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Cláudia Chabalgoity
Cláudia Silvia Chabalgoity (born 13 March 1971) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. Biography Born in Brasília, Chabalgoity began playing tennis at the age of three. She has an elder brother, Carlos, who also played briefly on the pro tour. Right-handed Chabalgoity began touring internationally in 1989 and won two ITF $25k titles that year, one at home in São Paulo and the other in the Spanish city of Pamplona. She had a best singles ranking of 121, attained in 1990. As a doubles player, she made it to 102 in the world and was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments. She appeared in the main draw of two Grand Slam events, the women's doubles at the 1990 US Open, then both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at the 1991 French Open. During her career, she represented Brazil in several international competitions. As a member of the Brazil Fed Cup team, she featured in a total of six ties, all across 1990 and 1991 (overall record: 1–7). Her only win was in sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasília
Brasília ( ; ) is the capital city, capital of Brazil and Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's List of cities in Brazil by population, third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita. Brasília is a Planned community, planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector, and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was inscribed as a UN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Reference
Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball. Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game Immaculate Grid and the statistics-based subscription service Stathead. From 2008 to 2020 the website included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent. History The company was founded in Philadelphia by Sean Forman in 2004 and incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007. The company operates databases of sports statistics for several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Mothes-Jobkel
Catherine Mothes-Jobkel (born 7 June 1970 in Bègles) is a former tennis player from France who competed on the WTA Tour from 1987 to 1997. She turned professional in 1989 and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 67, in June 1993. During her career, she competed in the French Open eight times, twice reaching the second round, and in the US Open twice, reaching the second round in 1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State .... In 1993, she reached the semifinals of the Belgian Open. ITF finals Singles: 14 (9–5) External links * * 1970 births French female tennis players Tennis players from Gironde Living people People from Bègles {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Dopfer
Sandra Heim-Dopfer (born 25 May 1970) is a former Austrian tennis player. Her best Grand Slam result was making the third round of the 1996 US Open. Life Heim-Dopfer was born on 25 May 1970 in Lustenau, Austria as Sandra Dopfer. Heim-Dopfer won six singles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 29 August 1994, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 70. On 19 July 1993, she peaked at world number 102 in the doubles rankings. Heim-Dopfer made one appearance for the Austria Fed Cup team in July 1993. Her best Grand Slam result was in 1996, making the third round of that year's US Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev .... After her tennis career, Heim-Dopfer worked for the charitable organisation Caritas Vorarlberg. In 2004, she married Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Sawamatsu
is a former professional tennis player. In her career, she won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Sawamatsu reached a career-high ranking of world No. 14, on 6 February 1995. At the time of the 1995 Australian Open, her family survived the Great Hanshin earthquake, and Sawamatsu went on to achieve her best Grand Slam result at Melbourne Park, reaching the quarterfinals by defeating compatriot Ai Sugiyama, Laurence Courtois, Kimiko Date in the third round, Mary Joe Fernandez in the fourth round before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Her most significant title came in 1993 at Strasbourg, when she defeated clay-courter Judith Wiesner in the final. Sawamatsu had much success at Strasbourg reaching the semifinals in 1991, final in 1992 losing to Judith Wiesner. She retired from professional tennis after losing in the second round of the 1998 Japan Open to Monica Seles in a three-set match. Sawamatsu had wins over the following players during her career: Martina Hingis, Linds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Priller
Ulrike Priller-Dressler (born 6 January 1973) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Priller reached a career best ranking of 182 in the world and won four ITF titles. Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a second round appearance at Brisbane in 1990, which she followed up by making it through to the final qualifying round for 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: 6 (4–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Priller, Ulrike 1973 births Living people Austrian female tennis players 20th-century Austrian sportswomen 21st-century Austrian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Eijkenboom
Mara or MARA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Mara (''Doctor Who''), an evil being in two ''Doctor Who'' serials * Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power'' and ''The New Adventures of He-Man'' animated series * Mara Davis/Mara David/Mara del Valle, a character from Philippine drama series '' Mara Clara (1992 TV series)'' and ''Mara Clara (2010 TV series)'' *Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe *Mara Sewell, a fictional character in ''The Shield'' *Mara Wade, title character of '' Mara of the Wilderness'' Other uses in arts and entertainment *Mara the Lioness, an animal actor * ''Mara'' (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig *''Mara (film)'', a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko *'' Maara'', a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar *''Mara'', an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici * Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus Cultural and language groupings * Mara (Tagin ... [...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] |
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] |
Brasil Open
The Brasil Open was a men's tennis tournament also known as the ATP Brasil Open. It was held annually in São Paulo, Brazil from 2001 until 2019 and was the successor event to the earlier Brazilian International Championships (1932–1969). It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series, and was one of the main events in the Brazilian tennis calendar alongside ATP Tour 500 Rio Open. Since 2004, it was a part of the South American clay court circuit but was held on hard courts prior to 2004. Nicolás Almagro and Pablo Cuevas hold the record for most singles titles with three each, while in doubles the record is held by Bruno Soares Bruno Fraga Soares (; born 27 February 1982) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. A doubles specialist, Soares won six Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles, the 2016 Australian Open – Men's d ... with three consecutive titles from 2011 to 2013. On 15 October 2019, tournament organisers announced that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...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] |
