Michelle Jaggard-Lai (born 6 May 1969) is a retired
tennis
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player from Australia. She turned professional in 1984. In her career, Jaggard-Lai won three doubles titles on the
WTA Tour
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. She also reached the quarterfinals of the
1992 Australian Open
The 1992 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne, Australia and was held from 13 through 26 January 1992. It was the 80th edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam tourna ...
, partnering
Kimiko Date
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking ...
. In singles, she reached round three of the
1989 Australian Open
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Seniors
Men's s ...
. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 42 in February 1991 and a best singles ranking of No. 83 in May 1993.
Jaggard-Lai was a member of the
Australia Fed Cup team
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that lost in the final of the
1993 Federation Cup.
She played in the singles main draw at the
Australian Open eight times, the
French Open six times,
Wimbledon four times & the
US Open once. In doubles, she played in the main draw at the Australian Open seven times, the French Open & Wimbledon nine times, and the US Open six times.
She married ex-professional soccer player
Gershwin Lai from the Netherlands, in February or March 1992.
Jaggard-Lai retired from the tour at the end of 1994 (aged just 25 & ranked No. 2 in Australia in singles at the time). Together with her husband, she is a tennis teacher at ''Wakehurst Tennis'' in
Seaforth, New South Wales
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, Australia.
Our team – Coaching crew
at Wakehurst Tennis
WTA career finals
Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles (2–6)
Doubles (7–1)
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1969 births
Living people
Australian female tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Sportswomen from New South Wales
Tennis players from Sydney
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
20th-century Australian women