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1994 Virginia Slims Of Florida – Singles
Steffi Graf was the defending champion and won in the final 6–3, 7–5 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round. # Steffi Graf (champion) # Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ''(final)'' # Gabriela Sabatini ''(quarterfinals)'' # Amanda Coetzer ''(third round)'' # Helena Suková ''(semifinals)'' # Judith Wiesner ''(third round)'' # Sabine Hack ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lori McNeil ''(third round)'' # Natalia Medvedeva ''(quarterfinals)'' # n/a # Yayuk Basuki ''(second round)'' # Julie Halard ''(third round)'' # Brenda Schultz ''(third round)'' # Chanda Rubin ''(semifinals)'' # Miriam Oremans ''(second round)'' # Stephanie Rottier ''(quarterfinals)'' # Florencia Labat María Florencia Labat (born 12 June 1971) is an Argentinian former professional female tennis player. She joined the WTA Tour The ... [...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] |
Miriam Oremans
Miriam Oremans (born 9 September 1972) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25. She did not win any singles titles (Oremans did have two Satellite tournament wins in 1989), but did win three titles in doubles. In 1992 she was runner-up together with Jacco Eltingh in the mixed doubles finals of Wimbledon. Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the silver medal in doubles, partnering Kristie Boogert, losing the final match to Venus and Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American 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 (WT .... Major finals Olympic finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA Tour finals Singles 5 Doubles 12 (3–9) ITF finals Singles: (2-2) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Arendt
Nicole J. Arendt (born August 26, 1969) is an American retired professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked 49th in the world. Arendt reached her career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in the world on August 25, 1997. Arendt was born in Somerville, New Jersey. She attended the Hun School of Princeton for her high school education. Arendt received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1988 to 1991. She was a key member of the Gators' NCAA national championship runners-up teams in 1988 and 1990, and received eight All-American honors during her college career. She turned professional in 1991. Arendt's best Grand Slam doubles result was reaching the fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christína Papadáki
Christína Papadáki () (born 24 February 1973) is a former tennis player from Greece who turned professional in 1989. Her biggest career achievement was reaching the final of the Copa Colsanitas tournament in 1999, losing to Fabiola Zuluaga and winning the doubles title with Seda Noorlander in the same tournament. Papadaki reached her career-high ranking of world No. 72 in May 1999. She played in the Fed Cup for Greece every year from 1991 to 1999, and compiled a 30–30 win–loss record in these ties. Papadáki twice represented Greece at the Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ..., in 1992 and 1996. She retired from professional tennis in 1999. WTA Tour finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 1 (title) ITF finals Singles (5–4) Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Steven
Julie Spalding-Steven (born April 24, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player, coach, and businesswoman. Biography Tennis career Steven grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and had a successful career in junior tennis, culminating in a junior US Open title. Throughout her career, she played in all 4 grand slams. She had a win over Lindsay Davenport at the 1991 junior US Open, then lost to the same player in the girls' singles final the following year. At the 1992 Wimbledon Championships, she was runner-up in the girls' doubles, partnering Pam Nelson. Her US Open title came in 1993, with Nicole London in the girls' doubles and she also made the singles semifinals that year. As a professional player, she reached a best singles ranking of 173 in the world and made three US Open appearances as a singles wildcard. In addition to the US Open, she also played in the women's doubles main draws at Wimbledon and the Australian Open. In 1993, she was a member of the Wichita Adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Stafford
Shaun Stafford Beckish (born December 13, 1968), née Shaun Stafford, is an American former college and professional tennis player who played on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour from 1989 to 1996. As a collegiate tennis player, Stafford won the 1988 NCAA national singles championship while playing for the University of Florida. She won two WTA tournaments in her professional career, one in singles and the other in doubles. Early years Stafford was born in Ocala, Florida, but moved to Gainesville, Florida with her family when she was 11 years old. She graduated from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, where she played for the Buchholz Bobcats high school tennis team. As a junior in 1985, she was the high school state singles champion.Bobb Pulley, Shaun Stafford: On the court, she's in her own league" ''The Gainesville Sun'', p. 4B (April 1, 1986). Retrieved March 13, 2012. As a senior in 1986, Stafford won the Florida Class 4A state singles championship again, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larissa Schaerer
