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1989 Spanish Open – Singles ...
Niege Dias was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Tine Scheuer-Larsen. Arantxa Sánchez won in the final 6–2, 5–7, 6–1 against Helen Kelesi. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. # Helen Kelesi ''(final)'' # Arantxa Sánchez (champion) # Jana Novotná ''(semifinals)'' # Sylvia Hanika ''(quarterfinals)'' # Raffaella Reggi ''(quarterfinals)'' # Judith Wiesner ''(first round)'' # Barbara Paulus ''(second round)'' # Niege Dias ''(second round)'' Draw External links ITF tournament edition details {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Open - Singles, 1989 Singles Singles are people not in a committed relationship. Singles may also refer to: Film and television * ''Singles'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian television series * ''Singles'' (1992 film), written and directed by Cameron Crowe * ''Singles'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niege Dias
Niege Dias (born 5 December 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. She also competed for the Brazil Fed Cup team from 1985 to 1988. In her career, she won two WTA Tour singles tournaments, the 1987 Brazil Open and 1988 Barcelona Open. Her best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of the 1988 French Open The 1988 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 87th staging of the French Open, and the second Gran .... Dias retired from professional tennis in 1989, at the age of 22. She married her former coach, Luiz Carlos Enck. WTA Career finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) Notes References External links * * * 1966 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players 21st-century Brazilian women 20th-century Brazilian women Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis (born 10 September 1970) is a French former professional tennis player. Tennis career Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France, during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland. She turned professional in 1986. She won the French Open junior singles title in 1988 and was the Wimbledon junior singles runner-up in 1987. She retired from the WTA Tour tennis circuit at the end of the 2000 season. Her highest WTA Tour singles and doubles rankings was number seven and number one respectively. She had been coached by Arnaud Decugis since 1989. Halard-Decugis won her first WTA Tour singles title in Puerto Rico. She enjoyed her best season in 1996, when she won her first WTA Tour Tier II singles title in Paris and finished the year with a career-high season-ending singles ranking of No. 15 and as the No. 1 singles player from France. This occurred despite the fact that her playing schedule in the second half of 1996 was curtailed becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Martinek
Veronika Martinek (born 3 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player playing for Germany. On 25 March 1991, she reached a career high of No. 49 on the WTA rankings. Her career stretched from the end of the 1980s to 2001. In 1995, she lost in the third round of Roland-Garros to Adriana Serra Zanetti Adriana Serra Zanetti (born 5 March 1976; ) is an Italian former 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 pl ..., her best performance in Grand Slam tournaments. WTA Tour finals Singles (1 titles, 1 runners-up) Doubles (1-0) ITF finals Singles (1–2) Doubles (3–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinek, Veronika 1972 births German female tennis players Living people Sportspeople from Ústí nad Labem Tennis players from the Ústí nad Labem Region West German female tennis players Czechoslovak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Tessi
Cristina Tessi (born 20 July 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Biography Tessi, who comes from Ingeniero Maschwitz, began to play tennis at the age of three and as a child was taught by her father Atilio and brother Ricardo. Tennis career Excelling as a teenager, she topped the world rankings for juniors in 1988, which led to calls in the press that she would be the next Gabriela Sabatini. As a 15 year old she made the quarter-finals of the doubles in her debut WTA Tour tournament, the 1987 Argentine Open, partnering Florencia Labat. Tessi played in a Fed Cup tie for Argentina in 1988, against Greece in Melbourne, which they won 3–0, with Tessi and Mercedes Paz winning a dead rubber doubles match. Over the next few years her ranking steadily improved with her first WTA Tour singles quarter-final coming at Guaruja in 1989 and another at São Paulo in 1990, beating Mary Pierce en route. She ended 1990 by winning three matches to make the quarter-final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia La Fratta
Silvia La Fratta (born 5 November 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography La Fratta, who was right-handed, had a best singles ranking of 114 and was a quarterfinalist at the 1988 Belgian Open. In doubles, she was ranked as high as 127, with one WTA Tour final appearance at the 1988 Swedish Open, where she and Linda Ferrando were beaten by Sandra Cecchini and Mercedes Paz. Her most notable achievement on tour was reaching the round of 16 as a qualifier at the 1989 French Open. She had wins over Gigi Fernández, Elna Reinach and Andrea Vieira, and then was eliminated by top seed Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German 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 a r .... This was her first Grand Slam main-draw appearance. She played in only two more Grand Slam events: the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Suire
