In 1999, her win at the ITF tournament in Dubai, gave her ‘ feed up ’ direct entry into her first-ever singles Tour event at Estoril, where she became the fourth player ever to win her Tour debut event by defeating Kuti Kis in the final.

They reached their biggest doubles final of their career in Toronto at the Canadian Open by defeating Martina Navratilova / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the semifinal, and they also became doubles runner-up at Estoril.

The sunny Estoril was a popular venue among the drivers and qualifying saw a bit of a role reversal with the top teams ' second drivers beating the championship contenders with Riccardo Patrese on pole alongside Gerhard Berger, with Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell third and fourth respectively.

The Estoril Grand Prix was held as a European Formula Two Championship event during the 1970s.

Hill arrived at the event with the psychological advantage of having set the fastest time at the final pre-season testing session at the Autódromo do Estoril, 0. 35 seconds faster than Schumacher's best around the circuit.

The Estoril Open, held at the Estoril Court Central, is a professional tennis tournament that hosts both an ATP ( men's ) and WTA ( women's ) event.

The event is held in Oeiras but is nominally located in the nearby resort of Estoril by the sport's governing bodies.

On September 3, 2000, the Autódromo do Estoril held its first Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, an event held annually.

However, as the second seed, she reached the final of a Tier IV event at Estoril, where she defeated Iveta Benešová in straight sets.

His championship win came in Estoril, when he had to start in eleventh place on the grid, while Prost qualified on the front row.

Muster reached his last top-level tournament final in Estoril ( on clay ) in 1998.

Since 1989, Rita is a regular feature on the shows of Casino do Estoril.

Estoril was then considered an unsafe and outdated track, and the last Portuguese Grand Prix was in Estoril on 22 September 1996, with Jacques Villeneuve as the winner.

* July 20 – One of the four leaders of the Nationalist uprising in Spain, General José Sanjurjo y Sacanell, dies in the crash on takeoff at Estoril, Portugal, of a light plane piloted by Juan Antonio Ansaldo while attempting to fly to Spain.

Schumacher went on to win at Spa in and again at Estoril in before claiming the World Drivers ' Championship in and.

Safina made her debut in the main draw of a WTA Tour tournament in May 2002, on clay at Estoril, where she lost in the semifinals.

Unusually, many corners are modelled on famous turns from other circuits, and are named after those circuits, e. g. the fast Estoril corner and the Adelaide hairpin.

The 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Estoril on October 21, 1984.

The 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held in Estoril on April 21, 1985.

The 1986 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Estoril on September 21, 1986.

The 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Estoril on September 20, 1987.

The 1988 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on September 25, 1988 at the Autódromo do Estoril, Estoril.

The 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix ( formally the XXIII Grande Premio de Portugal ) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal on September 24, 1989.

The 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 23 September 1990 at Autódromo do Estoril.

The 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at the Autódromo do Estoril on September 22, 1991.

The 1992 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Autódromo do Estoril on September 27, 1992.

The 1993 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Estoril on September 26, 1993.

Two major news stories broke as the teams descended on Estoril, Prost announcing his retirement at the end of the season and Andretti being fired from McLaren after a poor season ( his podium place in Italy notwithstanding ) and being replaced by Häkkinen.

The 1994 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on September 25, 1994 at the Autódromo do Estoril, Estoril.

He was lapped by the leaders after just seven laps of the race, and after fourteen he retired from the race with cramp in his left arm-but this drew paddock wide criticism as Estoril is a clockwise circuit, which requires more work from the right arm, and English F1 journalist Nigel Roebuck made scathing comments about Délétraz's performance in the race.

Estoril was dropped from the F1 calendar for the 1997 season, though it continued to play host to top-level single-seater, sports car and touring car events, including the FIA GT Championship, the DTM and the World Series by Renault.

The territory of Estoril has been occupied for centuries, owing to its climatic conditions and favourable environment.

Other medium sized family companies specialized in textiles ( for instance those located in the city of Covilhã and the northwest ), ceramics, porcelain, glass and crystal ( like those of Alcobaça, Caldas da Raínha and Marinha Grande ), engineered wood ( like SONAE near Porto ), canned fish ( like those of Algarve and the northwest ), fishing, food and beverages ( alcoholic beverages, from liqueurs like Licor Beirão and Ginjinha, to beer like Sagres, were produced across the entire country, but Port Wine was one of its most reputed and exported alcoholic beverages ), tourism ( well established in Estoril / Cascais / Sintra and growing as an international attraction in the Algarve since the 1960s ) and in agriculture ( like the ones scattered around the Alentejo-known as the breadbasket of Portugal ) completed the panorama of the national economy by the early 1970s.

On 17 January 2008, Schumacher participated in a test for the Mercedes Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters ( DTM ) team at Estoril Circuit in Portugal.

Early in February Schumacher participated in a second test for the Mercedes team at Estoril.

At Estoril for the Portuguese Grand Prix Berger dominated the race from pole position before spinning in the latter stages to finish second after pressure from Alain Prost.

Berger also scored two pole positions in 1994, the first at Hockenheim and then at Estoril for the 1994 Portuguese Grand Prix where he retired from while leading.

The seeds for the return of the Portuguese Grand Prix were planted with the inauguration of the Autódromo do Estoril in 1972.

In May, Nalbandian won the Estoril Open Tournament in Portugal for the second time, being one of only three men to achieve this accomplishment ( Carlos Costa, 1992 and 1994 ; and Thomas Muster, 1995 and 1996 ).

Another important step in the touristic development of the area was given in the first half of the 20th century in neighbouring Estoril, in which a casino was built and the infrastructure for luxury vacations was created around Monte Estoril.

The European Le Mans Series was launched for 2001 with five races, including a premier 1000 km race at Estoril, which would be the European equivalent of the 1000 mile Petit Le Mans and earn automatic entries to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for each class winner.

The highlight of the season was a podium finish in a support race for the Portuguese Grand Prix held at Estoril.

Former 500 cc race winner Garry McCoy was confirmed as the rider for the Michelin-shod bike in its 2006 appearances, scoring points both in the 2006 Portuguese Grand Prix at the Autódromo do Estoril and the 2006 Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana, becoming the first rider to score points on an 800cc MotoGP machine.

After the marriage of Simeon II to the Spanish noblewoman Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela ( a distant relative of the present Spanish King's late brother-in-law ) in 1962, Tsaritsa Ioanna moved to Estoril, Portugal, where she lived for the rest of her life, excepting a brief return to Bulgaria in 1993 when she visited Boris's grave.

Many teams were fond of using Estoril for winter testing.

During his career he has also played for Noja, Mallorca B, Estoril, Gramenet, Fundación Logroñés, Mirandés, Alfaro and Tudelano.

At the end of 2005, Speed drove the first three races of the new A1 Grand Prix series for A1 Team USA, achieving a best result of fourth in the Feature Race of the 2005 – 06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal, held at the Autódromo do Estoril.

As a sports club, Estoril Praia has departments for football, futsal and basketball.

Estoril played in the division for 22 years before gaining promotion to the top flight again.

During his time he helped the club establish themselves as a Primeira Liga club up until the 1993 – 94 season where he left the club for Estrela da Amadora and Estoril in that very season were relegated to the second tier.

Former Portugal national football team | Portuguese international footballer Pauleta played for Estoril between 1995 and 1996.

It was expected that Biaggi would be one of the main candidates for the title in 2004, but a crash in Estoril saw his season begin to fade.