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Tennis At The 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles
Below are the complete results of the women's singles tennis competition during the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ... in Los Angeles, when tennis was re-introduced as a demonstration sport. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References ITF results {{DEFAULTSORT:Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's singles Women's singles Oly Women's events at the 1984 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis At The 1984 Summer Olympics
Tennis returned to the Summer Olympic Games as a demonstration sport for the second time in 60 years at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. It would become an official sport 4 years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Two events (men's and women's singles) were contested at these Games. The competition venue was the Los Angeles Tennis Center at the University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ... (UCLA). Each event had 32 players, and players under 21 years old were eligible to enter the tournament. Results See also * Tennis at the Friendship Games References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tennis At The 1984 Summer Olympics 1984 Events at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympics 1984 Olympics 1984 in American tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carin Anderholm
Carin Anderholm (born 11 March 1966) is a former 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 from Sweden who won the 1983 French Open girls' doubles championship with Helena Olsson. ITF finals Singles (0–3) Doubles (1–0) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderholm, Carin Swedish female tennis players Living people 1966 births Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics French Open junior champions 21st-century Swedish women 20th-century Swedish sportswomen People from Båstad Municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Maria Cecchini
Anna-Maria "Sandra" Cecchini (; born 27 February 1965) is a retired tennis player from Italy. Career Cecchini turned professional in 1984. She won 12 singles and 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She had career wins over Chris Evert, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Gabriela Sabatini, Nathalie Tauziat, Natasha Zvereva, and Anke Huber. Her most notable Grand Slam performance came at the French Open The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ... in 1985, when she reached the quarterfinals. In March 1988, she achieved her highest singles ranking of world No. 15. WTA career finals Singles: 18 (12–6) Doubles: 22 (11–11) ITF Circuit finals Singles (2–0) Grand Slam singles performance timeline References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cecchini, Sandra 1965 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko Kijimuta
is a former professional tennis player from Japan. She was born on May 1, 1968, in Japan and played on the WTA tour from 1986 to 1992. She reached the fourth round at Roland Garros in 1992, where she led the world number-one-ranked player Monica Seles Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973) is a Serbian–American 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 ... 4 games to 1 in the final set. Seles won the match 6–4 in the third set. She retired with a 63–100 singles record. WTA finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (0–1) ITF finals Singles (1–1) Doubles (1–1) References External links * * Japanese female tennis players 1968 births Living people People from Ebina, Kanagawa Tennis people from Kanagawa Prefecture Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etsuko Inoue
is a retired tennis player from Japan. Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988 (Seoul, South Korea). In 1982, she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until .... Married Kejiro Kaneshiro in 1993. WTA Tour finals Singles (2–0) References External links * * * 1964 births Living people Tennis players from Tokyo People from Nakano, Tokyo Japanese female tennis players Olympic tennis players for Japan Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Šašak
Renata Šašak-Ružir (born 14 June 1964) is a former Yugoslavian professional tennis player. Biography Born in Zagreb, Šašak debuted for the Yugoslavia Federation Cup team in 1979. One of her Federation Cup doubles teammates was Mima Jaušovec, who Šašak teamed up with to win a gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. She won a further gold medal four years in Casablanca at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, beating Laura Golarsa to win the women's singles. Šašak competed in the main draw of both the French Open and US Open during her career. Her best performance came at the 1983 French Open, where she made it to the second round, then took fifth seed Pam Shriver to a third set before being eliminated. She was awarded the Croatian Sportswoman of the Year award from Sportske novosti in 1983. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Šašak represented Yugoslavia in the women's singles event, for what was then a demonstration sport. She fell in the second round, after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Drescher
