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1986 Taipei Women's Championships – Singles
In the first edition of the tournament, Patricia Hy won the title by defeating Adriana Villagrán Adriana Villagrán (born 7 August 1956) is an Argentine tennis player, who played professionally in the 1980s. She is also known under the married name Adriana Villagrán-Reami. Career In 1980, with compatriot Ivanna Madruga, she reached the wom ... 6–7(6–8), 6–2, 6–3 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References External links Official results archive (ITF)Official results archive (WTA) {{DEFAULTSORT:1986 Taipei Women's Championships - Singles Taipei Women's Championships Taipei Women's Championships Taipei Women's Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hy-Boulais
Patricia Hy-Boulais (born 22 August 1965) is a former tennis player. She turned professional on 12 October 1986. Early in her career she represented Hong Kong (since the beginning until the end of the 1987 season). She became a citizen of Canada in 1991. However, she represented Canada since the beginning of the 1988 season. Her best performance at a Grand Slam came when she got to the quarter-finals of the 1992 US Open, defeating Eva Švíglerová, Judith Wiesner, Jennifer Capriati and Helena Suková before losing to eventual champion Monica Seles. After Hy-Boulais did it in 1992, Canada did not have another woman to survive into the second week at the French Open until Aleksandra Wozniak did it in 2009. Hy-Boulais represented her new country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was eliminated in the second round by the number one seed Monica Seles. Hy-Boulais reached her highest ranking in the WTA Tour on 8 March 1993, when she became the number 28 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Fernandez-Parker
Cecilia Fernandez-Parker (born June 28, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Fernandez grew up in Los Angeles County, one of four daughters of Ecuadorian civil engineer Carlos and Los Angeles born Dolores. The four sisters are two sets of twins who all went on to play tennis at a high level, with Cecilia and her twin sister Elisa being the youngest. Anna-Maria and Anna Lucia are the eldest twins. While at Bishop Montgomery High School in 1977, both sets of twins played each other in a CIF 4A doubles final, while the team was also coached by their mother. In the early 1980s, Fernandez played college tennis for the USC Trojans. During this time she represented the United States in the Junior Federation Cup and won a singles gold medal at the University Games in Edmonton. A four-time All American, Fernandez was a member of USC's NCAA Division I Championship winning teams in 1983 and 1985. Fernandez competed on the professional tour after leaving USC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Leo
Susan Leo (born 10 August 1962) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She competed in the 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 ... from 1980 to 1983. Leo won the singles title at the Queensland Open in 1976 and at the Western Australian Open in 1980. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles at Wimbledon in 1981 and 1982. References External links * * * * 1962 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis players from Queensland 21st-century Australian women Sportswomen from Queensland 20th-century Australian sportswomen {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Bryant
Rebecca Bryant (born 20 December 1963) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Bryant was raised in Canberra and competed on the professional tour in the 1980s. She reached a career best singles ranking of 149 in the world and twice made the second round of the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl .... ITF finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (0–3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryant, Rebecca 1963 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis players from the Australian Capital Territory 20th-century Australian sportswomen Sportswomen from the Australian Capital Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Richardson
Julie Richardson (born 30 March 1967) 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 New Zealand. She won seven doubles titles during her career. WTA career finals Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (4–4) Doubles (16–4) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, Julie 1967 births Living people New Zealand female tennis players Sportspeople from Issaquah, Washington Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century New Zealand sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiko Okagawa
Emiko Okagawa (岡川恵美子, ''Okagawa Emiko'', born 26 December 1964), later known as Emiko Sakaguchi (坂口恵美子 ''Sakaguchi Emiko'') is a former professional tennis player from Japan. Biography Born in Tokyo, Okagawa reached a best singles ranking on the professional tour of 120 in the world. Between 1983 and 1987 she played in four Federation Cup ties for Japan. In her debut tie she helped Japan progress through to the World Group second round, winning both a singles and doubles rubber in Japan's 2-1 win over Denmark. Okagawa was a semi-finalist at the 1987 Singapore Women's Open and made the third round of the 1988 Australian Open The 1988 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 76th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 11 through 24 January 1988 and was the first .... In 1993, her final year on tour, she became Emiko Sakaguchi after getting married. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masako Yanagi
