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Country (sports)
  
Name
  
Catarina Lindqvist

Turned pro
  
1983

Prize money
  
US$1,076,284

Role
  
Tennis player

Retired
  
1992

Career record
  
297–207

Height
  
1.65 m

Handed
  
Right-handed

Career titles
  
5

Weight
  
57 kg


Catarina Lindqvist Catarina Lindqvist Sverige WTA Tennis Memories 80s


Residence
  
Hollviken, Sweden &Rumson, New Jersey, USA

Born
  
13 June 1963 (age 60) Kristinehamn, Sweden (
1963-06-13
)

Plays
  
Right-handed (one handed-backhand)

1989 Wimbledon SF Navratilova vs Catarina Lindqvist


Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan (born 13 June 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.

Contents

Henry Pletcher Tennis Video Fall 2016


Career

Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of World No. 10 in April 1985 and won five singles titles. She reached the semifinals of Grand Slam tournaments twice, the Australian Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1989. She lost to Martina Navratilova in both semifinals. She retired from tennis in 1992.

Lindqvist six WTA Tour singles titles and one doubles title. She had career wins over Steffi Graf, Virginia Wade, Pam Shriver, Hana Mandlíková, Wendy Turnbull, Manuela Maleeva, Nathalie Tauziat, Dianne Fromholtz, Helena Suková, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Zina Garrison, Kathy Jordan, Jo Durie, and Natasha Zvereva.

She currently resides in New Jersey, and is the mother of Joakim Ryan, a top amateur hockey player. She is also the mother of Christina and Tobias.

In 2009 Lindqvist and her husband Bill Ryan bought the East Brunswick Racquet Club [1] in East Brunswick, New Jersey, where currently Lindqvist is the head teaching pro [2].

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

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

    Catarina Lindqvist Wikipedia