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Maria Ekstrand
Maria Ekstrand (born 2 March 1970) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. Ekstrand, who reached a best singles ranking of 149, claimed two $25,000 ITF titles during her career, in Benin City in 1988 and York, Pennsylvania in 1990. Most notably, Ekstrand won through to the second round of the 1991 Australian Open, where she was eliminated by fourth seed Gabriela Sabatini Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles a .... ITF finals Singles: 5 (3–2) Doubles: 8 (1–7) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekstrand, Maria 1970 births Living people Swedish female tennis players 20th-century Swedish women 21st-century Swedish women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Monica Seles defeated Jana Novotná in the final, 5–7, 6–3, 6–1 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1991 Australian Open. It was her first Australian Open title and second major title overall. Seles saved a match point en route to the title, in the semifinals against Mary Joe Fernández. Seles was making her tournament debut. Steffi Graf was the three-time defending champion, but lost to Novotná in the quarterfinals. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Monica Seles is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Steffi Graf ''(quarterfinals)'' # Monica Seles (champion) # Mary Joe Fernández ''(semifinals)'' # Gabriela Sabatini ''(quarterfinals)'' # Katerina Maleeva ''(quarterfinals)'' # Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ''(semifinals)'' # Manuela Maleeva ''(second round)'' # Zina Garrison ''(fourth round)'' # Helena Suková ''(third round)'' # Jana Novotná ''(finalist)'' # Natasha Zvereva ''(fourth round)'' # Barbara Paulus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hørsholm
Hørsholm () is an urban area on the Øresund coast approximately north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers most of Hørsholm Municipality and straddles the borders neighbouring Fredensborg Municipality and Rudersdal Municipality. Hørsholm proper is developed around Hirschholm Palace, which was constructed in the 1730s, but the town has later absorbed several of the nearby communities that are of much older origins. History Palace and market town Hørsholm was founded in connection with the construction of Hirschholm Palace. Niels Eigtved created a plan for a residence town in 1737 and to stimulate its growth, it was given status as market town in 1739. However, it never came to serve as a market town and was still only a small settlement when the palace was demolished between 1810 and 1816. Over the following decades it grew as a garrison town and a local centre for trade. Industrialization A textile factory, later known as the Royal Military Textile Factory, had already been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Holubová
Petra Holubová (born 12 October 1968) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Holubová, who reached a career-high ranking of 132 in the world, competed in the qualifying draw for the 1992 US Open. Her best performances on the WTA Tour were round of 16 appearances at the Belgian Open and Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ... in 1992. Holubová is mother of the German tennis player Julia Stusek. ITF finals Singles: 7 (3–4) Doubles: 16 (9–7) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holubova, Petra 1968 births Living people Czechoslovak female tennis players Czech female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Strebel
Michèle Sjögren-Strebel (born 24 April 1970) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Strebel reached a best singles ranking of 217 in the world and was ranked as high as 128 in doubles. She twice appeared in the main-draw French Open women's doubles, in 1989 and 1991, with her best performance coming in the latter where she and partner Manuela Maleeva made the second round. In 1992, she played in two doubles rubbers for the Switzerland Fed Cup team, Switzerland Federation Cup team, the first of them with Maleeva in the first round of the World Group against Sweden Fed Cup team, Sweden, a live rubber which they lost in three sets to Maria Lindström and Maria Strandlund. She also featured for Switzerland in the subsequent World Group play-off against Paraguay Fed Cup team, Paraguay and this time won in the doubles (partnering Emanuela Zardo), to round off a 3–0 win in the tie. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 8 (2–6) See also * List of Switzerland F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" () as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Agency's European Space Operations Centre (ESA ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. The existence of the following elements was also confirmed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Louis (tennis)
Joanne Louis (born 27 April 1967) is a British former professional tennis player. Louis made four singles main draw appearances at Wimbledon while competing on the professional tour in the 1980s and had a career high ranking of 282 in the world. She comes from Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west .... ITF titles Doubles: (3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Louis, Jo 1967 births Living people English female tennis players British female tennis players Tennis players from Devon 20th-century English sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Grunfeld
Amanda Grunfeld Rosenfield (born 1 March 1967) is a British former professional tennis player. Biography Tennis career A left-handed player from Manchester, Grunfeld won the British Under-18 Indoor Championship as a 16 year old in 1984. Her ITF titles include the $25,000 event in her home town of Manchester in 1991, where she beat Irina Spîrlea en route to a win in the final against Samantha Smith. Grunfeld featured in the singles main draw at Wimbledon on seven occasions, twice reaching the second round. In the 1991 Wimbledon Championships she lost in the second round to Martina Navratilova, after earlier beating Alexia Dechaume-Balleret. At the 1992 tournament she had a win over Silke Meier, then lost a close second round match to Mana Endo, 5–7 in the third set. In addition to her Wimbledon appearances she also played main draw doubles at the Australian Open and featured in qualifying at the French Open and US Open during her career. She attained her career best ranking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutton, London
Sutton is a town in the London Borough of Sutton in South London, England. It is the administrative headquarters of the Outer London borough, on the lower slopes of the North Downs. It is south-southwest of Charing Cross, one of the fourteen metropolitan centres in the London Plan. An ancient parish originally in the county of Surrey, Sutton is recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as having two churches and about 30 houses. Its location on the London to Brighton turnpike from 1755 led to the opening of Coaching inn, coaching inns, spurring its growth as a village. When it was connected to central London by rail in 1847, it began to grow into a town, and it expanded further in the 20th century. It became a Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam, municipal borough with Cheam in 1934, and became part of Greater London in 1965. Sutton has the largest library in the borough, several works of List of public art in Sutton, public art and four Conservation areas in Sutton, London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulette Moreno
Paulette Moreno Hjorth (born 12 March 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Hong Kong. Biography Moreno was a national champion in Hong Kong at the age of 13 in 1982. She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 1985 and won a doubles match against West Germany that year. Another of her doubles wins came against Sweden in 1987, when she and Patricia Hy teamed up to claim the deciding rubber 9–7 in the third set. As a junior she was a finalist in the girls' doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Korean Kim Il-Soon lost to Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva. From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She appeared twice in the main draw at Wimbledon, both times in mixed doubles, partnering Todd Woodbridge in 1987 and Neil Borwick in 1989. In between she also featured at the 1988 Australian Open The 1988 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Jönsson Raaholt
Amy Elisabeth Jönsson Raaholt (born 8 June 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Norway. She was born Amy Jönsson. Biography Jönsson, who was born in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, debuted for the Norway Fed Cup team in 1985. Her best performance on the WTA Tour came at Bastad in 1987 when she made the quarter-finals, a run which included a win over eighth seed Carina Karlsson. At the 1988 Australian Open she featured in the women's singles and doubles draws. She was beaten in the first round of the singles by top seed Steffi Graf, who went on to win the title. In the doubles she and partner Helena Dahlström Helena Dahlström (born 13 May 1968) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player from Linköping, Dahlström was the girls' singles runner-up at the 1984 Australian Open. Dahlström competed on the profession ... reached the second round. Her last Fed Cup appearance came in 1995 and she finished with a 30/19 overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Lundqvist
Monica Lundqvist (born 18 April 1967) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. Biography Lundqvist, who comes from Sundsvall, reached a best singles ranking of 143 in the world. Her best performances on the WTA Tour came in 1986, when she made the round of 16 at the Taipei Women's Championships and Singapore Open, beating a young Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks, as well as ... in the former. She appeared in two Federation Cup ties for Sweden, against France and Belgium, both in 1986. ITF finals Singles (0-1) Doubles (1-2) See also * List of Sweden Fed Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundqvist, Monica 1967 births Living people Swedish female tennis players Sportspeople from Sundsvall 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorca, Spain
Lorca () is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in south-eastern Spain, southwest of the city of Murcia. The municipality had a population of 95,515 in 2020, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca has the second largest surface area of municipalities in Spain, , after Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres. The city is home to Lorca Castle and to a Collegiate church dedicated to St. Patrick. In the Middle Ages Lorca was a frontier city between Christian and Muslim Spain. Earlier, during the Roman period, it was the ancient Ilura or Heliocroca. The city was seriously damaged by a magnitude 5.1 2011 Lorca earthquake, earthquake on 11 May 2011, killing at least nine people. Due to a shallow hypocenter, the earthquake was much more destructive than usual for earthquakes with similar magnitude. History Prehistory and Antiquity Archaeological excavations in the Lorca area have revealed that it has been inhabited continuously since Neolithic times, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
