva Krapl (January 16, 1966) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player from Switzerland, active from 1987 to 1990. Krapl currently works as a coach in the TIF Academy in Switzerland. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 2 (0–2) References External links * * * Swiss female tennis players Living people 1966 births {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Werdel
Marianne Werdel (born October 17, 1967) is an American former professional tennis player. Werdel was born in Los Angeles and played on the WTA Tour from 1982 to 1997. She is also known as Marianne Witmeyer or Werdel-Witmeyer. She won 19 national junior titles. In 1988 Werdel suffered a partially herniated disc, forcing a two-month absence from the tour. At the 1995 Australian Open, unseeded Marianne Werdel defeated fifth-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina in a first-round match. Werdel won the first set, but Sabatini raced out to a 3–0 lead in the second set before twice losing her serve. Werdel won four consecutive games to close out the match in straight sets, dismissing Sabatini 6–4, 6–4. Werdel had also beaten Sabatini two years earlier at a tournament in Japan. After she had disposed of Sabatini, Werdel continued to work her way through the draw beating Park Sung-hee, Elena Makarova, Barbara Paulus and Angélica Gavaldón en route to a semifinal encounter w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Perea
Carmen Perea Alcalá (born 3 May 1952) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Perea was born in Melilla, an autonomous Spanish city on the African continent. She later moved to Málaga, and at tage 18, settled in Barcelona. From 1973 to 1983, she appeared in 29 Federation Cup ties for Spain, winning 19 matches overall. One of her singles wins over was West German Sylvia Hanika in 1980. During this period, she was the top female player in Spain, and she won nine Spanish Tennis Championships in a run that included 10 successive finals. She featured regularly in the main draw of the French Open and played doubles at Wimbledon and the US Open. Since retiring from professional tennis, she has worked as a tennis coach and tournament director. She was the coach of Patricia Medrado in the 1980s and more recently coached Nuria Llagostera. See also *List of Spain Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Spain Fed Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Sato
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. Career Naoko Sato best results came in the doubles. She reached final of 1978 Australian Open with Pam Whytcross which they lost to Betsy Nagelsen and Renáta Tomanová Renáta Tomanová (born 9 December 1954) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Career Tomanová won the girls' singles title at the 1972 French Open. In 1975, she and Martina Navratilova represented Czechoslovakia in the ... in straight sets. Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA Tour finals Doubles (1–3) References External links * * * Japanese female tennis players Living people 1955 births Tennis players from Tokyo Asian Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellinore Lightbody
Ellinore Lightbody (born 16 February 1959) is a British tennis coach and former professional player. Scottish-born, Lightbody is the daughter of Wales tennis executive Jim Lightbody and grew up in Swansea. Lightbody featured in the singles main draw of the 1982 Wimbledon Championships The 1982 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. The tournament ran from 21 June until 4 July. It was the 96th staging of t ... and later coached in Hong Kong, where she made Federation Cup appearances for the British territory in 1990 and 1991. As a coach in the United Kingdom she has previously served as the national coaches of both Wales and Scotland. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lightbody, Ellinore 1959 births Living people Hong Kong female tennis players Welsh female tennis players British female tennis players British tennis coaches Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Folcher
Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French erotic films based on the protagonist in the novel of the same name, by Emmanuelle Arsan, written in 1959 and published in 1967. Emmanuelle originated as the pen name ''Emmanuelle Arsan'', used by Marayat Rollet-Andriane, a French-Thai actress who wrote a 1957 book, ''The Joys of a Woman'', detailing the sexual exploits of a bored housewife. The first ''Emmanuelle'' film debuted in 1974 and starred Sylvia Kristel, who became synonymous with the role. The film embraced its X-rating and became a success, with an estimated audience of 300 million. It remains one of France's most successful films. The films' explicit content varied from softcore to full hardcore, though no penetration or oral sex made it to publicly available releases. It spawned a film series with multiple sequels, and a video game. The original series consists of six theatrical films and seven made-for-television films, while a reboot was released in 2024. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Gabriel
Anne Gabriel (born 14 August 1963) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Gabriel was active on the professional tour in the 1980s. She was a member of the Belgium Federation Cup team from 1981 to 1984, amassing wins in six singles and one doubles rubber. Qualifying for her only French Open main draw in 1982, she came up against Cláudia Monteiro Cláudia Monteiro (born 8 May 1961) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Monteiro played in the mixed doubles final of the French Open with Cássio Motta in 1982. She holds a career singles record of 41 wins and 82 defeats, and a ... in the first round and lost in three sets. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Anne 1963 births Living people Belgian female tennis players 20th-century Belgian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Croft
Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966) is a British former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup. After retiring from tennis, she turned to television presenting, with such shows as '' Treasure Hunt'' and '' Interceptor''. In 2005, she appeared in the ITV programme '' Celebrity Wrestling'' and went on to win it. In 2023 Croft was a contestant in BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing'' and finished fourth. Most recently she has been a presenter and pundit for Eurosport, Sky Sports and the BBC. Early life Croft was born in Farnborough, Kent. Her father James was educated at the independent Sutton Valence School in Kent, becoming a chartered surveyor. He married her mother, Susan Templer of Higham, Kent, in June 1963. Her father worked for Richard Ellis, which is now CBRE Group. They lived in Bickley. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
