Betty Stöve

Betty Stöve, 1962

Betty Stöve, 1973

Betty Stöve, 1973

Betty Flippina Stöve (born June 24, 1945 in Rotterdam ) is a former Dutch tennis player . Between 1972 and 1981 she won a total of ten Grand Slam titles in doubles and mixed.

Life

Even in her youth, Stöve was one of the best Dutch tennis players. In the early years of her tennis career, she suffered from a viral disease in the late 1960s, made worse by thyroid dysfunction , which forced her to take an 18-month break. She was even advised to end her athletic career.

Stöve celebrated its greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. In singles, she reached the final at Wimbledon in 1977, in which she was defeated by Virginia Wade 6: 4, 3: 6 and 1: 6. The 1.80 meter tall right-handed woman was even more successful in doubles; in this discipline she won six Grand Slam titles. Four more Grand Slam titles were added in mixed.

In 1977 she was in all three competitions (singles, doubles, mixed) at Wimbledon in the final, but had to leave the place as a loser each time. From 1966 to 1983 she also played for the Dutch Fed Cup team (with a few interruptions) .

Towards the end of her career, Stöve became a trainer. Between 1980 and 1990 she coached Hana Mandlíková , with whom she published the tennis textbook Total Tennis . In 1994 she worked as a coach for Kristie Boogert . She was also a sports official at the ITF and the WTA , where she was chairwoman of the WTA Tour Players Association for three terms .

Betty Stöve lives in Brasschaat near Antwerp .

Grand Slam title

• French Open
  • 1972 in doubles (with Billie Jean King )
  • 1979 in doubles (with Wendy Turnbull )

• Wimbledon
  • 1972 in doubles (with Billie Jean King)
  • 1978 in mixed (with Frew McMillan )
  • 1981 in mixed (with Frew McMillan )

• US Open
  • 1972 in doubles (with Françoise Durr )
  • 1977 in doubles (with Martina Navrátilová )
  • 1977 in mixed (with Frew McMillan)
  • 1978 in mixed (with Frew McMillan)
  • 1979 in doubles (with Wendy Turnbull)

literature

• Hana Mandlíková / Betty Stöve: Total Tennis : A Guide to the Fundamentals of the Game, Simon & Schuster, Australia 1990, ISBN 0-7318-0066-4
• Bud Collins: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , p. 709

Web links

Commons : Betty Stöve  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Betty Stöve (English)
• ITF profile of Betty Stöve (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Betty Stöve (English)
• Betty Stöve in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see references