Hana Mandlíková
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Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech
Czech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 professional tennis
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 player from Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 and later Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. During her career, she won four Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 singles titles – two at the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open. She was the runner-up at four Grand Slam singles events and won one Grand Slam women's doubles title, the US Open in 1989 with Martina Navrátilová. Beginning with the 1980 US Open and extending through Wimbledon in 1981, Mandlíková played in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals.

Struggling with injuries and a lack of confidence, Mandlíková retired at the relatively early age of 28.

Personal life

Mandlíková is the daughter of Vilém Mandlík
Vilém Mandlík
Vilém Mandlík was an Olympic 200 metres semi-finalist for Czechoslovakia in 1956 and ran in heat for 4 x 400 m relay. He also ran in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He is the father of tennis champion Hana Mandlíková.-Notes:...

, who was an Olympic
Olympic Games
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 200 meter semifinalist for Czechoslovakia in 1956. Hana married Australian restaurateur Jan Sedlak in Prague in 1986: they divorced two years later, shortly after Mandlikova obtained Australian citizenship. In June 2002, she gave birth to twins Mark Vilém and Elisabeth Hana. Their father was a friend who was to have no role in their upbringing; Mandlikova intending to raise them with her partner, fitness trainer Liz Resseguie.

Junior

Mandlíková first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player. In 1978, the International Tennis Federation
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...

 launched the world junior rankings, and Mandlíková became the first ever female World No. 1 junior player.

Professional

Mandlíková captured her first Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 singles title at the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

 in 1980, defeating Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

 in straight sets in the final. Her second came a year later at the French Open with straight-sets wins over Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 in the semifinals and West German left-hander Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...

 in the final. Mandlíková was also the runner-up at the US Open in 1980 and 1982 and at Wimbledon in 1981, losing in all three finals to Evert.

In 1983, Mandlíková led Czechoslovakia to the first of three consecutive Fed Cup
Fed Cup
Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation...

 titles. The following year she defeated Martina Navratilova in three sets in the final at Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

, ending Navratilova's 54 match winning streak, two short of tying the record held by Evert at the time. Navratilova then embarked on a 74 match winning streak, a record that still stands.

In 1985, Mandlíková became the first woman since Tracy Austin
Tracy Austin
Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated...

 to beat both Evert and Navratilova in the same tournament when she beat the top seeded Evert in the semifinals and then the second seeded Navratilova in the three-set final at the US Open. The following year, Mandlíková teamed with Turnbull to win the women's doubles title at the WTA Tour Championships
WTA Tour Championships
The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour. The month, city and number of players has changed since the first edition in 1972...

. In doing so, they defeated the top two teams of the time, Navratilova and Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

 in the semifinals and Claudia Kohde Kilsch and Helena Suková
Helena Suková
Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

 in the final. Mandlíková and Turnbull were also runners-up to Navratilova and Shriver at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1986. Mandlíková also lost in the Wimbledon singles final that year to Navratilova but not before avenging her 1981 final loss to Evert in the semifinals. Another high point of Mandlíková's summer that year was a win over Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

 in the quarterfinals of the French Open. Graf had won four titles that season on clay with victories over Mandlíková, Evert, Navratilova, Kohde Kilsch, and Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

, and even held a match point in the second set of their quarterfinal before Mandlíková stopped Graf's run.

In 1987, Mandlíková won her fourth and final Grand Slam singles title when she beat Navratilova in straight sets in the final of the Australian Open. Her last consistent performance in a Grand Slam event was at the 1988 Australian Open, where, as the defending champion, she reached the quarterfinals before losing to the eventual champion, Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

.

Mandlíková and Navratilova then teamed in 1989 to win the US Open women's doubles title, beating Shriver and Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...

 in the final.

Mandlíková assumed Australian citizenship in 1988. She retired from the professional tennis tour in 1990, having won 27 singles titles and 19 doubles titles. Her career-high singles ranking was World No. 3.

Since retiring from the tour, Mandlíková has become a successful tennis coach. She coached Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

 for 9 years, during which time Novotná won Wimbledon and reached the World No. 2 ranking. Mandlíková has also captained the Czech Republic's Fed Cup team.

Mandlíková is one of 13 women during the open era to have reached the singles final of all four Grand Slam tournaments. She is one of five women who have won Grand Slam singles titles on clay, grass, and hard courts, with the others being Graf, Navratilova, Evert, and Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...

.

Mandlíková was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
International Tennis Hall of Fame
The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The hall of fame and honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis and includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indoor tennis facility, and a court tennis facility.-History:The hall of fame and...

 in 1994.

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1980  US Open  Hard  United States Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 
7–5, 1–6, 1–6
Winner 1980  Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

 (1)
Grass  Australia Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

 
6–0, 7–5
Winner 1981  French Open (1) Clay  West Germany Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...

 
6–2, 6–4
Runner-up 1981  Wimbledon  Grass  United States Chris Evert 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1982  US Open Hard  United States Chris Evert 3–6, 1–6
Winner 1985  US Open (1) Hard  United States Martina Navratilova  7–6(3), 1–6, 7–6(2)
Runner-up 1986 Wimbledon (2) Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 6–7, 3–6
Winner 1987  Australian Open (2) Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 7–5, 7–6(1)

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1984 French Open  Clay  West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

 
 United States Martina Navratilova
 United States Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

 
6–4, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1986 Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

 
Grass  Australia Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

 
 United States Martina Navratilova
 United States Pam Shriver
1–6, 3–6
Runner-up 1986 US Open
U.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

 
Hard  Australia Wendy Turnbull  United States Martina Navratilova
 United States Pam Shriver
4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner 1989 US Open Hard  United States Martina Navratilova  United States Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...


 United States Pam Shriver
7–5, 4–6, 6–4

Singles: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Location Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1986 New York City
New York City
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Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 2–6, 0–6, 6–3, 1–6

Doubles: 1 (1 title, 0 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Location Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Winner 1986 New York City Carpet (I)  Australia Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

 
 West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...


 Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
Helena Suková
Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

 
6–4, 6–7(4), 6–3

Singles (27)

Legend
Grand Slams
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 (4)
Titles by Surface
Hard (4)
Clay (4)
Grass (7)
Carpet (12)
No. Date Location Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 26 February 1978 Milan, Italy
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

Clay  Czech Republic Hana Strachonová 7–5, 6–2
2. 15 October 1978 Barcelona, Spain Clay  Italy Sabina Simmonds 6–1, 5–7, 6–3
3. 4 February 1979 Montreal, Canada
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

Carpet (I)  United States Leslie Allen
Leslie Allen (tennis)
Leslie Allen is a retired American professional tennis player.Allen was a member of the University of Southern California national championship team and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications...

7–6, 6–2
4. 22 July 1979 Kitzbühel, Austria
Gastein Ladies
Nürnberger Gastein Ladies is a tennis tournament held in Bad Gastein, Austria since 2007. It is an International event on the WTA Tour with total prize money of $220,000 and is played on red clay.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :* *...

Clay  West Germany Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...

2–6, 7–5, 6–3
5. 2 December 1979 Melbourne, Australia Grass  Australia Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

6–3, 6–2
6. 16 December 1979 Adelaide, Australia Grass  Romania Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

7–5, 2–2 (ret.)
7. 23 December 1979 Sydney, Australia Grass  West Germany Bettina Bunge
Bettina Bunge
Bettina Bunge is a retired German tennis player. She was born in Adliswil, Switzerland. She was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff.-Career:With German nationality as the daughter of a...

6–3, 3–6, 6–3
8. 24 August 1980 Mahwah, USA
WTA New Jersey
The WTA New Jersey is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1978 to 1989. It was held in Mahwah, New Jersey in the United States and played on outdoor hard courts....

Hard  United States Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982...

6–7(0), 6–2, 6–2
9. 28 September 1980 Atlanta, USA Carpet (I)  Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–3, 7–5
10. 2 November 1980 Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Open
The If Stockholm Open is a tennis event on the ATP Tour held in Stockholm, Sweden in the end of October or beginning of November each year. The organizer of the tournament is The Royal Lawn Tennis Club of Stockholm....

