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1991 Puerto Rico Open – Doubles
Elena Brioukhovets and Natalia Medvedeva were the defending champions, but they did not compete this year. Rika Hiraki and Florencia Labat won the title by defeating Sabine Appelmans and 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, Cat ... 6–3, 6–3 in the final. Seeds Draw Draw References External links Official results archive (ITF)Official results archive (WTA) {{DEFAULTSORT:1991 Puerto Rico Open - Doubles Puerto Rico Open (tennis) 1991 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rika Hiraki
Rika Hiraki (, born 6 December 1971) is a former professional Japanese 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 won the mixed-doubles title at the 1997 French Open (with Mahesh Bhupathi). Biography Started playing at age 6. Baseliner, who considered groundstrokes her strength. Father, Koichi, works for Japan Airlines; mother, Noriko, is a homemaker; older brother, Yasuchika, graduated from the University of Tokyo and is now a pilot with Japan Airlines. Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, majoring in International Politics. Works as a Systems Manager for telephone company NTT, completing all her work from the road via computer modem while at tournaments. Hobbies include reading and working with computers. Likes to visit London. Favorite movie i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolene Watanabe
Jolene Watanabe (August 31, 1968 – June 22, 2019) was an American international tennis player. She competed in 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 ... 6 times, from 1994 to 2000. Jolene also competed in the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open making the second round in each of these tournaments. She obtained a career high singles ranking of 72 in 1997 and included a win over Jennifer Capriati. Jolene previously coached at the Van Der Meer Tennis Academy and most recently coached at Smith Stearns Tennis Academy serving as the Assistant Director. She coached numerous top players during her coaching career. As a junior Jolene played for the Southern California section. She attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) for her D1 collegiate ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audra Keller
Audra Keller (born November 17, 1971) is a retired American professional tennis player who competed on the WTA Tour from 1988 to 1996. In 1991, she was runner-up to Katerina Maleeva at the Virginia Slims of Indianapolis The Virginia Slims of Indianapolis is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1972 to 1973 and from 1983 to 1992. It was held in Indianapolis in the United States and played on indoor carpet courts from 1972 to 1973 and from ..., falling 7–6, 6–2 in the finals. She achieved a career-best ranking of #77 in August 1992. External links * * 1971 births American female tennis players Living people Tennis players from Georgia (U.S. state) Sportspeople from Macon, Georgia 21st-century American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Allen (tennis)
Louise Allen (born January 7, 1962) is a retired American tennis player. Allen attended Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she was a four-time All-American (1981–1984) and won the 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Doubles Championship and the 1983 Pan American Games women's doubles, both times with partner Gretchen Rush. The same year, she received the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award, awarded annually to the best collegiate athletes in 12 sports) for tennis. She graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Allen played in all four Grand Slam tournaments, with her best results coming in 1983, when she reached the third round at Wimbledon in singles and the US Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev ... with doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Thorén
Petra Maria Thorén (born 8 August 1969) is a former tennis player from Finland. Thorén won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 23 March 1992, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 73. On 25 April 1994, she peaked at No. 112 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Finland Fed Cup team, Thorén has a win–loss record of 18–17 in 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 ... competition. ITF finals Singles (5–4) Doubles (1–4) References External links * * Living people 1969 births Finnish female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Finnish sportswomen 21st-century Finnish women {{finland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Faber
Donna Faber (born July 5, 1971) 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 competed in Grand Slam tournaments from 1988 to 1993. WTA Tour finals Singles 2 (0–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faber, Donna 1971 births Living people American female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in tennis 20th-century American sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rittner
Barbara Rittner (born 25 April 1973) is a German former professional tennis player. She currently is the captain of the German Fed Cup team. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 24 in the world, achieved on 1 February 1993. As a junior, she won the 1991 Wimbledon Championships. She won her first WTA Tour title in 1992, and almost nine years later, she won her second at the Belgian Open in Antwerp. This marked the second longest time between singles titles in the Open Era (behind Marcie Louie, who captured her second title years after her first one). She also won three doubles titles with three different partners. She reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament twice in her professional career; once at the French Open in 1996, and again at the Australian Open in 2001. Her best performances at Wimbledon and the US Open are the third round in both. At 's-Hertogenbosch in 2003, as a main-draw alternate, she recorded the best win of her career over the then-sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Hack
Sabine Hack (; born 12 July 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She began her career 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 ... in 1983. She won four singles and one doubles titles in her career. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1994 French Open. Hack reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 in the world in January 1995. She retired from the tour in 1997. WTA tour finals Singles (4 titles, 4 runners-up) Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (0–1) External links * * * 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Ulm German female tennis players West German female tennis players Tennis players from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilie Viqueira
Emilie Viqueira (born March 21, 1969) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. Biography Viqueira, who comes from Mayagüez, began competing on the professional tour in the late 1980s. She featured mostly on the ITF circuit, winning six titles in doubles. All of her WTA Tour main draw appearances came at her home tournament, the Puerto Rico Open. During her career she played college tennis for UC Berkeley, where she earned All-American honors in 1990 and 1991. At representative level, Viqueira was a mixed doubles bronze medalist at the 1991 Pan American Games The 1991 Pan American Games, officially known as the XI Pan American Games () and commonly known as Havana 1991 (), were held in Havana, Cuba from 2 to 18 August 1991. There were 4,519 athletes from 39 countries of the Pan American Sports Organi ... in Havana and represented the Puerto Rico Fed Cup team in 16 ties from 1992 to 1997. She is married to Puerto Rican musician Roy Brown. ITF finals Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Schwartz (sportsperson)
Amy Schwartz Gross (born September 2, 1969) is a former American professional tennis player and amateur golfer. She played collegiate tennis at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Her husband is PIMCO co-founder and billionaire Bill H. Gross. Biography Schwartz, who comes from Miami, was an Easter Bowl champion in tennis as a junior, winning the girls' 16s title in 1984. She played number one singles at the University of Miami. She trained under tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. On the professional tour her best performance was a semi-final appearance at the 1986 Brazilian Open in São Paulo, which included a win over Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. At the 1988 Australian Open, she made the second round of the women's singles in her only main draw singles appearance at a grand slam tournament. She represented the United States at the 1993 Maccabiah Games in Israel. She is also an amateur golfer, playing at The American Express at PGA West in January 2020 and winning the ama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Whittington
Tammy Whittington (born October 12, 1965) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Whittington played college tennis in 1980s for the University of Florida, where she came to from Plantation High School in Broward County. She was a singles All-American for the Gators in both 1985 and 1987. After graduating in 1987 she turned professional. On the professional circuit, Whittington reached a best ranking of 105 for singles. Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a quarter-final appearance at the 1991 Virginia Slims of Nashville, beating world number 50 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 ... en route. She made the second round of the 1992 Wimbledon Championships. As a doubles player she won nine ITF titles and featured in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971, in Hoopstad) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam semifinals (Australian Open 1996 and 1997, French Open 1997) and one Grand Slam doubles final ( US Open 1993). Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin". Personal life Coetzer was born in Hoopstad, South Africa, to Nico and Suska Coetzer. She started playing tennis at the age of six. During her career, she resided primarily in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was coached by Gavin Hopper, later by Lori McNeil. As a photographer's model she appeared as a Sunshine Girl in the Canadian Sun newspaper chain. She is married to the Hollywood film producer Arnon M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |