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1997 Skoda Czech Open – Doubles
The women's doubles of the 1997 Skoda Czech Open tournament played on Clay court, clay in Prague, Czech Republic. Karina Habšudová and Helena Suková were the defending champions but only Habšudová competed that year with Ruxandra Dragomir. Dragomir and Habšudová won in the final 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 against Eva Martincová and Helena Vildová. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Ruxandra Dragomir / Karina Habšudová (champions) # Kristie Boogert / Alexia Dechaume-Balleret ''(semifinals)'' # Eva Martincová / Helena Vildová ''(final)'' # Sonya Jeyaseelan / Rene Simpson ''(semifinals)'' Draw External links 1997 Skoda Czech Open Doubles draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Skoda Czech Open - Doubles, 1997 Prague Open, 1997 - Doubles 1997 WTA Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruxandra Dragomir
Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 1997, when she became the No. 15 of the world. Between 2009 and 2013 she was the president of Romanian Tennis Federation. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1997 French Open, defeating Sonya Jeyaseelan, Yayuk Basuki, Karina Habšudová and Nicole Arendt, before losing to the eventual champion, Iva Majoli. Dragomir retired from professional tennis in 2005. WTA Tour finals Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (8–6) Grand Slam singles performance timeline Head-to-head records * Serena Williams 0-1 * Venus Williams 0-3 * Martina Hingis 0-4 * Lindsay Davenport 0-7 * Anna Kournikova 2-1 * Dominiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Louarsabishvili
Nino Louarsabishvili (born 3 February 1977) is a retired Georgian female tennis player. She won six singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 24 April 1995, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 135. On 21 July 1997, she peaked at number 111 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Georgia at the 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 ..., Louarsabishvili has a win–loss record of 17–23. Louarsabishvili retired from professional tennis 2000. ITF finals Singles (6–3) Doubles (7–6) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Louarsabishvili, Nino 1977 births Living people Female tennis players from Georgia (country) Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...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] |
Cătălina Cristea
Cătălina Cristea (born 2 June 1975) is a former tennis player from Romania. She was ranked No. 59 in singles (21 July 1997) and No. 40 in doubles (17 August 1998). She retired from professional tennis in September 2001, before returning in 2005; she ultimately retired September 2005 aged 30. Playing for Romania Fed Cup team, Cristea has a win–loss record of 20–13. Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles (0–1) WTA career finals Doubles: 4 (1–3) ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (6–1) Head-to-head record ''Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.'' * Lindsay Davenport 0–2 * Mary Pierce 0–3 * Conchita Martínez 0–1 * Natasha Zvereva 1–0 * Jana Novotná 0–1 * Elena Likhovtseva 0–4 * Alexandra Fusai 0–2 * Nathalie Tauziat 0–1 * Corina Morariu 1–2 * Lisa Raymond 0–1 * Karina Habšudová 1–1 * Ai Sugiyama 1–2 * Amélie Mauresmo 1–0 * Nadia Petrova Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova ( ; born 8 June 1982) is a ... [...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] |
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978) Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss retired tennis player. A former top 10 player in singles, she twice defeated a reigning List of WTA number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 player in her career: Martina Hingis at the 1998 Grand Slam Cup (by retirement) and Jennifer Capriati at the Family Circle Cup in 2002. In addition, she has notable wins over such former No. 1 players as Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic, and Caroline Wozniacki. In her career, she reached six Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam singles quarterfinals and one major singles semifinal. She won eleven WTA Tour singles titles including Zurich Open (Tier I), and five WTA doubles titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a former Dutch tennis player. Primarily known by her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and took his name.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour , Players , Info (Biography) , Brenda Schultz-McCartney Schultz is known for her fast serve; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Jensen
Rebecca Diianni (born November 19, 1972) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She competed during her career under her maiden name Rebecca Jensen. Biography Jensen grew up in Ludington, Michigan and in the early 1990s played collegiate tennis at the University of Kansas. In 1993, she became the first Kansas player to be named both a singles and doubles All-American in the same season, then in 1994 partnered with Nóra Köves to win the NCAA Doubles Championship. From 1994 she competed professionally, joining twin sister Rachel as well as elder brothers Luke and Murphy Murphy is an Irish surname meaning "Sea Warrior". Origins and variants The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: "Ó Murchadha"/"Ó Murchadh" (descendant of "Murchadh"), and "Mac Murchaidh"/" Mac Murchadh" (son of "Murchadh") derived ... on tour. A doubles specialist, she partnered all three sibling in a Grand Slam main-draw during her seven-year career, reaching a best ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Maruska
Marion Maruska (born 15 December 1972) is an Austrian former tennis player. She turned professional in 1992 and reached her career-high singles ranking on October 6, 1997, when she became the No. 50 of the world. 1997 was Maruska's best year on the WTA Tour, highlighted by her first (and only) WTA title and another tour final amid a wave of inconsistent results. As the world No. 154, she won her debut WTA title at the ASB Classic held in Auckland, New Zealand. En route, she beat Anke Huber for her first top-ten win. At Wimbledon, she won her first ever Grand Slam main-draw match when she beat Adriana Gerši, before falling to recently crowned French Open champion Iva Majoli. At the ECM Prague Open, she made her second tour final, but this time failed to walk away with the title. 1998 was a poor year for Maruska in comparison. She reached the second round of the French Open but had few other results and fell out of the top 100, subsequently never reaching her level of one year ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joannette Kruger
Joannette Kruger (born 3 September 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her career-high in singles is No. 21 in the world, a ranking she achieved on 4 May 1998. Kruger turned professional in 1989, but it was not until 1992 that she finally broke into the world's top 100. In 1995, she had her breakout season winning her first WTA Tour title in San Juan where she beat Kyoko Nagatsuka in the final. She also recorded her first two top ten wins over Anke Huber and Lindsay Davenport. After an injury-plagued 1996 season, she won her second career title in 1997 in Prague, Czech Republic by defeating Marion Maruska in the final. Other highlights included the quarterfinals of the Tier I in Rome, defeating Brenda Schultz-McCarthy and Karina Habšudová en route, both top twenty players, and reaching the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open, beating Barbara Paulus in the first round. She continued her success in 1998, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Kleinová
Sandra Kleinová (born 8 May 1978) is a retired Czech tennis player. Born in Prague, Kleinová reached the Fed Cup final in Nagoya in 1995. She was part of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team in 1997 Fed Cup, 1997. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 41st, which she reached in 1998, and her career high in doubles was at 209, set on 12 June 2000. Kleinová was again part of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team in 2002 Fed Cup, 2002. She defeated Elena Dementieva in the first round of 2004 Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon in 2004. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (6–4) Doubles (4–2) External links * * 1978 births Living people Czech female tennis players Tennis players from Prague {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denisa Chládková
Denisa Chládková (born 8 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Life and career Chládková did not win any WTA Tour titles, but she is probably best remembered for reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1997, playing in only her third Grand Slam main draw. After defeating Sandra Kleinová in the first round she stunned Lindsay Davenport in the second round, for the first top-ten win of her career. She then defeated Radka Zrubáková and María Vento-Kabchi before eventually losing to the champion, Martina Hingis. Despite not winning any titles, she reached WTA Tour singles finals. The biggest of these was at the Tier-II event held in Hanover, Germany, where she lost to Serena Williams. She also finished runner-up at Knokke-Heist, losing to María Sánchez Lorenzo and Helsinki, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. On 16 June 2003, she ascended to her career-high ranking of No. 31 in the world. That same year she advanced to the fourth rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
