Who is your favourite foreign former player? Womens Rd 1, Group 9

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Who is your favourite foreign former player? Womens Rd 1, Group 9

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

This is an ouch group!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Steffi was probably my favourite - was in Charles De Gaulle airport one year when a mass of bodies came sweeping through the terminal, and her and Andre and entourage came by! Star struck!

the addict · Tennis legend

My vote has to go to Steffi - first saw her play when she was just 15 - and she went on to reach Wimbledon R4 where she lost to Jo Durie 9-7 in the third.

Michael D · All-time great

Yes Steffi for me too, though in other groups I'd have gone for Yvonne Goolagong Cawley for what she achieved and stood for.

indiana · Tennis legend

Another big group. Steffi will sail through. Hope my vote helps Evonne. Loved her.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

O'Neil is best known for her singles victory at the 1978 Australian Open, the last Australian female to do so. She also became the first unseeded woman to win the Australian title in the open era.[2] In a relatively weak field she defeated Betsy Nagelsen in the final in straight sets.[3] This feat went unmatched until Serena Williams, unseeded and ranked World No. 81, won the 2007 Australian Open.[4] O'Neil is also one of the few players who have won both the Australian Open Junior (1973) and Senior (1978) championship titles.[2]

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Graf, Goolagong and Safarova leading the field here.

brittak · Satellite level

Like Graf but have voted for Evonne Goolagong - lovely free style of play.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Marion Bartoli is the only ladies Wimbledon champion of the Open era never to have played in one of the other Grand Slam finals. But she did make 2 Wimbledon finals.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Marion Bartoli is the only ladies Wimbledon champion of the Open era never to have played in one of the other Grand Slam finals. But she did make 2 Wimbledon finals.

Another French on grass !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Graf, Goolagong and Safarova leading the field here.

Closes at 6, no change overnight.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Mention of Marion Bartoli reminds one of a player who fell through the net of not being retired yet barely being active. I am referring to Sabine Lisicki who in her prime of 2013 (Wimbledon exploits excluding final performance ) was very popular.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Mention of Marion Bartoli reminds one of a player who fell through the net of not being retired yet barely being active. I am referring to Sabine Lisicki who in her prime of 2013 (Wimbledon exploits excluding final performance ) was very popular.

Yes, you're right, shes currently ranked around 595. If she declared retired shed be taken out of rankings and in this field. Toyed with it...

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Seeing Vera Sukova's name, has the player who beat her in the 1962 Wimbledon final been missed out? I am referring to Karen Susman, but I dare say there would not have been a rush for votes. She was in that rare group of people who won both Wimbledon(1962) and junior Wimbledon(1960). She did not defend the title in 1963 and Wimbledon was her only major singles title. However she won the Wimbledon doubles title in 1961 and 1962 with the better known Billie-Jean. She came back to Wimbledon in 1977 and played doubles with Billie-Jean.