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1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open – Doubles
The 1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open doubles was the doubles event of the second edition of the Budapest Grand Prix; a WTA Tier IV tournament and the most prestigious women's tennis tournament held in Hungary. Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez were the defending champions but only Ruano Pascual competed that year with Laura Montalvo. Montalvo and Ruano Pascual lost in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Evgenia Kulikovskaya and Sandra Naćuk. Seeds The top two 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 quarterfinals. Draw External links 1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open Doubles Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Doubles Budapest Grand Prix Westel 900 Budapest Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgenia Kulikovskaya
Evgenia Borisovna Kulikovskaya (Russian: Евгения Борисовна Куликовская; born 21 December 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached her highest singles ranking of No. 91 in June 2003. She had more success in doubles, winning four doubles 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 ... and reaching the top 50. A rarity among tennis players, Kulikovskaya is ambidextrous; she played with two forehands and no backhand, switching her racket hand depending on where the ball was coming from. WTA career finals Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (8–6) Doubles: 24 (12–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kulikovskaya, Evgenia 1978 births Living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999. Pitkowski won her only career singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens Valero in the final. She was also the runner-up at the WTA Tour tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin. She has won a total of ten singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit but never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie, and saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans Sabine Appelmans (born 22 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. She was Belgium's Fed Cup Captain (sports), captain from 2007 until 2011. Career Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Mandula
Petra Mandula (; born 17 January 1978) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; in singles, she was eliminated in the first round by fourth seed Conchita Martínez of Spain, in doubles, she reached the quarterfinals, partnering Katalin Marosi. Four years later, when Athens hosted the Games, she once again was defeated in the first round, this time by Patty Schnyder of Switzerland. She reached the quarterfinals at the 2001 French Open as a qualifier, winning seven straight matches and losing to eventual runner-up, Kim Clijsters. Two years later, at the 2003 French Open, she almost repeated the feat, losing in the fourth round 5–7 in the third set to Chanda Rubin. Also in 2003, Mandula reached the semifinals of the Australian Open with Emmanuelle Gagliardi, losing to Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez Paola Suárez (; born 23 June 1976) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Gubacsi
Zsófia Gubacsi (born 6 April 1981) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player. She won one WTA Tour singles title at the 2001 Morocco Open in Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio .... Personal life Gubacsi was born to parents Julianna (née Harangozo) and Mihaly Gubacsi, who own a hotel. She was a baseline player who likes all court surfaces, and she said her best shot is a secret. Her goal was to reach the top 50 in tennis. She was originally coached by Jozsef Hegedus, but he would later be replaced by Attila Door. WTA career finals Singles: 1 (title) Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 15 (6–9) Doubles: 19 (8–11) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gubacsi, Zsofia 1981 births Living people Hungari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Földényi
Anna Maria Földényi (born 22 August 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. In her career, Földényi won 13 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 27 September 1999, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 107. On 19 April 1999, she peaked at No. 142 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Hungary Fed Cup team, she has a win-loss record of 19–5. Földényi retired from tour in 2007. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles: 18 (13–5) Doubles: 3 (3–0) External links * * * Hungarian female tennis players German female tennis players 1974 births Living people German people of Hungarian descent Sportspeople of Hungarian descent Sportspeople from Düsseldorf Tennis players from Düsseldorf (region) {{Hungary-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anca Barna
Anca Barna (born 14 May 1977) is a former German tennis player. She turned professional in 1992 and retired in 2005. On 12 April 2004, Barna reached her highest singles ranking, world No. 46. Her highest doubles ranking came on 21 April 1997, when she peaked at No. 119. Anca resides in Nuremberg, Germany. Her sister, Adriana Barna, was also a professional tennis player. WTA career finals Singles: 1 runner-up ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (2–4) Doubles: 6 (2–4) Head-to-head record *Dominique Monami 0-1 *Monica Seles 0-1 *Serena Williams 0-2 *Venus Williams 0-1 *Anastasia Myskina 0-1 *Kim Clijsters 0-2 *Nadia Petrova 1-1 *Elena Dementieva 1-1 *Justine Henin 0-3 *Jelena Janković Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian 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 W ... 0-1 External links * * * 1977 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonella Serra Zanetti
Antonella Serra Zanetti (born 25 July 1980; ) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. On 30 January 2006, Serra Zanetti achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. On 8 May 2006, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won two doubles titles on WTA Tour, as well as six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmenta .... Personal Antonella was coached by Patricio Remondegui, her favorite surface is hardcourt. Father Alessandro is in banking; mother Arianna is an art history teacher; older brother Andrea and younger sister Alessia are students. Older sister Adriana also retired as professional tennis player. Antonella Serra Zanetti retired from the professional tour 2009. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Serra Zanetti
Adriana Serra Zanetti (born 5 March 1976; ) is an Italian former 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. On 11 February 2002, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 38. On 17 June 2002, she peaked at No. 69 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won three WTA Tour doubles titles, as well as one singles ITF title. Serra Zanetti reached one Grand Slam quarterfinal in singles, at the 2002 Australian Open. Her younger sister Antonella is also a tennis player. Adriana Serra Zanetti retired from the professional tour 2007. WTA Tour finals Doubles (3–1) ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (0–4) References External links * * * 1976 births Living people Italian female tennis players Sportspeople from M ... [...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] |
Adrienn Hegedűs
Adrienn Hegedűs (born 26 December 1977) is a Hungarian former tennis player. In her career, she won a total of 18 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmenta .... On 24 September 2001, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 178. In April 1998, Hegedűs played two doubles rubbers for the Hungary Fed Cup team losing both of them. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (11 titles, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 18 (7 titles, 11 runner-ups) Fed Cup participation Doubles External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hegedus, Adrienn 1977 births Living people Hungarian female tennis players Tennis players from Budapest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open. At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion, Ana Ivanovic Ana Schweinsteiger (name at birth, née Ivanovic; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian 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 Tenn .... She had a match point during the second set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10. Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľudmila Cervanová
Ľudmila Cervanová (; born 15 October 1979) is a former tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1997, and reached career-high rankings of world No. 58 in singles in March 2004 and No. 186 in doubles in May 1997. Biography Cervanová graduated from high school in 1997, the same year she turned pro. Her favourite tennis court surface is clay, and her best shot is the backhand. She was coached by Jan Kuval. Tennis career Cervanová did not win any title on the WTA Tour. Her closest being in Acapulco, on 27 February 2005, when she lost in the final to Flavia Pennetta in three sets. She has also reached the final of the tournament in Casablanca in 2004, where she lost to Émilie Loit of France, the semifinals of Bratislava in 2001, where she lost to eventual winner Rita Grande from Italy and the semifinals of Bogotá in 2006, losing to Lourdes Domínguez Lino in straight sets. In her career, she won seven singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |