Linda Harvey Wild (born February 11, 1971) is a retired tennis player from the United States. Born as Linda Harvey, she later used the family name of her stepfather and coach Steve Wild. Wild turned professional in 1989. In the first round of her first tournament in February 1990 in her hometown of Chicago, she defeated then fifth-ranked

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player. She won 14 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles: four in singles, ...

. During her career on the

WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ...

, she won five singles and five doubles titles. Her best

Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ...

singles performance came at the 1996 US Open, where she defeated

Park Sung-hee Park Sung-hee (Hangul: 박성희; born 17 February 1975) is a former tennis player from South Korea. Career Park who turned professional in 1989 won seven singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In her career, she reache ...

Kristie Boogert Kristie Boogert (born 16 December 1973) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands who retired in 2003 due to chronic elbow pain. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29. She has ...

, Barbara Rittner and

Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ...

to reach the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by Conchita Martinez. Her best doubles result she realized at the

1996 Australian Open The 1996 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on Hardcourt, outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne in Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia. It was the 84th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 15 through 28 ...

, reaching the semifinals with

Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie (née Sayers, born 11 April 1963), sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also wo ...

. Wild was a member of the

United States Fed Cup team The United States women's national tennis team is the most successful national team in Billie Jean King Cup competition. The team has won 18 titles and finished second a further 11 times, out of 55 participations. History The United States won ...

that won

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

the title. She reached career-high rankings of No. 23 in singles (in September 1996) and No. 17 in doubles (July 1996). She retired from the tour in 2000.

WTA career finals

Singles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runner-ups)

References

External links

* * * 1971 births Living people American female tennis players People from Arlington Heights, Illinois Tennis people from Illinois 21st-century American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub