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Iva Budařová
Iva Budařová (born 31 July 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Budařová played on the WTA Tour from 1978 until 1991, winning four doubles titles. She achieved a career high singles ranking of world No. 24 (in 1983) and a doubles ranking of No. 55 (in 1987). Budařová was a member of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team, Czechoslovakia Fed Cup team that won the Federation Cup 1983 Federation Cup, 1983 and 1984 Federation Cup, 1984. WTA Tour finals Singles Doubles (4–2) ITF finals Singles (3–5) Doubles (1–1) References External links * * * 1960 births Living people Czechoslovak female tennis players Czech female tennis players Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Czechoslovakia People from Duchcov Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in tennis Tennis players from the Ústí nad Labem Region {{Cz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchcov
Duchcov (; ) is a town in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,700 inhabitants. Duchcov is known for the Duchcov Castle. The historic town centre with the castle complex is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Geography Duchcov is located about southwest of Teplice and southwest of Ústí nad Labem. It lies in the Most Basin. The stream Loučeňský potok flows through the town. The town is surrounded by several fishponds and artificial lakes. History The first written mention of Duchcov is from 1207, referring to the older name Hrabišín. The name of Duchcov is first mentioned in 1240. In the 14th century, Duchcov was a serf town surrounded by walls with three gates. In these times, the Romanesque Church of St. George and the Dominican monastery were in the town. At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, Duchcov became the seat of the estate owners, the Kaplíř of Sulevice family, and in the 16th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Horvath
Erica Kathleen "Kathy" Horvath (born August 25, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. She is best known for upsetting world No. 1 Martina Navratilova in the fourth round of the 1983 French Open, delivering her only defeat for the season. Career Horvath was the youngest player to play in the US Open in 1979 at 14 years and five days — this record still stands. She was the youngest player to win the U.S. National 16 and under in 1979. She also is the only player to ever win all four age groups in the U.S. Girls Clay Courts in all consecutive years. She played on the WTA Tour from 1981 to 1989, winning six singles titles and reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 10 in 1984. She reached the quarterfinals at the French Open in 1983 and 1984. She retired with a 176–154 singles record. Horvath was the only player to defeat Martina Navratilova in the 1983 season (at the French Open), winning in the fourth round in three sets. Navratilova's coaches (Renee Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal Open
The Portugal Open (formerly named Estoril Open) was an ATP and WTA clay court tennis tournament in Portugal. The event took place at the sports complex of Jamor in Oeiras, of which Estoril Court Central is the most prominent show court. In 2015, the tournament was canceled due to lack of sponsorship. A new tournament, Millennium Estoril Open, was created in its place, moving from Oeiras to Cascais. The 2014 Portugal Open was the last edition. History The men's tournament was created in 1990 and has been won by several top-10 players, including former world No. 1 players Thomas Muster (1995 and 1996), Carlos Moyà (2000), Juan Carlos Ferrero (2001), Novak Djokovic (2007), and Roger Federer (2008). Also, Marat Safin lost the 2004 final and Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Gustavo Kuerten won the doubles tournament in 1995 and 1997, respectively. The men's half was part of ATP World Tour 250 series tournaments. The women's tournament started in 1989 as the ''Estoril Ladies Open'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María José Llorca
María José Llorca (born 3 March 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Llorca is originally from Valencia and was trained in Barcelona as a junior. A a right-handed player, she appeared in a total of four Federation Cup ties for Spain, the first two in 1986 when she was still only 16. In 1987 she featured in another two ties, including a World Group second round fixture against Australia which they lost, despite Llorca winning the opening rubber against Anne Minter. From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She and Anna-Karin Olsson were runners-up in the doubles at the 1988 Spanish Open, which included a win over top seeds Bettina Fulco and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Both of her grand slam main draw appearances came at the 1988 French Open, where she featured in the main draw of the women's doubles and mixed doubles, partnering Alison Scott and Jordi Arrese respectively. In 2003 she took up the sport of padel tennis and was ranked as high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Karin Olsson
Anna-Karin Olsson (born 10 May 1967) is a Swedish former professional tennis and bandy player. Biography Olsson grew up in Värmland. As a tennis player, Olsson competed on the professional tour in the 1980s and had a best singles ranking of 248. She was most successful as a doubles player, reaching the final of the 1988 Spanish Open and featuring in the main draw of both the French Open and US Open that year. She played bandy as a forward and started her career at IF Boltic IF Boltic is a Swedish sports club from the town Karlstad. The club was founded in the district of Herrhagen in Karlstad on 1 November 1946. The name Boltic was created due to the interest for British football, by adding the beginning of Bolton ..., where she remained until 1989. From 1989 from 2004 she played for AIK and was a member of eight championship winning AIK teams, giving her a record 12 titles in total, having won four while at IF Boltic. She was the league's top shooter in 1998, 1999 and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Wasserman
