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1997 Family Circle Cup – Doubles
Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but only Novotná competed that year with Lindsay Davenport. Davenport and Novotná lost in the final 7–5, 4–6, 6–1 against Mary Joe Fernández and Martina Hingis. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes In cricket, a bye is a type of extra. It is a run scored by the batting team when the ball has not been hit by the batter and the ball has not hit the batter's body. Scoring byes Usually, if the ball passes the batter without being deflected, th ... into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links 1997 Family Circle Cup Doubles draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1997 Family Circle Cup - Doubles Charleston Open 1997 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick (born María José Fernández; August 19, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up at the 1990 and 1992 Australian Open, and the 1993 French Open. She also won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In doubles, she won the 1991 Australian Open with Patty Fendick and the 1996 French Open with Lindsay Davenport, plus two Olympic gold medals. Career Fernández first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who won four straight Orange Bowl junior titles. In 1985, aged 14 years and eight days, she became the youngest player to win a main draw match at the US Open when she defeated Sara Gomer in the first round. Turning professional in 1986, she won her first tour doubles title in 1989 at Dallas, partnering Betsy Nagelsen. She was also semifinalist at the 1989 French Open, losing to ... [...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] |
Karina Habšudová
Karina Habšudová (; born 2 August 1973) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 10 in the world (1997). Together with Karol Kučera, she won the 1998 Hopman Cup, Hopman Cup in 1998. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1996 French Open – Women's singles, 1996 French Open, defeating Kristin Godridge, Nathalie Tauziat, Martina Hingis, and Anke Huber before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 8–10 in the third set. She also had a successful junior career. She won the girls' singles at the 1991 US Open (tennis), 1991 US Open, and was junior No. 1 for some time. Biography Born in Bojnice, Czechoslovakia, Habšudová originally trained as a gymnast but at the age of ten, she switched to tennis under the encouragement of her mother, herself a former amateur tennis player. By the age of fourteen, she had already become the top junior player in Czechoslovakia. In 1990, she was crowned ITF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Grossman
Ann Grossman-Wunderlich (born October 13, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. Grossman was born in the United States. She competed on the WTA Tour from 1987 to 1998. She reached the fourth round of the French Open The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ... twice, and she reached the fourth round of the US Open once. She was ranked as high as 29 in singles, and 31 in doubles. She recorded wins over Martina Navratilova, Mary Jo Fernandez, and Zina Garrison. Grossman has served on the USTA Olympic and Federation Cup committees after her retirement. WTA career finals Singles: 7 runner-ups Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grossman, Ann American female tennis players 1970 births Living people Tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez (; born 23 June 1976) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. She was one of the most prominent women's doubles players throughout the early and mid-2000s, winning eight Grand Slam titles, all of them with Virginia Ruano Pascual, and holding the No. 1 doubles ranking for 87 non-consecutive weeks. She was also a singles top ten player and semifinalist at the 2004 French Open. Career Suárez began playing professional tennis at the age of 15. In 1994, she joined the professional tour as a singles player. Suárez won four WTA titles (2004 Canberra, 2003 Vienna, 1998 & 2001 Bogotá) and 12 other minor tournaments. In 2004, she reached her only Grand Slam singles semi-final by defeating the 18th seed and future Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova, but lost to Elena Dementieva. That year, she reached her highest WTA ranking of No. 9, to become the highest-ranked Argentine women's player since Gabriela Sabatini achieved the No. 3 ranking in 1989. Also in 2004, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual (; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three WTA Tour titles as well as reaching two major quarterfinals and a top-30 ranking, but she had been far more successful in doubles. She won 43 career doubles titles, including eleven at Grand Slam tournaments: ten in women's doubles (eight partnering Paola Suárez, and two partnering Anabel Medina Garrigues) and one in mixed doubles (partnering Tomás Carbonell). Between 2002 and 2004, along with Suárez, she reached nine consecutive Grand Slam tournament finals (won five) and they reached at least the semifinals of the last twelve Grand Slam tournaments they played. Their winning run came to an end when they lost in the 2009 Wimbledon semifinals. Alongside Suarez, the pair was named as a ITF World Champions for the three consecutive years in a row (2002-2004). Personal life Her father, Juan Manuel Ruano, worked for Iberia Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Shi-ting
Wang Shi-Ting (; born 19 October 1973) is a former tennis player from Taiwan. She turned professional in 1991. In her career, she won six singles titles 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 .... She played 49 times over 11 years for Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51–25 overall record and setting many team records. Wang retired from the tour in 2000. Since 2006, she has been the captain of the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team. WTA Tour finals Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (8–1) Doubles (1–1) External links * * * 1973 births Living people Olympic tennis players for Taiwan Taiwanese female tennis players Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tainan Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Grzybowska
Magdalena Grzybowska (born 22 November 1978) is a former tennis player from Poland. Grzybowska, born in Poznań, won the juniors singles competition at the 1996 Australian Open. She also competed for Poland in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where she lost in the first round. Until her knee injury in 1998, she managed a rather successful career, culminating in the 30th position in the cumulative WTA rankings for that year, the highest standing for a Polish woman until Agnieszka Radwańska. She retired in 2002 at age 24. Playing for Poland Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 8–10. After having retired from tennis, she completed her university studies in Paris, and she is working as a tennis commentator for Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Schett
Barbara Schett Eagle (; born 10 March 1976) is an Austrian former professional tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the singles event. She retired after the 2005 Australian Open and now works for Eurosport as a commentator and presenter. Tennis career 1991–1995 Schett made her debut at the WTA Tour as a wildcard entrant for the tournament in Kitzbühel. She played mostly on the ITF Circuit, and won the ITF tournament in Zaragoza in 1992. In 1993, Schett broke into the top 200, and reached the quarterfinals at Kitzbühel and Montpellier. In Kitzbühel, Schett defeated world No. 17, Katerina Maleeva, in the third round, and lost in the quarterfinals to Judith Wiesner. In 1994, Schett played her first Grand Slam tournament, q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Farina Elia
Silvia Farina-Elia (; born 27 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. She won three WTA singles titles, reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in May 2002. Farina-Elia won her first ITF title at Caltagirone in 1991 and her first WTA tournament at Strasbourg in 2001. She made her debut Grand Slam appearance at the 1991 French Open and was coached by husband Francesco Elia, whom she married September 1999. Career Farina-Elia made steady progression on the ITF circuit during the early 1990s and finished her first year in the top 100 in 1991. She completed her first victory over a top ten player ( Gabriela Sabatini, Roland Garros) in 1994 and won her first doubles title the next year. In 1996, she represented Italy at the Atlanta Olympics. 1998 was considered her breakthrough year, reaching the final of four tournaments and in the process securing a place in the year end top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Career 1990s In 1993, at age 17, Sugiyama played tennis legend Martina Navratilova in her native city, losing in three sets. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to world No. 30, Gigi Fernández, in three sets. In 1994, Sugiyama again reached the main draw at Wimbledon but lost to world No. 6 and compatriot, Kimik ... [...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] |
