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1979 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert, Chris Evert-Lloyd in a rematch of the previous year's final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1979 Wimbledon Championships. It was her second The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon singles title and second Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles title overall. Seeds Martina Navratilova (champion) Chris Evert, Chris Evert Lloyd ''(final)'' Evonne Goolagong Cawley ''(semifinals)'' Tracy Austin ''(semifinals)'' Virginia Wade ''(quarterfinals)'' Dianne Fromholtz ''(quarterfinals)'' Billie Jean King ''(quarterfinals)'' Wendy Turnbull ''(quarterfinals)'' Kerry Melville, Kerry Reid ''(fourth round)'' Virginia Ruzici ''(fourth round)'' Greer Stevens ''(fourth round)'' Sue Barker ''(first round)'' Regina Maršíková ''(third round)'' Kathy Jordan ''(fourth round)'' Betty Stöve ''(fourth round)'' Pam Shriver ''(second round)'' Both Evonne Goolagong Cawley an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, singles for 332 weeks (List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, second-most of all time), including as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, doubles for a record 237 weeks. Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles (both the Open Era records), including an Open Era record 59 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles: 18 in singles, a record 31 in women's doubles, and 10 in mixed doubles. Her nine Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon singles titles are an all-time record. Alongside Chris Evert, her Evert–Navratilova rivalry, greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver (born July 4, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis broadcaster, pundit, and coach. She was ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. During the 1980s and 1990s, Shriver won 133 WTA Tour-level titles: 21 in singles and 112 in doubles. This includes 22 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major titles, 21 in women's doubles and one in mixed doubles, as well as an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles at the Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, 1988 Seoul Olympics, partnering Zina Garrison. Shriver and regular doubles partner Martina Navratilova are the only women's pair to complete the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam in a calendar year, winning all four majors in 1984 WTA Tour, 1984. Playing style Shriver was well known for her variety, including sharp volleys and all-round solid technique a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Ebbinghaus
Katja Ebbinghaus (née Burgemeister, born 6 January 1948) is a former professional tennis player from Germany, active from 1969 to 1982. She reached five Grand Slam quarterfinals in singles, and a Grand Slam final in doubles, and played for West Germany in the Federation Cup in all but two years between 1970 and 1979. Career Ebbinghaus reached the final of the women's doubles at the 1974 French Open, partnering Gail Chanfreau. In the final, Chris Evert and Olga Morozova defeated them in three sets. In singles tournaments, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1972, 1973, and 1974; the quarterfinals of 1975 US Open, losing in straight sets to Virginia Wade; and the quarter-finals of January 1977 Australian Open, losing to Kerry Reid, also in straight sets. Ebbinghaus played for West Germany in the Federation Cup in 1970 and from 1972 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1979, playing in the semifinals of the World Group in 1973 and 1974. In 1977, when Evonne Goolagong made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay McDaniel
Kay McDaniel (born September 25, 1957 died 3 January 2025) was an American former professional tennis player. Biography Originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, McDaniel was a three-time All-American tennis player at Louisiana State University in the late 1970s. McDaniel had her best run in a grand slam tournament at the 1979 Wimbledon Championships, with wins over Katja Ebbinghaus and Marie Pinterová, before losing in the third round to 15th seed Betty Stöve in three sets. In 1980, she achieved a rare feat when she won an Avon Futures title in Atlanta as a lucky loser A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw. This can occur when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness .... She achieved her highest year end ranking in 1979, where she finished at 53. McDaniel was a professor at Lee University, where she taught health science. She an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne DuVall
Jeanne DuVall (born December 7, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography A right-handed player from Dallas, DuVall was a Texas 18 and under state champion. She played college tennis for the UCLA Bruins and in 1978 won the AIAW singles championship (over Kathy Jordan), which earned her a Honda Award. DuVall had her breakthrough performance on the WTA at Hilton Head in 1978 when she upset Wendy Turnbull en route to the quarterfinals. At the 1979 US Open she beat Bettina Bunge, Nancy Yeargin and Julie Harrington to make the fourth round, where she lost in three sets to Evonne Goolagong Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was one of the world's leadi .... She won a Fort Myers Avon Futures tournament in 1980 and was a two-time quarterfinalist at the U.S. Clay Court Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviana González
Viviana Marina González Locicero (born 22 April 1958) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. She is also known by her married name Viviana Segal. Biography A right-handed player from Rosario, González is the granddaughter of Felipe Locicero, who was a coach of Guillermo Vilas. González was Argentina's top ranked female player in the late 1970s and represented her country in a total of eight Federation Cup ties. She was runner-up at the 1978 U.S. Clay Court Championships, with her run including a win over number one seed Mima Jaušovec. Her best grand slam performance came at the 1978 French Open, where she upset fourth seed Nancy Richey en route to the round of 16 and was a doubles quarter-finalist, partnering Ivanna Madruga Ivanna Madruga (born 27 January 1961) is a retired tennis player from Argentina who played professionally in the 1980s. She also is known under the married name Ivanna Madruga-Osses. Career In 1980, with compatriot Adriana Villagrán, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Dürr
