Lisa Bonder

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Lisa Bonder
Country (sports)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (1965-10-16) October 16, 1965 (age 58)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Turned proJune 21, 1982
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$212,395
Singles
Career record139–126
Career titles4
Highest rankingNo. 9 (August 20, 1984)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (1985)
French Open QF (1984)
Wimbledon 4R (1984)
US Open 4R (1983, 1984)
Doubles
Career record30–70
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 158 (December 21, 1986)

Lisa Bonder (born October 16, 1965), also known as Lisa Bonder-Kreiss or Lisa Bonder-Kerkorian, is an American former professional tennis player. During her career, she won four singles titles on the WTA circuit and reached a highest ranking of No. 9 in August 1984.

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Career

Bonder played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1991 and won four titles before retiring, the first in 1982 in Hamburg, West Germany, and then three tournaments in Tokyo from 1982 to 1983. [1] She reached the fourth round of the US Open in 1983 and 1984 and at Wimbledon in 1984. She also reached a quarterfinal at Roland Garros in 1984. Notable career victories include wins over Chris Evert, Mary Joe Fernandez, and Andrea Jaeger. Bonder reached a career high ranking of no. 9 and retired with a 139–126 win–loss record. [2]

Personal life

Parents

Born in Columbus, Ohio to Seth and Julia Bonder, who later divorced, she was raised in Saline, Michigan. [3] Her father Seth, an American engineer who founded Vector Research, Inc., was born in the Bronx, New York to Russian emigrants who worked in the garment district. [4]

Change of name and son

She married Tom Kreiss on 10 January 1988, and changed her surname to Bonder-Kreiss. She and Kreiss have a son named Taylor Jennings Kreiss. [5] She divorced Kreiss to marry billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in 1999 whom she divorced within one month.

Daughter

Bonder was involved in a high-profile child support lawsuit with Kirk Kerkorian, her ex-husband of 28 days. Kerkorian, 48 years her senior, suspected that Steve Bing, Bonder's ex-boyfriend, was the father of her daughter. Kerkorian hired Anthony Pellicano, "private eye to the stars", during the dispute. Pellicano took used dental floss from Bing's discarded waste to obtain DNA paternity testing, succeeding in confirming that Bing was the father. [6] Pellicano also wiretapped Bonder's phone calls. Pellicano subsequently was convicted on various charges, including wiretapping and racketeering, involving this case and many other cases, and he received a 15-year prison sentence. One of Kerkorian's attorneys was convicted of racketeering for hiring Pellicano to tap Bonder's phone and received a three-year prison sentence, later confirmed on appeal. [7]

WTA Career finals

Singles: 5 (4–1)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Virginia Slims (4–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (1–1)
Carpet (1–0)
ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Jul 1982 Hamburg, West GermanyClay Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Renáta Tomanová 6–3, 6–2
Win2–0Oct 1982 Tokyo, JapanHard Flag of the United States.svg Shelley Solomon 2–6, 6–0, 6–3
Win3–0Sep 1983 Tokyo, JapanCarpet (i) Flag of the United States.svg Andrea Jaeger 6–2, 5–7, 6–1
Win4–0Oct 1983 Tokyo, JapanHard Flag of Peru.svg Laura Arraya 6–1, 6–3
Loss4–1Aug 1984 Indianapolis, USClay Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Manuela Maleeva 4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Virginia Slims (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Nov 1985 Tampa, USHard Flag of Peru.svg Laura Gildemeister Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Carling Bassett
Flag of Argentina.svg Gabriela Sabatini 		0–6, 0–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Career SR
Australian Open AAAA 2R NHAAAAA0 / 1
French Open A 3R 3R QF 2R 3R 2R 1R AAA0 / 7
Wimbledon A 1R 4R 3R 1R 2R 1R AAA 1R 0 / 7
US Open 1R 2R 4R 4R 2R 3R 3R 1R AA 1R 0 / 9
SR0 / 10 / 30 / 30 / 30 / 40 / 30 / 30 / 20 / 00 / 00 / 20 / 24
Year-end ranking122413416365549126300303110

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  2. ↑ "ITF Lisa Bonder-Kreiss (USA)" . Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ Katz, Jesse (September 2002). "The Game of Love". Los Angeles Magazine: 71.
  4. ↑ Cherry, W. Peter (2011). "Seth Bonder". In Assad, Arjang A.; Gass, Saul L. (eds.). Profiles in Operations Research. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Vol. 147. Springer. pp. 739–752. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_41. ISBN   978-1-4419-6280-5.
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