Kerry Reid
Kerry Reid | |||||||||||||
Kerry Melville, Dutch Open 1970 | |||||||||||||
Nation: | Australia | ||||||||||||
Birthday: | August 7, 1947 | ||||||||||||
Size: | 166 cm | ||||||||||||
Resignation: | 1980 | ||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | $ 1,425 | ||||||||||||
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Career title: | 1 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 7 (July 4th 1976) | ||||||||||||
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Career title: | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
Kerry Reid (* 7. August 1947 as Kerry Ann Melville in Mosman ) is a former Australian tennis player .
The high point of her career was winning the Australian Open in January 1977 when she defeated Dianne Balestrat from the Netherlands 7-5 and 6-2 in the final. At that time people played in Melbourne 's Kooyong district and on grass; In 1970 she was there in the singles final of the tennis legend Margaret Court . In 1972 she was in the final of the US Open , in which she had to admit defeat to Billie Jean King . Between 1968 and 1979 it was consistently in the top ten .
She also won the doubles competition at the Australian Open in 1968 and (without a fight; the final was not played due to rain) in 1977 . She secured another Grand Slam title in doubles in 1978 on the side of Wendy Turnbull at Wimbledon .
From 1967 to 1979 she also played 47 games for the Australian Fed Cup team , where she celebrated 37 wins.
Reid is one of nine players, the Original 9 , who played the Virginia Slims Invitational in 1970 , hosted and sponsored by Gladys Heldman .
On April 27, 1975, she married tennis player Grover Reid in Greenville , South Carolina . She later retired with her family (two daughters) in South Carolina.
Web links
- WTA-profile Kerry Reid (English)
- ITF profile Kerry Reid (English)
- Fed Cup stats by Kerry Reid (English)
- Profile of Kerry Reid on "tennis.com.au" (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ wtatennis.com: Original 9 Reunion: It's A Wrap!
- ^ For Evonne and Kerry, a Couple of Love Matches. In: The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia, May 28, 1975, accessed December 3, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Reid, Kerry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Melville, Kerry |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mosman , Australia |