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Hana Fukárková
Hana Fukárková (born 7 February 1964) is a retired Czech tennis player. Tennis career Fukárková's junior career included a runner-up finish at the 1981 Orange Bowl and a Wimbledon girls' doubles semi-final the following year. On the professional tour, Fukárková twice qualified for the singles main draw of the French Open in 1984 and 1987, losing in the first round both times. In between those appearances, she reached the second round of the doubles at the 1986 French Open, partnering Jana Novotná. She made two WTA Tour quarterfinals during her career, at Paris in 1987 and Sofia in 1988. Her performance in Paris included a win over Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Personal Fukárková now lives in Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ..., Austria and works as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 French Open – Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated defending champion Chris Evert in the final, 6–3, 6–1 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1984 French Open. It was her second French Open singles title and ninth major singles title overall. With the win, Navratilova completed a non-calendar-year Grand Slam, becoming the second woman in the Open Era to simultaneously hold all four major singles titles (after Margaret Court Margaret Court (''née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles (includi ... in 1970), and the first to do so on three different surfaces. Seeds Qualifying Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links1984 French Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leona Lásková
Leona Lásková (born 7 April 1970) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Biography Lásková reached top rankings on the professional tour of 122 in singles and 93 in doubles. On the WTA Tour, Lásková's best singles performance came at Athens in 1988, when she made it through to the semi-finals, beating second seed Judith Wiesner en route. Her only WTA Tour final came in doubles and was also in Athens, partnering with Jana Pospíšilová to a runner-up finish in 1990. At grand slam level she twice featured in the main draw of the French Open women's singles and also played in the doubles main draws at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * W ... and the US Open. Retiring from the tour in 1995, Lásková is now a tennis trainer at TK Sparta Prague. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisele Miró
Gisele Miró (born November 1, 1968) is a former tennis player from Brazil. Miró competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won two singles and one doubles titles in the ITF Women's Circuit, and reached her highest individual ranking 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 ... on April 25, 1988, when she became the No. 99 of the world. ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (1–2) References External links * * 1968 births Sportspeople from Curitiba Tennis players from Paraná (state) Living people Brazilian female tennis players Brazilian people of Spanish descent Olympic tennis players for Brazil Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Porwik
Claudia Porwik, born on 14 November 1968, is a former professional 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 played on the WTA Tour from 1986 to 1996 and reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 1988 and the semifinals in 1990. Porwik retired with a 195–191 career record, including wins over Gabriela Sabatini and Conchita Martínez. Career She won the German National Indoor Championships two times in 1990 and 1992. Porwik first played for West Germany in the Federation Cup in 1986. She played two singles matches in the Federation Cup, both for Germany in 1990, and won them both. She played her last Fed Cup match in 1995. WTA career finals Singles: 1 runner-up Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (3–0) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Meier
Silke Meier (born 13 July 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Germany who played on the WTA tour from 1985 to 1999. She reached the third round of the US Open in 1990 and, over her career, recorded victories against Jana Novotná, Helena Suková and Manuela Maleeva Manuela Georgieva Maleeva (; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began representing Switzerland officially from January 1990 .... WTA Tour finals Singles 1 Doubles 4 (1–3) ITF finals Singles (3–0) Doubles (4–7) External links * * * German female tennis players West German female tennis players 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Wiesbaden Tennis players from Darmstadt (region) {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva (; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began representing Switzerland officially from January 1990 until her retirement in February 1994. One of the most consistent players on tour in the 1980s and early 1990s, Maleeva reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 3 in the world in February 1985 and finished with a year-end top 10 ranking for nine consecutive years (1984 till 1992). A winner of 19 WTA singles titles and four doubles titles, she also reached a total of 14 Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career, including two US Open semifinals in 1992 and 1993, which are her career-best Grand Slam results. She was a semifinalist at the 1987 Virginia Slims Championships. Maleeva was the bronze medalist in singles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, winning Bulgaria's first (and thus far, only) Olympic tennis medal. In 1992, she paired up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Maleeva
