Linda Tuero

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Linda Tuero
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Country (sports)Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Residence Sea Island, Georgia, U.S.
Born (1950-10-21) October 21, 1950 (age 73)
Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Turned pro1972
Retired1973
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
College Tulane University [1]
Singles
Career recordunknown value
Career titles4
Highest rankingNo. 10 (1972)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open QF (1971)
Wimbledon 3R (1971)
US Open 3R (1968, 1971)
Doubles
Career recordunknown value
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open 3R (1969)
Wimbledon 2R (1972)
US Open QF (1969)

Linda Tuero (born October 21, 1950) 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.

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Biography

Linda Tuero was born in Metairie, Louisiana. She started playing tennis at the age of 11 and was taught by Emmett Paré throughout her career. At age 13, she won the US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship and by the time she had graduated from high school, she had won six national titles: the 1964 US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Doubles Championship, the 1967 US National Girl's 18 Clay Court Singles Championship, the 1968 US National Girl's 18 Clay Court Singles Championship, and the 1968 National Interscholastic Championship. [2] [3] [4]

Tuero was the first woman to be awarded an athletic scholarship to Tulane University, the first woman to play on a Tulane varsity team and the first woman to win a varsity Green Wave letter. [5] [6]

While a member of the Tulane tennis team, she played on the women's professional tennis circuit but kept her amateur status. During this time, she won the singles and doubles titles at Cincinnati in 1968 and three more national titles: the 1969 US Amateur Championship, [7] 1970 US Amateur Championship [7] and the 1970 US Open Clay Court Championship.

In 1971, she was runner-up in the US Open Clay Courts, losing to Billie Jean King in the finals, reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, and was a finalist in Cincinnati.

In 1972, playing her first year as a professional, Linda won the Italian Open. [8] She also won the first International Tournament of Madrid (Madrid Open) and was a semifinalist in the US Open Clay Courts, Canadian Open, WTA German Open, and Cincinnati with losses to Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, and Margaret Court. In 1973, she had a win over Martina Navratilova in the Fort Lauderdale Classic.

Tuero represented the US in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup teams in 1972 and 1973, serving as the Federation Cup captain in 1973 [9]

Her top career world rankings included No 1 in Women-Under-21 and No 10 in World (Women). She has been inducted into the Halls of Fame of Tulane University, [10] Louisiana Tennis Tennis Hall of Fame, [11] and USTA Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. [12]

Personal life

In 1968, she graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie, Louisiana. In 1971, she graduated cum laude from Tulane with a major in psychology. [13]

In 1973, while working as an extra in The Exorcist , she met the author William Peter Blatty. They were married in July 1975 and had two children, restaurant entrepreneur Billy and photojournalist J.T. Blatty. [14] She also appeared in The Ninth Configuration , which he wrote.

After her divorce from Blatty, she married William Paul. [13] She had another son during this marriage. She is now married to Dr. William Lindsley who is a former business consultant and former dean and professor at Boston College, Vanderbilt University Owen School of Management, and Belmont University Graduate School of Business. [13]

In 2000, Tuero enrolled in the Tulane Graduate School, and in 2004, she graduated with a master's degree in anthropology, specializing in the field of paleoanthropology. In 2005, she was part of a excavation in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya. [13]

Career finals

Singles (5 titles, 6 runners-up)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1.Jul 1968 Tri-State Tournament, Cincinnati, USAClay Flag of the United States.svg Tory Fretz 6–1, 6–2
Loss2.Jul 1969 U.S. Clay Court Open, Indianapolis, USAClay Flag of France.svg Gail Sherriff Chanfreau 2–6, 2–6
Win3.Aug 1970 U.S. Clay Court Open, Indianapolis, USAClay Flag of France.svg Gail Sherriff Chanfreau 7–5, 6–1
Loss4.Aug 1971 Western Championships, Cincinnati, USAClay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Virginia Wade 3–6, 3–6
Loss5.Aug, 1971 U.S. Clay Court Open, Indianapolis, USAClay Flag of the United States.svg Billie Jean King 4–6, 5–7
Loss6.Dec 1971Border Championships, East London, South Africa [15] Clay Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Ilana Kloss 3–6, 2–6
Win7.Jan 1972Eastern Province, Port Elizabeth, South Africa [15] Clay Flag of the United States.svg Sharon Walsh 6–1, 6–2
Loss8.Jan 1972Cape Province, Cape Town, South Africa [15] Clay Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Patricia Pretorius 3–6, 4–6
Win9.Apr 1972Melia Trophy, Madrid, SpainClay Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Alena Palmeova6–3, 6–1
Win10.May 1972 Italian Open, Rome, ItalyClay Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Olga Morozova 6–4, 6–3
Loss11.Jun 1972 German Open, Hamburg, GermanyClay Flag of Germany.svg Helga Masthoff 3–6, 6–3, 6–8

Career highlights

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Awards and honors

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