Kym Ruddell (born 19 July 1955) is an Australian former professional

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. While competing on tour, Ruddell appeared in every

Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ...

from 1974 to 1980. She was most successful in women's doubles, reaching the semifinals twice and the quarterfinals two times. Ruddell was runner-up to

Judy Tegart-Dalton Judy Tegart-Dalton (née Tegart; born 12 December 1937) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She won nine major doubles titles, and completed the career Grand Slam in women's doubles. Five of her doubles titles were with Margar ...

at the 1975 Australian Hard Court Championships. She was also a doubles finalist in two

WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ...

level tournaments during her career. In 1977, Ruddell partnered with

Karen Krantzcke Karen Krantzcke (1 February 1946 – 11 April 1977) was an Australian tennis player. She achieved a world top ten singles ranking in 1970. In her short career, she made the quarterfinals or better at each of the four Grand Slam championships i ...

to win a doubles tournament in Tallahassee. After they won the final and were due to pick up their winner's cheques, Krantzcke decided to go for a jog and suffered a fatal heart attack around 200 metres from the courts.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles (0–2)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruddell, Kym 1955 births Living people Australian female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportswomen