Jill Hetherington-Hultquist (born October 27, 1964) is a Canadian former professional

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player. She played college tennis for the

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, and was women's tennis

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at the

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until May 2014.

College career

Born in

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, Hetherington attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team from 1984 to 1987. While playing for the Gators, she won four straight

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(SEC) singles championships, three as the team's No. 2 singles player, and once as the No. 1 singles player. She also won three consecutive SEC doubles championships from 1985 to 1987. Hultquist was recognized as a four-time first-team All-SEC selection and received four

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honors. She was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1999.F Club, Hall of Fame
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Professional career

After turning professional, she won one singles title and fourteen doubles titles on the

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during her career. Her best Grand Slam results were reaching the women's doubles final at the 1988 US Open and the

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, and the mixed doubles final at the

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Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 runner-ups

Mixed doubles: 1 runner-up

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 title

Doubles: 34 (14 titles, 20 runner-ups)

ITF finals

Singles (1–0)

Doubles (6–1)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hetherington, Jill 1964 births Living people Canadian female tennis players Florida Gators women's tennis players Canadian expatriate tennis players in the United States Olympic tennis players for Canada Sportspeople from Brampton Racket sportspeople from Ontario Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games gold medalists for Canada Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade 20th-century Canadian sportswomen