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1985 French Open – Mixed Doubles
The mixed doubles tournament at the 1985 French Open was held from 27 May until 9 June 1985 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Heinz Günthardt and Martina Navratilova won the title, defeating Paula Smith and Francisco González in the final. Seeds # Heinz Günthardt / Martina Navratilova (champions) # Ken Flach / Pam Shriver ''(second round)'' # Wojciech Fibak / Carling Bassett ''(second round)'' # Vincent Van Patten / Zina Garrison ''(third round)'' # Mike Bauer / Catherine Tanvier ''(semifinals)'' # Laurie Warder / Anne Minter ''(quarterfinals)'' # Tony Giammalva / Anne Smith ''(third round)'' # Chris Dunk / Barbara Jordan ''(second round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 External links1985 French Open – Doubles draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1985 French Open - Mixed Doubles Mixed Doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Günthardt
Heinz Peter Günthardt (; born 8 February 1959) is a retired tennis player from Switzerland. Tennis player career Günthardt won five singles titles during his professional career, including the Rotterdam WCT in 1980. The right-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22 in April 1986. In doubles, he captured a total number of 30 titles. Günthardt won the men's doubles at the 1981 Roland Garros and the 1985 Wimbledon Championships with Balázs Taróczy, and the mixed doubles at the 1985 US Open with Martina Navratilova. He was also a member of the Swiss team at the 1988 Olympic Games. Coaching career Günthardt was the coach of Steffi Graf from the start of 1992 until the end of Graf's tennis playing career in July 1999, and he also worked briefly with Jelena Dokić and Jennifer Capriati. From February to November 2010, he coached former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic. He had not coached full-time since Graf's retirement in 1999. When Günthardt start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Smith (tennis)
Anne Smith (born July 1, 1959) is an educational psychologist and a former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was world No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was world No. 11 in 1980. Major finals Grand Slam finals Doubles: 9 (5–4) Mixed doubles: 5 (5–0) Year-End Championships finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA Tour finals Singles 4 (0–4) Doubles 69 (32–37) Grand Slam performance timeline Singles Doubles Mixed doubles Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December. Education She received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Trinity University and a PhD. in educational psychology from The University of Texas. Career Smith is a licensed psychologist in Texas and Massachusetts. She was director of the Learning Center at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. She was the coach of the WTT Boston Lobsters team in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Günthardt
Markus Günthardt (born 10 September 1957) is a Swiss former tennis player. Günthardt won three doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ATP doubles ranking on 17 September 1984, when he became the number 44 in the world. Günthardt participated in 14 Davis Cup ties for Switzerland from 1980 to 1986, posting a 9-5 record in doubles. Günthardt's younger brother Heinz The Kraft Heinz Foods Company, formerly the H. J. Heinz Company and commonly known as Heinz (), is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. ... was a successful doubles player, winning two Grand Slam doubles titles in his career. Doubles titles (3) External links * * * Living people 1957 births Swiss male tennis players Tennis players from Zurich 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Bunge
Bettina Bunge (born 13 June 1963) is a retired German tennis player. Born in Adliswil, Switzerland, she was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff. Career With German nationality as the daughter of a German businessman, she was born in Switzerland, and resided in Peru for more than 13 years. She was a national champion in Peru at the age of 13, and later moved to Miami, Florida. She dealt with a series of injuries (ear and knee, among others) throughout her career. Bunge was a professional player from 1978 to 1989, appearing for the first time at No. 150 in July 1978. Her career-high ranking of No. 6 she achieved in 1983. In 1982, she registered her all-time best achievement in Grand Slam singles competition when she reached the semifinals of Wimbledon. She won four singles tournaments, including the tournaments at the German Open, Houston, and Tokyo in 1982, and Oakl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Gildemeister
Hans Gildemeister Bohner (born Juan Pedro Gildemeister Bohner on 9 February 1956), is a Chilean former tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 22 February 1980, when he became world No. 12. He is a former captain of the Chilean Davis Cup team. Personal life Gildemeister was born in Lima, Peru, to German parents and moved to Chile at the age of two. His father, Benito, owned a printing house and his mother, Elena, was a German teacher. He has four siblings. He naturalized Chilean by residence in 1978. He is the brother of and Fritz Gildemeister, also pro tennis players, and was brother in law of Laura Gildemeister, who was also a tennis player. He has lived in Tampa, Florida Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Maleeva
Katerina Georgieva Maleeva (; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was No. 6 in 1990. Biography Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and Yuliya Berberyan. Her mother came from an Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ..., and was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started a coaching career. She was the coach of her three daughters, Katerina, Manuela and Magdalena, each of whom eventually became WTA top 10 players. Throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Sánchez
Emilio Ángel Sánchez Vicario (; born 29 May 1965) is a Spanish former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He won five Grand Slam doubles titles and the men's doubles silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. Sánchez is the older brother of multiple Grand Slam winner Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, with whom he partnered to win the Hopman Cup in 1990. After retiring, he captained Spain to Davis Cup victory in 2008. Career Sánchez turned professional in 1984 and won his first top-level singles title in Nice, France in 1986. He won 15 singles titles during his career, including the Italian Open in 1991. During his singles career, he achieved wins over top 5 players including Ivan Lendl, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and Mats Wilander. Sánchez's career-high singles ranking was world No. 7. In doubles, Sánchez captured 50 doubles titles (44 of which partnering Sergio Casal) including three at Grand Slam events. In 1988, he won the doubles titles at both the French Open (with Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Barg
Penny Barg (born April 11, 1964) is a retired tennis player from the U.S. She is also known as Penny Barg-Mager. Tennis career During her career Penny Barg, a former champion of the Orange Bowl Junior Singles, won three WTA doubles titles. She also reached the doubles quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open with her partner Beth Herr. Career finals Doubles (3 titles, 5 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barg, Penny 1964 births Living people American female tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles 21st-century American women 20th-century American sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Meister
Steve Meister (born April 21, 1958) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Meister's highest singles ranking was World No. 69, which he reached in August 1984. During his career, he won 6 doubles titles and achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 20 in July 1984. Meister was born in New York City, and is Jewish. '''', 3/22/09; accessed 6/4/09 He graduated from in 1980 with a degree in |
Sabrina Goleš
Sabrina Goleš (born 3 June 1965) is a former Yugoslav tennis player. Biography Sabrina Goleš was ranked no. 3 among juniors in the world in 1983 (in the juniors, she won the Italian Open and Rolex Port Washington, reached the semifinals at Roland Garros and the Orange Bowl, and the quarterfinals at the US Open). Goleš competed for SFR Yugoslavia at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where she made it to the finals, losing 6–1, 3–6, 4–6 to Steffi Graf. The same year, Goleš was part of the Yugoslav team that reached the Federation Cup semifinals. In 1987, Goleš won the WTA tournament in Paris and four titles in doubles. She also competed in 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul where she beat Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Goleš has career wins over top 10 players Kathleen Horvath, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Bettina Bunge, Kathy Rinaldi, Lisa Bonder, Katerina Maleeva, Manuela Maleeva, Carling Bassett, Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Prpić
Goran Prpić (; born 4 May 1964) is a Croatian tennis coach and former professional tennis player, who played for SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia. Biography Prpić was born in Zagreb, at the time in SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. He turned professional in 1984. His career was nearly ended by a serious knee injury in February 1986. After a surgery, Prpić spent two years recovering before returning to the Tour. For the rest of his playing career, he wore a custom-made knee brace. During his career, he won one top-level singles title (at Umag in 1990) and one doubles title ( San Remo in 1990). His joint best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was at the 1991 Australian Open, where he reached the quarter-finals. He also reached the quarter-finals of the 1993 French Open. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 16 in 1991. In 1990, Prpić was a member of the team from Yugoslavia which won the World Team Cup. In 1991, he teamed-up with Monica Seles to help Yugoslavia win the Hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Suková
Helena Suková () (born 23 February 1965) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and No. 4 in singles. Suková won 14 major titles: nine in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. She is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in doubles, a four-time major singles runner-up, and won a total of ten singles titles and 69 doubles titles. Family Suková comes from a prominent Czech tennis family. Her mother, Věra Pužejová Suková, was a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1962. Her father, Cyril Suk II, was president of the Czechoslovak Tennis Federation. Her brother, Cyril Suk III, is a former professional player on the men's tour who teamed with Suková to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, at the French Open in 1991 and at Wimbledon in 1996 and 1997. Career Suková turned professional in 1981. Her career-high world rankings were fourth in singles and firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
