Jo Durie, Tennis Player, - Biography,
British tennis player.
Height 6 foot tall
born July 27, 1960, in Bristol, England
Jo
Durie is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her
career, she won two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
Durie turned professional
in 1978. As a singles player, she reached the semi-finals at both the French Open
& the US Open in 1983. She was also a quarter-finalist at the Australian Open
in 1983 & at Wimbledon in 1984. She won two top-level singles titles (both
in 1983) at Mahwah, New Jersey & Sydney. Her career-high singles ranking was
World No. 5.
Partnering her fellow British player Jeremy Bates, Durie won the
mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1987 & the Australian Open in 1991. She
also won four women's doubles titles during her career.
Durie was ranked the
No. 1 British player for most of her career. She won the British national singles
titles six times & the national doubles title eight times.
After retiring
from the professional tour in 1995, Durie has worked as a TV tennis commentator
& currently coaches the current British No. 1, Elena Baltacha.
I never saw her much on the TV but once I saw her being given a award at a veteran's tennis tournament and she towered over the man presenting the award.
She
played with short hair, and looked a quite big lady, but not fat when playing
tennis. She played on the veteran tour for a while.
This site was written in February 2007
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