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Gabriela Kučerová
Gabriela Kučerová (born 28 November 1977) is a German former professional tennis player. Biography Kučerová, who is originally from Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ..., started playing tennis at the age of seven and was coached by her father Jaroslav, who was a top player in Czechoslovakia. Her elder sister, Magdalena Kučerová, also played on the WTA Tour. A right-handed player, Kučerová turned professional in 1995 and reached a top singles ranking of 180 in the world, winning four ITF titles. As a doubles player she featured in her only WTA Tour main draw, which came at the 1999 Internationaux de Strasbourg. ITF finals Singles (4–2) Doubles (3–1) References External links * * 사 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kucerova, Gabriela 1977 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Female Tennis Players
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1977 Births
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Elena Makarova
Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (, , born 1 February 1973), is a former Russian professional tennis player. Makarova played in the WTA Tour from 1991 to 1999. Her peak performances were in 1995, when she was ranked world No. 36 in doubles, and in 1996, when she was ranked No. 43 in singles. In 2011, she coached Russian tennis player Margarita Gasparyan. WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) Doubles: 1 (1 title) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups) Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups) Head to head * Lindsay Davenport: 0-3 * Venus Williams: 1-0 * Arantxa Sánchez Vicario: 1-2 * Dominique Monami: 0-1 * Martina Hingis: 0-1 Junior Grand Slam finals Girls' singles: 1 (runner-up) Legacy In Russia, despite her modest popularity as a top-50 player, Makarova is well-known for providing her explanation for the issue of LGBT-athletes being more common among female tennis players than on the ATP Tour (while the most popular example was Toomas Leius accordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Lugina
Olga Lugina (born 8 January 1974) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times, from 1993 to 1995. Career Lugina won two 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 .... She also won one singles title and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 27 April 1998, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 96. On 31 October 1994, she peaked at No. 45 in the doubles rankings. Lugina retired from the pro tour in 1999. WTA Tour finals Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–4) Doubles (10–7) References 1974 births Living people Ukrainian female tennis players Soviet female tennis players {{Ukraine-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radka Pelikánová
Radka Kocandová (born 3 July 1977) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Biography Pelikánová, as she was originally known, began competing professionally in 1992. She reached a best singles ranking of 180, with her best WTA Tour performance coming at the 1995 Prague Open, where she had a win over world number 62 Linda Harvey-Wild. During her career she featured in the qualifying draw at the US Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev ... on three occasions. As a doubles player she was ranked as high as 166 and won one ITF $25,000 title. Since retiring she has coached tennis in Prague. ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (1–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelikánova, Radka 1977 births Living people Czech female tennis pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poitiers
Poitiers is a city on the river Clain in west-central France. It is a commune in France, commune, the capital of the Vienne (department), Vienne department and the historical center of Poitou, Poitou Province. In 2021, it had a population of 90,240. Its conurbation had 134,397 inhabitants in 2021 and is the municipal center of an urban area of 281,789 inhabitants. It is a city of art and history, still known popularly as "Ville aux cent clochers" (literal translation: "City of hundred bell towers"). With more than 30,000 students, Poitiers has been a major university town since the creation of its University of Poitiers, university in 1431, having hosted world-renowned figures and thinkers such as René Descartes, Joachim du Bellay and François Rabelais, among others. The plaza of the town is picturesque; its streets including predominantly preserved historical architecture and half-timbered houses, especially religious edifices, commonly from the Romanesque architecture, Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libuše Průšová
Libuše Průšová (born 13 July 1979) is a former professional Czech 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. In her career, Průšová won eleven singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 21 October 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 103. On 7 June 2004, she peaked at No. 46 in the WTA doubles rankings. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals Singles (11–7) Doubles: 17 (6–11) Performance timelines Singles Doubles References * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prusova, Libuse 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Valašské Meziříčí Tennis players from the Zlín Region Czech female tennis players Olympic tennis players for the Czech Republic Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Paštiková
Michaela Paštiková (born 27 March 1980) is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 31 January 2005, Paštiková achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 89. On 25 July 2005, she peaked at No. 35 of the WTA doubles rankings. Her father introduced her to the game at age three and she was coached by Jiri Fencl. Paštiková preferred playing on clay surfaces. Father, Vladimir, is a teacher and tennis coach, mother, Zdena, is a nurse; Michaela has a younger sister named Marketa. Paštiková retired from professional tennis 2014. WTA career finals Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (8–5) Doubles: 45 (19–26) External links * * * 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Šumperk Tennis players from the Olomouc Region Czech female tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Long stubs with short prose {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostrava
Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opava, Ostravice (river), Ostravice and Lučina (river), Lučina. Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic in terms of both population and area, the second largest city in the region of Moravia, and the largest city in the historical land of Czech Silesia. It straddles the border of the two historic provinces of Moravia and Silesia. The wider conurbation – which also includes the towns of Bohumín, Havířov, Karviná, Orlová, Petřvald (Karviná District), Petřvald and Rychvald – is home to about 500,000 people, making it the largest urban area in the Czech Republic apart from the capital Prague. Ostrava grew in importance due to its position at the heart of a major coalfield, becoming an important industrial engine of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
