Ada Bakker (born 8 April 1948) is a former Dutch female tennis player who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. During her career Bakker played in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, namely the

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and the US Open. Her most successful Grand Slam was Wimbledon where she reached the third round of the singles event in

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

, and

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

. Her best doubles result was reaching the quarterfinal of the

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. She competed in the

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in Tokyo and won the women's doubles gold medal with

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. She also reached the final of the singles event which she lost to

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. In 1969 and 1974 Bakker was a member of the Dutch

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team which reached the semifinals on both occasions. In total she played seven Federation Cup matches, all of them in doubles, of which she won five.

Career finals

Doubles (2 runner-ups)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakker, Ada 1948 births Living people Dutch female tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Place of birth missing (living people) Universiade gold medalists for the Netherlands Universiade silver medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade 20th-century Dutch women 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch women