Terry Holladay

Last updated
Terry Holladay
Country (sports)Flag of the United States.svg  United States
ResidenceLeucadia, Encinitas, California, U.S.
Born (1955-11-28) November 28, 1955 (age 68)
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [1]
Turned pro1974
Retired1988
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand) [1]
Prize money$84,186
Singles
Career record84–186
Career titles0
Highest rankingTop 10
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 1R (1985, 1987)
French Open 1R (1985, 1986 1987)
Wimbledon 4R (1977, 1980)
US Open 4R (1976)
Doubles
Career record32–38
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 54
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon 2R (1975)
US Open 2R (1978)

Terry Holladay (born November 28, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player who played between 1974 and 1987, whose tennis career is particularly remembered for her pregnancy and its impact on protected rankings. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Biography

Holladay was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up in La Jolla, San Diego, California, attending and graduating from La Jolla High School. [5] Following her retirement from tennis, Holladay became a realtor. [5] In 2000, she survived breast cancer. [5] She married Dr. Philip Arthur Higginbottom, with whom she founded the Dina Humanitarian Foundation. [6]

Tennis career

She turned professional in 1974 and regards 1976 as her best year. [5] She represented the United States in the 1976 Wightman Cup, beating Glynis Coles 3–6, 6–1, 6–4 in her only match in this competition. In 1982, she gave birth to a daughter Tasha, and was awarded special entry to six tournaments in 1983 by the WTA introducing a new rule. [2]

She was inducted into the San Diego Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012. [7] [8]

Career results

Grand Slam singles tournament 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.
Tournament1975197619771978197919801981198219831984198519861987Career SR
Australian Open AAAAAAAAAA 2R NH 1R 0 / 2
French Open AAAAAAAAAA 1R 1R 1R 0 / 3
Wimbledon 1R 3R 4R 3R A 4R 1R AA 1R 2R A 1R 0 / 7
U.S. Open 2R 1R 2R 4R 3R AAA 3R 2R 1R 1R A0 / 8
SR0 / 20 / 20 / 20 / 20 / 10 / 10 / 10 / 00 / 10 / 20 / 40 / 20 / 30 / 23

Singles finals

ResultDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
LossMay 1975 Bournemouth, UKClay Flag of the United States.svg Janet Newberry 7–9, 7–5, 6–3
LossMar 1977 Dallas, Texas, USCarpet (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sue Barker 6–1, 7–6(7–4)
LossSep 1980 Tokyo, JapanCarpet (i) Flag of the United States.svg Billie Jean King 7–5, 6–4
LossSep 1984 Salt Lake City, USCarpet (i) Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Yvonne Vermaak 6–3, 3–6, 6–2
LossDec 1984 Port St. Lucie, USCarpet (i) Flag of Sweden.svg Catarina Lindqvist 6–2, 2–6, 6–2

Doubles finals

ResultDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
LossSep 1984 San Diego, USHard Flag of Poland.svg Iwona Kuczyńska Flag of the United States.svg Betsy Nagelsen
Flag of the United States.svg Paula Smith 		2–6, 4–6
WinJun 1985 Birmingham, UKGrass Flag of the United States.svg Sharon Walsh Flag of the United States.svg Elise Burgin
Flag of the United States.svg Alycia Moulton 		6–4, 5–7, 6–3
WinJul 1986 Newport, USGrass Flag of the United States.svg Heather Ludloff Flag of the United States.svg Cynthia MacGregor
Flag of the United States.svg Gretchen Magers 		6–1, 6–7, 6–3

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gigi Fernández</span> American professional tennis player

Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. Fernández won 17 major doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals representing the United States, and reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 17 in 1991. Since retiring from the professional tour in 1997 at the age of 33, Fernández has been a tennis coach and entrepreneur. She now shares her knowledge of doubles with tennis enthusiasts throughout the US by conducting Master Doubles with Gigi Clinics and Doubles Boot Camps. Fernández is the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chanda Rubin</span> American tennis player

Chanda Rubin is an American former top-10 professional tennis player. During her career, she reached the semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open, the quarterfinals of the French Open three times, and had wins over world-number-ones Serena Williams and Martina Hingis. In doubles, she won the 1996 Australian Open with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and was runner-up at the 1999 US Open with Sandrine Testud.

<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.

Brian David Teacher is a former American professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Renée Richards</span> US tennis player and ophthalmologist

Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who competed on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laura Granville</span> American tennis player

Laura Granville is a former American professional tennis player. During the two years she spent at Stanford University, she set the record for most consecutive singles victories with 58 and finished with an overall record of 93–3. Granville won the NCAA Championship in singles as well as the ITA Player of the Year in both 2000 and 2001.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Frazier</span> American tennis player

Amy Frazier is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won eight singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. On February 27, 1995, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 13, while on March 29, 1993, she achieved a career-high doubles ranking of No. 24.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Heldman</span> American tennis player

Julie Heldman is an American tennis player who won 22 singles titles. In 1968 and 1969, she was ranked No. 2 in the U.S. She was Canadian National 18 and Under Singles Champion at age 12, U.S. Champion in Girls’ 15 Singles and Girls’ 18 Singles, Italian Open Singles Champion, Canadian Singles and Doubles Champion, and U.S. Clay Court Doubles Champion. She won three medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and three gold medals at the 1969 Maccabiah Games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ilana Kloss</span> South African tennis player, coach, and commissioner

Ilana Sheryl Kloss is a former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and commissioner of World TeamTennis from 2001-21. She was the World's No. 1 ranked doubles player in 1976, and World No. 19 in singles in 1979. She won the Wimbledon juniors singles title in 1972, the US Open juniors singles title in 1974, and the US Open Doubles and French Open Mixed Doubles titles in 1976. She won three gold medals at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Lori McNeil is an American tennis coach and former top 10 player. McNeil was a singles semifinalist at the US Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1994, a women's doubles finalist at the Australian Open in 1987 with Zina Garrison and French Open mixed-doubles winner in 1988 with Jorge Lozano.

Debbie Graham or Debbie Graham Shaffer is a retired tennis player from the United States.

Mareen "Peanut" Louie-Harper is a retired American tennis player, born in San Francisco, California to Ron and Alice Louie. She was a top-ranked junior tennis player and professional tennis player on the WTA tour. She reached a career high singles ranking of 19 in the world in 1985 and doubles ranking of 31 in the world in 1992. She is currently the co-founder and program director of Harper for Kids, a youth character development program.

Ben Press was an American tennis player, coach, and writer, known for his involvement in World Team Tennis, his connection with the Hotel del Coronado, and as teacher of tennis standouts such as Maureen Connolly and Karen Hantze Susman.

William Edward Bond was an American tennis player.

Roy Barth is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

Marita Redondo is an American former tennis player who was active during the 1970s and early 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anita Figueredo</span> Costa Rican-American surgeon and philanthropist

Anita V. Figueredo was an American surgeon and philanthropist, the first woman medical doctor from Costa Rica and the first woman surgeon to practice in San Diego, California. She was posthumously inducted into the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Stacy Margolin is a former American professional tennis player in the WTA tour and the ITF world tour from 1979 to 1987 whose career-high world singles ranking is No. 18. In her eight professional seasons, Margolin competed in a total of twenty-five grand slam championships, which includes several appearances at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the French Open. She won a gold medal at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

John Holladay is an American former professional tennis player.

Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer is an American former professional tennis player. She was a USTA national collegiate doubles champion in 1977, won a bronze medal in singles and a silver medal in doubles for the United States at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

References

  1. 1 2 Bostic, Stephanie, ed. (1979). USTA Player Records 1978. United States Tennis Association (USTA). p. 203.
  2. 1 2 Magee, Jerry (July 27, 2006). "Holladay didn't start a trend - Toddlers rare on WTA Tour". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Union-Tribune Publishing. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  3. ↑ Flannery, Mary (March 18, 1986). "Bringing up baby on tour/Golfer Nancy Lopez part of growing phenomenon of traveling athletes with young children". Chron. The Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  4. ↑ Poupart, Alain (October 2, 1985). "Double life of a tennis pro - Terry Holladay keeps one eye on her game and the other on her 2-year-old". The Miami News. Florida: Miami News. p. 20. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Hall, JJ (June 2008). "Holladay Serves". Ranch & Coast. Rocket Publishing Company. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Philip Arthur Higginbottom (1947-2009)". Obituary. MainStreet Media. January 5, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  7. ↑ "Terry Holladay". San Diego Tennis.
  8. ↑ "Local residents to be inducted into San Diego Tennis Hall of Fame". Rancho Santa Fe Review. August 14, 2012.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.