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1988 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions but only Navratilova competed that year with Iwona Kuczyńska. Kuczynska and Navratilova won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Raffaella Reggi and Elna Reinach. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Jana Novotná / Catherine Suire ''(first round)'' # Catarina Lindqvist / Tine Scheuer-Larsen ''(first round)'' # Nathalie Herreman / Catherine Tanvier ''(semifinals)'' # Isabelle Demongeot / 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 ... ''(semifinals)'' Draw External links ITF tournament edition details {{DEFAULTSORT:Doubles Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 1988 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwona Kuczyńska
Iwona Kuczyńska (born 22 February 1961) is a retired tennis player from Poland. Her highest WTA singles ranking was No. 64, reached on 12 October 1987, while her highest doubles ranking was No. 35, reached on 16 January 1989. Career On the WTA Tour, she won one doubles title in Filderstadt 1988, partnering with Martina Navratilova and reached the final two more times, in Pittsburgh 1983 and in San Diego 1984, both times partnering with Trey Lewis. On the ITF circuit, she won one singles title and six doubles titles. She was also part of the Fed Cup team Poland and represented her country at the Fed Cup competition in both singles and in doubles. Kuczyńska retired from professional tennis in 1990. Personal life She lived in Omice, Czech Republic, with her partner, former Czech tennis player Jana Novotná. WTA career finals Doubles 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (6–3) Head-to-head record * Chris Evert 0–1 * Arantxa Sánche ... [...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] |
Judith Wiesner
Judith Wiesner (née Pölzl; born 2 March 1966) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. During her career, she won five top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were world No. 12 in singles (in 1997), and No. 29 in doubles (in 1989). In 1996, Wiesner was a quarterfinalist at both Wimbledon and the US Open. Fed Cup Wiesner played her first match for the Austria Federation Cup team in 1983, and her last match in the Fed Cup in 1997. All together, she played in 14 different years, which is the most played by any player for Austria. She also holds the Austrian Fed Cup records for the most wins, the most singles wins, the most doubles wins jointly with Barbara Schett, and the most ties played. Post-tennis Initially, Wiesner turned her hand to golf, achieving a handicap of 2. She was the team captain of Austria's Fed Cup team for 2001. She married Roland Floimair in 2001. From 1999 until 2004 she was a member of the Salzburg city co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Hanika
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Christina Singer
Christina Singer-Bath (born 27 July 1968) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She competed at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * W ... several times from 1987 to 1999. at wtatennis.com WTA Tour finals Doubles; 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (5–1) Doubles (3–1) References External links * * * *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Meier
Silke Meier (born 13 July 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Germany who played on the WTA tour from 1985 to 1999. She reached the third round of the US Open in 1990 and, over her career, recorded victories against Jana Novotná, Helena Suková and Manuela Maleeva Manuela Georgieva Maleeva (; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began representing Switzerland officially from January 1990 .... WTA Tour finals Singles 1 Doubles 4 (1–3) ITF finals Singles (3–0) Doubles (4–7) External links * * * German female tennis players West German female tennis players 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Wiesbaden Tennis players from Darmstadt (region) {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Strandlund
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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] |
Claudia Porwik
Claudia Porwik, born on 14 November 1968, 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. She played on the WTA Tour from 1986 to 1996 and reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 1988 and the semifinals in 1990. Porwik retired with a 195–191 career record, including wins over Gabriela Sabatini and Conchita Martínez. Career She won the German National Indoor Championships two times in 1990 and 1992. Porwik first played for West Germany in the Federation Cup in 1986. She played two singles matches in the Federation Cup, both for Germany in 1990, and won them both. She played her last Fed Cup match in 1995. WTA career finals Singles: 1 runner-up Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (3–0) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus (born 1 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career, she won a total of seven WTA tournaments (six singles titles, one doubles title). Paulus competed for the Austria Fed Cup team on 21 occasions in singles and doubles, winning nine of her 22 matches. Career Paulus is one of the most successful Austrian female tennis players, being one of only two to be ranked in the top 10 (along with Barbara Schett), despite having a career plagued with injuries. She won six singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. Her best results include victories over Chris Evert, Mary Pierce, Gabriela Sabatini, Conchita Martínez, and Jana Novotná. After reaching as high as No. 12 in the world in 1990, she sustained injuries to her knee and both wrists which required her to have surgery and kept her sidelined for many months through 1992 and 1993. Her comeback from injur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Walsh
Sharon Walsh-Arnold (née Walsh; born February 24, 1952) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Walsh enjoyed a long career, playing her first Grand Slam singles event in 1969 and her last Grand Slam doubles match in 1990. She was a finalist at the 1979 Australian Open where she lost to Barbara Jordan. She reached the fourth round of the 1981 US Open and the final of the doubles there the following year with Barbara Potter. She did not claim a WTA Tour singles title, but she had some success against top players, beating 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 ... in both their encounters (Christchurch 1978 and Australian Open 1983).See the 'Activity' tab on her ITF profile. She achieved her highest singles ranking of 22 in 1982, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Durie
Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a former world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates. Born in Bristol, England, Jo Durie was the last British woman to reach the semifinal of a Grand Slam tournament until Johanna Konta reached the semifinal of the 2016 Australian Open, and the last British woman to win a major title in any discipline, until Heather Watson won the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Henri Kontinen. Singles career After a successful junior career which included winning junior British titles on all three surfaces (grass, hard court and indoor) in 1976; Jo Durie turned professional in 1977, and played her first match at Wimbledon that year against the eventual champion Virginia Wade. In 1980 Durie suffered a major back injury which kept her out of the game for eight months. However, she made a successful return to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |