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1980 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Hana Mandlíková defeated Wendy Turnbull in the final, 6–0, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1980 Australian Open. The women’s tournament was held from November 24th - 30th, 1980 – separately from the men’s event, which began in late December and concluded the first week of 1981. Barbara Jordan was the reigning champion, but did not compete this year. As of 2022, this was the last time at the Australian Open where neither finalist had previously won a major; the 1998 Wimbledon Championships would be the next occurrence of such a final, a span of 63 tournaments. Turnbull was the last Australian to reach the final until Ashleigh Barty in 2022. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Hana Mandlíková is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Martina Navratilova ''(semifinals)'' # Evonne Goolagong ''(second round)'' # Hana Mandlíková ''(champion)'' # Wendy Turnbull ''(finalist)'' # Greer Stevens ''(quarterfinal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. During her career she won four Grand Slam singles titles - the 1980 Australian Open, 1981 French Open, 1985 US Open and 1987 Australian Open. She was also runner-up in four Grand Slam singles events - twice at Wimbledon and twice at the US Open. The graceful right-hander secured one Grand Slam women's doubles title, at the 1989 US Open with Martina Navratilova. Inducted into thInternational Tennis Hall of Famein 1994, Mandlíková was one of the brightest stars of her generation and is considered one of the greatest female players of the Open Era. Mandlíková had a career-high singles ranking of No. 3, and was ranked in the top 50 for 12 consecutive seasons (1978–89), including seven in the top 10. She led Czechoslovakia to three consecutive Federation Cup victories from 1983–1985, and was only the third woman to win Grand Slam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retired (tennis)
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace (tennis), Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the ''#service box, service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of ''#spin, spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: ''#advantage, Advantage'' to the ''#server, server''. * Ad out: ''#advantage, Advantage'' to the ''#receiver, receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the ''#advantage, advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a ''#deuce, deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Evers
Dianne Evers (born 9 November 1956) is a retired female tennis player from Australia. With her partner Judy Chaloner, she won the 1979 Australian Open Doubles title and had a career high singles ranking of No. 42. Tennis career Evers began playing tennis at Lauriston Lawn Tennis Club in 1965 at the age of nine, and then at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club from 1967. She started competing in tournaments and interstate competitions at age 11. Her coach and father Bill Evers owned a tennis centre in Murrumbeena, Victoria. Juniors As a junior player for the state of Victoria, Evers won all the junior titles she played in. In 1974 she won the Netherlands Open Junior Girls Singles in Amsterdam and the Irish Open Junior girls singles in Dublin. In 1975 Evers won the Australian Junior Girls Doubles at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club with partner Nerida Gregory (Aus) and was the runner-up in the Australian Junior Girls Singles title. Professional In 1974, at the age of 17, Evers turned professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Chanfreau
Gail Chanfreau (née Sherriff; born 3 April 1945), also known as Gail Lovera and Gail Benedetti, is a French former amateur and professional tennis player. Tennis career Chanfreau was born in Australia, but moved to France in 1968. Chanfreau made her first appearance in the Federation Cup for Australia in 1966. She played for France Fed Cup team from 1969 to 1980. When Gail beat her sister Carol Sherriff, who reached the third round of the Australian Open on five occasions, 8–10, 6–3, 6–3 in the 1966 Wimbledon Championships second round, that was the second match between sisters at Wimbledon, the first being in the 1884 Wimbledon Championships when Maud Watson beat Lillian. The next Wimbledon match between sisters was in 2000 between Serena and Venus Williams. Chanfreau reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 1967 and 1972, and the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1968 and 1971. She won the French Open doubles in 1967, 1970 and 1971 with Françoise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Casals
Rosemary "Rosie" Casals (born September 16, 1948) is an American former professional tennis player. Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned more than two decades, she won more than 90 titles and was crucial to many of the changes in women's tennis during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Casals was born in 1948 in San Francisco, to poor parents who had immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. Less than a year after Casals was born, her parents decided they could not care for her and her older sister, Victoria. Casals's great-uncle and great-aunt, Manuel and Maria Casals, took the young girls in and raised them as their own. When the children grew older, Manuel Casals took them to the public tennis courts of San Francisco and taught them how to play the game. He became the only coach Casals would ever have. But Nick Carter, former touring pro, father to Denise Carter-Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Hutnick
Felicia Hutnick (born July 20, 1957) is an American former professional tennis player. Hutnick, the daughter of a minor league baseball player, grew up in the state of Connecticut. She attended Rollins College in the late 1970s, where she was a three-time NCAA Division I All-American. While competing on the professional tour she made two appearances in the round of 16 at the US Open in doubles and featured in the singles main draw three times. She also played at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Hutnick now lives in Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ... and competes in doubles tournaments with daughter Teresa, with the pair earning the nation's top ranking for a mother-daughter combination. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutnick, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcella Mesker
Marcella Mesker (born 23 May 1959) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Mesker was active on the WTA Tour from 1979 to 1988 and reached the final of the Australian Open Women's Doubles in 1979. She also reached the semifinals of the US Open Women's Doubles in 1984. She won a singles title in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ... in 1986. WTA career finals Singles 1 (1–0) Doubles 14 (6–8) External links * * * 1959 births Living people Dutch female tennis players Sportspeople from The Hague Tennis commentators 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Leo
Susan Leo (born 10 August 1962) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times, from 1980 to 1983. Leo won the singles title at the Queensland Open in 1976 and at the Western Australian Open in 1980. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles at Wimbledon in 1981 and 1982. References External links * * * 1962 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis people from Queensland 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Catton
Brenda Catton (born 4 January 1962), now Brenda Foster, is an Australian former professional tennis player. Catton grew up on a vineyard in the Victorian town of Woorinen and received a scholarship to the AIS in Canberra. A top-ten nationally ranked player, she had a win over Dianne Evers in the first round of the 1980 Australian Open The 1980 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the 69th edition of the Australian Open. The women’s tournament was held 24-30th of November 1980 an .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Catton, Brenda 1962 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis players from Victoria (state) Australian Institute of Sport tennis players People from Swan Hill 20th-century Australian women Sportswomen from Victoria (state) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Morrison
Diane Morrison Shropshire (born August 11, 1958) is an American former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Morrison, who attended Beverly Hills High School, received an academic scholarship to Stanford University. Despite not being recruited, she was accepted onto the tennis team and was twice the AIAW doubles champion, partnering Susan Hagey in both 1976 and 1977. She earned All-American selection in 1976, 1977 and 1978. Graduating from Stanford with a degree majoring in mathematics, Morrison turned professional in 1979. She made the third round of the 1979 US Open. At the end of 1979 she toured Australia and had a win over reigning Australian Open champion Chris O'Neil in Kooyong, as well as making the quarter-finals of the New South Wales Open. She featured in the main draw at Wimbledon in three editions of the tournament. Her last season on tour was in 1981 and she then concentrated on studying, completing a Doctor of Medicine at UCLA. Since the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Morse
Lindsay Morse Bennett (born January 24, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player. Morse, who grew up in Pasadena, California, was a collegiate player for UC Irvine and won the AIAW Singles Championship in 1977. She competed on the professional tour in the early 1980s and made several grand slam appearances. This included the 1980 Wimbledon Championships, where she fell in the third round to Chris Evert Lloyd. She won a WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... doubles title in Nagoya in 1980, partnering UC Irvine teammate Jean Nachand. WTA Tour finals Doubles (1–0) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morse, Lindsay 1955 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players from California Sportspeople from Pasaden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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