The 1983 Ridgewood Open was a women's
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on indoor
carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The International Tennis Federation describes the surface as a "textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished product." It is one of the fastest court types, second only to grass co ...
s in
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 24,958,[United States
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that was part of the Ginny Circuit of the
1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series
The 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 13th season since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 3, 1983, and concluded on March 4, 1984, after 64 events.
The Virginia Slims World Championship ...
. The tournament was held from February 21 through February 28, 1983. Third-seeded
Alycia Moulton
Alycia Moulton (born February 18, 1961) is a retired American tennis player.
Career
Moulton won the U.S. Junior Championships in 1979 and was runner-up at the Wimbledon Junior Championships in 1979. She was active on the professional tour from 1 ...
won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Alycia Moulton
Alycia Moulton (born February 18, 1961) is a retired American tennis player.
Career
Moulton won the U.S. Junior Championships in 1979 and was runner-up at the Wimbledon Junior Championships in 1979. She was active on the professional tour from 1 ...
defeated
Catrin Jexell
Catrin Jexell (born 17 February 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.
Biography
Originally from Halmstad, Jexell played professionally in the 1980s. She first competed for the Sweden Fed Cup team in 1982 and featured in a tota ...
6–4, 6–2
* It was Moulton's 1st title of the year and the 2nd of her career.
Doubles
Beverly Mould
Beverly Mould (born 13 March 1962) is a South African former tennis player who was active in the first half of the 1980s. Tennis career
During her career, Mould won three WTA Tour doubles titles.
Her best singles result at a Grand Slam tourna ...
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Elizabeth Sayers
Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also wo ...
defeated
Rosalyn Fairbank
Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer (born 2 November 1960) is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance in 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 an ...
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Susan Leo 7–6, 4–6, 7–5
* It was Mould's only title of the year and the 2nd of her career. It was Sayers' 1st title of the year and the 1st of her career.
Notes
References
External links
The Ginny Circuit(PDF)
{{1983 WTA Tour
Ridgewood Open
The Ridgewood Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played in 1983. It was held in Ridgewood, New Jersey in the United States and played on indoor carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The Internationa ...
Ridgewood Open
The Ridgewood Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played in 1983. It was held in Ridgewood, New Jersey in the United States and played on indoor carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The Internationa ...
Ridgewood Open
The Ridgewood Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played in 1983. It was held in Ridgewood, New Jersey in the United States and played on indoor carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The Internationa ...
Ridgewood Open
The Ridgewood Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played in 1983. It was held in Ridgewood, New Jersey in the United States and played on indoor carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court. The Internationa ...
Ridgewood Open