Katerina Georgieva Maleeva (; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was No. 6 in 1990. Biography Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and Yuliya Berberyan. Her mother came from an Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ..., and was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started a coaching career. She was the coach of her three daughters, Katerina, Manuela and Magdalena, each of whom eventually became WTA top 10 players. Throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Bajčíková
Nora Trinler Bajčíková (31 December 1966 — 2014) was a Slovak professional tennis player. Bajčíková, as a representative of Czechoslovakia, was a women's doubles semi-finalist at the 1987 Summer Universiade The 1987 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIV Summer Universiade, took place in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. It involved participants from 111 countries and over 6,000 individual sportspersons and members from delegations. Infrastruc ... in Zagreb, partnering Iva Budařová. From the early 1990s she began competing under her married name Nora Kovarcikova. She had career high rankings of 350 in singles and 199 in doubles. Her daughter Lucia Kovarčíková is also a professional tennis player. ITF finals Singles: 4 (1–3) Doubles: 13 (5–8) References External links * * (duplicate profile) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bajčíková, Nora 1966 births 2014 deaths Czechoslovak female tennis players Slovak female tennis players FISU World University Games si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Pinterová
Marie Pinterová (née Neumannová, born 16 August 1946) is a former professional tennis player who played from 1969 to 1989. Life Marie Neumannová was born in 1946 in Stará Boleslav. She began her professional career in 1969. In 1974, she married Hungarian engineer András Pintér. They had one son, Karim, in 1976. Pinterová returned to professional tennis at the age of 34 and won the Tokyo title. Career In 1974, she played the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, her best performance in a single round of the Grand Slam. She won two WTA singles during her career, first in Florida in 1972 (opposite Billie Jean King in the final), the second in Japan in 1981. During her career, Pinterová won: * Two Czech Internationals * Virginia Slims of Jacksonville * The Cairo Open * The Japan Open * The World University Games She had wins against Martina Navratilova, Sue Barker and Kathy Jordan Kathryn Jordan (born December 3, 1959) is a former American tennis player. During her ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvona Brzáková
Yvona Brzáková (born 23 April 1956) is a former professional tennis player who competed for Czechoslovakia. Biography Brzáková was born in Levoča, then a town in Czechoslovakia but now part of Slovakia. She won a doubles silver medal at the 1977 Summer Universiade, with Renáta Tomanová as her partner. A right-handed player, Brzáková appeared in the doubles of two Federation Cup ties for Czechoslovakia in the early rounds of the 1980 World Group, winning both matches, against Hungarian and Yugoslavian pairings. The Czechoslovak team made it through to the semi-finals, but Brzáková didn't feature. During the 1980s she played professionally on the WTA Tour and won one title, partnering Kateřina Skronská in the doubles at the Austrian Open Kitzbühel in 1982. Her best grand slam performances was a third round appearance in the singles at the 1983 French Open, where she beat Pilar Vásquez and Renee Blount Renee Blount (born May 12, 1957) is a retired American tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Votavová
Olga Votavová (born 10 July 1966) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Born in Cheb, Votavová played on the professional tour during the 1980s and reached a best singles ranking of No. 169 in the world. Votavová was runner-up at the Swedish Open in 1985, prior to the tournament becoming part of the main tour. Her best performance on the Virginia Slims circuit instead came at the Bregenz Bregenz (; ) is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost states of Austria, state of Austria. The city lies on the east and southeast shores of Lake Constance, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, between Switzerland in the wes ... in 1986, where she made it to the quarter-finals. ITF finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles: 4 (2–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Votavova, Olga 1966 births Living people Czech female tennis players Czechoslovak female tennis players Sportspeople from Cheb Syracuse Orange women's tennis players Czech expa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Romanò
Barbara Romanò (born 14 January 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography Romanò, who comes from Tuscany, began competing on tour in 1983 and reached a best singles ranking of 74 in the world. Her best performance in singles on the WTA Tour was a semi-final appearance at the 1989 Vitosha New Otani Open in Sofia and she twice reached the second 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 .... As a doubles player she was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments, both in her home country: the 1985 Italian Open and 1990 Torneo Internazionale. WTA Tour finals Doubles (0-2) ITF finals Singles (9-1) Doubles (9-3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Romano, Barbara 1965 births Living people Italian female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |