Christina Lindström (born 18 October 1945) is a Finnish former

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 ...

player. Lindström won a total of 19 national championships, across singles and doubles. She featured in the main draw for the

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and represented Finland in a

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tie that year against the Netherlands. Her younger sister,

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, was her Federation Cup teammate.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindström, Christina 1945 births Living people Finnish female tennis players 20th-century Finnish women 21st-century Finnish women Place of birth missing (living people)