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1998 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts – Singles
Elena Likhovtseva was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Maria Vento. Ai Sugiyama won in the final 7–5, 6–0 against Vento. Seeds A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top two seeds received a bye to the second round. # Brenda Schultz-McCarthy ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ruxandra Dragomir ''(quarterfinals)'' # n/a # Ai Sugiyama (champion) # Patty Schnyder ''(second round)'' # Joannette Kruger ''(first round)'' # Elena Likhovtseva ''(second round)'' # Anne-Gaëlle Sidot ''(first round)'' Draw Final Section 1 Section 2 External links 1998 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts draw {{DEFAULTSORT:1998 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts - Singles Sin In religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally considered actions, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Career 1990s In 1993, at age 17, Sugiyama played tennis legend Martina Navratilova in her native city, losing in three sets. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to world No. 30, Gigi Fernández, in three sets. In 1994, Sugiyama again reached the main draw at Wimbledon but lost to world No. 6 and compatriot, Kimik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Lee
Janet Lee ( zh, 李慧芝, born October 22, 1976) is a Taiwanese-American retired tennis player. She won three doubles titles during her professional career on the WTA Tour. She competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles. Her career-high singles ranking is 79, and her best doubles ranking world No. 20. Since retiring, she has been an assistant coach for the California State University, Fullerton(CSUF) women's tennis team. She was a full-time undergraduate student at the university, majoring in Business with an emphasis in Accounting and Finance. After earning her B.A. at CSUF, she joined the professional services firm Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Personal Her father is Shun-Yi Lee, a physicist, and her mother is Vanni Lee, a DP coordinator. Lee graduated from high school in 1994 and decided to postpone college to pursue a professional tennis career. She started playing tennis at age five. Career Lee competed in tennis competitions for Chinese Taipei at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry-Anne Guse
Kerry-Anne Guse (4 December 1972) is an Australian tennis player. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, she turned professional at the age of 15. She was coached by her father, Mauri Guse. Playing for Australia in 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 ..., she has a win-loss record of 3–2. WTA Tour finals Doubles: 13 (6–7) ITF finals Singles (7–6) Doubles (34–11) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Guse, Kerry-Anne Living people 1972 births Australian female tennis players Tennis players from Queensland Sportswomen from Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel McQuillan
Rachel McQuillan (born 2 December 1971) is a retired tennis player from Australia. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She won five doubles titles, as well as 14 singles and 21 doubles titles on the . She reached the mixed doubles semifinals at the and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Shi-ting
Wang Shi-Ting (; born 19 October 1973) is a former tennis player from Taiwan. She turned professional in 1991. In her career, she won six singles titles 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 .... She played 49 times over 11 years for Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51–25 overall record and setting many team records. Wang retired from the tour in 2000. Since 2006, she has been the captain of the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team. WTA Tour finals Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles: 3 (runner-ups) ITF finals Singles (8–1) Doubles (1–1) External links * * * 1973 births Living people Olympic tennis players for Taiwan Taiwanese female tennis players Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tainan Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva (, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. Her best WTA singles ranking was world No. 4. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to October 2005 and has won ten career singles titles. Early life Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the youngest of the three children of Yuliya Berberyan and Georgi Maleev. Yuliya, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was one of the best Bulgarian tennis players in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started on a coaching career. She trained all of her three daughters, Magdalena, Katerina and Manuela, each of whom eventually became WTA top six players. Career Juniors In 1988, Maleeva became the youngest ever national tennis champion of Bulgaria, at the age of 13 years and four months. She turned professional in 1989, reaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Sánchez Lorenzo
María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo (born 7 November 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Her highest WTA ranking has been world No. 33, a position she achieved in April 2004. She played two-handed on both sides, and her favourite surface was the hardcourt, unusual for a Spanish tennis player. At the 2005 French Open, Lorenzo defeated reigning champion Anastasia Myskina Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina ( ; born 8 July 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Myskina won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian woman to win a major singles title. Due to this victory, she rose to ... in three sets in the first round, which became the first time the reigning champ of the French Open lost in the first round. WTA career finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) Performance timeline ITF Circuit finals Singles (9–3) Doubles (1–2) Top 10 wins External links * * * {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Barclay
Catherine Barclay (born 12 June 1973) 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 Australia. Barclay's parents were the owners of a tennis facility in Sydney, and she began playing tennis at the age of eight. In her junior career, she was a winner of the Wimbledon girls' doubles. In her professional career, she won three ITF titles in singles and thirty in doubles. She was a quarterfinalist in the Wimbledon women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the 2002 season, she won two double titles on the WTA Tour. On 30 August 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for her strong commitment to tennis. Catherine Barclay retired in 2004. In 2003, she married field hockey player Christopher Reitz of Germany, and they reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana Endo
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She was born on February 6, 1971, in Hiroshima and resides in Fukuyama, Hiroshima. She started playing tennis at age seven with her father and coach Hiroshi and played on the WTA Tour from 1991 until 1998. She graduated from the University of Tsukuba while on the tour in March 1993. Career highlights * Her career-high ranking was 26th worldwide in singles (1994), and 98th in doubles (1995) * She played 22 Grand Slam tournaments in singles with her best result being the round of 16 at the 1994 US Open. That tournament marked the first time two Japanese women reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam ( Kimiko Date was the other player). * Her career record is 144–108. She won a singles title in Hobart in 1994, defeating Lindsay Davenport during that tournament. * Her biggest upset over a seeded player came at the 1996 Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denisa Chládková
Denisa Chládková (born 8 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Life and career Chládková did not win any WTA Tour titles, but she is probably best remembered for reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1997, playing in only her third Grand Slam main draw. After defeating Sandra Kleinová in the first round she stunned Lindsay Davenport in the second round, for the first top-ten win of her career. She then defeated Radka Zrubáková and María Vento-Kabchi before eventually losing to the champion, Martina Hingis. Despite not winning any titles, she reached WTA Tour singles finals. The biggest of these was at the Tier-II event held in Hanover, Germany, where she lost to Serena Williams. She also finished runner-up at Knokke-Heist, losing to María Sánchez Lorenzo and Helsinki, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. On 16 June 2003, she ascended to her career-high ranking of No. 31 in the world. That same year she advanced to the fourth rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor
Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999. Pitkowski won her only career singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens Valero in the final. She was also the runner-up at the WTA Tour tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin. She has won a total of ten singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit but never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie, and saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans Sabine Appelmans (born 22 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. She was Belgium's Fed Cup Captain (sports), captain from 2007 until 2011. Career Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
