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1988 French Open – Women's Doubles
Defending champions Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver defeated Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková in the final, 6–2, 7–5 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 1988 French Open. It was Navratilova's fifth straight French Open title in women's doubles. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References1988 French Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1988 French Open - Women's Doubles 1988 French Open, Women's Doubles French Open by year – Women's doubles 1988 in women's tennis 1988 in French women's sport ... [...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] |
Natalia Egorova
Natalia Vladimirovna Egorova (; née Bykova, born 13 September 1966) is a retired professional tennis player who represented the Soviet Union and Russia. Egorova won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour as well as two singles and 27 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 27 February 1989, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 76. On 9 May 1988, she peaked at number 26 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Soviet Union at the 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 ..., Egorova has accumulated a win–loss record of 6–2. Egorova retired from tennis in 2003. WTA career finals Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (2–4) Doubles (27–13) Other finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (1–4) Mixed (0–2) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Van Der Torre
Marianne van der Torre (born 18 August 1961) is a Dutch former professional tennis player who was active during the 1980s. She reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 84 in December 1981. During her career, van der Torre reached the second round of the singles event in two Grand Slam tournaments; the French Open (1981 and 1982) and the US Open (1981). Her best result at a Grand Slam championship was reaching the semifinal of the mixed-doubles event at the 1988 Australian Open, partnering Martin Davis. In October 1981, she partnered with compatriot Nanette Schutte to win the doubles title at the Borden Classic in Kyoto, defeating Elizabeth Smylie and Kim Steinmetz Kim Steinmetz (born December 22, 1957) is an American former professional Women's Tennis Association (WTA) player. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She retired from professional tennis in 1989. Career highlights Steinmetz compe ... in the final, in straight sets. Van der Torre was a membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Bollegraf
Manon Maria Bollegraf (born 10 April 1964) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who was a quarterfinalist at the singles event of the 1992 French Open, a finalist in doubles at the 1997 Wimbledon Championships, and a four-time mixed doubles Grand Slam champion. She also finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Career Bollegraf reached her highest ranking on the WTA Tour on 9 July 1990, when she became world No. 29. She won 26 doubles tournaments in her career and her highest WTA doubles ranking was No. 4, achieved on 16 February 1998. She was a member of the Dutch team that reached the Fed Cup final 1997, losing to France. Bollegraf won four Grand Slam mixed-doubles titles, the 1989 French Open and the 1991 US Open, both teaming up with Tom Nijssen. Partnering Rick Leach, she won the Australian Open and US Open mixed doubles titles in 1997. Bollegraf was a member of the Idaho Sneakers Team Tennis with Amy Frazier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Paradis
Pascale Paradis-Mangon (born 24 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France. Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did reach the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1988, defeating Manuela Maleeva, Nathalie Herreman, Robin White and Anne Minter before falling to Steffi Graf. She finished 1988 ranked number 20 on the WTA rankings. She won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ... during her career. She retired in 1993 with a 137–158 win–loss record in singles. WTA Tour finals Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–1) Doubles (2–3) External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Herreman
Nathalie Herreman (born 28 March 1966) is a former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour from 1983 to 1995 and won a singles title in 1986 in Perugia Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ... and reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1990. WTA career finals Singles 1 (1–0) Doubles 6 (2–4) ITF finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (4–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Herreman, Nathalie French female tennis players 1966 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Sainte-Adresse 20th-century French sportswomen ... [...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] |
Isabelle Demongeot
Isabelle Demongeot (born 18 September 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on 1 May 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled nearby in Gassin. Demongeot won her only WTA Tour singles title in Purchase in New York state in 1991. She achieved her best Grand Slam singles performance by reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in 1986. She won a total of nine WTA Tour doubles titles. Her best Grand Slam doubles performance was reaching the French Open quarter-finals with Nathalie Tauziat of France in 1987 and 1992. She also represented her country from 1985 to 1993 in the Federation/Fed Cup and in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games.Isabelle Demongeot . sports-reference.com She retired from the |
Peanut Louie Harper
Mareen "Peanut" Louie-Harper (born Mareen Louie; August 15, 1960) is a retired American tennis player, born in San Francisco, California to Ron and Alice Louie. She was a top-ranked junior tennis player and professional tennis player on the WTA tour. She reached a career high singles ranking of 19 in the world in 1985 and doubles ranking of 31 in the world in 1992. She is currently the co-founder and program director of Harper for Kids, a youth character development program. Professional tennis career During her career, she won 14 USTA National Junior titles and was the #1 ranked 16-and-under (1976) and 12-and-under tennis player (1972) in the United States. Peanut was the Junior Wimbledon finalist in 1977 and a semifinalist in 1978. She was also the #1 ranked junior in NorCal in all age divisions (10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 & unders). After a successful junior career, she turned pro in 1978. In her 16-year career, she won four singles titles and reached a career high ranking of No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalyn Fairbank
Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer (born 2 November 1960) is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance in 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ... with Candy Reynolds. She won 317 singles and 472 doubles matches on the tour during her career. Later on in her career she married her American sports-psychologist Bob Nideffer, and changed her nationality to compete for the United States. Grand Slam finals Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Thompson
Janine G. Thompson Tremelling (née Thompson; born 12 September 1967) is a former tennis player from Australia who won the Girls' Doubles in the 1985 Wimbledon Championships, with Louise Field. she was playing on the seniors tour. As both a singles and doubles player, she featured in the Australian and US Opens, Wimbledon and Roland Garros between 1985 and 1990. She has a career singles win–loss record of 39–58, and a doubles record of 110–78. Thompson won the 1986 Virginia Slims of Pennsylvania singles title, and won doubles titles in Wellington, Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ... and the German Open in 1989, and won competitions in Nashville in 1988. WTA Tour finals Singles (1 title) Doubles (4 titles, 5 runners-up) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Byrne
Jenny Margaret Byrne (born 25 February 1967) is a former tennis player from Australia who turned professional in 1987 and retired from the tour in 1997. Her career-high world rankings were world No. 45 in singles (in 1989) and world No. 27 in doubles (in 1988). Byrne finished runner-up in the mixed-doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1989, partnering Mark Kratzmann. In 1992, she won the Women's Tennis Association's 'Comeback Player of the Year' award. As a junior player, Byrne won the girls' singles title at the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ... and finished runner-up in the girls' singles at Wimbledon in 1985. Grand Slam tournament finals Mixed doubles: 1 (runner-up) WTA career finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Doubles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
