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1989 US Open – Women's Singles
Defending champion Steffi Graf defeated Martina Navratilova in the final, 3–6, 7–5, 6–1 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1989 US Open. It was her second US Open title and eighth major singles title overall. This marked the final professional appearance for former world No. 1 and 18-time major champion Chris Evert. She lost to Zina Garrison in the quarterfinals. It was Evert's 54th quarterfinal at a major (in her 56th major played), an Open Era record. She reached the quarterfinals in all 19 US Opens she entered, 17 times reaching the semifinals or better, and winning the title six times. Future two-time champion Monica Seles made her US Open debut, losing to Evert in the fourth round. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Steffi Graf is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Steffi Graf ''(champion)'' # Martina Navratilova ''(runner-up)'' # Gabriela Sabatini ''(semifinalist)'' # Chris Evert ''(quarterfinalist)'' # Zi ... [...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] |
Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in 1994. Martínez also was the runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 2 in October 1995, and was in the year-end top 10 for nine years. Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career, as well as three Olympic medals. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2020. A five-time winner of the Fed Cup as a player, Martínez was the Spanish team captain from 2013 to 2017 and the Spanish Davis Cup team captain from 2015 to 2017, leading the Davis Cup team back into the top-tier World Group under her captaincy. She has also served as a part-time coach to Garbiñe Muguruza, guiding her to the 2017 Wimbledon Championships title, and was the full-time coach to Karolína P ... [...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] |
Linda Wild
Linda Harvey Wild (born February 11, 1971) is a retired tennis player from the United States. Born as Linda Harvey, she later used the family name of her stepfather and coach Steve Wild. Wild turned professional in 1989. In the first round of her first tournament in February 1990 in her hometown of Chicago, she defeated then fifth-ranked Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. During her career on the WTA Tour, she won five singles and five doubles titles. Her best Grand Slam singles performance came at the 1996 US Open, where she defeated Park Sung-hee, Kristie Boogert, Barbara Rittner and Lindsay Davenport to reach the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by Conchita Martínez. Her best doubles result she realized at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, reaching the semifinals with Elizabeth Smylie. Wild was a member of the United States Fed Cup team that won 1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier (born September 19, 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won eight singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. On February 27, 1995, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 13, while on March 29, 1993, she achieved a career-high doubles ranking of No. 24. Biography Junior career As a junior, she won US national titles in every age division, and she finished with 11 top 10 rankings, during a 6 year period in the 1980s. She captured 7 US national singles titles and 5 national doubles titles, while her junior Grand Slam record was 12-6 in singles. Active career Frazier made her first appearance in four tour qualifying events in 1986 and debuted in the main draw in 1987, including at the 1987 US Open, where she lost to Catarina Lindqvist in the first round. She was an active player until the 2006 US Open, in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance (a record among active players). She also appeared in 18 Austr ... [...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] |
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch ( Kohde; born 11 December 1963) is a former German tennis player and member of the Die Linke. During her tennis career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won eight singles titles and a total of 25 doubles titles. Personal life Kohde-Kilsch was born Claudia Kohde in Saarbrücken, but added the hyphenated "-Kilsch" to her name which came from her adoptive father Jürgen Kilsch, an attorney. She has a younger sister, Katrin. She began playing tennis aged 5, and was soon a rising junior player. Kohde-Kilsch campaigned for Oskar Lafontaine of Die Linke at the 2012 Saarland state election. With the party winning over 16% of the vote, it was announced that as of 1 May 2012 she would become the new spokesperson for the Landtag parliamentary group. She currently lives in Saarland with her partner and her son Fynn from her previous marriage with the singer Chris Bennett, from whom she divorced in 2011. Bennett died in 2018. The couple opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etsuko Inoue
is a retired tennis player from Japan. Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988 (Seoul, South Korea). In 1982, she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until .... Married Kejiro Kaneshiro in 1993. WTA Tour finals Singles (2–0) References External links * * * 1964 births Living people Tennis players from Tokyo People from Nakano, Tokyo Japanese female tennis players Olympic tennis players for Japan Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florencia Labat
María Florencia Labat (born 12 June 1971) is an Argentinian former professional female tennis player. She joined 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 ... in 1988 and retired in 2000. On 12 September 1994, Labat reached a career-high singles ranking of number 26 in the world. WTA Tour finals Singles 4 (0–4) Doubles 17 (7–10) ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (4–2) External links * * * 1971 births Living people Argentine female tennis players Olympic tennis players for Argentina Sportspeople from Pergamino Tennis players from Buenos Aires Province Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin White (tennis)
Robin White (born December 10, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. White played on the WTA Tour from 1983 to 1995. She won two singles titles: in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in 1985 and in Auckland in 1992. The highlight of her career was her victory with Gigi Fernández in the US Open women's doubles in 1988. She won 11 other doubles titles, including the US Open mixed doubles in 1989 with Shelby Cannon. She was a finalist in the Australian Open mixed doubles in 1991 and reached the final of the women's doubles in 1994 with Katerina Maleeva. White's singles record includes wins over Pam Shriver, 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 ... and Gabriela Sabatini. Her highest rankings were world No. 15 for singles and No. ... [...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] |
Andrea Temesvári
Andrea Temesvári (born 26 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. She won the Italian Open at age sixteen, but injuries would later hamper her career. Born in Budapest, Temesvári began playing tennis at age nine. She was coached by her father, Otto Temesvári, and Ferenc Polyak. Career She joined the WTA Tour in 1981, and was awarded ''Most Improved Player Award'' by WTA Tour and TENNIS Magazine in 1982. Temesvári reached a career-high of world No. 7 in 1983. After several injuries, she made a comeback after dropping out of top 25 for first time since 1983 in 1986. At the 1986 French Open, she won the doubles title with 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 .... She returned to the tour 1989 after a 20-month layoff due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