Sandra Wasserman (born 10 March 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ..., Belgium. Fed Cup Wasserman became Belgium's youngest Fed Cup player when she lost to Csilla Bartos-Cserepy, Csilla Bartos of Hungary Fed Cup team, Hungary in October 1985 in Japan. She also lost the longest tie-break played by the Belgian Fed Cup team, losing 13–11 to Jennifer Capriati of the United States Fed Cup team, United States in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia after losing the first set 6–0. Results Wasserman won her only doubles title at the 1988 Spanish Open, Spanish Open in Barcelona, Spain on 25 April 1988, partnering Iva Budařová and beating Anna-Karin Olsson and María José Llorca in the final in three sets. She reached the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko-Neiland (, ; née Savchenko; also Larisa Neiland; born 21 July 1966) is a tennis coach and former professional player who represented the Soviet Union and Latvia. A former world No. 1 doubles player, Neiland won six Grand Slam titles: two in List of Grand Slam women's doubles champions, women's doubles and four in List of Grand Slam mixed doubles champions, mixed doubles. She also won two singles titles and 63 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She is listed in fourth place for the most doubles match wins (766) in WTA history, after Lisa Raymond, Rennae Stubbs and Liezel Huber. Neiland has been the coach of Ukrainian tennis player Daria Snigur since 2017. Career Savchenko turned professional in 1983 as No. 10 on the ITF Junior Circuit, ITF Junior rankings in that year. Doubles team of Savchenko and Svetlana Parkhomenko reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1983 and 1984, both times as an unseeded pair; beat No. 2 seeds Fairbank/Reynolds in 1983 and No. 3 seeds Horv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Parkhomenko
Svetlana Germanovna Parkhomenko (, née Cherneva, ; born October 8, 1962) is a retired Soviet and Russian tennis player and tennis coach. She was the winner of the Soviet singles tennis championships in 1985 and nine times Soviet champion in women's doubles and mixed doubles. On the international level, she was the winner of the 1983 European amateur championships in women's and mixed doubles, bronze medalist of the 1983 Universiade in women's and mixed doubles, and winner of eight WTA Tour doubles tournaments. Parkhomenko also was the recipient of 1988 WTA Sportsmanship Award. Biography In 1978, Svetlana won the singles and doubles title at European Junior Championships (she also won doubles titles in the next two years). In 1978, she also won the Soviet youth championships in singles, girls' and mixed doubles, and in 1980 in singles and girls' doubles. In 1980, she advanced with the Soviet girls team to the finals of Princess Sofia Cup. Starting in 1981, Svetlana (from 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Herr
Beth Herr (born 28 May 1964) is an American tennis player from Centerville, Ohio, who won four Junior Grand Slam titles, the NCAA singles and team titles and one professional tennis tournament. In her home state of Ohio, she was a two-time high school singles state champion (1980-1981). Her NCAA singles title came in 1983. College Herr became the number-one junior tennis player in the world at the age of 16. Upon graduation from Centerville High School, she was the No. 1 college recruit in 1982 and played for the University of Southern California, where she won the NCAA singles title and team title in her first year. She beat Clemson University's Gigi Fernández in the third-set tiebreak, having faced a match point, to win the NCAA singles final. Junior Grand Slam titles In 1982, Herr won the 1982 French Open girls' doubles championship with Janet Lagasse, Herr also won the Wimbledon girls' doubles and US Open girls' doubles with Penny Barg and won the US Open girls' sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Rock
Little Rock is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Arkansas, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. The six-county Central Arkansas, Little Rock metropolitan area is the Metropolitan statistical area, 81st-most populous in the United States with 748,031 residents according to the 2020 census. As the county seat of Pulaski County, Arkansas, Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center in Central Arkansas. The city derived its name from a rock formation along the river, named The Little Rock, the "Little Rock" by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post, Arkansas, Arkansas Post in 1821. Little Rock is a cultural, economic, government, and transportation center within A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Keppeler
Petra Feucht (born 22 March 1965), born Petra Keppeler, is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Biography Tennis career Born in Augsburg, Keppeler played professionally in the 1980s. Keppeler featured in a total of nine Federation Cup ties for West Germany, which included a semi-final win over Switzerland in 1983. As a qualifier she made the fourth round of the 1984 French Open, before her run was ended by third seed Hana Mandlíková, in a match which went to three sets. She was a semi-finalist at Bregenz in 1985. It was at Bregenz that she won her only WTA title, partnering with Austrian Petra Huber to win the doubles competition. At the age of 22 she retired from tennis to pursue other interests and now works as a tax consultant in Augsburg-Firnhaberau Firnhaberau is the 28th ''Stadtbezirk,'' or city district, of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. It currently makes up the entire 4th ''Planungsraum'', or planning district, of Augsburg. The district has a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Huber
Petra Huber (born 15 February 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Biography Junior career Before turning professional, Huber competed with success on the junior circuit. In 1982 she partnered with Judith Polz to make the girls' doubles semi-finals at the Australian Open and quarter-finals at the French Open. She was a semi-finalist in the girls' singles event at the 1983 French Open. Professional tennis Huber made her first WTA Tour final at the 1984 Miami Classic, which she lost to Laura Arraya. She reached the round of 16 at the 1984 US Open to obtain her highest career ranking of 37 in the world. In 1986 she won the Spanish Open as an unseeded player. She had a semi-final win over a young Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, who was appearing in her first WTA main draw, then beat Italian Laura Garrone in the final. In doubles she was a finalist at three WTA events in 1986, for one win, partnering Petra Keppeler in Bregenz. Representative At the 1984 Summer Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
