Patty Fendick
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Patty Fendick is a former professional women's tennis player http://www.tenniscorner.net/index.php?corner=w&action=highlight&playerid=FEP001 and is the current head women's tennis coach at the University of Texas.

She was born on March 31, 1965 in Sacramento, California and played collegiately at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where the team won the NCAA
NCAA Women's Tennis Championship
The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's tennis tournament to determine the Team Championships, Singles Championships, and Doubles Championships in Women's Tennis. It was started in 1982.-2009 Division tournament:...

 title three times. In 1987, she was named ITA
Intercollegiate Tennis Association
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 player of the year, after enjoying a 57 match winning streak on the Stanford tennis team. She won two NCAA Singles Titles in '86 and '87.

Women's doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in final Score in final
Runner-up 1988 US Open  Hard   Jill Hetherington
Jill Hetherington
Jill Hetherington Hultquist is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Hultquist played college tennis for the University of Florida, and is the current women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington....

 
  Gigi Fernández
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...

 
  Robin White
Robin White (tennis)
Robin White is a former professional tennis player from the United States.White played on the WTA tour from 1983 to 1995. She won two singles titles, in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1985 and in Auckland in 1992 but the highlight of her career was her victory with Gigi Fernández in the US Open doubles...

 
6–4, 6–1
Runner-up 1989 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...

 
Hard   Jill Hetherington   Martina Navrátilová 
  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...

 
3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Runner-up 1990 Australian Open Hard   Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...

 
  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...

 
  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...

 
7–6(5), 7–6(6)
Winner 1991 Australian Open Hard   Mary Joe Fernandez   Gigi Fernández
  Jana Novotná
7–6(4), 6–1
Runner-up 1994 Australian Open Hard   Meredith McGrath
Meredith McGrath
Meredith McGrath is a former professional tennis player. She was born on April 28, 1971 in Midland, Michigan, USA and made her debut on the Women's Tennis Association tour in 1988. She won three singles titles in a ten year career, at Oklahoma City and Eastbourne in 1994 and Birmingham in 1996. ...

 
  Gigi Fernández
  Natalia Zvereva
6–3, 4–6, 6–4

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