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1984 French Open – Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated defending champion Chris Evert in the final, 6–3, 6–1 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1984 French Open. It was her second French Open singles title and ninth major singles title overall. With the win, Navratilova completed a non-calendar-year Grand Slam, becoming the second woman in the Open Era to simultaneously hold all four major singles titles (after Margaret Court Margaret Court (''née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles (includi ... in 1970), and the first to do so on three different surfaces. Seeds Qualifying Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links1984 French Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, singles for 332 weeks (List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, second-most of all time), including as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, doubles for a record 237 weeks. Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles (both the Open Era records), including an Open Era record 59 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles: 18 in singles, a record 31 in women's doubles, and 10 in mixed doubles. Her nine Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon singles titles are an all-time record. Alongside Chris Evert, her Evert–Navratilova rivalry, greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Bonder
Lisa Bonder (born October 16, 1965), also known as Lisa Bonder-Kreiss or Lisa Bonder-Kerkorian, is an American former professional tennis player. During her career, she won four singles titles on the WTA circuit and reached a highest ranking of No. 9 in August 1984. Career Bonder played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1991 and won four titles before retiring, the first in 1982 in Hamburg, West Germany, and then three tournaments in Tokyo from 1982 to 1983. She reached the fourth round of the US Open in 1983 and 1984 and at Wimbledon in 1984. She also reached a quarterfinal at Roland Garros in 1984. Notable career victories include wins over Chris Evert, Mary Joe Fernandez, and Andrea Jaeger. Bonder reached a career high ranking of no. 9 and retired with a 139–126 win–loss record. Personal life Parents Born in Columbus, Ohio to Seth and Julia Bonder, who later divorced, she was raised in Saline, Michigan. Her father Seth, an American engineer who founded Vector Researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateřina Skronská
Kateřina Skronská (born 22 January 1958) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca .... After her marriage with Czech basketball player Zdeněk Böhm she became known as Kateřina Böhmová-Skronská. She is the mother of former pro tennis player Kateřina Klapková-Böhmová. External links * * * 1958 births Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak female tennis players Living people Tennis players from Prague Place of birth missing (living people) {{CzechRepublic-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player and coach. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberly Po-Messerli. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 3 in both singles and doubles. She previously coached Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu and compatriot Harmony Tan. Early life Tauziat was born in Bangui, Central African Republic, where she lived for the first eight years of her life. She is a first cousin of Didier Deschamps, former captain and current manager of the French football team. About a week after Tauziat reached the Wimbledon final on 4 July 1998, Deschamps led France to win the World Cup on 12 July 1998. Career Tauziat turned professional in 1984. She won her first singles title in 1990. She reached her only Grand Slam singles final at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships, beating Haruka Inoue, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Amiach
Sophie Amiach (born 10 November 1963 in Paris) is a former professional tennis player from France who played on the WTA Tour from 1980 to 1995.40-Love , Sophie Amiach's professional site Currently, she provides commentary on professional tennis in both English and French for different networks throughout the world. Sophie also covered the 2016 Wimbledon final between and for . Career Born in Paris, Sophie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Solomon
Rochelle "Shelley" Solomon (June 19, 1963 – October 7, 2014) was a professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Born in Washington, D.C., she was the younger sister of tennis player Harold Solomon. From the age of 11 she lived in Florida, where her father Leonard operated a car‐rental business. She attended The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was a member of their 1981 national championship winning team, and graduated magna cum laude. Solomon competed on the professional circuit in the 1980s. In 1982, her first year on tour, Solomon was runner-up to Lisa Bonder at the Borden Classic, held in Tokyo. She made her second WTA Tour final at the 1983 Japan Open Tennis Championships and was beaten by Etsuko Inoue. At the 1983 US Open she beat Pam Casale in the opening round and took 10th seed Zina Garrison to three sets in her second round loss. She also made the second round of the 1984 French Open, where she lost to a 14-year-old Steffi Graf. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catarina Lindqvist
Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan (born 13 June 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Career Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of World No. 10 in April 1985 and won five singles titles. She reached the semifinals of Grand Slam tournaments twice, the Australian Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1989. She lost to Martina Navratilova in both semifinals. She retired from tennis in 1992. Lindqvist six WTA Tour singles titles and one doubles title. She had career wins over Steffi Graf, Virginia Wade, Pam Shriver, Hana Mandlíková, Wendy Turnbull, Manuela Maleeva, Nathalie Tauziat, Dianne Fromholtz, Helena Suková, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Zina Garrison, Kathy Jordan, Jo Durie, and Natasha Zvereva. She currently resides in New Jersey, and is the mother of Joakim Ryan, a defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes The Carolina Hurricanes (colloquially known as the Canes) are a professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcella Mesker
Marcella Mesker (born 23 May 1959) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Mesker was active on the WTA Tour from 1979 to 1988 and reached the final of the Australian Open Women's Doubles in 1979. She also reached the semifinals of the US Open Women's Doubles in 1984. She won a singles title in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Oklahoma, most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat ... in 1986. Mesker is the recipient of the Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award, given by WTA after a vote by fellow tennis pros. WTA career finals Singles 1 (1–0) Doubles 14 (6–8) External links * * * * 1959 births Living people Dutch female tennis players Tennis players from The Hague Tennis commentators 21st-century Dutch women 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 weeks, and finished as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 a record eight times. Graf won 107 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including 22 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major women's singles titles, the second-most since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the All-time tennis records – women's singles#Grand Slam singles totals, third-most of all time. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major singles tournament at least four times — a List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Career Grand Slam, quadruple career Grand Slam. A teen phenom, Graf became the youngest-ever player to appear in the main draw of a major at the 1983 French Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Christine Calleja
Marie-Christine Calleja (born 14 January 1964) is a former professional tennis player from France. Biography Calleja played on the professional tour in the 1980s. Her best performances on the WTA Tour were quarter-final appearances at Brighton in 1983 and Nashville in 1984. She was a member of the French team which competed at the 1984 Federation Cup, playing the opening singles rubber of three ties, including the quarter-final loss to eventual champions Czechoslovakia. As a doubles player she was a semi-finalist at the 1984 French Open, teaming up with Australia's Charlie Fancutt Charlie Fancutt (born 17 June 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Career Fancutt won the boys' doubles title at the 1976 Australian Open (partnering Peter McCarthy). He upset Ivan Lendl in the opening round of the 1981 ... in the mixed doubles. See also * List of France Fed Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calleja, Marie-Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Brown (tennis)
Melissa Brown (born April 11, 1968) is a former tennis player from the U.S. who was a quarterfinalist at the 1984 French Open. In this tournament, she defeated Hélène Cedet, Wendy White, Michelle Torres and Zina Garrison, then lost to Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a Czech–Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in the mid-1980s. Mandíková won 27 WTA Tour-level sin .... at itftennis.com References External links * * 1968 bi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Benjamin
Camille Benjamin (born June 22, 1966) is an American former professional tennis player. Benjamin played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1994. She reached the semifinals of the French Open in 1984, defeating Cláudia Monteiro, Jamie Golder, Catrin Jexell, Sabrina Goleš and Lisa Bonder before losing to Chris Evert. Benjamin is the daughter of Panamanian immigrants. Her father, Carl Benjamin, was a math professor at Bakersfield College and had played college tennis at Central State College in Xenia, Ohio Xenia ( ) is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Ohio, it is east of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton and is part of the Greater Dayton, Dayton metropolitan area as well as the Miami Valley region. As o .... WTA Tour finals Singles 2 Doubles 3 (1–2) ITF titles Singles (1) References * Sundiata A. Djata. ''Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis'' Vol. 1, p. 78-79. External links * * {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
