Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a former Dutch

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player. Primarily known by her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former

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player at

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/ref> she has the eighth-fastest serve ever recorded by a female tennis player.

Tennis career

Schultz' career high was in 1996 when she reached World No. 9. She reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1995. She retired from tennis in 1999 with longstanding injuries. She came out of retirement in 2005, playing

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and WTA tournaments in 2006. The best result of her comeback came in June 2006 at the Tier III Ordina Open in the Netherlands, reaching the quarterfinals with wins over two players ranked in the top 70 on the WTA Tour. In July 2006, Schultz-McCarthy claimed her place as the fastest server in WTA history, recording a 130 mph (209 km/h) serve in the first round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open qualifying tournament, held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Venus Williams previously held the women's record set in 1998 of 127 mph (204 km/h) in a match in a quarter-finals win against Mary Pierce in Zurich. Williams would tie the record in 2008. In June 2007, Schultz-McCarthy won an ITF tournament in

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Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Mixed doubles: 1 (0–1)

WTA career finals

Singles (7 wins, 9 losses)

Doubles (9 wins - 10 losses)

ITF finals

Singles (3–2)

Doubles (1–1)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

References

External links

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Brenda Shultz-McCarthy Tennis and Adventure Camp
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