Kristin Kinney McDonald (born August 27, 1959) is an American former professional

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player.

Biography

Kinney grew up in Connecticut and attended

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before turning professional. In addition to tennis she also excelled at squash while at Princeton, earning All-Ivy selection for both sports. On the professional tour, Kinney reached a highest singles ranking of 117 in the world. Her best performance on the WTA Tour was a quarter-final appearance at the 1986 Northern California Open held in Berkeley. She made the third round of the

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, before running into top seed

Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, singles for 332 weeks (List of WTA number ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinney, Kris 1959 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players from Connecticut Princeton Tigers women's tennis players American female squash players Princeton Tigers women's squash players 20th-century American sportswomen