Clare Jacqueline Wood (born 8 March 1968) is a former British number 1
tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1984 and retired in 1998. Over the course of her career, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 77 in singles (achieved 2 May 1994) and No. 59 in doubles (achieved 21 October 1996). Wood won one
ITF singles title and six in doubles as well as won a
WTA doubles title at the 1992
Wellington Classic, having been the runner-up the previous year. At the time of her retirement, she had a 212–223 singles win–loss record with notable wins over
Jo Durie and
Mary Pierce
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.
After her retirement from professional competition, Wood became a tennis officiator. From 1999 until 2002, she was a tournament supervisor on the WTA Tour, and from 2002 onward, she was an assistant referee at Wimbledon where she was responsible for the qualifying and junior events. In 2004, she was an assistant referee at the
2004 Olympic tennis event, and in 2008, it was announced that she would fulfil, the role of tennis competition manager at the
2012 Olympic Games.
Wightman Cup
When Wood lost to
Jennifer Capriati
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on 14 September 1989, her opponent became the youngest ever
Wightman Cup
The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United States and Great Britain.
History
U.S. player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wanted to generate ...
player, and the first player for four years to win a Wightman Cup match 6–0, 6–0.
Fed Cup
Wood played 28 singles and 24 doubles matches for
Great Britain
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in the Fed Cup from 1988 to 1997.
Olympic Games
Wood represented the United Kingdom in the Olympic Games in
1988
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,
1992 and
1996,
WTA tour and ITF circuit finals
Singles: 2 (1–1)
Doubles: 11 (7–4)
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Mixed doubles
References
External links
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1968 births
Living people
English sportspeople of South African descent
English female tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Great Britain
People from Zululand District Municipality
Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
British female tennis players