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Wendy Turnbull

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, USA and Sandgate, Australia
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	1975
Retired	1989
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	US $2,769,024
Singles
Career record	478–250
Career titles	13
Highest ranking	No. 3 (7 January 1985)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	F (1980)
French Open	F (1979)
Wimbledon	QF (1979, 1980, 1981)
US Open	F (1977)
Doubles
Career record	653–225
Career titles	55
Last updated on: 12 July 2008.

Olympic medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's tennis
	1988 Seoul	Women's doubles

Wendy Turnbull, MBE, (born 26 November 1952 in Brisbane, Australia) is a retired Australian female professional tennis player who was nicknamed "Rabbit" by her peers because of her footspeed around the court. She was ranked in the year-end world top 20 for ten consecutive years (1977 through 1986) and in the year-end world top 10 for eight consecutive years (1977 through 1984). Her highest singles ranking was World No. 3 in January 1985.

Career

Turnbull teamed with Elizabeth Smylie to win the bronze medal in women's doubles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Turnbull won 13 singles titles, 55 women's doubles titles, and 5 mixed doubles titles during her career.

Turnbull won four women's doubles titles and five mixed doubles titles at Grand Slam events. She was a 15-time runner-up in Grand Slam events: three times in singles, eleven times in women's doubles, and one time in mixed doubles. Nine of her eleven women's doubles losses were to teams that included Martina Navratilova.

Turnbull was a member of Australia's Fed Cup team from 1977 through 1988, compiling a 46-16 overall win-loss record (17-8 in singles and 29-8 in doubles). She was the captain or coach of the team from 1985 through 1993.

Turnbull was appointed to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Olympic Committee in 1991, the only player appointed to the committee. She also serves on the ITF's Fed Cup Committee.

Turnbull was honored by the city of Brisbane with the dedication of a public park in her honor in December 1993. She was made a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1984.

Grand Slam finals

Singles

Runner-ups (3)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1977	U.S. Open	Chris Evert	7–6, 6–2
1979	French Open	Chris Evert	6–2, 6–0
1980	Australian Open	Hana Mandlíková	6–0, 7–5

Women's doubles

Wins (4)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1978	Wimbledon	Kerry Melville Reid	Mima Jausovec Virginia Ruzici	4–6, 9–8, 6–3
1979	French Open	Betty Stove	Virginia Wade Francoise Durr	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
1979	U.S. Open	Betty Stove	Billie Jean King Martina Navratilova	7–5, 6–3
1982	U.S. Open	Rosemary Casals	Sharon Walsh Barbara Potter	6–4, 6–4

Runner-ups (11)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1978	U.S. Open	Kerry Melville Reid	Billie Jean King Martina Navratilova	7–6, 6–4
1979	Wimbledon	Betty Stove	Billie Jean King Martina Navratilova	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
1980	Wimbledon	Rosemary Casals	Anne Smith Kathy Jordan	4–6, 7–5, 6–1
1981	U.S. Open	Rosemary Casals	Anne Smith Kathy Jordan	6–3, 6–3
1982	French Open	Rosemary Casals	Martina Navratilova Anne Smith	6–3, 6–4
1983	Wimbledon	Rosemary Casals	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–2, 6–2
1983	Australian Open	Anne Hobbs	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–4, 6–7, 6–2
1984	U.S. Open	Anne Hobbs	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–2, 6–4
1986	Wimbledon	Hana Mandlikova	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–1, 6–3
1986	U.S. Open	Hana Mandlikova	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1988	Australian Open	Chris Evert	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–0, 7–5

Mixed doubles

Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1979	French Open	Bob Hewitt	Virginia Ruzici Ion Tiriac	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
1980	U.S. Open	Marty Riessen	Betty Stove Frew McMillan	7–5, 6–2
1982	French Open	John Lloyd	Claudia Monteiro Cassio Mota	6–2, 7–6
1983	Wimbledon	John Lloyd	Steve Denton Billie Jean King	6–7, 7–6, 7–5
1984	Wimbledon	John Lloyd	Steve Denton Kathy Jordan	6–3, 6–3

Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1982	Wimbledon	John Lloyd	Kevin Curren Anne Smith	2–6, 6–3, 7–5

WTA Tour wins

Singles (13)

• 1972 - Norwich
• 1973 - Rothmans Surrey
• 1976 - Austrian Open, Kitzbuhel, Tokyo (Japan Open)
• 1979 - Detroit, Philadelphia
• 1980 - Sydney, Hong Kong
• 1981 - Hong Kong
• 1982 - Brisbane, Richmond
• 1983 - Boston

Women's doubles (55)

Grand Slam events in boldface.

• 1973 - Bournemouth (with Coleman)
• 1975 - Auckland (with Evonne Goolagong Cawley)
• 1976 - Swiss Open (with Betsy Nagelsen), West Australian Championships (with Kerry Melville Reid)
• 1977 - Pensacola (with Nagelsen), São Paulo (with Melville Reid)
• 1978 - Wimbledon (with Melville Reid), Hollywood (with Rosemary Casals), Seattle (with Melville Reid), Philadelphia (with Melville Reid), US Indoors (with Melville Reid), Sydney (with Melville Reid)
• 1979 - French Open (with Betty Stove), US Open (with Stove), Detroit (with Stove), Boston (with Melville Reid), Italian Open (with Stove), German Open (with Casals), Chichester (with Greer Stevens), Eastbourne (with Stove), Richmond (with Stove), Atlanta (with Stove), Phoenix (with Stove), Stockholm (with Stove), Melbourne (with Billie Jean King), Sydney (with King)
• 1980 - Seattle (with Casals), Boston (with Casals), Hong Kong (with Sharon Walsh Pete)
• 1981 - Colgate Series Championships (with Casals), Oakland (with Casals), Detroit (with Casals), Seattle (with Casals), Hilton Head (with Casals), Mahwah (with Casals), Tampa (with Casals)
• 1982 - US Open (with Casals), Seattle (with Casals), Palm Beach Gardens (with Casals), Orlando (with Casals), US Indoors (with Casals)
• 1983 - Brisbane (with Anne Hobbs), Sydney (with Hobbs)
• 1984 - Los Angeles (with Chris Evert)
• 1985 - Oakland (with Hana Mandlikova), San Diego (with Candy Reynolds), Newport (with Evert), New Orleans (with Evert)
• 1986 - Virginia Slims Championships (with Mandlikova), Oakland (with Mandlikova), Houston (with Evert)
• 1987 - Brisbane (with Mandlikova), Tampa (with Evert), Oakland (with Mandlikova)
• 1989 - Los Angeles (with Martina Navratilova)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

NH = tournament not held.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

External links

• Wendy Turnbull at the Women's Tennis Association
• {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
• Wendy Turnbull at the Billie Jean King Cup

• 1952 births
• Living people
• Australian tennis players
• Olympic tennis players of Australia
• Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• People from Brisbane
• Olympic bronze medalists for Australia