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Pages in category "Tennis players from Los Angeles County, California" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1996 Acura Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, California in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1996 WTA Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from August 12 through August 18, 1996.
She was ranked as high as #7 in singles [8] in US junior tennis competition and #4 in doubles, [9] which she often played with her elder sister, Linda Lou, as her partner. [ 8 ] She graduated in 1968 from the University of Southern California with a degree in psychology , [ 3 ] although she originally was pre-med .
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 98 weeks (including as the year-end No. 1 four times), and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 32 weeks. [3]
Born and raised in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Riggs was one of six children of Agnes (Jones) and Gideon Wright Riggs, a minister. [9] He was an excellent table tennis player as a boy and when he began playing tennis at age twelve, [1] he was quickly befriended and then coached by Esther Bartosh, who was the third-ranking woman player in Los Angeles.
The Mexican Tennis Federation said that the players and their coach "were extorted" by what the authorities say are schemes designed to trick people into paying quick ransoms A Kids Tennis Team ...
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (Spanish pronunciation: [gaˈβɾjela saβaˈtini]; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. [1] A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles.