Rennae Stubbs

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Rennae Stubbs
Country Flag of Australia Australia
Residence Sydney, Australia and Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Date of birth March 26, 1971 (1971-03-26) (age 37)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Height 5' 10 1/4 (1.78 m)
Weight 143 lbs. (65 kg)
Turned pro -
Plays Right-handed
Career prize money US$$4,245,675
Singles
Career record: 186-176
Career titles: 0
Highest ranking: No. 64 (October 14, 1996)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open 2r (1989, 1992, 1996)
French Open 1r (1992, 1996)
Wimbledon 2r (1992, 1995)
US Open 1r (1995, 1996)
Doubles
Career record: 722-300
Career titles: 59 WTA
Highest ranking: No. 1 (August 21, 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open W (2000)
French Open F (2002)
Wimbledon W (2001, 2004)
US Open W (2001)

Infobox last updated on: February 25, 2008.

Rennae Stubbs (b. March 26, 1971 in Sydney) is an Australian professional female tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at three successive Olympic Games.

She has recorded more double triumphs than any other Australian woman - 58 from 1994 to the conclusion of the 2007 WTA Tour - enjoying success with eleven different partners. She also won two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles with male partners. In 2001, Stubbs won the season-ending WTA Championships with regular partner Lisa Raymond and the pair were named ITF World Champions.[1]

A somewhat outspoken player, Stubbs is openly lesbian.[2]

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[edit] Grand Slam record

Australian Open

  • Doubles champion: 2000 (w/Raymond)
  • Doubles semi-finalist: 1998, 1999, 2002
  • Doubles quarter-finalist: 1993, 2003,2006,2007
  • Mixed Doubles champion: 2000 (w/Palmer)

French Open

  • Doubles finalist: 2002
  • Doubles semi-finalist: 2001
  • Doubles quarter-finalist: 1993, 2005
  • mixed doubles finalist 2000

Wimbledon

  • Doubles champion: 2001 (w/Raymond), 2004 (w/Black)
  • Doubles semi-finalist: 1998, 2000, 2006
  • Doubles quarter-finalist: 1992, 1993,2000

U.S. Open

  • Doubles champion: 2001 (w/Raymond)
  • Doubles finalist: 1995
  • Doubles semi-finalist: 1998,2007
  • Doubles quarter-finalist: 1992, 1993, 2000, 2003, 2005
  • Mixed Doubles champion: 2001 (w/Woodbridge)

[edit] Titles

[edit] Doubles titles

  • 2008 - Qatar (w/Peschke)
  • 2007 - Los Angeles, Zürich, Stuttgart (w/Peschke)
  • 2006 - Sydney (w/Morariu), Zürich, San Diego (all w/Black)
  • 2005 - Eastbourne (w/Raymond), Stanford, Zürich, Philadelphia (all w/Black)
  • 2004 - Wimbledon, Sydney, Tokyo [Pan Pacific], San Diego, Filderstadt, Zürich (all w/Black)
  • 2003 - Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (w/Bovina), Los Angeles (w/Pierce), Filderstadt (w/Raymond)
  • 2002 - Miami, Sydney, Tokyo [Pan Pacific], Scottsdale, Indian Wells, Charleston, Eastbourne, Stanford (all w/Raymond)
  • 2001 - Wimbledon, US Open, WTA Tour Championships, Tokyo [Pan Pacific], Scottsdale, Charleston, Eastbourne (all w/Raymond)
  • 2000 - Australian Open, Rome, Madrid, San Diego (all w/Raymond)
  • 1999 - Oklahoma City, New Haven, Zürich, Moscow, Philadelphia (all w/Raymond)
  • 1998 - Hannover, Boston (both w/Raymond)
  • 1997 - Québec City, Philadelphia (both w/Raymond)
  • 1996 - Chicago, Philadelphia (both w/Raymond)
  • 1995 - Birmingham (w/Bollegraf)
  • 1994 - Osaka (w/Neiland), Strasbourg (w/McNeil)
  • 1993 - Indian Wells (w/Sukova), Hamburg (w/Graf)
  • 1992 - Osaka (w/Sukova), Hamburg (w/Graf), Birmingham, Montréal [Canadian Open] (both w/McNeil).

[edit] References

  1. ^ WTA Player Profile, 2007-11-11 
  2. ^ Pearce, Linda (2006-01-07), “Never lost for words”, The Age, <http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/01/06/1136387626879.html?from=rss>. Retrieved on 2007-10-04 

[edit] External links

Women's Tennis Association | Top 5 female doubles teams as of May 19, 2008
1. Flag of Zimbabwe Cara Black
    Flag of the United States Liezel Huber
2. Flag of Ukraine Alona Bondarenko
    Flag of Ukraine Kateryna Bondarenko
3. Flag of Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan
    Flag of Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung
4. Flag of the Czech Republic Květa Peschke
    Flag of Australia Rennae Stubbs
5. Flag of the People's Republic of China Yan Zi
    Flag of the People's Republic of China Zheng Jie