Mariaan de Swardt (born 18 March 1971) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa, who was active from 1988 to 2001. She twice represented her native country at the

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, in

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and

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, and was a member of the

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in 1992 and from 1994 to 1997. In 2006, de Swardt became a U.S. citizen. De Swardt won two Grand Slam titles in mixed-doubles competition, the

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and the 2000 French Open with partner

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. She also won four women's doubles titles and reached as high as world No. 11 in the doubles

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. She has one

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singles title from 1998 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 28 in 1996. Since retiring from tennis, she has been a commentator for

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and South African television, and has coached at professional, collegiate and recreational level with her base being at Atlanta, Georgia. She resides in Houston, Texas, and is a teaching professional at the River Oaks Country Club. In 2004, she set up a non-profit charity, the Pet Care Fund, to help animals.

Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 2 (2 titles)

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

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

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (9–2)

Doubles: 10 (7–3)

Head-to-head records

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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) ...

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Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is ...

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Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, ...

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Anke Huber Anke Huber (born 4 December 1974) is a German retired top-five professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open and the 1995 WTA Finals. Huber won twelve singles and one doubles title on the WTA ...

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Monica Seles Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...

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Dominique Monami Dominique Monami (born 31 May 1973) is a former tennis player from Belgium. She is her country's first ever top-10 tennis professional. Monami was born in Verviers. In 1995, she married her coach Bart Van Roost, with whom she has a daughter, a ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swardt, Mariaan De 1971 births American people of Afrikaner descent Australian Open (tennis) champions Delaware Smash French Open champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles Living people Olympic tennis players of South Africa People from Bluffton, South Carolina South African emigrants to the United States South African female tennis players Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players from Johannesburg White South African people