Camille Benjamin
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Camille Benjamin is an American former professional tennis player http://www.tenniscorner.net/index.php?corner=w&action=matchstats&playerid=BEC002.

Benjamin played on the WTA
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

 tour from 1981 to 1994. She did not win any major titles but reached the semi-final of the French Open in 1984.

Benjamin's was the daughter of Panamanian immigrants who in turn were the children of immigrants from Jamaica to Panama. Her father, Carl Benjamin, was a math professor at Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College is a public community college located in Bakersfield, California, USA. Bakersfield College has an official Twitter account at @bcrenegades and an official...

 and had played college Tennis at Central State College in Xenia, Ohio
Xenia, Ohio
Xenia is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio 21 miles from Dayton and is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area...


Singles 2

Legend
Grand Slam 0
WTA Championships 0
Tier I 0
Tier II 0
Tier III 0
Tier IV & V 0
Olympic Games 0
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 15 September 1985 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Hard (o)   Stephanie Rehe
Stephanie Rehe
Stephanie Rehe is a retired American professional tennis player.A successful amateur player, Rehe was ranked No. 1 in every age group as a junior . She was the first player to receive a dual No...

2–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 18 October 1987 San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, USA
Hard (o)   Stephanie Rehe
Stephanie Rehe
Stephanie Rehe is a retired American professional tennis player.A successful amateur player, Rehe was ranked No. 1 in every age group as a junior . She was the first player to receive a dual No...

5–7, 6–7

Doubles 3 (1–2)

Legend
Grand Slam 0
WTA Championships 0
Tier I 0
Tier II 0
Tier III 0
Tier IV & V 0
Olympic Games 0
Titles by Surface
Hard 1
Clay 0
Grass 0
Carpet 0
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 3 February 1985 Marco Island, Florida
Marco Island, Florida
Marco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida. It is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, USA
Hard   Bonnie Gadusek
Bonnie Gadusek
Bonnie Gadusek is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who retired in April 1987....

  Kathy Jordan
Kathy Jordan
Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

 
  Elizabeth Smylie
Elizabeth Smylie
Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....

2–6, 6–1, 0–6
Winner 2. 28 September 1986 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Hard (o)   Dianne Van Rensburg
Dianne Van Rensburg
Dianne Van Rensburg is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Known as Dinky, she won one singles title and three doubles titles from 1986 to 1990.-Singles 2 :-Doubles 8 :-References:...

  Svetlana Cherneva 
  Larisa Savchenko
7–6, 7–5
Runner-up 3. 27 October 1991 San Juan
Puerto Rico Open (tennis)
The Puerto Rico Open is a defunct tennis tournament. The first edition dates back to 1971 but only from 1986 to 1993 was the tournament played every year. It was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was played on outdoor hard courts. In 1988, when Tier categories were first introduced on the WTA Tour,...

, Puerto Rico, USA
Hard (o)   Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans is a former tennis player from Belgium, and was Belgium's Fed Cup captain from 2007 until 2011.-Career:...

  Rika Hiraki
Rika Hiraki
Rika Hiraki is a former professional Japanese female tennis player.She has won 1 Grand Slam mixed doubles title, the 1997 French Open .-Doubles :*1991: Puerto Rico *1992: Tokyo [Japan Open]...

 
  Florencia Labat
Florencia Labat
María Florencia Labat was a professional female tennis player from Argentina. She joined the WTA Tour in 1988 and retired in 2000. On September 12, 1994 she reached a career high singles ranking of number 26 worldwide.-Singles 4 :-Doubles 17 :-External links:...

3–6, 3–6

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