Larissa Schaerer (born 15 April 1975) is a former professional tennis player from Paraguay. Biography A right-handed player, Schaerer was born in Asuncion and began playing tennis aged eight. She was a member of the Paraguayan team that finished runner-up to Germany at the 1991 World Youth Cup, during which she was unbeaten in singles play. While still a junior, she started her Fed Cup career for Paraguay, first appearing at the age of 16, including in a World Group tie against the Soviet Union. At the 1992 US Open, she reached the semifinals of the girls' singles. Schaerer represented Paraguay at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She competed in the women's doubles tournament with Rossana de los Ríos as her partner. The pair lost to the French pairing of Isabelle Demongeot and Nathalie Tauziat in the opening round. On the WTA Tour, her best performances came on the clay courts of the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, where she was a semifinalist in 1998 and quarterfinalist in 1999. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarína Studeníková
Katarína Studeníková (born 2 September 1972) is a former professional Slovak tennis player. Her highest singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is 31st, which she reached on 23 December 1996. Her career-high in doubles was at 62, set on 13 November 1995. Studeníková defeated Monica Seles in 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 ... in the year 1996. ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (2–9) External links * * * 1972 births Living people Slovak female tennis players Tennis players from Bratislava Czechoslovak female tennis players 20th-century Slovak women {{Slovakia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Jaggard-Lai
Michelle Jaggard-Lai (born 6 May 1969) is a retired tennis player from Australia. She turned professional in 1984. In her career, Jaggard-Lai won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also reached the quarterfinals of the 1992 Australian Open, partnering Kimiko Date. In singles, she reached round three of the 1989 Australian Open. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 42 in February 1991 and a best singles ranking of No. 83 in May 1993. Jaggard-Lai was a member of the Australia Fed Cup team that lost in the final of the 1993 Federation Cup. She played in the singles main draw at the Australian Open eight times, the French Open six times, 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 ... four times & the US Open once. In doubles, she played in the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika DeLone
Erika deLone (born October 14, 1972) is an American retired tennis player who turned professional in 1992. She reached one WTA Tour singles final in her career, finishing runner-up to Åsa Svensson at the Wismilak International in 1999. In April 2000, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 65. DeLone won one WTA Tour doubles title in her career, winning the 2000 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, partnering Australian Nicole Pratt Nicole Pratt (born 5 March 1973) is a retired tennis player from Australia. Pratt was born in Mackay, Queensland. She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior pl .... She reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 45 in December 2000. In 2003, she retired from professional tennis. Her sister Amy was a professional tennis player as well. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva ( ; born 8 September 1975) is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16. Together with Mahesh Bhupathi she won the Wimbledon Mixed doubles in 2002 and the Australian Open mixed-doubles championship with Daniel Nestor in 2007. She also was runner-up in a number of other contests, including the 2000 and 2004 US Open – Women's doubles, the French Open mixed doubles in 2003, the Australian Open women's doubles in 2004, the French Open mixed doubles in 2006. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won the first round of the women's doubles competition with partner Svetlana Kuznetsova but was defeated in the second. Grand Slam finals Doubles: 4 (0–4) Mixed doubles: 5 (2–3) WTA Tour finals Singles: 8 (3–5) Doubles: 56 (27–29) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles: 9 (6–3) Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles Mixed doubles Head-vs.- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Werdel
Marianne Werdel (born October 17, 1967) is an American former professional tennis player. Werdel was born in Los Angeles and played on the WTA Tour from 1982 to 1997. She is also known as Marianne Witmeyer or Werdel-Witmeyer. She won 19 national junior titles. In 1988 Werdel suffered a partially herniated disc, forcing a two-month absence from the tour. At the 1995 Australian Open, unseeded Marianne Werdel defeated fifth-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina in a first-round match. Werdel won the first set, but Sabatini raced out to a 3–0 lead in the second set before twice losing her serve. Werdel won four consecutive games to close out the match in straight sets, dismissing Sabatini 6–4, 6–4. Werdel had also beaten Sabatini two years earlier at a tournament in Japan. After she had disposed of Sabatini, Werdel continued to work her way through the draw beating Park Sung-hee, Elena Makarova, Barbara Paulus and Angélica Gavaldón en route to a semifinal encounter w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
