Dianne Evers
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Country (sports) | Australia |
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Born | Melbourne, Australia | 9 November 1956
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | SF (1978) |
French Open | 1R (1977, 1978)[1] |
Wimbledon | 2R (1978) |
US Open | 2R (1977) |
Doubles | |
Career titles | 3 |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (1979) |
French Open | QF (1977)[1] |
Wimbledon | 3R (1974, 1978, 1979) |
US Open | 3R (1977) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
French Open | SF (1977, 1978) |
Dianne Evers[note 1] (born 9 November 1956) 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.
Tennis career
Evers began playing tennis at Lauriston Lawn Tennis Club in 1965 at the age of nine, and then at
Juniors
As a junior player for the state of Victoria, Evers won all the junior titles she played in. In 1974 she won the Netherlands Open Junior Girls Singles in Amsterdam and the Irish Open Junior girls singles in Dublin. In 1975 Evers won the Australian Junior Girls Doubles at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club with partner Nerida Gregory (Aus) and was the runner-up in the Australian Junior Girls Singles title.
Professional
In 1974, at the age of 17, Evers turned professional and played in the Women's Professional Tour (
At the 1977 French Open, Evers reached the women's doubles quarterfinals with partner Mary Carillo.[1] The next year she advanced to the French Open Mixed Doubles semifinals with partner Paul McNamee. 1978 saw her upset No. 1 seeded Sue Barker in the women's singles quarterfinals of the Australian Open before losing to eventual champion Chris O'Neil in the semifinals in two sets.
Evers had a very successful doubles season in 1979. She won the
Evers top singles ranking was 42 and in the top 10 doubles ranking.
Throughout her professional career Evers has played tennis in singles, doubles and mixed doubles in different countries at minor and major tournaments such as
Evers is the last Australian female player to win an Australian Open title when it was played at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, and held the Doubles title for 21 years before another Australian player would win in 2000. She retired in 1983 and moved to Indianapolis in America and took up a career as a tennis coach at the Indianapolis Racquet Club and qualified with the USPTA. Evers moved back permanently to Australia in 2012 and now lives in the Gold Coast in the State of Queensland and is a tennis coach at KDV Sports Center.
In May 2016, Evers received her retrospective Australian Open Trophy from Tennis Australia and at the 2017 Australian Open, Evers finally got to hold the Women's Doubles Trophy for the first time at a private presentation organized by the President of Tennis Australia', Steve Healey.
In 2019 Evers, as the last Australian woman to have won a Championship Trophy at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, donated her Australian Open Women's Doubles Trophy to Kooyong LTC. It has been placed in a cabinet next to trophies donated by Evonne Goolagong-Cawley AC MBE.
In 2019 Evers and Judy Chaloner after 40 years got to hold the Australian Open Women's Doubles Trophy together for the first time as there was no trophy presentation in 1979.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 4 (1 title)
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1979 | Australian Open | Grass | Judy Connor | Leanne Harrison Marcella Mesker[2] |
6–1, 3–6, 6–0 |
Notes
- ^ Sometimes written as Diane.
References
- ^ OL 15012356M.
- ^ "1979 Women's Doubles". Tennis Australia. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013.
External links
- Dianne Evers at the Women's Tennis Association
- Dianne Evers at the International Tennis Federation
- Dianne Evers fan page Archived 30 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine