Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a former professional

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player from South Africa. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the

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in Israel. Her best performance at

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came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez.

Biography

Born in 1947, Emmanuel is a

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, with a mother who was Turkish born but raised in France. Her father was an emigrant to New York from

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, Greece. She studied Economics at

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. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the

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, Israel, in women's tennis in doubles with partner Rene Wolpert, defeating Americans

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and Carole Wright. She won a silver medal in women's singles, defeating American

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along the way but losing to Canadian

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in the finals. In 1966, she played a

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tie for South Africa against the Netherlands. She competed in women's singles at the 1969 Maccabiah Games, defeating American

in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to American Pam Richmond. She also competed in women's doubles, with partner South African P. Kriger, winning a silver medal, as they lost in the finals to Americans

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and Marilyn Aschner. In the mixed doubles, she and South African Jack Saul came away with silver medals, after being defeated in the finals by Heldman and American Ed Rubinoff. Emmanuel married husband Roger E. Berg in 1969. Her best performance at

came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez. She and Martinez also were students together at

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