Catherine Suire (born 15 September 1959) is a French former tennis player who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won eight doubles titles in her professional career, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ... on 14 May 1984, when she became the number 52 of the world. Career finals Singles (1 loss) Doubles (8 wins, 8 losses) ITF finals Singles (0–3) Doubles (4–2) References External links * * * 1959 births Living people French female tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for France 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Romanò
Barbara Romanò (born 14 January 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography Romanò, who comes from Tuscany, began competing on tour in 1983 and reached a best singles ranking of 74 in the world. Her best performance in singles on the WTA Tour was a semi-final appearance at the 1989 Vitosha New Otani Open in Sofia and she twice reached the second round of 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 .... As a doubles player she was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments, both in her home country: the 1985 Italian Open and 1990 Torneo Internazionale. WTA Tour finals Doubles (0-2) ITF finals Singles (9-1) Doubles (9-3) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Romano, Barbara 1965 births Living people Italian female ... [...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] |
Janet Souto
Janet Souto-Garcia (born 22 November 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Biography Souto, who comes from Galicia but is Venezuelan by birth, began playing on the professional tour in the late 1980s. Often partnering her sister Ninoska, the pair made the doubles semi-finals of the 1988 Spanish Open. In 1992 she featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at three grand slam tournaments, all with Ana Segura as her partner. She also featured in the 1994 US Open, partnering Ruxandra Dragomir Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 199 .... ITF finals Singles (1–0) Doubles (11–10) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Souto, Janet 1967 births Living people Spanish female tennis players Venezuelan emigrants to Spain Sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Hack
Sabine Hack (; born 12 July 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She began her career on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ... in 1983. She won four singles and one doubles titles in her career. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1994 French Open. Hack reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 in the world in January 1995. She retired from the tour in 1997. WTA tour finals Singles (4 titles, 4 runners-up) Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) ITF finals Singles (1–3) Doubles (0–1) External links * * * 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Ulm German female tennis players West German female tennis players Tennis players from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Švíglerová
Eva Švíglerová (born 13 July 1971) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She enjoyed success as a junior player, winning the 1989 Australian Open in girls' doubles, along with Andrea Strnadová. The two were also the finalists of the 1989 Wimbledon Championships. At this event, it was rumoured by some reporters that she played one match in the tournament without knickers. The same year, Švíglerová reached the final in girls' singles of 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 ..., losing to future World No. 1 player Jennifer Capriati 6–4, 6–0. As a professional, Švíglerová won one WTA title, the ASB Classic in 1991. From 1988 to 1993, she also won five additional ITF titles. In doubles, Švíglerová won the Brasil Open in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (born 3 May 1970) is a former professional tennis player from France. In her career, she reached three finals on the WTA Tour: at Taranto in 1990, she lost to Raffaella Reggi, and in New York in 1991, she lost to Brenda Schultz-McCarthy at Schenectady, both Tier V tournaments. At the Tier IV event in Cardiff in 1997, she lost to Virginia Ruano Pascual in the final, in three sets. Her best Grand Slam performance was the fourth round at the 1994 French Open. As a wildcard entrant and the world No. 197, she beat Emanuela Zardo, Wiltrud Probst and Marzia Grossi, then lost to third seed Conchita Martínez, 1–6, 2–6. She achieved more notable success in doubles, winning six titles, four with Florencia Labat, and ranking as high as No. 22 in the WTA rankings. On 17 August 1992, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 46. She retired after a first-round defeat at the hands of Emmanuelle Gagliardi, at the 2000 Australian Open. On 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |