Tracy Austin

Country	United States
Residence	Rolling Hills, California
Date of birth	December 12, 1962
Place of birth	Palos Verdes Peninsula, California, USA
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight	120 lb. (54.4 kg)
Turned Pro	October 23, 1978
Retired	July, 1994
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$2,092,380
Results in singles
Career record:	335-90
Career titles:	30
Highest ranking:	No.1 (1980)
Grand Slam highlights
Australian Open	QF (1981)
French Open	QF (1982, '83)
Wimbledon	SF ('79, '80)
U.S. Open	W ('79, '81)
Results in doubles
Career record:	13-16
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	?
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Tracy Ann Austin Holt (b. December 12, 1962, in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. She won the women's singles title at the U.S. Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut short her career. December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... For the article about the U.S. Open 2006, click here. ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wimbledon logo The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Career

As a junior player, Austin won 21 age-group titles, including the U.S. national 12-and-under title at age 10 in 1972. In 1977, she became the youngest player to win a professional tournament, capturing the title in Portland, Oregon aged 14 years and 28 days. Later that year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon, losing to Chris Evert in the third round. At the U.S. Open two months later, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to Betty Stove. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown, PDX Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Mayor Tom Potter Area    - City 376. ... In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the True Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same calendar year or just Grand Slam by owning all four at the same time: Australian Open French Open... Chris Evert on a Wheaties box Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former World No. ... Betty Stove was a professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. ...

Austin became the youngest-ever U.S. Open champion in 1979, aged 16 years and 9 months. In the final, she faced Evert who was bidding to win the title for the fifth consecutive year. Austin won the match 6-4, 6-3. Earlier that year, Austin had ended Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay by beating her in three sets in a semifinal of the Italian Open. A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. ... The Rome Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. ...

Austin was a singles semifinalist at Wimbledon in both 1979 (losing to Martina Navratilova) and 1980 (losing to Evonne Goolagong). Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. ... Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born July 31, 1951, in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the worlds leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early-1980s. ...

Austin won the U.S. Open again in 1981 in a close final against Navratilova 1-6, 7-6(4), 7-6(1).

In 1980, Austin won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with her brother John Austin (tennis). Mixed Doubles is a play that was first performed on 6 February 1969 in the Hampstead Theatre Club under the title We Who Are About To. ... John Austin is a former American Professional tennis player. ...

Austin was ranked the World No. 1 singles player in 1980, breaking Evert's and Navratilova's six year monopolization of the top spot. During that year, Austin captured the two sponsors' tour-ending events, defeating Navratilova to win the Avon Championships in March and Andrea Jaeger to capture the Colgate Series Championships in January 1981.

Austin repeated her success at the Toyota Series Championships in December 1981 by defeating Evert and Navratilova in back-to-back matches. Her 6-1, 6-2 semifinal defeat of Evert was her last career victory over her arch rival. (Evert had defeated Austin in an earlier roundrobin match at that tournament 4-6, 6-4, 7-6.)

After a fleeting period of great success, back injuries began to impair Austin's effectiveness and sidelined her for long stretches. She won her 29th and final top-level singles title at San Diego in 1982. Austin's last good showing at a major event was at the 1982 season-ending Toyota Series Championships where she defeated world no. 3, Andrea Jaeger in straight sets to reach the semifinals. However she was unable to repeat the previous year's victory over Evert, who defeated Austin 6-0, 6-0 in less than 50 minutes. By 1983, before her 21st birthday, she was virtually finished as a top ten player. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrea Jaeger (born June 4, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former professional tennis player. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Austin began her first comeback to the tour in 1988 when she played in seven doubles tournaments and 1989 when she played in one doubles and two singles tournaments. This comeback was ended by a near-fatal motor vehicle accident. She attempted a second comeback in 1993 and 1994 but was not particularly successful. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

In 1992, Austin became the youngest person to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Media:rofl. ... The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. ...

Since retiring as a player, Austin has worked frequently as a commentator for NBC and the USA Network. She worked for the Seven Network at the 2006 & 2007 Australian Open and usually participates in the BBC's Wimbledon coverage. NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... USA Network (currently Americas #1 cable TV network) is a popular American cable TV network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... The Seven Network is an Australian television network. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ...

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1979	U.S. Open	Chris Evert-Lloyd	6-4, 6-3
1981	U.S. Open (2)	Martina Navrátilová	1-6, 7-6, 7-6

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Titles (35)

Singles (30)

• 1977 (1) Portland
• 1978 (2) Filderstadt, Tokyo Gunze
• 1979 (7) U.S. Open, Washington, Italian Open, Hilton Head, San Diego, Tokyo Emerson Cup, Filderstadt
• 1980 (12) Avon Championships, Colgate Series Championships, Hilton Head, U.S. Indoors, La Costa, Eastbourne, Cincinnati, Seattle, Boston, Tucson, San Diego, Filderstadt
• 1981 (7) U.S. Open, Toyota Series Championships, Filderstadt, Canadian Open, Eastbourne, Atlanta, San Diego
• 1982 (1) San Diego

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Doubles (4)

• 1978 (2) Phoenix, Filderstadt (both with Betty Stove)
• 1979 (2) Hollywood, Mahwah (both with Stove)

Mixed Doubles (1)

• 1980 Wimbledon (with John Austin)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

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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

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External links

• WTA Tour profile for Tracy Austin
• International Tennis Hall of Fame Profile
• Fed Cup record

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