Stacey Schefflin (born March 19, 1968) is a former professional

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player from the United States.

Biography

Schefflin, who comes from

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, played collegiate tennis at the

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and was a member of the team which finished runner-up to Stanford in the 1987 NCAA Championships. From 1990 to 1992 she competed on the professional tour, reaching a best ranking of 165 in the world. Most notably she made the third round of the

1991 Australian Open The 1991 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 79th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 14 through 27 January 1991. Seniors Men's ...

, beating

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and Tamaka Takagi en route, after winning her way through qualifying. She represented the United States at the

1993 Maccabiah Games The 14th Maccabiah Games brought 5,100 athletes to Israel from 48 nations. Jewish athletes from Poland, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia participated for the first time after World War II, after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Athletes from the eight ...

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