Pan American Games 1983 / Tennis / Women's Singles

Women's tennis singles at the 1983 Pan American Games
Competitions
singles	Men's	Ladies
Double	Men's	Ladies	Mixed

The women's singles at the 1983 Pan American Games was a tennis competition in Caracas .

Competition mode

The 21 participants were initially divided into seven preliminary round groups of three players each, in which each played against each other. The first two in the group advanced to the round of 16, from which the knockout system was used.

Preliminary round

Group A

Results

Player	Player	Result
Helena Kemp	Gretchen Rush
Helena Kemp	Claudia Borgiani	0: 6, 0: 6
Gretchen Rush	Claudia Borgiani	6: 4, 6: 2

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Gretchen Rush	2-0
2	Claudia Borgiani	1: 1	2: 2	18:12
3	Helena Kemp	0: 2

Group B

Results

Player	Player	Result
Liliana Fernández	María Ester Rodríguez
Liliana Fernández	Marilda Juliá
María Ester Rodríguez	Marilda Juliá	1: 6, 3: 6

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Liliana Fernández	2-0
2	Marilda Juliá	1: 1
3	María Ester Rodríguez	0: 2

Group C

Results

Player	Player	Result
Mary Dávila	Vicki Tasker
Mary Dávila	Heliane Steden	0: 6, 0: 6
Vicki Tasker	Heliane Steden	1: 6, 1: 6

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Heliane Steden	2-0	4-0	24: 01
2	Mary Dávila	1: 1
3	Vicki Tasker	0: 2

Group D

Results

Player	Player	Result
Gloria Escobar	Mercedes Paz	6: 7, 6: 4, 3: 6
Gloria Escobar	Louise Allen	1: 6, 1: 6
Mercedes Paz	Louise Allen

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Louise Allen	2-0
2	Mercedes Paz	1: 1
3	Gloria Escobar	0: 2	1: 4	20:29

Group E

Results

Player	Player	Result
Graciela Pérez	Valerie Garip
Graciela Pérez	Kim Tasker	7: 6, 6: 4
Valerie Garip	Kim Tasker

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Graciela Pérez	2-0
2	Valerie Garip	1: 1
3	Kim Tasker	0: 2

Group F.

Results

Player	Player	Result
Odalis Moreno	Beatriz Fernández	2: 6, 1: 6
Odalis Moreno	Silvana Campos	0: 6, 3: 6
Beatriz Fernández	Silvana Campos	6: 1, 6: 2

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Beatriz Fernández	2-0	4-0	24: 05
2	Silvana Campos	1: 1	2: 2	15:15
3	Odalis Moreno	0: 2	0: 4	05:24

Group G

Results

Player	Player	Result
Luciana Corsato	Claudia Hernández
Luciana Corsato	Stefanía Sernaglia	6: 3, 6: 2
Claudia Hernández	Stefanía Sernaglia

table

Item	Player	Matches	sentences	Games
1	Claudia Hernández	2-0
2	Luciana Corsato	1: 1
3	Stefanía Sernaglia	0: 2

Knockout round

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

H. Steden

6th

6th

G. Perez

G. Perez

0

2

L. Corsato

H. Steden

4th

2

B. Fernández

6th

6th

B. Fernández

6th

6th

V. Garip

0

0

B. Fernández

6th

6th

L. Allen

6th

7th

L. Allen

1

2

L. Fernández

1

5

B. Fernández

6th

3

5

M. Paz

6th

6th

G. Rush

1

6th

7th

M. Juliá

1

0

M. Paz

3

6th

2

S. Campos

7th

6th

S. Campos

6th

4th

6th

C. Hernández

5

4th

S. Campos

5

5

C. Borgiani

6th

6th

G. Rush

7th

7th

M. Dávila

3

0

C. Borgiani

3

4th

3rd place match

G. Rush

6th

6th

H. Steden

7th

6th

S. Campos

5

1

source

• Memoria IX Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos 1983 Caracas -Venezuela (PDF file; 25.3 MB), pp. 357–359. The individual results were compiled as far as possible from contemporary newspaper reports available online.

Remarks

1. ↑ This mode had already been used at the Central America and Caribbean Games in 1978 and was obviously intended to ensure that every player got a minimum number of matches.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Result unknown