Jean Rinkel-Quertier (née Quertier; 12 November 1925 – 23 January 2019), was a female former

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player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Career

Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the final of the mixed doubles event at the 1949 French Championships. Partnering

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, she lost the final to the South African team of

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and

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in straight sets. She reached the semifinals of the doubles event at the

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and

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partnering compatriot Susan Partridge and Helen Fletcher respectively. They lost on both occasions in straight sets to the eventual champions and first-seeded team of

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and Doris Hart. Her best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the quarterfinals of the French (1949, 1953), Wimbledon (1948, 1952) and U.S. Championships (1951, 1953). In 1949 and 1950, she played against compatriot Joan Curry in the final of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wooden courts at the Queen's Club in London, and won the 1950 edition in three sets. In 1949, she was the runner-up at the British Hard Court Championships. Quertier won the singles event of the French Covered Court Championships in 1951 and 1952. With Jean Walker-Smith, she won the doubles title at the Italian Championships in Rome in 1950, defeating Betty Hilton and Kay Tuckey in the final in three sets. Quertier was a member of the British

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team in 1947 and from 1949 to 1953. These editions of the team tennis competition were all won by the United States team, and Quertier won the only match for Britain when she defeated

in 1951 in straight sets.

Personal life

She married Dutch tennis player

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on 28 February 1952 in Roehampton, and the couple had two daughters.

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles (1 runner-up)

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quertier, Jean 1925 births 2019 deaths English female tennis players Tennis people from Greater London