- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
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Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Country Germany[1]
Residence Monte Carlo, Monaco Born 11 December 1963
Saarbrücken, West GermanyHeight 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) Turned pro 1 January 1980 Retired 1994 Plays Right-handed Career prize money US$2,227,116 Singles Career record 368–228 Career titles 10 Highest ranking No. 4 (2 September 1985) Grand Slam results Australian Open SF (1985, 1987, 1988) French Open SF (1985) Wimbledon QF (1987) US Open QF (1985, 1987) Doubles Career record 438–175 Career titles 26 Highest ranking No. 3 (17 August 1987) Grand Slam Doubles results Australian Open F (1982, 1984, 1985) French Open F (1984, 1985, 1988) Wimbledon W (1987) US Open W (1985) Last updated on: 9 February 2008. Olympic medal record Women's Tennis Bronze 1988 Seoul Doubles Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (born 11 December 1963 in Saarbrücken) is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.
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Career
Kohde-Kilsch was born Claudia Kohde, but added the hyphenated "-Kilsch" to her name which came from her adoptive father Jurgen Kilsch, an attorney. She has 1 younger sister, Katrin. She began playing tennis when she only 5, and was soon a rising junior player.
Kohde-Kilsch turned professional on 1 January 1980, and by 1981 she had handed a rare first round defeat to Martina Navrátilová in Oakland. She went on to win four singles titles that year. In 1982, she captured the title at Pittsburgh and in 1984 she triumphed at the German Open, defeating Kathleen Horvath of the United States, 7–6(8), 6–1.
In 1985, she reached the Australian Open and French Open semi-finals and also won in Los Angeles. Later that year, she defeated Navrátilová in the quarter-finals on the way to a final round match with Chris Evert at the Canadian Open, where she eventually lost to Evert, 6–2, 6–4. In 1987, she again reached the finals of the German Open, where she lost to a rising Steffi Graf 6–2, 6–3.
In women's doubles, Kohde-Kilsch won the 1985 US Open women's doubles championship with Helena Suková and in 1987, partnering again with Suková, she won the 1987 Wimbledon women's doubles championship.
Between 1983 and 1987 Kohde-Kilsch and Suková, sometimes referred to as the "twin towers" for their height, paired to win 19 doubles tournaments. At the 1988 Summer Olympics, she partnered with Steffi Graf in the doubles competition and together they were awarded the bronze medal in the event.
Kohde-Kilsch currently lives in Saarland with her husband, Chris Bennett, and their son, Fynn. The couple operate CeKay Music, a music publishing house and production company.
Major finals
Grand Slam finals
Women's doubles: 8 (2 titles, 6 runner-ups)
Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final Runner-up 1982 Australian Open Grass Eva Pfaff
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–4, 6–2 Runner-up 1984 French Open Clay Hana Mandlíková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
5–7, 6–3, 6–2 Runner-up 1984 Australian Open Grass Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–3, 6–4 Runner-up 1985 French Open Clay Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
4–6, 6–2, 6–2 Winner 1985 US Open Hard Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–7(5), 6–2, 6–3 Runner-up 1985 Australian Open Grass Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–3, 6–4 Winner 1987 Wimbledon Grass Helena Suková
Betsy Nagelsen
Elizabeth Smylie
7–5, 7–5 Runner-up 1988 French Open Clay Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–2, 7–5 Year-End Championships finals
Doubles: 4 finals (0 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Outcome Year Location Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final Runner-up 1985 New York City Carpet (i) Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–7(4), 6–4, 7–6(5) Runner-up 1986(1) New York City Carpet (i) Helena Suková
Hana Mandlíková
Wendy Turnbull
6–4, 6–7(4), 6–3 Runner-up 1986(2) New York City Carpet (i) Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
1–6, 6–1, 6–1 Runner-up 1987 New York City Carpet (i) Helena Suková
Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
6–1, 6–1 Titles (36)
Singles (10)
Legend Grand Slam (0) WTA Championship (0) Tier I (0) Tier II (0) Tier III (0) Tier IV (1) Tier V (1) VS (8) Titles by Surface Hard (1) Clay (4) Grass (1) Carpet (4) No. Date Location Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final 1. 18 January 1981 Toronto, Canada Carpet (I) Nina Bohm
4–6, 6–2, 7–5 2. 5 April 1981 Boise, USA Carpet (I) Ann Kiyomura
7–6, 3–6, 6–4 3. 12 July 1981 Gstaad, Switzerland Clay Isabelle Villiger
6–1, 4–6, 6–2 4. 19 July 1981 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Sylvia Hanika
7–5, 7–6 5. 31 January 1982 Pittsburgh, USA Carpet (I) Eva Pfaff
6–4, 6–0 6. 21 March 1982 Austin, USA Carpet (i) Helena Suková
7–6, 0–6, 6–3 7. 20 May 1984 Berlin, West Germany Clay Kathleen Horvath
7–6, 6–1 8. 4 August 1985 Manhattan Beach, USA Hard Pam Shriver
6–2, 6–4 9. 12 June 1988 Birmingham, UK Grass Pam Shriver
6–2, 6–1 10. 16 September 1990 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Rachel McQuillan
7–6, 6–4 Doubles (26)
Grand slam events in boldface.
