Full name Annabel Croft Prize money $201,254 Height 1.70 m Country (sports) Great Britain Career record 49–68 Career end 1988 | Name Annabel Croft Spouse Mel Coleman (m. 1993) Retired 1988 Role Tennis player | |
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Born 12 July 1966 (age 58) Farnborough, Bromley, London, England ( 1966-07-12 ) Children Amber Coleman, Lily Coleman, Charlie Coleman TV shows Interceptor, Treasure Hunt, Celebrity Wrestling, Famous - Rich and Homeless, Celebrity Fear Factor UK Similar People Carol Smillie, Anneka Rice, Sue Barker, Jo Durie, Tim Henman Profiles | ||
Annabel croft s top five male tennis players
Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966 in Farnborough, Kent) is a former professional British No. 1 female tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.
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- Annabel croft s top five male tennis players
- Annabel croft
- Tennis career
- After tennis
- Personal life
- References
After retiring from tennis, she turned to television presenting, with such shows as Treasure Hunt and Interceptor. In 2005, she appeared in the ITV programme Celebrity Wrestling and went on to win it.
Most recently she has been a presenter for Eurosport, and Sky Sports.
Annabel croft
Tennis career
After winning the Wimbledon and Australian Open girls' tournaments in 1984, Croft won the Virginia Slims of San Diego tournament in 1985, beating Wendy Turnbull in the final in straight sets. In December 1985, she achieved a world ranking of 24. She played for Great Britain in the Fed Cup in 1985 and 1986, and in the Wightman Cup from 1983 to 1986.
After tennis
Despite her potential and being amongst the world's top 25 players, Croft retired from professional tennis at the age of only twenty-one, tired of the relentless travel and keen to start a family. Reflecting on her retirement in 2011, she noted that the tour was stressful as it was like "having an argument every day and preparing for another one tomorrow". Immediately after her retirement, Annabel became the new face of Channel 4’s prime time show Treasure Hunt, following Anneka Rice's successful run. This was followed by her own show on ITV, Interceptor.
In 1990 Croft released her own fitness video entitled Annabel Croft's Shape Tape.
She has been involved in coverage of Wimbledon Tennis Championship for the BBC, Radio 5 Live and GMTV, and has also worked for Sky Sports and Eurosport as a tennis pundit. She has appeared on UK lifestyle TV shows such as The Wright Stuff, The Entertainment Show, GMTV, Out and About and This Morning.
In June 2009 Annabel Croft was one of five volunteers who took part in a BBC series of two programmes Famous, Rich and Homeless about living penniless on the streets of London.
After Famous, Rich and Homeless Croft did a follow-on Radio 5 Live radio show which was broadcast on 24 and 25 December 2009, entitled James: My Alcoholic Friend, where she tries to track down the rough sleeper with whom she had spent a night on the streets.
She is a presenter for Sky Sports including the 2012 US Open. She also presents Game, Set & Mats on Eurosport during Grand Slam weeks of tennis.
She has successfully completed the New York Marathon.
In May 2012, Croft delivered a speech at the Oxford Union where she discussed her careers as a tennis player and media presenter. She also spoke extensively about her three-day experience of living on the streets, during which she formed a significant friendship with an individual named James.
In October 2012, Croft launched a company called DiaryDoll with TV presenter Carol Smillie, retailing waterproof pants for periods, post-maternity and pelvic-floor weakness, with an aim to be pretty, feminine, breathable and washproof whilst reducing stigma of the topic of women's pelvic health.
Personal life
Croft is married to Mel Coleman, a former international yachtsman and current investment banker. The couple live in Coombe, near Wimbledon, in the London borough of Kingston, with their three children.
Croft is active in raising awareness of child obesity, and is a supporter of the children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent.