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1981 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for women's singles at the 1981 Australian Open. Seeds Qualifiers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier Fifth qualifier Sixth qualifier Seventh qualifier Eighth qualifier External links 1981 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 nat ... {{DEFAULTSORT:1981 Australian Open - Women's Singles Qualifying Women's Singles Qualifying Australian Open (tennis) by year – Qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Australian Open
The 1981 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Victoria (state), Victoria in Australia. It was the 70th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 30 November through 6 December 1981 for the women and from 24 December 1981 through 3 January 1982 for the men. Seniors Men's singles Johan Kriek defeated Steve Denton, 6–2, 7–6(7–1), 6–7(1–7), 6–4 :• It was Kriek's 1st career Grand Slam singles title. Women's singles Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–5 :• It was Navratilova's 3rd career Grand Slam singles title and her 1st title at the Australian Open. Men's doubles Mark Edmondson / Kim Warwick defeated Hank Pfister / John Sadri 6–3, 6–7, 6–3 :• It was Edmondson's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and his 2nd title at the Australian Open. :• It was Warwick's 3rd career Grand Slam doubles title and his 3rd and last title at the Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Cassell
Linda Cassell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Tennis career Cassell was trained in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport but grew up in Brisbane, where she attended Lourdes Hill College. She was a girls' doubles champion at the 1979 Australian Open (with Susan Leo). In 1980 she had her best Australian Open performance, reaching the women's singles second round and doubles quarter-finals. The following year she won two singles qualifying matches at Wimbledon, before falling in the final round. Religious sisterhood Cassell is now a Catholic nun, having joined the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 2007. She made her perpetual profession in St Scholastica' College chapel at Glebe Point, Sydney. Cassell attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane, a secondary school established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. She has worked as a counsellor at Bede Polding College Bede Polding College is an independent Roman Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Smylie
Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also won three singles titles and 36 doubles titles on the tour. Liz also taught junior tennis players at Smith's Tennis Center, North Curl Curl. Sydney in the early 1990s. Career Smylie turned professional in 1982. She won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1985 with Kathy Jordan. In mixed doubles, she teamed with John Fitzgerald to win the 1983 US Open and 1991 Wimbledon titles and with Todd Woodbridge to win the 1990 US Open. She won the Virginia Slims Championships with Jordan in 1990. Her best Grand Slam performance in singles came at the Australian Open in 1987, when she reached the quarterfinals. Her highest ever singles ranking was world No. 20 and her highest in doubles was world No. 5. She played Federation Cup from 1984 to 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Amiach
Sophie Amiach (born 10 November 1963 in Paris) is a former professional tennis player from France who played on the WTA Tour from 1980 to 1995.40-Love , Sophie Amiach's professional site Currently, she provides commentary on professional tennis in both English and French for different networks throughout the world. Sophie also covered the 2016 Wimbledon final between and for . Career Born in Paris, Sophie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gordon (tennis)
Elizabeth Gordon Ford (born 16 May 1957) is a South African former professional tennis player. Gordon featured twice in the singles second round at Wimbledon and won a WTA Tour doubles title in 1982 at the German Open (with Beverly Mould). She is married to cricket coach Graham Ford Graham Xavier Ford (born 16 November 1960) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer. Formerly the head coach of the Sri Lankan national cricket team, he was also the head coach of the Ireland cricket team. A right-handed batsman, h .... WTA Tour finals Doubles (1–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Liz 1957 births Living people South African female tennis players Sportspeople from Pietermaritzburg Tennis players from KwaZulu-Natal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Whytcross
Pam Whytcross (born 25 November 1953) is a former professional tennis player and current tennis official from Australia. Playing internationally from 1973 to 1996, Whytcross won 3 WTA doubles titles and was runner-up with Naoko Satō at the 1978 Australian Open. In singles, she achieved her best Grand Slam result at Roland Garros in 1977, where she reached the third round. Whytcross reached a career-high singles ranking of 75 and ranked among the Top 30 in doubles. Career Whytcross began competing in tournaments in 1970 and was also one of the original members of the WTA, which was formed in 1973. She reached her first WTA doubles final in Sydney in January 1974 but had to wait four years before reaching her second at Mahwah, New Jersey in 1978 with partner Barbara Potter.. Also in 1978, she achieved her best Grand Slam result, advancing to the final of the Australian Open in 1978 with partner Naoko Satō, where they lost to Betsy Nagelsen and Renáta Tomanová. Whytcros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Chesterton
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Sharon Hodgkin
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Brenda Perry
Brenda Perry (born 4 October 1957) is a New Zealand former professional tennis player. Biography While competing on tour, Perry attained the top New Zealand ranking and represented her country in six Federation Cup ties, between 1978 and 1980. She registered Federation Cup wins over Wendy Barlow, Lee Duk-hee and Alejandra Vallejo. One of her losses came against Chris Evert in Berlin in 1980, where she had to forfeit to the American in the second set due to an ankle injury. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament was a third round appearance in women's doubles at the 1979 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Wendy Gilchrist. In the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, Perry was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women's tennis. In 2019, she was named the tournament co-director of the Wuhan Open The Wuhan Open (currently sponsored by Dongfeng Voyah) is a WTA 1000 tennis tournament held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Gordon (tennis)
Lucy Gordon is an American former professional tennis player. A native of Coronado, California, Gordon played collegiate tennis for the UCLA Bruins. She won the doubles title at the U.S. national amateur clay court championships in 1979 (with Sheila McInerney). Gordon made the 1981 US Open singles main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying and was beaten in the first round by Renee Blount. The following year she and partner Patrizia Murgo Patrizia Murgo (born 26 March 1962) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Tennis career Murgo, a native of Florence, was the first Italian to reach an Orange Bowl final when she finished runner-up to Kathy Horvath in 1979. She was als ... reached the US Open round of 16 in doubles. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Lucy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American female tennis players UCLA Bruins women's tennis players Tennis players from San Diego People from Coronado, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerryn Pratt
Kerryn Pratt (born 20 June 1959) is an Australian sports broadcaster and former professional tennis player. Trained at the AIS, Pratt is the daughter of tennis player Maureen McCalman and was a two-time Australian Open girls' doubles champion. She twice reached the women's singles second round at the Australian Open and was a women's doubles semi-finalist with Elizabeth Little in 1979. Pratt began her media career as a sports reporter for the Seven Network in the mid 1980s before joining Nine, where she reported on the Wide World of Sports and was a producer on 60 Minutes in the 1990s. She has commentated on every Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ... from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, covering tennis, table tennis, badminton and softball. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Little (tennis)
Elizabeth Little (born 3 October 1960) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She competed three times at the Australian Open, once at Wimbledon, and once at the U.S. Open. Little is the mother of professional tennis players John Peers and Sally Peers Sally Peers (born 1 June 1991) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is 145, which she achieved on 11 April 2011. Her highest doubles ranking of world .... External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Elizabeth 1960 births Australian female tennis players Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles 20th-century Australian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |