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Tomasz Wiktorowski
Tomasz Wiktorowski (born 10 January 1981) is a Polish tennis coach and commentator. He is currently coaching Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No. 1 Iga Świątek. He coached former world No. 2 Agnieszka Radwańska from 2011 to 2018. Early life Wiktorowski was born in 1981 in Warsaw. As a junior tennis player, he trained at a local tennis club in Warsaw and played briefly on the ITF Junior Circuit in 1998 and 1999. He graduated from the automotive department of the Warsaw University of Technology in 2005. Coaching career Wiktorowski has become known as one of Poland's foremost tennis minds. He began serving as captain of the Poland Billie Jean King Cup team, Polish Fed Cup team in 2009 and coached Poland's Olympic tennis contingent in Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 and Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016. He has also worked as a tennis commentator for :pl:Eurosport Polska, Eurosport Polska and TVP Sport. In mid-2011, Wiktorowski joined the team of longtime Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 US Open (tennis)
The 2023 US Open was the 143rd edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Novak Djokovic and Iga Świątek were the men's and women's singles defending champions. Świątek lost to Jeļena Ostapenko in the fourth round, while Alcaraz lost to Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals. Tournament The 2023 US Open is the 143rd consecutive edition of the tournament and will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park of Queens in New York City. The tournament is being held on 17 Laykold hard courts. The tournament is an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2023 ATP Tour and the 2023 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament will consist of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws, as both doubles draws will return to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przegląd Sportowy
''Przegląd Sportowy'' (, ''Sports Review'') is the oldest and now the only Polish sports daily, founded in 1921 in Kraków. In 1926 it initiated an annual, popular plebiscite for the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year. Its current editor-in-chief is Paweł Wołosik. History The newspaper was founded in 1921 on the initiative of Kraków sports journalists Ignacy Rosenstock, J. Billig, Aleksander Dembiński, Józef Szkolnikowski, Leon Gleissner and Tadeusz Synowiec. Rosenstock was appointed the newspaper's first editor-in-chief. On 23 July 1921, it officially became affiliated with the Polish Football Association. The newspaper's headquarters moved to Warsaw in 1925. The circulation of the newspaper is of around 50,000 copies per day (sale is about 25,000). It also has a digital presence: the website and various social accounts offer online sport news in Polish. In March 2014, they announced a cooperation with the startup Betegy, providing data-based football predictions in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom. Notable people B * Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian voice actress *Ashleigh Ball (field hockey) (born 1986), British field hockey player * Ashleigh Banfield (born 1967), Canadian-American journalist * Ashleigh Barty (born 1996), Australian tennis player *Ashleigh Baxter (born 1991), Irish rugby union footballer *Ashleigh Brazill (born 1989), Australian netball player * Ashleigh Brennan (born 1991), Australian gymnast * Ashleigh Brewer (born 1990), Australian actress * Ashleigh Brilliant (born 1933), English author * Ashleigh Buch (born 1984), American soldier *Ashleigh Buhai (born 1989), South African golfer C * Ashleigh Clare-Kearney (born 1986), American gymnast * Ashleigh Connor (1989–2011), Australian footballer * Ashleigh Cummings (born 1992), Australian actress D *Ashleigh Dallas (born 1994), Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Abramowicz
Daria Abramowicz (born 10 October 1987) is a Polish sports psychologist known for working with professional tennis player Iga Świątek. Career Abramowicz was born in the northern Polish town of Iława. She was an accomplished sailor as a junior, but a wrist fracture abruptly ended her sailing sports career at age 18. Shortly after the injury, she began unofficially to coach other sailors, before building her reputation as a prominent sports psychologist in Poland by working other athletes, including cyclists, swimmers, and chess players. At university, she studied sport and psychology, first at the in Gdańsk and then at SWPS University in Warsaw, where she graduated with a master's degree in psychology in 2016. Abramowicz has become known for working closely with Polish tennis player Iga Świątek. In February 2019, when Świątek was 17 and ranked just inside the WTA Tour's top 150, her team approached Abramowicz for mental coaching. Abramowicz traveled to Budapest to watc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Sierzputowski
Piotr Sierzputowski (Polish pronunciation: ; born 21 September 1992) is a Polish tennis coach best known for coaching the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) player Iga Świątek from 2016 to 2021. Career Born in Nowy Dwór Gdański, Sierzputowski is a former junior tennis player who took up coaching in his early teens, helping to train his younger sister, Alicja Sierzputowska, though he soon also coached other girls professionally at a local tennis club in Pomerania. While supporting his sister's career, he spent some time working in the United States with her and other players, including at the Johan Kriek Tennis Academy, before moving back to Poland to be an assistant coach at Legia Warsaw's tennis club. In mid-2016, on the back of reaching a junior French Open quarterfinal, then-15-year-old Iga Świątek began working with Sierzputowski, then 23, at Legia Warsaw. Within a couple months, Sierzputowski became her primary coach and she his only student. Świątek had a succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Iga Świątek Tennis Season
The 2022 Iga Świątek tennis season officially began on 3 January 2022 as the start of the 2022 WTA Tour. Iga Świątek entered the season as world number 9. The season saw the Polish player become the twenty-eighth world number 1 player in singles. A 37-match win streak was accumulated during the season, the longest in the twenty-first century. Season summary Early hard court season Świątek started her season at the Adelaide International in January, seeded fifth. After wins against Daria Saville, Leylah Fernandez, and Victoria Azarenka, Świątek lost to Ashleigh Barty in the semifinals. She was scheduled to play at the Sydney International, seeded sixth, and her first match was scheduled to be against Emma Raducanu, but she pulled out of the tournament due to a rib injury. Świątek entered into the Australian Open, where she was seeded seventh. She defeated qualifier Harriet Dart in the first round, Rebecca Peterson in the second round and Daria Kasatkina in the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iga Świątek (2023 US Open) 16 (cropped2)
Iga Natalia Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish 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, having held the position for a total of 125 weeks and placing her List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Total, 7th on the all-time list for number of weeks spent as No. 1. Świątek has won five major singles titles and is the only player representing Poland to win a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title. She has won the French Open four times and the US Open (tennis), US Open once. Świątek has won 22 singles titles, including the 2023 WTA Finals – Singles, 2023 WTA Finals and ten WTA 1000 titles. In 2024, she became the first Polish tennis player to win an Olympic medal, earning bronze in singles at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris Summer Olympics. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open – Girls' doubles, 2018 Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Sports
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the most significant disruption to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events have been cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. At the time, spectators had no games to watch and players no games to play. Only a few countries and territories, such as Hong Kong, Turkmenistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua, continued professional sporting matches as planned. International multi-sport events Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were scheduled to take place in Tokyo starting 24 July and 25 August respectively. Although the Japanese government had taken extra precautions to help minimize the outbreak's impact in the country, qualifying events were being canceled or postponed almost daily. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Tokyo 2020 organizing-committee chief executive Toshiro Muto voiced concerns on 5 February, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Fed Cup World Group
The World Group was the highest level of 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 chan ... competition in 2015. Draw First round Canada vs Czech Republic Italy vs France Poland vs. Russia Germany vs. Australia Semifinals Czech Republic vs. France Russia vs. Germany Final Czech Republic vs. Russia References {{2015 WTA Tour World Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Serena Williams defeated Agnieszka Radwańska in the final, 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. It was her fifth Wimbledon singles title (tying her for the third-most Wimbledon singles titles in the Open Era with her sister Venus) and her 14th major singles title overall. Radwańska became the first Pole to reach a major singles final since Jadwiga Jędrzejowska in 1939, and the first in the Open Era. Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Williams. With the losses of Maria Sharapova and Kim Clijsters in the fourth round, a first time finalist was guaranteed at the top half of the draw. Yaroslava Shvedova became the first player in the Open Era to win a 'golden set' at Wimbledon, winning the first set of her 6–0, 6–4 victory over the defending French Open runner-up and 10th seed Sara Errani in the third round without dropping a single point. Sabine Lisicki defeated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Radwanska (17188863333)
Agnieszka is the Polish equivalent of the female given name Agnes (name). Notable people with this name include: *Agnieszka Arnold, Polish documentary filmmaker *Agnieszka Baranowska (1819–1890), Polish playwright and poet *Agnieszka Bednarek (born 1986), international Polish volleyball player *Agnieszka Brustman (born 1962), female Polish chess master *Agnieszka Brzezańska (born 1972), artist based in Warsaw *Agnieszka Brugger (born 1985), German politician *Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), Polish rock singer and columnist *Agnieszka Domańska (born 1970), Polish ice dancer * Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka (1919–1940), Polish WWII resistance fighter *Agnieszka Duczmal (born 1946), Polish conductor *Agnieszka Dulej (born 1983), Polish ice dancer *Agnieszka Dygant (born 1973), Polish actress *Agnieszka Graff (born 1970), Polish writer, translator, publicist, feminist and activist *Agnieszka Holland (born 1948), Polish film and TV director and screenwriter *Agnieszka Karpiesiuk (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
