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Reginald Doherty, four-time Olympic medalist Venus Williams, five-time Olympic medalist. Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.
Ranked world No. 2 at the end of the year in 1995 • 1994 Wimbledon champion • 1992/2004 Olympic silver medalist in women's doubles • 1996 Olympic bronze medalist in women's doubles María José Martínez Sánchez: Spain: 1982: Ranked world No. 19 in singles and world No. 4 in doubles in 2010 Helga Niessen Masthoff: West Germany: 1941
Zheng Qinwen (Chinese: 郑钦文; pinyin: Zhèng Qīnwén; IPA: [ʈʂə̂ŋ tɕʰínwə̌n]; born 8 October 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating world No. 1 Iga Swiatek en route to becoming the first Asian tennis player to win an Olympic gold in singles.
These athletes' shining moments wouldn't be complete without the colorful, innovative, and sometimes sparkly outfits that went with them.
The post Photos: 2 Winter Olympic Athletes Posed For Playboy appeared first on The Spun. Olympians Lisa Buckwitz and Janine Flock reportedly both posed nude for the Germany issue of Playboy prior ...
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) [1] is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, [a] she was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks (third-most of all time), and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open , and qualified as ...
Of course, Courtney was loving all the attention and clearly didn't care about her apparent fashion faux pas. With 2017 halfway over, we're only expecting more wardrobe malfunctions to come.