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WTA Tennis Legends - Timeline | Facebook  Fan page of the biggest Legends of Women's Tennis ... In March 1997, she became the youngest top ranked player in history when she replaced the injured Steffi Graf. She held the No.1 ranking for 209 non-consecutive weeks in singles (fourth ..... been a calming influence in the team and we will all miss having her around.
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'Swiss Miss' Martina Hingis, now 34, wins French Open doubles ...  May 27, 2015 ... Hingis and Sania Mirza, the first woman from India to rank No. 1 in singles or doubles, are the top-seeded pairing at Roland Garros and made a ... when she was 16 and nicknamed ''Swiss Miss,'' Hingis became the youngest major ... Hingis after winning the women's singles finals match against Venus...
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40 LOVE Moments: The Youngest No.1 - WTA  Apr 5, 2013 ... Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tennis rankings & scores - the home of women's tennis. ... the youngest player ever to win a Grand Slam title in the juniors; and in 1996 ... Hingis officially ascended to No.1 on Monday, March 31, 1997, ... 1997 season was an historic one in many ways for the Swiss Miss.
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Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980), Swiss tennis player ...  Jul 11, 2015 ... Martina Hingis is a Swiss professional tennis player who became the youngest ... era to win a Grand Slam singles title and the youngest to be ranked world number one. ... Martina Molitor Hingis (Swiss Miss, Chucky, Wingis) ... Martina Hingis was ranked #1 in the world in women's singles in 1997, 1998 and...
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Martina Hingis - Wikipedia  Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in doubles by the WTA. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. .... In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed World No. 1 ... In March, she became the youngest top ranked player in history. In July...
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Steffi Graf facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  German tennis player ... Growing up, Graf was not one to be consumed by leisure activities. ... she won 24 straight matches, quickly moving up to the number three ranking in the world. .... Holds spot for 186 weeks until October 3, 1991 .... She is one of only five players in the history of the game to win tennis' Grand Slam.
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Martina Hingis | Swiss tennis player | Britannica.com  Swiss professional tennis player who became the youngest person in the open ... Hingis, who was named for the legendary tennis player Martina Navratilova, was ... At 12 she became the youngest-ever Grand Slam junior titlist when she won the ... Soon after her pro debut, the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) instituted...
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Steffi Graf facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  1969-. German tennis player. When she attained the number one ranking with the ... Graf also became one of only five players in the history of the game to win tennis' Grand Slam, ... Steffi Graf was born Stephanie Maria Graf on June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, ... And indeed, it looked that way at first, as Graf lost the first set 7-5.
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MONICA SELES - Oldrich Kyn  When she was six years old, her father introduced her to tennis. ... At the age of eight, she won a major European tournament for players twelve and under, ... and became the youngest woman to be named Yugoslavia's Sportswoman of the Year. In 1985, while playing in a tournament in Florida, Seles caught the eye of Nick...
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Steffi Graf | The German Way & More  She would later become the world's number one female tennis player. ... the Women's Tennis Association for a record 377 weeks (186 consecutive). ... Graf reigned over women's tennis for 13 years, breaking many old records in the process. When she retired from professional tennis in 1999 she was still ranked world No. 3.
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Melanie Oudin - Wikipedia  Melanie Oudin (born September 23, 1991) is an American tennis player and former world junior no. 2. She was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and ... She became the youngest woman since Serena Williams in 1999 to reach the quarter-finals at the US Open, and the youngest since Maria...
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Sports - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Martina Navratilova 1956, From 1982-87, she held the top rank in tennis for all but 22 weeks of a 270-week stretch. Capriotti, jennifer. Monica Seles.
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Stefanie Graf Recent Player Class of 2004 - International Tennis ...  The German also placed a stranglehold on the world No. 1 ranking for 377 cumulative weeks, the longest reign of any male or female player in history. For a women's record 186 consecutive weeks  from August 17, 1987 to March 10, ... Only four other players in history had achieved a calendar year Grand Slam (Maureen...
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Belinda Bencic - Wikipedia  Belinda Bencic (born 10 March 1997) is a Swiss tennis player, currently ranked world No. 26. ... She reached the semifinals, defeating top junior players including Indy de Vroome and Sachia .... for the second year running, was defeated in the final, losing in straight sets to the Czech pairing ...... Retrieved 19 December 2013.
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Jennifer Capriati facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Jennifer Capriati took the tennis world by storm in 1990 when she became the ... major tournaments and the youngest ever player to be ranked in the top ten. ... parents' divorce, a more mature Capriati returned to the tennis scene in 1996 at ... In 1991 she began to beat the top players on the women's tour, including tennis...
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Today in History March 22  1894 Mar 22, Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played; the ..... 1978 Mar 22, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying .... at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest women's world figure skating champion. ... 1997 Mar 22, In France Etienne Bacrat, the Mozart of Chess," became a...
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Interview with Ivan Lendl: Article added #73 and #74 - Page 8 ...  At 15, the Czechoslovak Tennis Federation sent him to Florida for six weeks of .... He preferred women who were very young, very pretty and very unlikely to .... Last year, Lendl refused to play Davis Cup singles against West Germany ..... His mother, Olga, had once been the second-ranked female player in the country.
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ATP Rankings History - No. 1 Players - Tennis X  1 ranked players and the detailed history of the No. 1 ranking on the ATP computer. ... ATP TENNIS RANKINGS HISTORY - The No. 1 Players ... 1978, Jimmy Connors. 1979, Bjorn Borg ... July 29, 1974, Jimmy Connors (3), 160. Aug. 23, 1977...
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St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), March 23, 1997 | Online Research ...  Mar 23, 1997 ... For Amy Everitt, the biggest and best party she has ever known was at San Francisco's ... WORLDCHESS TOURNAMENT14-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Grand Master Fourteen-year-old Etienne Bacrat of France beat ... Saturday to become the youngest chess grand master in the history of the game.
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Roger Federer junior years - Wikipedia  Swiss tennis player Roger Federer's main accomplishments as a junior player came at Wimbledon, where, in 1998, he won both the singles ... was almost four years old when Boris Becker, his childhood idol, won his first Wimbledon title in 1985. ... We began giving him private lessons that were partly funded by the club.
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ESPN Classic - Graf, queen of the lawn - ESPN.com  In 1982, Steffi Graf, a 13-year-old German and the youngest phenom to turn ... solely with her forehand, which Chris Evert called "the best in women's tennis." Later ... When she retired in 1999, she had won 22 majors, second only to Margaret Court's 24. ... She spent a record 377 weeks at No. 1. Soon after retiring she made...