Rochelle "Shelley" Solomon (June 19, 1963 – October 7, 2014) was a professional tennis player from the United States.

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., she was the younger sister of tennis player

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. From the age of 11 she lived in Florida, where her father Leonard operated a car‐rental business. She attended

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(UCLA), and was a member of their 1981

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winning team, and graduated magna cum laude.Mother and Former Candidate Tragically Takes Her Own Life » Coral Springs Talk
/ref> Solomon competed on the professional circuit in the 1980s. In 1982, her first year on tour, Solomon was runner-up to

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at the Borden Classic, held in Tokyo. She made her second WTA Tour final at the 1983 Japan Open Tennis Championships and was beaten by

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. At the 1983 US Open she beat

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in the opening round and took 10th seed

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to three sets in her second round loss. She also made the second round of the

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, where she lost to a 14-year-old

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. A law graduate from

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, from which she graduated magna cum laude, Solomon became a lawyer after her tennis career, admitted to the Florida Bar in 1992. She was an assistant state attorney for

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and then worked for a law firm in Coral Springs as a partner and of counsel. She had four children from her marriage to Bill Heller. Solomon died in Fort Lauderdale in 2014 at the age of 51. She had fallen 15 stories from the roof of a condominium on Las Olas Boulevard. It was reported that she had jumped.

WTA Tour finals

Singles (0–2)

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