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Piccolini
Katia Piccolini (born 15 January 1973) is a former tennis player from Italy, who competed on the WTA Tour from 1988 to 1999. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 37 in July 1991 and competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... Other career highlights include reaching the third round of the 1990 US Open and winning the singles title at the San Marino Open in 1991. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7–5) References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Piccolini, Katia 1973 births Italian female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Italy Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Living people People from L'Aquila Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Competitors at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Lapi
Laura Lapi (born 10 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography As a junior, Lapi was runner-up to Natalia Zvereva in the 1987 Orange Bowl and was also a girls' doubles finalist at the 1988 US Open. Lapi was a member of the Italy Fed Cup team in the 1988 competition. She won her first match, over Poland's Magdalena Feistel, to help Italy win the tie. In the second round, the Italians were beaten by home side Australia and Lapi lost her match in three sets to Nicole Provis. Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a semifinal appearance at Paris in 1988. She had a win over Jana Novotná at the 1988 German Open. In 1990, she received her best ranking of 66 in the world, after making the third round at Hilton Head, in a run which included beating Claudia Kohde-Kilsch. Lapi made the third round of the 1990 French Open. At the Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tourname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijana Kovačević
Marijana Kovačević (born 20 July 1978) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Zagreb, Kovačević made her WTA Tour main draw debut at the Zagreb Open The Zagreb Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit. It was held a ... in 1995, as a singles wildcard. She lost her first round match in three sets to Ludmila Richterova. Kovačević competed mostly on the ITF Circuit, winning three titles in singles and seven titles in doubles. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (3–5) Doubles: 13 (7–6) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacevic, Marijana 1978 births Living people Croatian female tennis players Tennis players from Zagreb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuela Zardo
Emanuela Zardo (born 24 April 1970) is a former professional tennis player who competed for Switzerland. She was active on the WTA Tour in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, and was among the top 100 in the world between 1990 and 1994. Zardo reached her highest ranking of No. 27 on 6 May 1991. She won one WTA singles title, and was also twice a runner-up in singles competition. Her best performance at a Grand Slam occurred at the 1994 Australian Open, when she made the fourth round before losing to Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbl .... WTA career finals Singles: 3 (1–2) ITF finals Singles (10-5) Doubles (0-2) Grand Slam singles performance timeline References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zardo, Emanuela 1970 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessia Lombardi
Alessia Lombardi (born May 24 1976) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Born in Rome, Lombardi reached a career-high singles ranking of 267 in the world and won two ITF singles titles. She fell in the final qualifying round for the 1998 Istanbul Open, but featured in the doubles draw (partnering Gisela Riera), for what was her only WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... main-draw appearance. ITF finals Singles: 7 (2–5) Doubles: 6 (4–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lombardi, Alessia 1976 births Living people Italian female tennis players Tennis players from Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Stele
Veronica Stele (born 19 November 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Career highlights On 19 May 1997, Stele reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 237. Her career-high doubles ranking came on 7 July 1997, when she became world No. 117. In her career, she won two singles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ITF doubles titles In 1997, Stele and her partner Katalin Marosi won the doubles title at the $50k tournament at Budapest, Hungary, and the $50k event at Marseille, France. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (2–4) Doubles: 23 (11–12) Basque pelota At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Stele partnered with María Lis García to win the gold medal in Basque pelota Basque pelota ( Basque: '' pilota'', Spanish: '' pelota vasca'', French: '' pelote basque'') is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (''frontis or fronton .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marzia Grossi
Marzia Grossi (born 2 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography Grossi, who comes from Florence, began playing tennis at the age of eight. She debuted on the professional circuit in 1989 and was more successful in doubles that year with a semifinal appearance at Athens the highlight. From 1990 to 1992, she didn't feature in any WTA Tour events. She won a WTA tournament title at San Marino in 1993, with a win over top seed Barbara Rittner in the final. The title in San Marino took her ranking into the top 100 and in September she reached a career best 79 in the world. At the 1993 French Open, she qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam singles match for the first time and took 13th seed Nathalie Tauziat to three sets in an opening-round loss. Her best French Open performance was a third-round appearance in 1994, and she also appeared in the singles main draws at the three other Grand Slam tournaments that year. She appeared in two Fed Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Smith (tennis)
Samantha Smith (born 27 November 1971) is an English former professional tennis player, who was the British ladies' No. 1 from 1996 to 1999. She now commentates on the game, predominantly for the BBC, ITV, Sky Sports, BT Sport and Eurosport and Amazon PrimeSam Smith Biography and Image, Celebrity Tennis as well as in Australia on the which she has been a part of for 11 years with the and as of 2019 the . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marketa Kochta
Marketa Kochta (born 14 July 1975) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Early life and family Kochta was born in Prague, then part of Czechoslovakia, but later emigrated to Munich, where her father Jiří was a noted ice hockey coach. As a junior, she was coached by her father and in 1991 was a member of the German team that won the World Youth Cup (now Junior Fed Cup). Her elder sister Renata also played on the WTA Tour. Kochta is married to Czech former tennis player Jiří Vaněk Professional career As a 16-year old, Kochta made the third round of the 1992 Australian Open. In 1993, she made the semifinals of the Mazda Classic, a WTA Tour tournament in San Diego. Her 1994 season was the strongest of her career, culminating in a mid-year ranking of 45, which remained her highest. She was nominated for the WTA Most Impressive Newcomer Award. Highlights for the year included beating Tracy Austin and Katerina Maleeva to make the third round of the 1994 Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Romano
Francesca Romano (born 7 February 1971 in Rome) is a former female tennis player from Italy, who competed on the WTA Tour. She reached a career-high ranking of #77 in August 1990 and reached the second round of the 1991 Australian Open The 1991 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 79th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 14 through 27 January 1991. Seniors Men's .... ITF finals Singles (3–2) Doubles (2–1) External links * * 1971 births Italian female tennis players Living people Tennis players from Rome Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Nowak
Katarzyna Nowak (born 13 January 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Poland. Biography Professional tour Nowak, who comes from Łódź, turned professional at the age of 19. On the WTA Tour, her best performance was a semifinal appearance at the 1995 Barcelona Open. Soon after, she beat Kimberly Po and Meredith McGrath to make the third round of the 1995 French Open, then months later reached her career-high ranking of 47 in the world. Representative Nowak first played for the Poland Fed Cup team in 1988 in Melbourne, were Poland played against Italy and lost 1–2. The only one point won Katarzyna Nowak who beat Laura Garrone. She won a total of nine singles matches in the Fed Cup, the most famous of which came in 1991, over Nathalie Tauziat in Nottingham, to help Poland eliminate sixth seeded France from the tournament. The best result came in 1992 when Poland achieved quarterfinal of Fed Cup which is the best results in Polish tennis history. Poland beat Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Hofmann
Christiane Hofmann (born 12 December 1968) is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Munich, Hofmann reached a best singles ranking of 170 in the world on the professional tour, winning two ITF titles. She played in the qualifying draws of the French Open, at Wimbledon and the US Open. Hofmann never made it past the first round of a WTA Tour singles tournament, but was a doubles semifinalist at Palermo in 1990, partnering Venezuelan's María Vento Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, .... ITF finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles: 1 (0–1) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hofmann, Christiane 1968 births Living people West German female tennis players German female tennis players Tennis players from Munich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Players At The 1992 Summer Olympics
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