is a Japanese former women's singles tennis and doubles tennis player. She was the top-ranked player in Japan in 1979 and was ranked as high as No. 89 in the world. She reached the third round of the 1988 French Open and also played in the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl .... She lived in Tokyo. Yanagi reached 4 singles and 6 doubles finals. She has won 1 singles title and 2 doubles titles on the ITF. Masako Yanagi played in one singles and two doubles ITF Independent Tour finals in 1982. ITF finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (2–4) ITF Independent Tour Singles Doubles References External links Official site* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yanagi, Masako Japanese female tennis players 1959 births Living people Tennis players from Osaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Maria Fernandez
Anna-Maria Fernandez (born October 22, 1960) is an American former professional tennis player active during the 1980s. She won five WTA titles during her career, all in doubles. Her career high ranking in singles was number 19, in approximately 1979–1980. She was a member of the University of Southern California's national championship team (1979 and 1980) and captured the AIAW singles national championship title in 1981. She was named the National Collegiate Player of the Year (1981) winning the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate tennis player. She earned a BA degree in Broadcast Journalism from USC (1983). She is married to former tennis player Ray Ruffels Raymond Owen "Ray" Ruffels (born 23 March 1946) is an Australian former professional tennis player and coach. Playing career Ruffels was an Australian Open semi-finalist in 1968, 1969 and 1976, and a quarter-finalist in 1970 and 1977. In 1978, ... and is the mother of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Na
Hu Na ( zh, c=胡娜, p=Hú Nà; born April 16, 1963) is a former professional tennis player best known for defecting from the People's Republic of China to the United States in 1982, thereby sparking a Cold War-era diplomatic incident. Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been established in 1979, and the Hu Na incident was among the first major tests of those newly established relations. Early life Hu Na was a young and rising tennis star from China's Sichuan province. She had a talent for sports from an early age, and she spent several hours practicing every day. Her father enrolled her in a special athletic school. She took a special interest in tennis, winning first at provincial-level competition, then the national-level young tennis tournament, making her China's top-ranked tennis player. At this point, she was invited to join the China national women's tennis team, based in Beijing. Diplomatic incident Beginning of incident In July 1982, while touring C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Cueto
Isabel Cueto (born 3 December 1968) is a retired professional tennis player from Germany. Her career-high ranking was No. 20, which she achieved in 1989. Early life Isabel Cueto was born in Kehl to her father, Toni, an electrical engineer who had immigrated from Bolivia, and her mother, Jutta, a German. She grew up in Aspach and attended school in Backnang. Career In 1984, Cueto became the youngest German national champion, winning the final against Elke Renz. She also won the German championship in 1986 and 1987. Cueto won a total of six titles on the main WTA Tour over the course of her career; five in singles, one in doubles. She also won four titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She progressed to the third round at the French Open (1985, 1990) and the US Open (1987, 1988), her best finishes at Grand Slam events. She represented the Germany Fed Cup team four times from 1988 to 1990, playing all four matches in doubles ties. Her win–loss record was 3–1. After tennis C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Field
Louise Field (born 25 February 1967) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ... from 1984 to 1994. at australianopen.com WTA Tour finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (2–1) Career finals Singles (4–3) Doubles (6–7) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Louise[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Bernstein
Laura Bernstein-Kassirer (born March 17, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Bernstein grew up in both Chicago and Florida, being introduced to the sport of tennis when she moved to the latter at the age of twelve. She played two years of college tennis for the University of South Carolina, then in 1983 turned professional and competed on tour until 1989. During her time on tour she featured in the main draw of all four grand slam tournaments and reached a career high singles ranking of 177 on the WTA Tour. Bernstein, who has a WTA Tour win over Mary Joe Fernández to her name, had her best grand slam performance at the 1983 US Open, where she beat Elizabeth Sayers Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also won three ... to make the second round. References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |