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Monique Albuquerque
Monique Albuquerque (born 11 September 1991) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Porto Alegre, Albuquerque represented the Brazil Cup team in a total of four ties, across 2009 and 2010. All of her appearances were in the doubles rubbers partnering Roxane Vaisemberg, with the pair winning three of their four matches together. She played on the professional tour until 2011, securing six ITF doubles titles. From 2013 to 2015, she played varsity tennis for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over .... ITF finals Doubles (6–8) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Albuquerque, Monique 1991 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players Tennis players from Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, ; , ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian Federative units of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, 11th-most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's List of metropolitan areas in Brazil, fifth-largest metropolitan area, with 4.1 million inhabitants (2022). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state. Porto Alegre was founded in 1769 by Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda, who used the pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo to hide his identity; the official date, though, is 1772 with the act signed by Immigration to Brazil, immigrants from the Azores, Portugal. The city lies on the eastern bank of the Guaíba Lake, where five rivers converge to form the Lagoa dos Patos, a giant freshwater lagoon navigable by even the largest of ships. This five-river junction has become an important alluvial port and a chief indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mailen Auroux
Mailen Auroux (; born 25 July 1988) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. Auroux enjoyed success at the ITF Women's Circuit, winning 12 singles and 22 doubles titles, and made her debut for Argentina Fed Cup team in the 2010 Fed Cup World Group II, scoring a doubles win against Estonia.Mailen Auroux at the Fed Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... On 22 October 2012, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 346. On 24 Se ...
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Itaparica
Itaparica is an island located at the entrance of Todos os Santos Bay on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the state of Bahia, Brazil. It is located about from the city of Salvador, Bahia and covers . There are two municipalities on the island: Vera Cruz (87% of the land area) and Itaparica (13%). Itaparica has of beaches and exuberant tropical vegetation. History Itaparica was home to a large Tupinambá population. Amerigo Vespucci arrived at the island on November 1, 1501. The initial Portuguese settlement was a Jesuit outpost called Baiacu, founded in 1560, later renamed Villa do Senhor da Vera Cruz. Sugarcane and wheat were initially cultivated on the island; cattle were later introduced. The first work of hydraulic engineering in the new colony was on Itaparica: a dam to supply drinking water to the village. The island became productive within a short period of time and was attacked by British Corsairs as early as 1597. It was occupied by the Dutch between 1600 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva (; born 12 May 1995) is a Russian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 14 in doubles achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 89 in singles, reached on 27 February 2017. Personal life Irina was born to Pavel and Natalya Khromacheva, on 12 May 1995 in Moscow. She trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium. Khromacheva states that she doesn't have a favourite surface and likes everything. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Khromacheva, after her unsuccessful partnership with a Belgian coach, is now coached by Larisa Savchenko in Riga. Career 2010-2011: Juniors Khromacheva had a breakthrough on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2008, winning her first title at the Junior Zagreb Open. In 2009, she won four junior titles and competed for the first time at the French Open and US Open, losing in the first round at both tournaments. In 2010, she won four junior titles and became junior wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gabriela Cé
Gabriela Vianna Cé (born 3 March 1993) is a Brazilian 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 has won one WTA Challenger doubles title, with 14 singles titles and 21 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 September 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 221. On 18 April 2016, she peaked at No. 109 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for the Brazil Fed Cup team, Cé has a win–loss record of 11–9. Grand Slam singles performance timelines WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (runner–up) WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (title) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 30 (14 titles, 16 runner–ups) Doubles: 43 (21 titles, 22 runner–ups) Notes References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ce, Gabriela 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto (Portuguese pronunciation: Help:IPA/Portuguese, [ʁibejˈɾɐ̃w ˈpɾetu]) is a city and a metropolitan area located in the northeastern region of São Paulo (state), São Paulo state, Brazil. Ribeirão Preto is the eighth-largest municipality in the State with . It has an estimated population of 720,216 in 2021 and a metropolitan area of 1,178,910. It is located from the São Paulo, city of São Paulo and from Brasília, the federal capital. Its mean altitude is high. The city's average temperature throughout the year is , and the original predominant vegetation is the Atlantic Forest. The city originated around 1856 as an agricultural region. Coffee was a primary income source until 1929 when it lost value when compared with the industrial sector. In the second half of the 20th century, investment in health, biotechnology, bioenergy, and information technology led to the city being declared a Technological Center in 2010. These activities have caused the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Niterói
Niterói () is a List of municipalities in Rio de Janeiro, municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, in the Southeast Region, Brazil, southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay, facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forming part of the Greater Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. It was the capital of Rio de Janeiro, as marked by its golden mural crown, from 1834 to 1894 and again from 1903 to 1975. It has an estimated population of 515,317 inhabitants (2020) and an area of , making it the fifth most populous city in the state. It has the highest Human Development Index in the state and the seventh highest among Brazil's municipalities in 2010. Individually, it is the municipality with the second highest average monthly household income per capita in Brazil and appears in 13th place among the municipalities of the country according to social indicators related to education. The city has the nicknames of ''Cidade Sorriso'' (Smil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the Americas, Americas, and both the Western Hemisphere, Western and Southern Hemispheres. Listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an global city, alpha global city, it exerts substantial international influence in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. It is the List of largest cities#List, largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as ''paulistanos''. The city's Latin motto is ''Non ducor, duco'', which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests, the city was the center of the ''bandeirant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maria Fernanda Alves
Maria Fernanda Barbato Alves (; born 17 April 1983), also known as Nanda Alves, is a Brazilian former player. As of 1 March 2010, Alves was ranked world No. 262, and was the highest ranked Brazilian player.Sony Ericsson WTA Tour , Rankings , Singles Nationalities , Brazil She enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning 23 singles and 58 doubles titles. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Itapema
Itapema is a city in Santa Catarina, Brazil. History Colonization The Azoreans already in the communities of São Miguel and Santo Antônio were responsible for the settlement of the bay of Porto Belo, where they helped found the parish of Porto Belo on December 18, 1824, later transformed into a village on October 13, 1832. The descendants of these immigrants, in the early 19th Century, populated the region of Itapema, giving its first administrative structure, on December 30, 1914, with the creation of its Police District. It is known that in 1852, it was assumed that some 980 Portuguese and Azorean descendants already lived in areas of the current municipality of Itapema. This figure refers to the number of 51 mills of cassava flour and sugar. It was very common for families to have both types of mills. Demographic growth until the mid-nineteenth century was slow. From the end of this century, Itapema receives immigrants of German, Italian, and Spanish origin who soon e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ana Clara Duarte
Ana Clara Reis Duarte (born 11 June 1989) is a Brazilian former tennis player. She won the bronze medal in mixed-doubles tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games () and commonly known as Guadalajara 2011, were an international multi-sport event held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby c .... Duarte won six singles and 15 doubles titles at tournamenta of the ITF Circuit in her career. On 6 June 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 221. On 10 October 2011, she peaked at No. 182 in the doubles rankings. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 20 (6 titles, 14 runner-ups) Doubles: 30 (15 titles, 15 runner-ups) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duarte, Ana Clara 1989 births Living people Tennis players from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian female tennis players Tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brasília
Brasília ( ; ) is the capital city, capital of Brazil and Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's List of cities in Brazil by population, third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita. Brasília is a Planned community, planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector, and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was inscribed as a UN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
