Janine Lieffrig (born 12 April 1938) is a French former
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
Lieffrig reached the doubles final at the
1965 Wimbledon Championships and the
1965 French Championships with compatriot
Françoise Dürr. At the French, they were defeated in the final in straight sets by
Margaret Court and
Lesley Turner Bowrey, and at Wimbledon, they lost the final to
Maria Bueno
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and
Billie Jean King
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in straight sets.
From 1963 to 1968, she competed in five editions of the
Wimbledon Championships. In the singles, her best result was reaching the third round in 1968 and in the mixed doubles she reached the quarterfinals in 1963 with
Boro Jovanović
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. In 1965, she made it to the quarterfinals of the
Australian Championships partnering Dürr.
Lieffrig played for the French
Federation Cup team from 1963 to 1968 and compiled a record of 12 wins and nine losses.
She played on the seniors tour representing South Africa and became World Champion in the 70+ singles category.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
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1938 births
French female tennis players
Summer World University Games medalists in tennis
Living people
FISU World University Games silver medalists for France
Medalists at the 1959 Summer Universiade
20th-century French sportswomen