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  Former Wimbledon champion Martinez retires - Boston.com
Conchita Martinez, the only Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title, announced her retirement on Saturday.
Conchita Martinez of Spain waves to the spectators at the Zurich Open WTA tournament in Zurich October 19, 2005.
Martinez won 33 singles titles after turning professional in 1988, her last victory coming in 2005 when she won at Pattaya City in Thailand.
www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/tennis/articles/2006/04/15/conchita_martinez_announces_retirement   (419 words)

  
 Tennis Hall of Shame: Conchita Martinez reitres
That Wimbledon final and the semifinal before it were the only times I can really remember seeing Martinez emotional in her long career: the one time where she let her competitive desires really show, perhaps because it was the time she really felt she had a chance at a great prize.
In recent years, Martinez's game has looked more and more at odds with the prevailing trends: heavy spin in an age of power hitting; one-handed backhand, and the player often stationed far behind the baseline.
Martinez never even looked particularly fit compared to the others (the Daily Telegraph a few years ago described the modern female tennis player as having "muscles on her muscles".
www.pelicancrossing.net /thos/2006/04/conchita_martinez_reitres.html   (397 words)

  
 Conchita Martínez anunció su retirada : Las lesiones pudieron con la española - Tenis
Conchita Martínez anunció su retiro del tenis en Valencia.
Conchita Martínez, que siempre ha vivido a la sombra de la mejor tenista española de la historia, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, ha ganado sin embargo más títulos individuales que esta última aunque no pudo igualar sus éxitos en torneos de Grand Slam.
Conchita, que el domingo cumplirá 34 años, seguiría así la estela de Sánchez Vicario, quien tras su retirada a finales de 2002 volvió a las pistas para jugar en dobles en Atenas-2004, donde cayó en primera ronda.
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 Conchita Martínez: "Puedo dar guerra"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
La aragonesa Conchita Martínez afirmó hoy, tras deshacerse en Wimbledon de la ucraniana Katerina Bondarenko por 6-1 y 7-6 (4) y clasificarse para la segunda ronda, que todavía puede dar guerra.
Conchita reconoció que este año en Wimbledon había tenido "muchísima suerte" con el sorteo y rememoró también aquella final de 1994 que le llevó a alzarse con este trofeo al vencer a la estadounidense Martina Navratilova.
Conchita recordó que jugar en hierba le resulta "más complicado" que la tierra.
www.deportes.com /internaCont_idc_34927_id_cat_129.html   (400 words)

  
 Avanza Conchita Martínez en Toronto :: Otros Deportes :: esmas
Avanza Conchita Martínez en Toronto :: Otros Deportes :: esmas
Conchita tuvo que sudar hasta la última bola para imponerse 6-1, 6-7 (1) y 7-5.
Conchita había perdido la frescura del principio de partido y se mostraba incapaz de romper el saque a la alemana.
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Joining Martinez at the Cup is this year's Australian Open champion Lindsay Davenport, the reigning U.S. Open Champion Serena Williams and 1999 Family Circle Cup finalist Anna Kournikova.
Kournikova would later go on to say that she was still stiff in the first set referring to a stomach and thigh pull injury, which has affected her play all week.
Conchita Martinez (who is a San Diego resident) felt like the underdog as the crowd cheered and jeered in support of Anna, who took the second set 6-2 when she finally converted on her third set point.
www.lycos.com /info/conchita-martinez--anna-kournikova.html   (268 words)

  
 Conchita Martinez - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
Conchita won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in doubles.
Conchita probably would have liked to win gold, but she hasn't achieved it so far.
Conchita was born on the 16th of April 1972 in Monzon (Spain).
www.funtrivia.com /en/Sports/Conchita-Martinez-5298.html   (467 words)

  
 ESPN.com - TENNIS - DeSimone: Conchita Martinez stood the test of time
Martinez's year-end ranking was inside the top 40 in all but one of her 18 seasons on the women's tour, and she maintained a year-end top 10 ranking from 1991-96.
Martinez had a winning record against Martina Navratilova (4-1), most famously, of course, defeating her in the 1994 Wimbledon final to carve up the stereotype that Spanish players couldn't win on grass.
Yet Martinez persevered through 2005 to win her first tournament in five years and finished the season at No. 32 -- still the highest-ranked singles player in her country.
sports.espn.go.com /sports/tennis/news/story?id=2536220   (900 words)

  
 Conchita Martinez
conchita martinez • nathalie tauziat • martina hingis • lindsay davenport • venus williams
Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, Conchita Martinez and Jennifer Capriati are the last four to fight for the Australian Open championship, the first Grand Slam of the new millenium
Conchita Martinez proved she is still one of the best on clay by winning in Sopot.
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 USATODAY.com - Conchita Martinez retires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Martinez, who won Wimbledon in 1994 when she defeated nine-time winner Martina Navratilova, won 33 singles titles and 13 doubles titles in her career.
In 2005, Martinez won her first singles tournament in five years in Thailand.
Conchita Martinez hoists her 1994 Wimbledon championship plate after defeating Martina Navratilova.
www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/2006-04-15-martinez-retires_x.htm   (297 words)

  
 Conchita Martinez News
Conchita Martinez News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Conchita Martinez will receive a celebratory send-off in San Diego next month.
Conchita Martinez was never a marketing darling, but it's a less rich sport without her.
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 Conchita Martínez - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
Conchita Martínez - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
Conchita Martínez (1972- ), jugadora española de tenis, ganadora de una edición del Torneo de Wimbledon (1994), de cinco títulos de la...
Conchita Piquer (1908-1990), cantante y actriz española, mito y leyenda de la copla, la tonadilla y las canciones andaluzas y españolas.
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 Conchita Martinez Announces Retirement - Sports
Valencia, Spain -- (Sports Network) - Conchita Martinez, one of the greatest Spanish women's tennis players of all-time, announced her retirement from singles play Saturday after 18 years on the WTA Tour.
However, what's most remembered is that '94 Wimbledon crown, when Martinez won four straight three-set matches in the last four rounds, culminating with a victory over former nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova in the title match.
Martinez was ranked in the top 50 or higher at the end of each one of her 18 seasons.
www.kirotv.com /sports/8721948/detail.html   (406 words)

  
 Conchita Martínez - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Conchita Martínez (nacida el 16 de abril de 1972 en Monzón, Huesca) es una tenista aragonesa.
En el año 1994, Conchita Martínez se convertiría en la única tenista española en ganar el torneo más prestigioso del panorama tenístico, Wimbledon, derrotando a Martina Navratilova en la final.
Conchita Martínez ha competido con España tanto en los Juegos Olímpicos como en la Copa Federación, consiguiendo cinco Copas Federación y tres medallas olímpicas.
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One day, Martinez will be stepping away from the game that has been her life since she turned professional in her native Spain at age 15.
Conchita Martinez [D]efeated France's Emilie Loit 6-1, 6-2, but the score is a poor measure of how the encounter was waged.
Conchita Martםnez Bernat, Aragon's best ever sportswoman (maybe except Sheila Herrero), was born in Monzףn, a small village in the province of Huesca (northern Spain), on April the 16th 1972.
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 BBC SPORT | Tennis | Martinez says it's time to stop
Martinez, the only Spanish woman to win a Wimbledon singles title, also reached the final at the Australian Open in 1998 and the French Open in 2000.
A clay-court specialist whose only Grand Slam title ironically came on grass, Martinez was ever-present in the world's top 10 between 1989 and 1998, reaching number two in 1995.
Martinez, who has been struggling with tendonitis in her left foot recently, said she may still play doubles.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/sport2/hi/tennis/4911978.stm   (300 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - Your expert source for Former Wimbledon champion Conchita Martinez retires
The 34-year-old said a left heel injury was one of the main reasons she retired.
Martinez, a finalist at the 1998 Australian and the 2000 French Open, won the Federation Cup with Spain in 1991, '93, '94, '95 and '98.
She also won three Olympic medals -- silver in doubles at Barcelona in 1992 and Athens in 2004 and bronze in singles at Atlanta in 1996.
www.sportingnews.com /tennis/articles/20060415/729619-p.html   (273 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sport / Tennis : Conchita Martinez in final
Conchita Martinez advanced to the WTA Volvo women's Open final on Saturday after Thailand's tropical heat proved too much for Russia's Evgenia Linetskaya.
Martinez created a variety of shots to counter the powerful groundstrokes from her 18-year-old opponent, forcing a string of unforced errors.
With Martinez leading 1-0 in the second set, Linetskaya called for a trainer and went back to a locker room for a treatment.
www.hindu.com /2005/02/06/stories/2005020603151500.htm   (481 words)

  
 Clasifica Conchita Martínez :: Otros Deportes :: esmas.com
DUBAI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, feb. 27, 2004.- La española Conchita Martínez y la eslovaca Janette Husarova disputarán este sábado la final de dobles contra las rusas Svetlana Kuznetsova y Elena Lijovtseva del torneo de tenis Dubai, puntuable para la WTA y dotado con 585 mil dólares en premios.
Martínez y Husarova alcanzaron esta final tras ganar contundentemente en dos sets a la pareja formada por la norteamericana Meghann Shaughnessy y la italiana Roberta Vinci, con un resultado final de 6-1 y 6-3.
Conchita Martínez/Janette Husarova (ESP-SVK, 4) a Meghann Shaughnessy/Roberta Vinci (USA-ITA) por 6-1 y 6-3.
www.esmas.com /deportes/otrosdeportes/346528.html   (208 words)

  
 Conchita Martinez reaches semifinals
 The victory earned Martinez a semifinal meeting Saturday with top-seeded Martina Hingis of Switzerland, who battled to a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win over eighth-seeded Sandrine Testud of France.
 Martinez and Kremer each broke the other's service three times in the second set.
 Martinez, 28, has also sneaked back to No. 6 in world rankings this year after two weak seasons.
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 Conchita Martinez Quizzes and Conchita Martinez Trivia -- FunTrivia
* Conchita was born on the 16th of April 1972 in Monzon (Spain).
* Conchita holds a record of winning a clay court tournament four consecutive times.
* Conchita won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in doubles.
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 Conchita Martinez retires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Conchita was one of my all time favorites.
Conchita had a very tough slice serve that was hard to attack and loved a
Conchita had regular success on all surfaces (except carpet perhaps),
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 Conchita Martinez Tennis Player
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Tennis Conchita Martinez - CBS SportsLine.com Tennis Sports News - player photo, Conchita Martinez - Martinez claimed her 33rd career title and the first in more than four years at the Volvo Women's -
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 [ETIENNE HEAVEN] Saint Etienne songs: Conchita Martinez
Conchita, I know, / I know it should have been.
Conchita Matinez is of course a Spanish tennis star.
However, apparently the band didn't know where they'd heard the name when they wrote the song.
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 Sports: Conchita Martinez Retires From Tennis - The Post Chronicle
VALENCIA, Spain - April 15, 2006 (UPI) -- Former Wimbledon women's champion Conchita Martinez of Spain announced her retirement Saturday.
She is the only woman from her country ever to win a grand slam tournament.
Martinez, who beat Martina Navratilova to take the Wimbledon crown in 1994, won 33 singles titles during 18 years on the WTA Tour.
www.postchronicle.com /news/sports/article_21214681.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Tennisrulz.com provides photos, news and more about Conchita Martinez
ctober 27th 2005: Conchita fought hard but got injured and was unable to finish her match, she lost to Daniela Hantuchova 2-6, 6-0, 3-1...
ctober 26th 2005: Conchita is playing in Linz this week, she won her opening match 6-1, 6-1 against Marion Bartoli to set up a match against Daniela Hantuchova.
ugust 30th 2005: Conchita's tournament ended today at the US Open as she suffered a 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 against Patty Schnyder...
www.tennisrulz.com /players/martinez   (404 words)

  
 Conchita Martinez Bio, Articles, News
In doubles with Conchita Martinez, the duo had an 18-3 record, including a three set victory over Gigi Fernandez and Zina Garrison to lead Spain to their...
However, Foretz has had some success in the past beating Conchita Martinez and Monica Seles back-to-back in 2002 at Charleston.
This website is an independently operated source of news and information and is not affiliated with any professional organization.
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 Conchita Martinez interview - Amélie Mauresmo Interactive
Conchita Martinez interview, "I'm one of those players facing extinction"
on a Spanish newspaper " El Periodico", Conchita Martinez had to say this" Soy una de esas tenistas en vias de extiincion":
I've always liked Conchita, but now I like her even more
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 Conchita Martinez, Conchita Martinez Directory, link directory, wallpapers, images, photos, links
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