Janine Whyte

Last updated

Janine Whyte
Country (sports)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (1970, 1972)
Wimbledon Q2 (1972)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 2R (1968)

Janine Whyte is an Australian former professional tennis player.

Whyte won a girls' doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open (with Patricia Edwards). [1] She twice played in the women's singles second round at the Australian Open, including in the 1972 tournament when she lost to Evonne Goolagong. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evonne Goolagong Cawley</span> Australian aboriginal tennis player (born 1951)

Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerry Melville</span> Australian tennis player

Kerry Melville Reid is a former professional tennis player from Australia. During her 17-year career, Reid won one Grand Slam singles title and 26 other singles titles and was the runner-up in 40 singles tournaments. Reid was included in the year-end world top-ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968–1979). She won at least one tournament annually from 1966 through 1979, except for 1975. Her career-high ranking was world No. 5 in 1971, behind Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong, and Rosie Casals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Françoise Dürr</span> French tennis player

Françoise Dürr is a retired French tennis player. She won 50 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Tuero</span> American tennis player

Linda Tuero is an American tennis player and paleoanthropologist. She won six U.S Junior Titles and three U.S. Women's Titles. She reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1971, and won the singles titles at the Italian Open in 1972. She represented the United States in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup teams in 1972 and 1973 and served as the Federation Cup Captain in 1973. Tuero was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten Women Singles for four years and in 1972 was ranked No. 10 in the World.

Renáta Tomanová is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.

Helen Gourlay Cawley is a retired tennis player from Australia.

Judy Tegart-Dalton is an Australian former professional tennis player. She won nine major doubles titles, and completed the career Grand Slam in women's doubles. Five of her doubles titles were with Margaret Court. Tegart was also a runner-up in 10 major doubles tournaments.

The 1975 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Australia and was held from 21 December 1974 to 1 January 1975. It was the 63rd edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles were won by Australians John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong.

The 1971 Australian Open, also known under its sponsored name Dunlop Australian Open, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 7 to 14 March. The tournament was originally scheduled to be played in Melbourne but was moved to Sydney on account of a $125,000 sponsorship deal with Dunlop. The tournament date was moved from its regular January slot to March to accommodate scheduling requirements made by the commercial promoters World Championship Tennis and National Tennis League. It was the 59th edition of the Australian Open, the 17th and final one held in Sydney, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. The singles titles were won by Australians Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court. The tiebreak was introduced for all sets except the deciding set.

Lesley Hunt is a former tennis player from Perth, Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerry Harris</span> Australian tennis player

Kerry Harris is an Australian former professional tennis player, active from 1967 to 1975, who reached the semi-final of the 1972 Australian Open, and reached four Grand Slam doubles finals, of which she won one, in the 1972 Australian Open.

Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court defeated Jill Emmerson and Lesley Hunt 6–0, 6–0 in the final to win the women's doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open.

Janine G. Thompson Tremelling is a former tennis player from Australia who won the Girls' Doubles in the 1985 Wimbledon Championships, with Louise Field.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dianne Evers</span> Australian tennis player

Dianne Evers is a retired female tennis player from Australia. With her partner Judy Chaloner, she won the 1979 Australian Open Doubles title and had a career high singles ranking of No. 42.

Amanda Tobin, now known as Amanda Chaplin, is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She also competed as Amanda Tobin-Evans and Amanda Tobin-Dingwall.

Janet Anne Young is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

Patricia A. Edwards is a retired Australian tennis player. She won the girls' double title in the Australian Championship twice, in 1969 and 1971.

Jill Alison Emmerson is an Australian former tennis player from Sydney. She competed under her maiden name Jill Blackman until the late 1960s.

Janet Fallis is an Australian former professional tennis player of the 1970s.

Helen Kayser is an Australian former professional tennis player.

References

  1. "Girls' Doubles". ausopen.com.
  2. "Newcombe and Miss Goolagong Advance in Australian Open". The New York Times . 30 December 1971.