Lilian Drescher Kelaidis (born 23 May 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. Biography Tennis career Born in Venezuela, Drescher was the Junior Orange Bowl (14 & Under) champion in 1979, representing her native country. In the 1980s she played for several years on the professional circuit, based in Switzerland. Drescher represented Switzerland in the women's singles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which was a demonstration event. The only Swiss player in the draw, she had wins over Elizabeth Minter and Renata Šašak, before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by sixth seeded Italian Raffaella Reggi. She also played Federation Cup tennis for Switzerland, in 1984 and 1985, featuring in the second round both years. In 1985 she won a Federation Cup singles match against Czechoslovakia's Helena Suková, but Switzerland lost the tie to the reigning champions. On the WTA Tour she won one title, the 1984 Japan Open, which she managed to do wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Minter
Elizabeth Minter (born 23 August 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was born on 23 August 1965 in Australia and played on the WTA tour from 1980 to 1990. She now helps train young children. Tennis career In 1983 Minter won the 1983 US Open Junior Girls' Singles. She reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Women's Doubles with her sister Anne Minter in 1984 losing to Chris Evert and Wendy Turnbull; the third round of Wimbledon in 1986 and 1988; and the U.S. Open in 1986. She retired with a 72–80 singles record and a 32–67 doubles record. In 1984 Minter won the Salt Lake City ITF Doubles title, with her sister. Minter made her 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 ... debut for Australia in 1984, where she played two doubles m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Brown (tennis)
Amanda Brown (born 2 May 1965) is a former professional British tennis player who reached the second round of Wimbledon (on two occasions) and the Australian Open, as well as competing for Great Britain at the 1984 Olympics and the 1984 Federation Cup. As a junior, she twice won the junior title at the Australian Open, in 1982 and 1983. She played her first matches on the WTA tour in November 1982 and her final matches at Wimbledon in 1986. During her career, Brown successfully gained victories over players such as Sue Barker, Sara Gomer, Annabel Croft and Gigi Fernández Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández (born February 22, 1964) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. Fernández won 17 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals representing the United States, and reach .... Brown also reached the doubles final at the tournament in Salt Lake City in 1983, the singles semifinals in Hershey (as a qualifier) and Denver in 1984, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Paz
Mercedes María Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fourth round at the 1986 French Open and the 1990 French Open. Paz unexpectedly defeated defending champion 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 second round of the 1990 French Open. Later that year, at the Virginia Slims of Worcester, Paz also defeated Sánchez Vicario in the round of 16. Five years before, in the semifinals of the 1985 Brazil Open, she beat top-seeded Gabriela Sabatini en route to beating Peruvian Laura Arraya for the title. In so doing, Paz became the first Argentinian woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Einy
Rina Lynette Einy Rina Lynette Einy (born 29 March 1965) is a British former professional tennis player and business executive. Career highlights * **Highest WTA singles ranking**: World No. 129 (23 June 1984)WTA, ''Official rankings PDF for Rina Einy (23 June 1984)'', personal communication, June 2025. * Competed on the professional tennis circuit during the 1980s. * Represented Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics (demonstration event)''Olympedia'', profile for Rina Einy. * Participated in Grand Slam tournaments: French Open (1984, 1985) and Wimbledon (1983, 1984, 1985) * Transitioned to finance after her tennis career and LSE studies — completed the JP Morgan Finance Programme in New York, then worked in bond and derivative trading for JPMorgan in LondonCambridge Judge Business School: "Following her undergraduate degree, she completed the JP Morgan Finance Programme in New York, before trading bonds and derivatives at JP Morgan in London."Talented Ladie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Schilder
Simone Schilder (born 7 April 1967) is a former Dutch tennis player. She won a total of two singles and eight doubles ITF titles in her career. On 4 July 1988, she reached a singles ranking high of world No. 164. On 14 August 1989, she peaked at No. 71 in the doubles rankings. At the age of 17, Schilder became the 1984 French Open girls' doubles champion and represented the Netherlands at the 1984 Summer Olympics. WTA career finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (2–0) Doubles (8–9) See also * List of French Open champions The following is a list of French Open champions in tennis: Champions † Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. A French club members only tournament. †† Disputed champions: Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. Not sanctioned or recog ... External links * * * 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Beverwijk Tennis players from North Holland Dutch female tennis players French Open junior champions Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |