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Dorte Ekner
Dorte Ekner (born 2 May 1951) is a Danish former professional tennis player. A three-time national singles champion, Ekner represented Denmark in 15 Federation Cup ties between 1973 and 1982, for wins in four singles and five doubles rubbers. Ekner became the first Danish woman to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam tournament during her run at the 1978 Australian Open. Competing as a main draw qualifier, Ekner defeated the sixth-seeded Cynthia Doerner Cynthia Doerner (née Sieler) (born 11 February 1951) is an Australian former international tennis player. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, ... and West German Heidi Eisterlehner, before falling in the quarter-finals to eventual champion Chris O'Neil. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekner, Dorte 1951 births Living people Danish female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Chris O'Neil defeated Betsy Nagelsen in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–3) to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1978 Australian Open. Evonne Goolagong was the reigning champion, but did not compete this year. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Chris O'Neil is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Sue Barker ''(quarterfinals)'' # Renáta Tomanová ''(quarterfinals)'' # Beth Norton ''(second round)'' # Amanda Tobin ''(first round)'' # Renee Blount ''(second round)'' # Cynthia Doerner ''(first round)'' #''Withdrawn'' # Betsy Nagelsen ''(finalist)'' Qualifying Draw Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 References External links 1978 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the 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 nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
Helen Gourlay and Kerry Harris were the defending champions. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External links 1973 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the 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. As of 2016, there ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1973 Australian Open - Women's Doubles Women's Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Jean King 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 Federation Cup (tennis), 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of former World number 1 ranked female tennis players, World No. 1 Billie Jean King. The Billie Jean King Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete. The current Chairperson is Katrina Adams. The Czech Republic Billie Jean King Cup team, Czech Republic dominated the BJK Cup in the 2010s, winning six of ten competitions in the decade. The men's equivalent of the Billie Jean King Cup is the Davis Cup, and the Czech Republic, Australia, Russia and the United States are the only countries to have held both Cups at the same time. After the 2022 Russia invasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Australian Open
The 1978 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne, Australia and was held from 25 December 1978 to 3 January 1979. It was the 67th edition of the Australian Open and the fourth Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles were won by Argentinian Guillermo Vilas and Australian Chris O'Neil. Seniors Men's singles Guillermo Vilas defeated John Marks, 6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 :• It was Vilas' 3rd career Grand Slam singles title and his 1st title at the Australian Open. Women's singles Chris O'Neil defeated Betsy Nagelsen, 6–3, 7–6(7–3) :• It was O'Neil's 1st and only career Grand Slam singles title. Men's doubles Wojciech Fibak / Kim Warwick defeated Paul Kronk / Cliff Letcher, 7–6, 7–5 :• It was Fibak's 1st and only career Grand Slam doubles title. :• It was Warwick's 1st career Grand Slam doubles title. Women's doubles Betsy Nagelsen / Renáta Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, or ABC News and Current Affairs, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting within Australia and the rest of the world, the service covers both local and world affairs. The division of the organisation, which is called ABC News, Analysis and Investigations. is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are the ABC News TV channel (formerly ABC News 24); the long-running radio news programs, '' AM'', '' The World Today'', and '' PM''; ABC NewsRadio, a 24-hour continuous news radio channel; and radio news bulletins and programs on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, and Triple J. ABC News Online has an extensive online presence which includes many written news reports and videos available via ABC Online, an ABC News mobile app (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Doerner
Cynthia Doerner (née Sieler) (born 11 February 1951) is an Australian former international tennis player. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. ... four times, from 1973 to 1979. at australianopen.com References External links * * 1951 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Eisterlehner
Heidi Eisterlehner (born 25 October 1949) is a retired tennis player from Germany who was active from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Early life She was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, East Germany but moved in her youth to Nuremberg, where she started playing at the local club 1. FC Nürnberg. She studied social pedagogy. Career Her best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1976 when she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. In the second round, she defeated fourth-seeded Sue Barker. She won the singles title at the Auckland Open, a non-tour event, in January 1977 after a victory in the final against Karen Krantzcke. In May that year, Eisterlehner reached the singles final at the German Open German Open is a name given to many sports events established in Germany, and include: *German Open (badminton), an annual badminton tournament held since 1955. *German Open (golf), was a golf tournament on the European Tour *German Masters, a snook ... in Hamburg. Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris O'Neil (tennis)
Christine O'Neil (born 19 March 1956) is an Australian former professional tennis player. O'Neil is best known for her singles victory at the 1978 Australian Open, and was the last Australian to win the title until Ashleigh Barty in 2022. She also became the first unseeded woman to win the title in the Open era. O'Neil is also one of the few players who have won both the Australian Open junior (1973) and senior (1978) titles. In 2007, along with her brothers Keith and William, O'Neil took over the Morisset Sports & Tennis Centre located in Newcastle, New South Wales. The centre was subsequently renamed the O'Neil School of Tennis. She then moved on to operate O'Neil's School of Tennis in Cessnock, New South Wales. She has since moved to Port Macquarie Port Macquarie is a coastal town in the local government area of Port Macquarie-Hastings. It is located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, about north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. The town is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR (broadcaster)
DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. DR was originally funded by a media licence, however since 2022, the media license has been replaced by an addition to the Danish income tax. Today, DR operates three television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T2 network. DR also operates seven radio channels. All are available nationally on DAB+ radio and online, with the four original stations also available on FM radio. History DR was founded on 1 April 1925 under the name of ''Radioordningen'', which was changed to ''Statsradiofonien'' in 1926, then to ''Danmarks Radio'' in 1959, and to ''DR'' in 1996. During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, radio broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
