Abigail Agivanagi Tere-Apisah (born 13 July 1992) is a former professional

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player from

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. Tere-Apisah has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 276, achieved on 6 August 2018. She is the daughter of Kwalam Apisah and Verenagi Tere. Her sister Marcia, and her nieces,

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and Patricia Apisah, are also tennis players.

Tennis career

In 2010, Abigail graduated from

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in Albury, Australia. She then attended

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, playing tennis for the Panthers, and graduated in 2014 with a BS in Health and Physical Education. Apisah is a two time All-American tennis player (2012 and 2014). On 24 May 2014, Apisah reached the semifinals of the NCAA Championship, losing in the third-set tiebreak to Lynn Chi. She reached a collegiate national ranking of No. 8 in singles. On 3 December 2017, in the Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff final for the

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, she was looking to become the first player from Papua New Guinea to compete in a Grand Slam main draw, but lost the final match 6–4, 5–7, 4–6 to

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of China. On 19 May 2019, Tere-Apisah became the first Pacific islander to win a professional tennis singles title beating Russian top seed,

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, at a $25k event in Singapore.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)

National representation

Fed Cup

Tere-Apisah made her

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debut for Pacific Oceania in 2015, while the team was competing in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II.

Fed Cup (15–11)

Singles (10–5)

Doubles (5–6)

References

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* * * 1992 births Living people People from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) Papua New Guinean female tennis players Georgia State Panthers women's tennis players {{tennis-bio-stub