- 1980: Kitzbühel (with Eva Pfaff)
- 1981: Gstaad (with Heidi Eisterlehner)
- 1981: Kitzbühel (with Eva Pfaff)
- 1983: Oakland (with Eva Pfaff)
- 1983: Hamburg (with Bettina Bunge)
- 1984: Hilton Head (with Hana Mandlíková)
- 1984: Orlando (with Hana Mandlíková)
- 1984: Filderstadt (with Helena Suková)
- 1984: Sydney (with Helena Suková)
- 1984: Tokyo Pan Pacific (with Helena Suková)
- 1985: Berlin (with Helena Suková)
- 1985: Los Angeles (with Helena Suková)
- 1985: US Open (with Helena Suková)
- 1985: Tokyo Pan Pacific (with Helena Suková)
- 1986: Dallas (with Helena Suková)
- 1986: Amelia Island (with Helena Suková)
- 1996: Chicago (with Helena Suková)
- 1987: Tokyo Bridgestone Doubles (with Helena Suková)
- 1987: Berlin (with Helena Suková)
- 1987: Wimbledon (with Helena Suková)
- 1987: Hamburg (with Jana Novotná)
- 1987: Chicago (with Helena Suková)
- 1988: Adelaide (with Sylvia Hanika)
- 1991: Oslo (with Silke Meier)
- 1991: Hilton Head (with Natasha Zvereva)
- 1992: Indian Wells (with Stephanie Rehe)
Singles runner-ups (8)
- 1984: Hilton Head (lost to Chris Evert)
- 1984: Zurich (lost to Zina Garrison)
- 1984: Tokyo Pan Pacific (lost to Manuela Maleeva)
- 1985: Toronto (lost to Chris Evert)
- 1986: Worcester (lost to Martina Navratilova)
- 1986: Marco Island (lost to Chris Evert)
- 1986: Amelia Island (lost to Steffi Graf)
- 1987: Berlin (lost to Steffi Graf)
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 Career SR Australian Open 1R 1R 3R 3R 3R SF NH SF SF QF 1R 1R 2R 0 / 12 French Open 1R 1R 2R 3R 4R SF 4R QF 3R 1R 2R 2R 1R 0 / 13 Wimbledon A 2R 4R 4R 4R 2R 3R QF A 3R 3R 3R 2R 0 / 11 US Open A 1R 3R 2R 4R QF 4R QF 3R 1R A 1R A 0 / 10 SR 0 / 2 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 46 - A = did not participate in the tournament.
- NH = tournament not held.
- SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
References
- ^ Before the German reunification, she played for West Germany
External links
- (German) Official website
- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch at the Women's Tennis Association
- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch at the International Tennis Federation
- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch at the Fed Cup
US Open women's doubles champions (1968) Maria Bueno / Margaret Court • (1969) Françoise Durr / Darlene Hard • (1970) Margaret Court / Judy Tegart Dalton • (1971) Rosemary Casals / Judy Tegart Dalton • (1972) Françoise Durr / Betty Stöve • (1973) Margaret Court / Virginia Wade • (1974) Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King • (1975) Margaret Court / Virginia Wade • (1976) Delina Boshoff / Ilana Kloss • (1977) Martina Navrátilová / Betty Stöve • (1978) Billie Jean King / Martina Navrátilová • (1979) Betty Stöve / Wendy Turnbull • (1980) Billie Jean King / Martina Navrátilová • (1981) Kathy Jordan / Anne Smith • (1982) Rosemary Casals / Wendy Turnbull • (1983) Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver • (1984) Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver • (1985) Claudia Kohde-Kilsch / Helena Suková • (1986) Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver • (1987) Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver • (1988) Gigi Fernández / Robin White • (1989) Hana Mandlíková / Martina Navrátilová • (1990) Gigi Fernández / Martina Navrátilová • (1991) Pam Shriver / Natalia Zvereva • (1992) Gigi Fernández / Natalia Zvereva • (1993) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Helena Suková • (1994) Jana Novotná / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario • (1995) Gigi Fernández / Natalia Zvereva • (1996) Gigi Fernández / Natalia Zvereva • (1997) Lindsay Davenport / Jana Novotná • (1998) Martina Hingis / Jana Novotná • (1999) Serena Williams / Venus Williams • (2000) Julie Halard-Decugis / Ai Sugiyama • (2001) Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs • (2002) Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez • (2003) Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez • (2004) Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez • (2005) Lisa Raymond / Samantha Stosur • (2006) Nathalie Dechy / Vera Zvonareva • (2007) Nathalie Dechy / Dinara Safina • (2008) Cara Black / Liezel Huber • (2009) Serena Williams / Venus Williams • (2010) Vania King / Yaroslava Shvedova • (2011) Liezel Huber / Lisa Raymond
Women's Tennis Association: Top German female singles tennis players as of 31 October 2011
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6. Kristina Barrois (901) · 7. Kathrin Wörle (140
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Categories:- 1963 births
- Living people
- German female tennis players
- West German female tennis players
- Olympic tennis players of West Germany
- Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- People from Saarbrücken
- Sportspeople from Saarland
- Olympic medalists in tennis
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