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1997 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Fernández with Martina Hingis and Zvereva with Lindsay Davenport. Fernández and Hingis lost in the final 6–4, 6–3 against Davenport and Zvereva. Seeds Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. # Gigi Fernández / Martina Hingis ''(final)'' # Lindsay Davenport / Natasha Zvereva (champions) #n/a # Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs Rennae Stubbs (born 26 March 1971) is an Australian former professional tennis player, coach and television commentator. She was ranked number 1 in the world in doubles, and the winner of 4 major doubles titles and 2 mixed doubles titles as wel ... ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw External links 1997 Toray Pan Pacific Open Doubles Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1997 Toray Pan Pacific Open - Doubles Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández (born February 22, 1964) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. Fernández won 17 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals representing the United States, and reached the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 ranking in doubles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 17 in 1991. Since retiring from the professional tour in 1997 at the age of 33, Fernández has been a tennis coach and entrepreneur. She now shares her knowledge of doubles with tennis enthusiasts throughout the US by conducting Master Doubles with Gigi Clinics and Doubles Boot Camps. Fernández is the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Career Fernández was recognized primarily as a doubles specialist during her professional career. She won a career doubles Grand Slam with 17 Grand Slam women's doubles title – six French Open, five US Open (tennis), U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Vis
Caroline Vis (born 4 March 1970) is a former tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned professional in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles on the WTA Tour during her career. She reached the mixed-doubles final at the 1991 French Open, playing with compatriot Paul Haarhuis Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (; born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch tennis coach and a former professional player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He has .... Her career-high doubles ranking is No. 9 in the world, which she reached in August 1998. Vis retired from tennis in 2006. Grand Slam finals Mixed doubles: 1 (runner-up) WTA Tour finals Doubles: 26 (9 titles, 17 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (5–5) External links * * * 1970 births Living people Dutch female tennis players Sportspeople from Vlaardingen Tennis players from South Holland Long stubs wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Kijimuta
Naoko Kijimuta ( Japanese: 雉子牟田 直子, ''Kijimuta Naoko'', born March 26, 1972) is a retired tennis player and winner of five professional doubles tournaments. She has been a representative of Japan in the Federation Cup. Career In the 1990s with her sister Akiko, she ranked among the top tennis players in Japan, alongside such players as Kimiko Date and Naoko Sawamatsu. From 1995 to 1997, she figured in the world top 100 in singles, taking a highest ranking in March 1997 - No. 44 (the season ended 1996 as the world's 50th best player). Naoko's best results include the singles semifinals of the WTA Tour tournament in Jakarta (defeated by top-seeded Belgian Sabine Appelmans) and ( Japan Open) in 1996, quarterfinals in Strasbourg in 1997, third rounds at the 1996 US Open and 1997 Wimbledon. Greater successes she had in doubles, where she was ranked 18th in October 1997, and won five tournaments including WTA Tour events and another five lower-ranking (ITF Women's Circ ... [...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] |
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] |
Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po (born October 20, 1971) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In her career, she won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000, partnering Donald Johnson. She also was a runner-up at the US Open in women's doubles in 2001, partnering Nathalie Tauziat, as well as at the 1999 US Open in mixed doubles, with Johnson. Po won six top-level doubles titles. Her career-high world rankings were world No. 6 in doubles (in 2001) and No. 14 in singles (in 1997). Her best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1997 Australian Open when she reached the quarterfinals before being knocked out by 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 Sla .... Po married Oliver Messerli in 2001, and was known thereafter as Kimberly Po-M ... [...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] |
Yuka Yoshida
Yuka Kaneko (née Yuka Yoshida, , born 1 April 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Japan. In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour: 1995 in Tokyo, 1996 in Pattaya Pattaya is a city in Eastern Thailand, the second-largest city in Chonburi province and the List of municipalities in Thailand, eighth-largest city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about southeast of Bangkok, and h ..., and 2005 in Memphis. Kaneko also won five singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best Grand Slam performance came in 1998 when she reached the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament of the US Open. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (5–5) Doubles: 15 (7–8) References External links * * 1976 births Living people Japanese female tennis players Sportspeople from Yokohama Tennis people from Kanagawa Prefecture Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |