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1990 WTA Tour
The 1990 WTA Tour (officially titled 1990 Kraft General Foods World Tour after its sponsor) was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 1990 tennis season. The 1990 WTA Tour calendar comprised the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V events. ITF tournaments were not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking. Schedule The complete schedule of events on the 1990 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. ;Key December 1989 January February March April May June July August September October November Rankings Below are the 1990 WTA year-end rankings (November 26, 1990) in both singles and doubles competition: * West Germany (FRG) prior to 3 October 1990. See also * 1990 ATP Tour References {{DEFAULTSORT:1990 Wta Tour WTA Tour The WTA Tour (a ...
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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 record 377 weeks, and finished as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 a record eight times. Graf won 107 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including 22 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major women's singles titles, the second-most since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the All-time tennis records – women's singles#Grand Slam singles totals, third-most of all time. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major singles tournament at least four times — a List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Career Grand Slam, quadruple career Grand Slam. A teen phenom, Graf became the youngest-ever player to appear in the main draw of a major at the 1983 French Ope ...
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1989 WTA Tour
The 1989 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 1989 Virginia Slims World Championship Series included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the Virginia Slims Championships and the WTA Category 1-5 events. ITF World Circuit tournaments are not part of the WTA World Championship Series, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking. Schedule The table below shows the 1989 WTA Tour schedule. ;Key November 1988 January February March April May June July August September October November Rankings Below are the 1989 WTA year-end rankings (November 26, 1989) in both singles and doubles competition: See also * 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix References {{DEFAULTSORT:1989 Wta Tour 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 Te ...
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Maureen Drake
Maureen Elizabeth Drake (born March 21, 1971) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is No. 47, which she reached on September 13, 1999. Her career-high doubles ranking is No. 77, set on October 30, 2006. After Drake qualified for the round of 16 at the 1999 Australian Open, there was no Canadian to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam event until Aleksandra Wozniak at the French Open in 2009. Drake retired in April 2011 but returned to professional tennis in July 2014. In August 2016, she announced her second and permanent retirement from professional tennis. Drake is of Slovenian descent through her father. WTA career finals Doubles: 1 runner-up ITF Circuit finals Singles: 18 (6 titles, 12 runner-ups) Doubles: 20 (8 titles, 12 runner-ups) Grand Slam performance timelines Singles Doubles Record against top-50 players Drake's win–loss record (14–54, 21%) against players who were ranked world No. 50 or highe ...
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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 ...
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Renata Marcinkowska
Renata Marcinkowska (born 24 February 1965) is a Polish-American former professional tennis player. She competed during her professional tennis career as Renata Baranski. Biography Born in Szczecin, Marcinkowska left Poland in 1981 to compete in the United States. Once there she received a scholarship to the Oklahoma State University, where she was an All-America The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ...n collegiate tennis player. While at Oklahoma State she got married and became known as Renata Baranski. She graduated with a psychology degree in 1987, then joined the professional tour. Her best performances on the WTA Tour include the semifinals at Guaruja in 1989 as well as the quarterfinals at both the 1989 OTB Open in Schenectady and the 1991 Virginia Slims of Okla ...
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Noëlle Van Lottum
Noëlle van Lottum (born 12 July 1972, Hoogland) is a Dutch former professional tennis player who in the 1990s played for France. Van Lottum was national youth champion both in the Netherlands and France. She played on the WTA Tour from 1987 until 1999, winning one singles and one doubles title. Her career-high singles ranking was World No. 57 (reached in January 1993) and her career-high doubles ranking was World No. 59 (reached in September 1992). With Virginie Buisson, she holds the record for the longest female match in the French Open; in the first round of the 1995 edition she lost to Buisson after 4 hours and 7 minutes. Van Lottum currently is the owner and director of a tennis school in the Netherlands. She is the older sister of tennis player John van Lottum John van Lottum (born 10 April 1976) is a former tennis player from the Netherlands, who played professionally from 1994 to 2007. During his career, he won 5 Challenger titles in singles; notably defeated ...
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Patricia Tarabini
Patricia Tarabini (born 6 August 1968) is an Argentine tennis coach, retired top 30 singles player and former Grand Slam mixed-doubles champion. Career She represented her country and won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games, with Paola Suárez Paola Suárez (; born 23 June 1976) is a retired tennis player from Argentina. She was one of the most prominent women's doubles players throughout the early and mid-2000s, winning eight Grand Slam titles, all of them with Virginia Ruano Pascua ..., where they lost 7–9 in the third set to eventual gold medalists from China, Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. On 9 May 1988, Tarabini reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 29. Her career-high doubles ranking is No. 12, which she achieved on 17 August 1998. Patricia turned pro in 1986, and won a total of 15 top-level doubles titles in her career. She is the 1996 French Open mixed-doubles champion, partnering with Javier Frana. Coaching career In June 2019, she b ...
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Federica Haumüller
Federica Haumüller (born 5 December 1972) 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 Argentina who played from 1987 to 1991. Haumüller won one WTA tournament. Career finals Singles (1 title) ITF finals Singles (0–2) Doubles (3–0) Ranking history Year end – singles: 1991: 336 1990: 132 1989: 207 1988: 380 References * This article is based on a translation of articles from the French and Spanish Wikipedia. External links * * 1972 births Living people Argentine female tennis players Argentine people of German descent People from Caseros Department Tennis players from Santa Fe Province 20th-century Argentine women {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Guarujá
Guarujá (; ) is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of the Baixada Santista. The population is 311,116 (2022 preliminary census count) in an area of . This place name comes from the Tupi language, and means "narrow path". The population is highly urbanized, forms a 2nd urban core and beachfront island across the river from São Vicente Island, the island (Ilha de Santo Amaro) is coterminous with the municipality, with exception of small offshore isles like Ilha dos Arvoredos. Toponym See also: Tupi-Guarani place names in Brazil As Eduardo Navarro explains in his Dicionário de Tupi Antigo (2013), "Guarujá" is derived from the Tupi term agûarausá, which designates a type of crab, the guaruçá. Although it is common to use the definite article before the name of the city, this usage is not correct. Therefore, one should say "Tenho casa em Guarujá" and not "Tenho casa no Guarujá". Geography Guarujá is located o ...
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WTA Brasil Open
The WTA Brasil Open was founded in 1977 as the successor event to the earlier Brazilian International Championships (1932–1969). Finals Singles Doubles References {{WTA Brasil Open tournaments Recurring sporting events established in 1977 Defunct sports competitions in Brazil National and multi-national tennis tournaments ...
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WTA Tier I
The WTA Tier I tournaments were Women's Tennis Association tennis elite tournaments held from 1990 until the end of the 2008 season. From 1988 to 1990, the different levels of WTA tournaments were referred to by the term 'Category', and there were 5 categories. Two of the Tier I tournaments, Indian Wells and Miami, were also joint events held simultaneously with the ATP Tour Masters Series. There were initially 6 Tier I tournaments held annually from 1990. The list expanded to 8 events in 1993, 9 in 1997 and 10 in 2004, before being scaled back to 9 for 2008. In 2009 the WTA changed the tournament categories, so that the majority of Tier I and Tier II tournaments were in one category, Premier Tournaments, split into three categories. Events Singles results 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Sing ...
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WTA Tour Championships
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