Michèle Sjögren-Strebel (born 24 April 1970) is a Swiss former professional tennis player.
Strebel reached a best singles ranking of 217 in the world and was ranked as high as 128 in doubles. She twice appeared in the main-draw
French Open
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women's doubles, in 1989 and 1991, with her best performance coming in the latter where she and partner
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began re ...
made the second round.
In 1992, she played in two doubles rubbers for the
Switzerland Federation Cup team, the first of them with Maleeva in the first round of the World Group against
Sweden
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, a live rubber which they lost in three sets to
Maria Lindström
Maria Lindström (born 7 March 1963) is a Swedish former tennis player. She won two doubles WTA titles as well as a further ten doubles ITF tournaments during her career. On 15 February 1988, Lindström reached a singles ranking high of world n ...
and
Maria Strandlund
Maria Strandlund (born 17 August 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. She competed in the Fed Cup
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. She also featured for Switzerland in the subsequent World Group play-off against
Paraguay
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and this time won in the doubles (partnering
Emanuela Zardo
Emanuela Zardo (born 24 April 1970) is a former professional tennis player who competed for Switzerland. She was active on the WTA Tour in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, and was among the top 100 in the world between 1990 and 1994.
Zard ...
), to round off a 3–0 win in the tie.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 3 (1–2)
Doubles: 8 (2–6)
See also
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List of Switzerland Fed Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Swiss female tennis players