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1988 Open Clarins
The 1988 Open Clarins was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Paris, France, and was part of the Category 1 tier of the 1988 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 19 September until 25 September 1988. Qualifier Petra Langrová won the singles title. Finals Singles Petra Langrová defeated Sandra Wasserman 7–6(7–0), 6–2 * It was Langrová's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. Doubles Alexia Dechaume / Emmanuelle Derly defeated Louise Field / 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, crosse ... 6–0, 6–2 * It was Dechaume's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Derly's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. References External links ITF tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. The only Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts is the French Open. Clay courts come in the more common #Red clay, red clay (known in France as ''terre battue''), which is actually crushed brick, and the slightly harder #Green clay, green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, clay requires much maintenance: the surface must be watered and rolled regularly to preserve texture and flatness, and brushed carefully before and during each match. Early history Clay courts, although now commonly associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Langrová
Petra Píchalová Langrová (born 27 June 1970) is a retired tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Czech Republic. Langrová gained professional status in 1986. She won one singles title and five double titles in her career on the WTA Tour. She reached career-high rankings of 53 in singles (in May 1997) and 35 in doubles (in April 1993), and retired from the tour in 1998. WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runners-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles (3–2) Doubles (8–6) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Langrova, Petra Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak female tennis players Sportspeople from Prostějov Tennis players from the Olomouc Region 1970 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (born 3 May 1970) is a former professional tennis player from France. In her career, she reached three finals on the WTA Tour: at Taranto in 1990, she lost to Raffaella Reggi, and in New York in 1991, she lost to Brenda Schultz-McCarthy at Schenectady, both Tier V tournaments. At the Tier IV event in Cardiff in 1997, she lost to Virginia Ruano Pascual in the final, in three sets. Her best Grand Slam performance was the fourth round at the 1994 French Open. As a wildcard entrant and the world No. 197, she beat Emanuela Zardo, Wiltrud Probst and Marzia Grossi, then lost to third seed Conchita Martínez, 1–6, 2–6. She achieved more notable success in doubles, winning six titles, four with Florencia Labat, and ranking as high as No. 22 in the WTA rankings. On 17 August 1992, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 46. She retired after a first-round defeat at the hands of Emmanuelle Gagliardi, at the 2000 Australian Open. On 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Derly
Emmanuelle Derly (born 30 April 1970) is a French former professional tennis player. In 1988, she was French Open girls’ doubles champion with Alexia Dechaume and was the runner-up in Wimbledon in the girls’ singles final, losing to Brenda Schultz Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a former Dutch tennis player. Primarily known by her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1 ... 6–7(5), 1–6. Derly played for France in the 1985 Federation Cup. She also won the Clarins Open in 1988 with Alexia Dechaume. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (1–1) ITF finals Singles (1-1) Doubles (1-3) References External links * * * French female tennis players 1970 births Living people French Open junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber tennis ball, ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's tennis court, court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a Point (tennis), point. Playable at all levels of society and at all ages, tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including Wheelchair tennis, wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 WTA Tour
The 1988 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 16th elite tour for professional women's tennis of the Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) for the 1988 season. The 1988 Virginia Slims World Championship Series included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WITA Tour Championships and the WTA Category 1-5 events. ITF tournaments were not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking. The tour was governed by the Women's International Professional Tennis Council (WIPTC), a cooperation between WITA, ITF and recognized tournaments. Philip Morris sponsored the tour under its Virginia Slims brand. Steffi Graf became the first singles player in history to win the Golden Slam by taking the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open singles titles, along with the Olympic gold medal. Graf's defeat by Pam Shriver in the semifinals of the Virginia Slims Championships deprived her of a Super Slam.Collins, Bud. The Bud Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Wasserman
Sandra Wasserman (born 10 March 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ..., Belgium. Fed Cup Wasserman became Belgium's youngest Fed Cup player when she lost to Csilla Bartos-Cserepy, Csilla Bartos of Hungary Fed Cup team, Hungary in October 1985 in Japan. She also lost the longest tie-break played by the Belgian Fed Cup team, losing 13–11 to Jennifer Capriati of the United States Fed Cup team, United States in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia after losing the first set 6–0. Results Wasserman won her only doubles title at the 1988 Spanish Open, Spanish Open in Barcelona, Spain on 25 April 1988, partnering Iva Budařová and beating Anna-Karin Olsson and María José Llorca in the final in three sets. She reached the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
