Lena Sandin (born 8 June 1961) is a former professional
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 from Sweden.
Biography
Sandin won the girls' singles title at the
1979 French Open, with a win in the final over American
Mary-Lou Piatek.
She represented the
Sweden Fed Cup team in a total of six ties, the first in 1979. This included the quarter-final loss to Australia in 1980, where she gave Sweden a winning start by beating
Dianne Fromholtz
Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat (née Fromholtz; born 10 August 1956) is an Australian former professional tennis player who reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1979.
Career
Fromholtz began playing tennis at the age of seven. She ...
in the opening singles rubber.
At the
1980 US Open she took a set off the second seeded
Martina Navratilova in a first-round loss.
She won a doubles title at
Hamburg
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in 1982, partnering countrywoman
Elisabeth Ekblom.
WTA Tour finals
Doubles (1-0)
References
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1961 births
Living people
Swedish female tennis players
French Open junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
20th-century Swedish women
21st-century Swedish women