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Tamara Čurović
Tamara Čurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Чуровић; born 31 October 1994) is a Serbian former professional tennis player.Tamara Curovic LinkedIn Čurović was an official member of Serbia Fed Cup team in 2011, 2011 Fed Cup World Group II Serbia vs. Canada Tie Details ''(6 February 2011)''< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreja Klepač
Andreja Klepač (born 13 March 1986) is a Slovenian former tennis player. On 14 July 2008, she reached her career-high singles rankings of world No. 99. On 11 April 2022, she peaked at No. 11 in the WTA doubles rankings. She qualified also with Darija Jurak for the 2021 WTA Finals after nearly 20 years on the professional tour. Career Klepač has made one WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in 2008. She won eleven WTA Tour doubles titles and appeared in twelve other finals. In July 2013, she won her first WTA Tour doubles title in Bad Gastein with Sandra Klemenschits. In 2015, Klepač reached quarterfinals at the Australian Open with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and US Open with Lara Arruabarrena. In 2017, together with María José Martínez Sánchez, she reached her third consecutive quarterfinal at the US Open. In 2018, they also reached three finals, defeating en route top pairs Latisha Chan/ Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (Brisbane) and Tímea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic (Doha). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Njirić
Silvia Njirić (born 9 July 1993) is a Croatian tennis player. Career Having already played in Fed Cup for Croatia, Njirić made semifinals at the 2010 Junior French Open, losing to Elina Svitolina. She has won seven singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmenta .... On 4 May 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 370. On 23 July 2012, she peaked at No. 290 in the doubles rankings. She has not competed on the circuit since September 2023. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner–ups) Junior Grand Slam tournament finals Girls' doubles: 2 (runner–ups) Fed Cup participation Singles Doubles References External links * * * 1993 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matea Mezak
Matea Mezak (; born 5 March 1985) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. 2004, she started on the ITF Circuit, where she won six singles and six doubles titles. Her preferred surface is hardcourt, and her coach was Ivan Humić. Along with Svetlana Kuznetsova, she reached 2002 Australian Open junior doubles competition, where they lost to Indonesian Angelique Widjaja and Argentine Gisela Dulko Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is an Argentine former tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA Tour, WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where s .... Mezak also was on the Croatia Fed Cup team, in 2005 and 2006. In April 2014, she played her last match on the pro circuit. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 14 (6–8) References External links * * Croatian female tennis players Tennis players from Zagreb 1985 births Living people Mediterranean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 18 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2008 WTA Tour, 2008. Janković won 15 WTA Tour-level singles titles and two doubles titles, including the 2007 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles, 2007 Wimbledon mixed-doubles title partnering Jamie Murray. Her career-best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major performance in singles was a runner-up finish at the 2008 US Open – Women's singles, 2008 US Open. Family and early life Janković was born in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the third child of Veselin and Snežana, both economists. She has two brothers, Marko and Stefan. She is a student at the Megatrend University in Belgrade, studying economics. However, she has put he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Schweinsteiger (name at birth, née Ivanovic; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks. Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2008 French Open – Women's singles, 2008 French Open. She was also the runner-up at the 2007 French Open – Women's singles, 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2008 Australian Open. Ivanovic qualified for the year-end WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007 WTA Tour Championships, 2007, 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2008 and 2014 WTA Tour Championships, 2014, and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, 2010 and 2011 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, 2011. Ivanovic's breakthrough came at the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (, ; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. Sharapova won 36 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including five major titles, as well as the 2004 WTA Tour Championships. She is one of ten women to achieve the Career Grand Slam in singles. A teen sensation, Sharapova broke through to the top of the sport by winning the 2004 Wimbledon Championships as a 17-year-old, upsetting two-time defending champion Serena Williams. She then won the 2004 Tour Finals, and became the world No. 1 for the first time in August 2005 at the age of 18, the first Russian woman to top the singles rankings. Continued success over the following years, including titles at the 2006 US Open – Women's singles, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2008 Australian Open, was accompanied by recurring injuries, and Sharapova dip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teniski Klub Partizan
Teniski klub Partizan is a tennis club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is part of the sports society JSD Partizan, and its headquarters are in Humska 1, in addition to the other 27 clubs that are members of JSD Partizan. The tennis school at the Club has been active since its foundation and is an incubator for young talents, both in Yugoslavia and in Serbia, creating regional sporting culture, and historical heritage. Notably, the club produced the likes of Jelena Genčić, as well as some of the best Serbian players in history in both singles and doubles, such as Novak Djokovic, Ana Ivanovic and Nenad Zimonjić. History First years TK Partizan was founded on 4 October 1945 as a section of Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), an organization that deals with other sports segments, hosted numerous international sports and tennis events, and seven years later, in 1952, it became a club within the sports society JSD Partizan and got its current name. The sport of Tennis had been neglected in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 national and six regional associations that make up the ITF's membership. The ITF's governance responsibilities include maintaining and enforcing the rules of tennis, regulating international team competitions, promoting the game, and preserving the sport's integrity via anti-doping and anti-corruption programs. The ITF partners with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) to govern professional tennis. The ITF organizes annual team competitions for men (Davis Cup), women ( Billie Jean King Cup), and mixed teams ( Hopman Cup), as well as tennis and wheelchair tennis events at the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. The ITF sanctions circuits th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Telephony Of Serbia
Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd is a Serbian state-owned telecommunications operator. It was founded in May 1997 as a joint-stock company, by spinning off the telecommunications business from PTT Srbija (present-day Pošta Srbije). In April 2015, Telekom Srbija started providing all services in Serbia under the mts brand. Telekom Srbija, combined with its Moja Supernova brand, is the largest Internet provider with a market share of 53.15%, the second largest cable operator with a market share of 44%, and the largest fixed-line telecommunication network with a market share of 77.5%. It is also the largest mobile operator with a market share of 37.27%. History Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd was set up in 1997, during the process of transformation of PTT sistema Srbije. In June that same year, it became the ownership of three shareholders – JP PTT Saobraćaja Srbija (present-day JP Pošta Srbije) (51%), Telecom Italia (29%), and OTE Greece (20%). 2003–2015 JP PTT saobraćaja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Prudnikova
Svetlana Prudnikova (; born 18 March 1967) is a Russian- Serbian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won twice both the Russian women's championship, in 1992 and 1998, and the FR Yugoslavia women's championship, in 2000 and 2002. Prudnikova played for the Russian national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1992 and 1996, contributing to a 3rd-place finish in the latter event. Representing her adopted country FR Yugoslavia The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or simply Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe locate ... in 2000, 2002 and 2004, she helped her team to reach a creditable 5th place at the 34th Chess Olympiad in 2000. She won two olympic individual gold medals playing board 2 in both occasions: in 1992 and 2002. Her daughter, Tamara Čurović, is a tennis player and a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