Carpet (I)  West Germany Bettina Bunge 6–2, 6–2
11. 16 November 1980 Amsterdam, Netherlands Carpet (I)  Romania Virginia Ruzici 5–7, 6–2, 7–5
12. 30 November 1980 Australian Open, Melbourne
1980 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Hana Mandlíková defeated Wendy Turnbull 6–0 7–5 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1980 Australian Open.See also:-Seeds:The seeded players are listed below...

Grass  Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–0, 7–5
13. 14 December 1980 Adelaide, Australia
National Panasonic Open
The National Panasonic Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played in Australia from 1980 to 1985. It was held at Adelaide in 1980, at Perth in 1981, and at the Milton Tennis Centre in Brisbane from 1982 to 1985. The tournament was played on grass...

Grass  United Kingdom Sue Barker
Sue Barker
Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3...

6–2, 6–4
14. 22 February 1981 Houston, USA Hard (I)  West Germany Bettina Bunge 6–4, 6–4
15. 6 June 1981 French Open, Paris
1981 French Open - Women's Singles
Hana Mandlíková defeated Sylvia Hanika 6-2 6-4 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1981 French Open.See also:-Seeds:The seeded players are listed below. Hana Mandlíková is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated....

Clay  West Germany Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...

6–2, 6–4
16. 30 August 1981 Mahwah, USA Hard  United States Pam Casale
Pam Casale
Pam Casale-Telford is a former professional tennis player from the United States....

6–2, 6–2
17. 8 January 1984 Washington, DC, USA Carpet (I)  United States Zina Garrison
Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...

6–1, 6–1
18. 15 January 1984 Oakland, USA
Bank of the West Classic
The Bank of the West Classic is a week-long tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, United States. The 2011 event will be held on July 25th to July 31st. Started in 1971, the tournament is the oldest women's-only tournament in the world...

Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 7–6(6), 3–6, 6–4
19. 5 February 1984 Houston, USA Carpet (I)  Bulgaria Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

6–4, 6–2
20. 25 March 1984 Dallas, USA Carpet (I)  United States 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...

7–6(3), 3–6, 6–1
21. 2 April 1984 Boston, USA Carpet (I)  Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
Helena Suková
Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

7–5, 6–0
22. 24 February 1985 Oakland, USA Carpet (I)  United States Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

6–2, 6–4
23. 9 March 1985 Princeton, USA
US Indoors
The US Indoors, known formally as the U.S. Indoor Championships, was a national tennis championship for women that was sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association and held 79 times from 1907 through 2001 at various locations and on various surfaces. The event was affiliated with the WTA...

Carpet (I)  Sweden Catarina Lindqvist
Catarina Lindqvist
Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.-Career:Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of #10 in April 1985. She also won 6 WTA Tour singles titles and 1 doubles...

6–3, 7–5
24. 7 September 1985 US Open, New York City Hard  United States Martina Navratilova 7–6(3), 1–6, 7–6(2)
25. 4 January 1987 Brisbane, Australia
Danone Hardcourt Championships
The Danone Hardcourt Championships is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1987 to 1994. It was held at the Milton Tennis Centre in Brisbane in Australia and played on grass courts from 1987 to 1988 and on outdoor hard courts from 1989 to 1994.-Singles:-Doubles:-References:*...

Grass  United States Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

6–2, 2–6, 6–4
26. 24 January 1987 Australian Open, Melbourne
1987 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion, but she was defeated by Hana Mandlíková in the final, 7–5, 7–6.-Seeds:# Martina Navratilova # Hana Mandlíková # Pam Shriver ...

Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 7–5, 7–6(1)
27. 29 March 1987 Washington, DC, USA Carpet (I)  United States Barbara Potter
Barbara Potter
Barbara Potter is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning five singles titles and eighteen doubles titles.-Career:...

6–4, 6–2

Doubles (19)

Grand Slam events in boldface.

  • 1979: Adelaide (with Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

    )
  • 1980: Perugia (with Renáta Tomanová
    Renáta Tomanová
    Renáta Tomanová is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.In 1976, Tomanová reached the singles final at both the French Open and the Australian Open. She lost at the French Open to Sue Barker 6–2, 0–6, 6–2 and at the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6–2, 6–2...

    )
  • 1980: Filderstadt (with Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.-Career:...

    )
  • 1980: Amsterdam (with Betty Stöve)
  • 1984: Marco Island (with Helena Suková
    Helena Suková
    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

    )
  • 1984: Hilton Head (Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

    )
  • 1984: Orlando (with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch)
  • 1985: Oakland (with Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

    )
  • 1985: Amelia Island (with Rosalyn Fairbank
    Rosalyn Fairbank
    Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance coming as late as 1997...

    )
  • 1985: Filderstadt (with Pam Shriver
    Pam Shriver
    Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

    )

  • 1985: Zürich (with Andrea Temesvári
    Andrea Temesvari
    Andrea Temesvári is a former professional tennis player once ranked as high as World No. 7. She won the Italian Open at sixteen, but injuries later hampered her career. She received the Most Improved Player Award by WTA Tour and TENNIS Magazine in 1982. At the 1986 French Open she won the women's...

    )
  • 1985: Sydney (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1986: Oakland (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1986: Virginia Slims Championships (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1987: Brisbane (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1987: San Francisco (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1989: Indian Wells (with Pam Shriver)
  • 1989: Hilton Head (with Martina Navratilova)
  • 1989: US Open (with Martina Navratilvoa)


Singles (24)

Legend
Grand Slams
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 (4)
WTA Championships (1)
Runner-ups by surface
Hard (6)
Clay (6)
Grass (4)
Carpet (8)
No. Date Location Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 20 April 1980 Amelia Island, USA Clay  Czechoslovakia Martina Navrátilová 5–7, 6–3, 6–2
2. 27 July 1980 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay  Romania Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

3–6, 6–1 (ret.)
3. 6 September 1980 US Open, New York City Hard  United States Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

5–7, 6–1, 6–1
4. 21 September 1980 Las Vegas, USA Hard (I)  United States Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982...

7–5, 4–6, 6–3
5. 1 February 1981 Chicago, USA
Ameritech Cup Chicago
The Ameritech Cup is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament held every year from 1971 until 1997 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Its sponsors were Virginia Slims from 1971 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1994, Avon from 1979 to 1982 and Ameritech from 1995 to 1997...

Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 6–4, 6–2
6. 2 February 1981 Detroit, USA
Virginia Slims of Detroit
The Virginia Slims of Detroit is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1972 to 1983. It was held in Birmingham, Michigan in the United States in 1972 and in Detroit, Michigan in the United States from 1973 to 1983...

Carpet (I)  United States Leslie Allen
Leslie Allen (tennis)
Leslie Allen is a retired American professional tennis player.Allen was a member of the University of Southern California national championship team and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications...

6–4, 6–4
7. 4 April 1981 Carlsbad, USA Hard  United States Chris Evert 6–4, 6–3
8. 4 July 1981 Wimbledon, London
1981 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
Reigning champion Evonne Cawley did not defend her title. Chris Evert defeated Hana Mandlíková 6-2 6-2 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships.See also:-Seeds:...

Grass  United States Chris Evert 6–2, 6–2
9. 9 May 1982 Perugia, Italy Clay  United States Chris Evert 6–0, 6–2
10. 20 June 1982 Eastbourne, UK Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 6–4, 6–3
11. 11 September 1982 US Open, New York City Hard  United States Chris Evert 6–3, 6–1
12. 30 January 1983 Marco Island, USA Clay  United States Andrea Jaeger 6–1, 6–3
13. 28 August 1983 Mahwah, USA
WTA New Jersey
The WTA New Jersey is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1978 to 1989. It was held in Mahwah, New Jersey in the United States and played on outdoor hard courts....

Hard  United Kingdom Jo Durie
Jo Durie
Jo Durie is a former world number 5 professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles.-Singles career:...

2–6, 7–5, 6–4
14. 18 November 1984 Tokyo, Japan
Lion's Cup
The Lion's Cup was a WTA Tour tennis tournament held from 1978 until 1985, in Tokyo, Japan. The event was held on indoor hard courts in 1978 and 1979 before moving to indoor carpet courts. Only a singles event was contested.-Champions:-External links:*...

Carpet (I)  Bulgaria Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

6–1, 1–6, 6–4
15. 6 April 1985 Palm Beach Gardens, USA
Palm Beach Cup
The Palm Beach Cup is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1982 to 1985. It was held at the Frenchman's Creek Beach & Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in the United States and played on outdoor clay courts....

Clay  United States Chris Evert 6–3, 6–3
16. 3 November 1985 Zürich, Switzerland
Zurich Open
The Zurich Open was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 1993 until 2007. In its final year, 2008, it was downgraded to a Tier II event.The Open was held at...

Carpet (I)  United States Zina Garrison
Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...

6–1, 6–3
17. 24 November 1985 Sydney, Australia Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
18. 23 March 1986 Virginia Slims Championships, New York City
WTA Tour Championships
The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour. The month, city and number of players has changed since the first edition in 1972...

Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1
19. 5 July 1986 Wimbledon, London
1986 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated Hana Mandlíková 7-6 6-3 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1986 Wimbledon Championships.See also:-Seeds:...

Grass  United States Martina Navratilova 7–6(1), 6–3
20. 19 October 1986 Filderstadt, West Germany
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is a tennis tournament held in Stuttgart, Germany . Held since 1978, the tournament is the oldest women's indoor tournament in Europe. Currently it is a Tier II tournament on the WTA Tour. The singles champion also receives a Porsche 911 Carrera sports car in addition...

Hard (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 6–2, 6–3
21. 9 November 1986 Worcester, USA
VS of Boston
The Virginia Slims of Boston is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1971 to 1984. It was held in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States and played on indoor hard courts from 1971 to 1980 and on indoor carpet courts from 1981 to 1984....

Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 6–2, 6–2
22. 16 November 1986 Chicago, USA
Ameritech Cup Chicago
The Ameritech Cup is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament held every year from 1971 until 1997 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Its sponsors were Virginia Slims from 1971 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1994, Avon from 1979 to 1982 and Ameritech from 1995 to 1997...

Carpet (I)  United States Martina Navratilova 7–5, 7–5
23. 19 April 1987 Amelia Island, USA Clay  West Germany Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

6–3, 6–4
24. 1 November 1987 Zürich, Switzerland Carpet (I)  West Germany Steffi Graf 6–2, 6–2

Doubles (19)

Grand Slam events in boldface.

  • 1980: Kitzbühel (with Renáta Tomanová
    Renáta Tomanová
    Renáta Tomanová is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.In 1976, Tomanová reached the singles final at both the French Open and the Australian Open. She lost at the French Open to Sue Barker 6–2, 0–6, 6–2 and at the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6–2, 6–2...

    )
  • 1980: Stockholm (with Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.-Career:...

    )
  • 1981: Detroit (with Betty Stöve)
  • 1983: Amelia Island (with Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

    )
  • 1983: Sydney (with Helena Suková
    Helena Suková
    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

    )
  • 1984: French Open (Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

    )
  • 1984: Montreal (with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch)
  • 1984: Zürich (with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch)
  • 1985: Delray Bay (with 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...

    )
  • 1985: Los Angeles (with Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

    )

  • 1986: Princeton (with Helena Suková
    Helena Suková
    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

    )
  • 1986: Dallas (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1986: Wimbledon (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1986: US Open (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1987: Amelia Island (with Wendy Turnbull)
  • 1988: Oakland (with Jana Novotná
    Jana Novotná
    Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

    )
  • 1989: Brighton (with Jana Novotná)
  • 1990: Brisbane (with Pam Shriver
    Pam Shriver
    Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

    )
  • 1990: Berlin (with Jana Novotná)


Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Career SR
Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

A QF W QF 2R 2R A SF NH W QF 4R 3R 2 / 10
French Open 2R QF SF W SF QF SF QF SF 2R 2R 1R A 1 / 12
Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

A 4R 4R F 2R 4R SF 3R F A 3R 4R 2R 0 / 11
US Open 3R 2R F QF F QF QF W 4R 4R A 3R A 1 / 11
SR 0 / 2 0 / 4 1 / 4 1 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 3 1 / 4 0 / 3 1 / 3 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 2 4 / 44


NH = tournament not held.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

See also


External links

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