Marie Pinterová (née Neumannová, born 16 August 1946) is a former professional tennis player who played from 1969 to 1989.
Life
Marie Neumannová was born in 1946 in
Stará Boleslav. She began her professional career in 1969. In 1974, she married Hungarian engineer András Pintér. They had one son, Karim, in 1976. Pinterová returned to professional tennis at the age of 34 and won the Tokyo title.
Career
In 1974, she played the quarterfinals at
Roland Garros, her best performance in a single round of the Grand Slam. She won two WTA singles during her career, first in Florida in 1972 (opposite
Billie Jean King
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in the final), the second in Japan in 1981.
During her career, Pinterová won:
* Two Czech Internationals
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Virginia Slims of Jacksonville
* The
Cairo Open
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The Japan Open
*
The World University Games
She had wins against
Martina Navratilova
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,
Sue Barker
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and
Kathy Jordan
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.
She played on the European senior circuit of the
ITF from 1995. She won 11 World singles championship titles and 24 European titles.
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1946 births
Living people
Czech female tennis players
Hungarian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav
Tennis players from the Central Bohemian Region
Czechoslovak female tennis players
20th-century Hungarian sportswomen