Françoise Dürr (born 25 December 1942; sometimes referred to by English writers as Frankie Durr) is a retired French tennis player. She won 50 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles. Durr played with an unorthodox backhand, which she played with an Eastern forehand grip and her index finger extended up the handle. She is also noted for having an unorthodox serve that "might not have registered on a radar gun" according to her official Tennis Hall of Fame biography. According to Lance Tingay, Bud Collins, and the Women's Tennis Association, Dürr was ranked in the world top ten from 1965 through 1967, from 1970 through 1972, and from 1974 through 1976, reaching a career high of world No. 3 in those rankings in 1967. She finished second to Billie Jean King in prize money earnings in 1971. Dürr reached a total of 27 Grand Slam finals – one in singles, 18 in women's doubles, and eight in mixed doubles. She won twelve of them. Personal life Françoise Dürr married Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Durie
Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a former world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates. Born in Bristol, England, Jo Durie was the last British woman to reach the semifinal of a Grand Slam tournament until Johanna Konta reached the semifinal of the 2016 Australian Open, and the last British woman to win a major title in any discipline, until Heather Watson won the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Henri Kontinen. Singles career After a successful junior career which included winning junior British titles on all three surfaces (grass, hard court and indoor) in 1976; Jo Durie turned professional in 1977, and played her first match at Wimbledon that year against the eventual champion Virginia Wade. In 1980 Durie suffered a major back injury which kept her out of the game for eight months. However, she made a successful return to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynis Coles
Glynis Coles (born 20 February 1954), also known by her married name Glynis Coles-Bond, is a retired English professional tennis player and former British number 2. Career Coles played professionally from 1970 to1988, playing both singles and doubles. Her best singles results in a Grand Slam tournament were at Wimbledon, where she advanced to the round of 16 in 1973 and 1975, losing both times to Margaret Court. As a doubles player, she reached the quarterfinals of many Grand Slam contests, most notably in 1975, when she and Sue Barker made the quarterfinals of all of the Grand Slam events in the same year. Coles won the women's singles title at the Swedish Open in 1973, and she and Barker won the women's doubles title there in 1974. She made nine appearances for the British Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marise Kruger
Marise Kruger (born 17 July 1958) is a former South African tennis player who was active in the second half of the 1970s. Tennis career Kruger started playing tennis when she was five. She reached the girl's final at the 1976 Wimbledon Championships, won the junior singles title at the 1976 US Open, and won the singles title at the junior Orange Bowl tournament in December 1976. In June 1976, Kruger was runner-up at the Kent Championships in Beckenham, losing in three sets to Olga Morozova. In the preceding weeks, she had won tournament titles in Guildford and Chichester. In August that year, she won the South Orange Open singles title beating Lea Antonoplis. In May 1977, she won the doubles title at the Italian Open, partnering compatriot Brigitte Cuypers, and in August, she was a finalist at Canadian Open in Toronto, losing the final in three sets to Regina Maršíková. She partnered with Dianne Fromholtz to win the 1979 Austrian Open doubles, and they reached the sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthea Cooper
Anthea Stewart (born 7 February 1959) is a British former professional tennis player. Her maiden name is Cooper. Stewart, ranked as high as seventh in the United Kingdom, was active on tour in the 1970 and 1980s. She played in four singles main draws at Wimbledon and also qualified once for the US Open. One of her Wimbledon appearances was a first-round loss to American rising star Andrea Jaeger Andrea Jaeger ( ; born June 4, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. She started her professional tennis career at the age of 14 and went on to win pro tennis tournaments while still competing in other junior tennis events. By th ... in 1980. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Andrea 1959 births Living people British female tennis players 20th-century British sportswomen Tennis players from East Sussex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruta Gerulaitis
Ruta Gerulaitis (; born November 18, 1955) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She is the sister of Vitas Gerulaitis. Biography Early life Gerulaitis, the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, grew up in New York City. She and Vitas, an elder brother, were the only children of Vitas Gerulaitis Sr. and Aldona Gerulaitienė (née Čenkutė). It wasn’t until the age of 15 that she began playing tennis competitively. Tennis career Gerulaitis and her brother teamed up at the 1975 US Open to make the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles. At the 1978 Wimbledon Championships, Gerulaitis made it to the fourth round of the singles and en route won a match against 16th seed Marita Redondo, in which she dropped just two games. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament came at the 1979 French Open, where she was a singles quarterfinalist. Beating Chris O'Neil in the first round, she started her second round match with a 6–0 first set against 14th see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
