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Maria Pavlidou
Maria Pavlidou (born 20 January 1978) is a Greek former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Thessaloniki, Pavlidou spent much of her early career playing college tennis in the United States for the University of Arkansas. She was an All-American in 1999 when she became the first female Arkansas player to reach the quarterfinals of an NCAA singles championships. Pavlidou represented Greece in the Fed Cup from 2000 to 2003, featuring in a total of five singles and four doubles rubbers. She also competed for Greece at the Mediterranean Games, winning a gold medal in Tunis in 2001, as partner of Eleni Daniilidou Eleni Daniilidou ( el, Ελένη Δανιηλίδου; ; born 19 September 1982) is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete. She is considered one of the best Greek tennis players of the Open Era, winning five singles titles and t ... in the women's doubles. ITF finals Singles: 2 (0–2) Doubles: 11 (5–6) References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments. Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125K series. There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125k series and the bigger mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiumicino
Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-busiest in Europe. History Etymology The name literally means ''little river''. The town of "Fiumicino" should not be confused with its namesake, Fiumicino, a small river near Rimini. Recent history Fiumicino became a ''comune'' in 1992; previously it was part of the municipality of Rome, being almost totally included in the former Municipio XIV. On 24 August 2013, a small mud volcano popped up at the centre of the via Coccia di Morto roundabout. Geography Located by the Tyrrhenian coast. Fiumicino borders the municipalities of Anguillara Sabazia, Cerveteri, Ladispoli and Rome. It is on the northern side of the mouth of the river Tiber, next to Ostia. It includes the hamlets ('' frazioni'') of Aeroporto "Leonardo da Vinci", Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova
Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova ( Bulgarian: Биляна Павлова-Димитрова; born 20 January 1978) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 490, which she reached on 16 October 2006. On 20 April 2009, she peaked at No. 301 in the doubles rankings. She was first called up to the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2009, but made her debut in 2010. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 19 (3 titles, 16 runner–ups) Fed Cup Pawlowa-Dimitrova debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2010. Since then she has a 0–1 singles record and a 1–0 doubles record (1–1 overall). Singles (0–1) Doubles (1–0) *RR = Round Robin References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pawlowa-Dimitrova, Biljana 1978 births Living people Bulgarian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İpek Şenoğlu
İpek Şenoğlu (born 8 June 1979), nicknamed İpeko, is a former Turkish tennis player. She first made history in June 2004, when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon. Though Şenoğlu did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament for a Grand Slam event. On 15 May 2005, Venus Williams played a show game with Şenoğlu on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, the first tennis match ever to be played across two continents. The event was organized as a promotion ahead of the 2005 İstanbul Cup and lasted five minutes only on the north side of the bridge. After the exhibition, they both threw a tennis ball into the Bosporus. She and partner Yaroslava Shvedova reached the semifinals of the 2009 Italian Open, a WTA Premier event. Following this event, İpek's WTA doubles rank rose to No. 76. Her peak doubles rank has been No. 53. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ITF finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radoslava Topalova
Radoslava Topalova (born 1 September 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria. Topalova played doubles in three Fed Cup ties for Bulgaria, one in 2001 and two in 2002. She is the younger sister of tennis player Desislava Topalova. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner–up) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Topalova, Radoslava 1980 births Living people Bulgarian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volos
Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos is also the only outlet to the sea from Thessaly, the country's largest agricultural region. With a population of 144,449 (2011), the city is an important industrial centre, and its port provides a bridge between Europe and Asia. Volos is the newest of the Greek port cities, with a large proportion of modern buildings erected following catastrophic earthquakes in 1955. It includes the municipal units of Volos, Nea Ionia and Iolkos, as well as smaller suburban communities. The economy of the city is based on manufacturing, trade, services and tourism. Home to the University of Thessaly, the city also offers facilities for conferences, exhibitions and major sporting, cultural and scientific events. Volos par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kondratieva
Maria Alexandrovna Kondratieva (russian: Мария Александровна Кондратьева; born 17 January 1982) is a retired Russian tennis player. Kondratieva, who started playing tennis aged seven and turned professional in 1999, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 210, achieved on 23 June 2008. On 18 October 2010, she peaked at No. 48 in the WTA doubles rankings. Kondratieva won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She and her partner Vladimíra Uhlířová beat Marina Erakovic and Anna Chakvetadze in the final of the 2010 Banka Koper Slovenia Open The 2010 Banka Koper Slovenia Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour. It took place in Port .... This was Kondratieva's only time to win a WTA Tour doubles title in her career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Hewson
Emily Hewson (born 31 July 1982) is a retired Australian tennis player 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 cove .... Her highest WTA singles ranking is 314, which she reached on 23 July 2007. Her career-high in doubles is 204, which she achieved on 25 February 2008. In her career, Hewson won two singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ITF Circuit finals Singles 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles 11 (4 titles, 7 runner-ups) External links * * * * Emily Hewson Photos at WTA96.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Hewson, Emily 1982 births Living people Australian female tennis players Sportswomen from New South Wales Tennis players from Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgenia Savranska
Yevgenia Savranska (or Yevgenia Savransky, Hebrew: יבגניה סברנסקי; born 20 February 1984) is a retired Israeli-Ukrainian tennis player. Career On 17 July 2006, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 172 whilst her best doubles ranking was 191, on 10 July 2006. She won eight singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. Playing for Israel Fed Cup team, Savranska has a win–loss record of 0–1. She made her WTA Tour doubles main-draw debut at the 2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg, partnering Mihaela Buzărnescu. Savranska made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2009 Barcelona Ladies Open The 2009 Barcelona Ladies Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Barcelona Ladies Open, and it was an International-level tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the David Ll ..., defeating Lucie Hradecká, Gréta Arn and Émilie Loit in the qualifying tournament for a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evghenia Ablovatchi
Evghenia Ablovatchi (born 28 October 1981) is a Moldovan former professional tennis player. Born in 1981, Ablovatchi trained as a junior in the Netherlands and played on the professional tour for three years, reaching a career high singles ranking of 552 in the world. She was ranked as high as 350 in doubles and won an ITF doubles title in Le Touquet in 2002. Ablovatchi featured in eight 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 chan ... ties for Moldova, four in 1998 and four in 1999. She won a total of seven rubbers, four of which came in singles. ITF finals Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ablovatchi, Evghenia 1981 births Living people Moldovan female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc (born 6 October 1973) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. Vanc played predominantly in doubles; and has won two WTA Tour titles. Her best result at the Grand Slam tournaments is third round: at the 2005 Australian Open and the 2005 French Open The 2005 French Open was the 109th edition of the tournament. On the men's side, Rafael Nadal, seeded fourth at his first French Open, was a strong favorite to win the singles title after winning the Monte Carlo and Rome Masters. Guillermo Coria .... She achieved her career-high rank of No. 40 on 8 May 2006. WTA career finals Doubles: 6 Wins (2) Runner-ups (4) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 21 (13–8) Doubles: 49 (24–25) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ehritt-Vanc, Andreea Sportspeople from Timișoara Romanian expatriates in Italy Romanian female tennis players 1973 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
