Mark Francis O'Meara American professional golfer

Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings from their debut in 1986 to 2000.

O'Meara was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, but grew up in southern California in Mission Viejo. He took up golf at age 13, sneaking on to the nearby Mission Viejo Country Club. O'Meara later became an employee of the club and played on his high school golf team. He was an All-American at Long Beach State, and won the U.S. Amateur in 1979, defeating John Cook. After graduating with a degree in marketing in 1980, O'Meara turned professional and would win 16 events on the PGA Tour, beginning with the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1984. He won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am five times, but he passed his 41st birthday in January 1998 without having won a major championship as a professional.

In a late finale to his PGA Tour winning career, O'Meara won two majors in 1998, The Masters and the British Open. O'Meara attributed this resurgence partly to the inspiration of working with Tiger Woods, the new superstar of the game at the time, with whom O'Meara had become good friends. the same year he won the Cisco World Match Play Championship and he reached a career best of second in the Official World Golf Rankings.

O'Meara is known for competing outside the United States more often than most leading American golfers, and has won tournaments in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. A man with a genial demeanour, he is one of the most popular figures in international golf. In the new millennium his form took a downturn and he began to struggle with injuries, but in 2004 he won an official tour event for the first time since 1998, taking the Dubai Desert Classic title, which despite being played in Asia is a European Tour event.

In 2007, O'Meara began play on the Champions Tour; he had many top-10 finishes in his first three seasons including several runner-up finishes, but no wins.

O'Meara has begun to develop a golf course design practice and enjoys fishing in his off time.

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Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova tennis player from Russia

Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova (Russian: Анастасия Олеговна Пивоварова, born June 16, 1990 in Moscow) is a professional tennis player from Russia.

Pivovarova was born in Moscow, Russia and is a right-handed player. She reached a career high of 148 in April 2009. During a successful junior career Pivovarova was ranked as high as number 2.

Anastasia Pivovarova Biography

Biography
Anastasia Pivovarova 2005 began her professional career at the ITF Tour. In only her second tournament she won the first singles title. In Moscow, she won the final against Olga Panova with 7-6 7-6.

In 2007, Pivovarova received wild cards for the WTA tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami for qualification. In Indian Wells, she beat the Italian Karin Knapp, in the second qualifying round. However, she didn't manage to reach the main draw. Also she failed at the WTA tournament in Moscow in the autumn. On the ITF Tour 2007, Pivovarova won three singles and one doubles title.

In 2008 at Indian Wells and Miami, Pivovarova drew wild cards for the main draws, but failed both in the first rounds. In the French Open, she tried in 2008 to qualify for the first time at a Grand Slam, which she managed. In the U.S. Open, she first qualified for main draw of a Grand Slam. In the first round she lost against the Swiss Patty Schnyder in just three sets. In Seoul Pivovarova managed her first victory in a WTA main draw tournament.

2009 was not a great year due to some injuries. Nevertheless Pivovarova reached the second round in Miami, where she lost to Elena Dementieva in three sets. At the U.S. Open, she failed to qualify.

Kerkhove mist hoofdschema bij rentree

ZWEVEGEM - Tennisster Lesley Kerkhove is er niet in geslaagd om bij haar rentree het hoofdtoernooi te halen van het 25.000 dollartoernooi van Zwevegem.

De achttienjarige Zierikzeese, die drie maanden uit de roulatie was vanwege een knieblessure, overleefde de kwalificaties niet.

De nummer 700 van de wereld won in de eerste ronde nog wel met 6-0 6-0 van de Belgische Lize Leenknecht, maar verloor daarna met 6-4 6-2 van de Francaise Myrtille Georges.

Het volgende toernooi van Kerkhove is in Kazachstan. Ze zal daar ook in de kwalificaties beginnen.

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Arantxa Rus Dutch female tennis player

Arantxa Rus (born 13 December 1990, in Delft, South Holland) is a Dutch female tennis player. In 2008 she won the Australian Open for juniors, defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. Because of this win she went from 35th to 2nd place on the junior tennis list. Rus was given a wildcard for the 2008 Ordina Open, where she was defeated in the first round by Mariya Koryttseva 4-6, 4-6.

Kristina Antoniychuk professional Ukrainian tennis playe

Kristina Antoniychuk, (Ukrainian: Христина Антонійчук) (born September 4, 1990) is a professional Ukrainian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 172, which she reached on February 22, 2010. Her career high in doubles is 279, which she reached on November 9, 2009.

The World Cup Explained

Here's the truth about the Argentinean hard men. Bunch of women with handbags.

In fact they're not at all as macho as they make out. Don't know why we were ever worried.

However, here's how Brazil won the World Cup. Sexy football.

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