Elise Burgin (born March 5, 1962) is a retired American tennis player. She achieved
WTA rankings
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Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
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of 22 in singles and 7 in doubles.
Personal life
Burgin, who is Jewish, was born in
Baltimore, Maryland
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and grew up in Maryland.
Tennis career
Before playing professionally, Burgin was an outstanding singles and doubles player at
Stanford University, from which she graduated. A four-time
All-American from 1981 to 1984, she teamed with
Linda Gates in 1984 to win the
NCAA
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doubles championship.
She competed professionally from 1980 to 1993. In 1982, she reached the fourth round of the US Open (where she was beaten by
Bonnie Gadusek), her best performance in singles in a Grand Slam tournament. In 1986, she won her only career singles title at
Charleston, South Carolina.
Burgin was a member of the U.S.
Federation Cup team in 1985 and 1987. In 1986, Burgin was captain of the U.S.
Wightman Cup
The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United States and Great Britain.
History
U.S. player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wanted to generate ...
team.
During her career, she won eleven tournaments on the
WTA Tour
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WTA Tour tou ...
, including ten in doubles.
She reached No. 7 in the world in doubles.
After retiring in 1993, Burgin has become a tennis commentator.
In 2003, she was inducted into the
USTA
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Mid–Atlantic Tennis Hall of Fame.
WTA career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 29 (10 titles, 19 runner-ups)
See also
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List of select Jewish tennis players
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Sportspeople from Baltimore
Jewish American sportspeople
Jewish tennis players
Stanford Cardinal women's tennis players
Tennis people from Maryland
Tennis commentators
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women