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Nadin Ercegović
Nadin Ercegović (born 2 February 1973) is a former tennis player who played for Yugoslavia and Croatia. Together with Gorana Matić, Maja Murić and Maja Palaveršić, she was a member of the original Croatian Fed Cup team in 1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ....Fed Cup"Fed Cup - Tie details - 1992 - Greece v Croatia" Retrieved on May 16, 2013. Her best singles result was reaching the second round of the 1994 Australian Open. She also won three ITF titles, in Melbourne, Marsa, and Mondorf-les-Bains, respectively. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 1 (runner-up) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ercegovic, Nadin 1973 births Living people Yugoslav female tennis players Croatian female tennis players Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Split, Croatia
Split (, ), historically known as Spalato (; ; see #Name, other names), is the List of cities and towns in Croatia, second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. The Split metropolitan area is home to about 330,000 people. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the List of islands in the Adriatic, Adriatic islands and the Apennine Peninsula. More than 1 million tourists visit it each year. The city was founded as the Greek colonisation, Greek colony of Aspálathos () in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE on the coast of the Illyrians, Illyrian Dalmatae, and in 305 CE, it became the site of Diocletian's Palace, the Palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt (born 5 March 1973) is a retired tennis player from Australia. Pratt was born in Mackay, Queensland. She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She turned professional at 18. She became Australia's No. 1 ranked female player in January 2001. She won her first WTA Title at the Hyderabad Open and reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2004. In August 2006, at age 33, Pratt reached her first ever Tier I quarterfinal at Toronto. Soon after this she rose back up into the top 100. During 2007 she was drafted by the Boston Lobsters of the WTT pro league. At the 2008 Australian Open, after losing her first match to Nadia Petrova, a tearful Pratt announced her retirement from professional tennis. She then coached Australian female player, Casey Dellacqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Female Tennis Players
Croatian may refer to: *Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (other) * Croatia (other) * Croatoan (other) * Hrvatski (other) * Hrvatsko (other) * Serbo-Croatian (other) Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, Serbo-Croat or Croato-Serb, refers to a South Slavic language that is the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, as well as a minority language in Kosovo Kosovo, officiall ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Female Tennis Players
Yugoslav or Yugoslavian may refer to: * Yugoslavia, or any of the three historic states carrying that name: ** Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a European monarchy which existed 1918–1945 (officially called "Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" 1918–1929) ** Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or SFR Yugoslavia, a federal republic which succeeded the monarchy and existed 1945–1992 ** Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or FR Yugoslavia, a new federal state formed by two successor republics of SFR Yugoslavia established in 1992 and renamed "Serbia and Montenegro" in 2003 before its dissolution in 2006 * Yugoslavs, either as citizens of the former Yugoslavia, or people who self-identify as ethnic Yugoslavs * Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language, with "Yugoslav" proposed in 1861 and rejected as the legal name of the language by a decree of the Austrian Empire People * Jugoslav Dobričanin (born 1956), Serbian politician * Jugoslav Lazić (born 1979), Serbian former professional football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1973 Births
Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 1972 Miami Dolphins season, Miami Dolphins defeated the 1972 Washington Redskins season, Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, with the Dolphins ending the season a perfect 17-0. This marked the first and only time that an NFL team has had a perfect undefeated season, an achievement the team holds to this day. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 22 ** ''Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, The Sunshine Showdown'': George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica. ** A Royal Jorda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernilla Sorensen
Pernilla is a Swedish female given name derived from Petronella, and may refer to: * Pernilla Andersson (born 1969), Swedish singer and songwriter * Pernilla August (born 1969), Swedish actress * Anna Pernilla Backman (born 1969), Swedish composer, artist and singer known as ''Meja'' * Pernilla Karlsson (born 1990), Swedo-Finnish singer who represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 * Pernilla Månsson Colt (born 1966), Swedish journalist and producer * Pernilla Stålhammar (born 1971), Swedish politician * Pernilla Wahlgren (born 1967), Swedish singer and actress * Pernilla Wiberg (born 1970), Swedish former alpine ski racer and winner of two Olympic gold medals See also * Pernille Pernille is a Danish and Norwegian female given name derived from ''Petronella'', and may refer to: *Pernille Dupont, retired female badminton player from Denmark * Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 1969), Danish film director and sister of actor ..., the corresponding Danish and Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merete Balling-Stockmann
Merete Balling-Stockmann (born 10 December 1970) is a Danish former professional tennis player. Balling-Stockmann is the daughter of tennis player Pia Balling, who was a five-time Danish national singles champion in the 1960s. A Danish national title winner herself in 1990, Balling-Stockmann competed briefly on the professional tennis tour and won four ITF doubles tournaments. In 1990 she also represented the Denmark Federation Cup team in a tie against Luxembourg in Atlanta, where she and Sofie Albinus lost a dead rubber doubles match to Marie-Christine Goy and Karin Kschwendt. In the early 1990s she played college tennis for Pepperdine University Pepperdine University () is a private university, private Christianity, Christian research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ, with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pepperdine's main campus consists .... ITF finals Doubles (4–3) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radka Bobková
Radka Bobková (born 12 February 1973) is a former Czech professional tennis player. Bobková has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 47, achieved on 20 September 1993. She also has a best doubles ranking of 59, reached on 14 August 1995. She won two singles titles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Bobková retired from professional tennis 2001. WTA career finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (5–3) Doubles (5–6) External links * * * Living people Czech female tennis players Tennis players from Prague 1973 births Czechoslovak female tennis players {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Albinus
Sofie Albinus (born 21 September 1972) is a former professional Danish tennis player. Albinus, on 3 February 1992, reached her best singles ranking of world number 163. On 20 August 1990, she peaked at world number 120 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Denmark Fed Cup team, Denmark at the Fed Cup, Albinus has a win–loss record of 13–11. ITF finals Singles (7–2) Doubles (9–2) References External links * * * 1972 births Living people Danish female tennis players 20th-century Danish women {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Apostoli
Julia Sergeyevna Salnikova (Russian: Юлия Сергеевна Сальникова, Greek: Ιουλία (Τζούλια) Σάλνικοβα; born 13 August 1964) is a Russian-born Greek former professional tennis player who represented the Soviet Union and (from 1990 onwards) Greece. Early life Salnikova was born in Moscow, the daughter of Russian football player and manager Sergei Salnikov, who was half Greek and half Russian. Her father was a member of the Soviet association football national team which won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and at club level both played and managed FC Spartak Moscow. Her father died when she was 18 years old. She has a twin sister. She originally was supposed to be a diver, having taken lessons at Dynamo Moscow, but later switched sports to tennis. Career She debuted for the Soviet Union Fed Cup team in the 1980 quarterfinal loss to the United States, featuring in the doubles with Olga Zaitseva, a dead rubber which they lost to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Federation Cup Europe/Africa Zone – Pool B
Group B of the 1992 Federation Cup Europe/Africa Zone was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 1992 Federation Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. Croatia vs. Greece Portugal vs. Turkey Croatia vs. Turkey Greece vs. Portugal Croatia vs. Portugal Greece vs. Turkey See also *Fed Cup structure 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 chan ... References External links Fed Cup website {{DEFAULTSORT:1992 Federation Cup Europe Africa Zone - Pool B 1992 Federation Cup Europe/Africa Zone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
