Amanda Grunfeld

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Amanda Grunfeld
Country (sports)  Great Britain
Born (1967-03-01) 1 March 1967 (age 57)
Manchester, England
Plays Left-handed
Prize money $111,432
Singles
Career record {{#property:P564}}
Highest ranking No. 138 (28 September 1992)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon 2R (1991, 1992)
Doubles
Career record {{#property:P555}}
Highest ranking No. 148 (25 November 1991)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 1R (1988, 1989)
Wimbledon 1R (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993)

Amanda Grunfeld Rosenfield (born 1 March 1967) is a British former professional tennis player.

Biography

Tennis career

A left-handed player from Manchester, Grunfeld won the British Under-18 Indoor Championship as a 16 year old in 1984.[1]

Her ITF titles include the $25,000 event in her home town of Manchester in 1991, where she beat Irina Spîrlea en route to a win in the final against Samantha Smith.

Grunfeld featured in the singles main draw at Wimbledon on seven occasions, twice reaching the second round. In the 1991 Wimbledon Championships she lost in the second round to Martina Navratilova, after earlier beating Alexia Dechaume-Balleret.[2] At the 1992 tournament she had a win over Silke Meier, then lost a close second round match to Mana Endo, 5–7 in the third set. In addition to her Wimbledon appearances she also played main draw doubles at the Australian Open and featured in qualifying at the French Open and US Open during her career.

She attained her career best ranking of 138 in the world in 1992, which at the time placed her behind only Jo Durie and Monique Javer in the British rankings.

In 1993, her final year on tour, she represented Great Britain in two Federation Cup ties. In both ties she was used as a doubles player alongside Julie Salmon and they won both rubbers, over Ukraine and Turkey.

A shoulder injury ended her tennis career and she left the tour to study for a degree at Manchester University.[3]

Personal life

Grunfeld, who is Jewish, is married to Peter Rosenfield.[4] She now coaches tennis in Florida, at the Windermere Preparatory School.[5]

ITF finals

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (3–0)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 10 October 1988 Telford, United Kingdom Hard (i) Sweden Cecilia Dahlman 6–3, 7–6
Winner 2. 26 August 1990 Chiang Mai, Thailand Hard South Korea Choi Jeom-sang 7–5, 6–4
Winner 3. 4 November 1991 Manchester, United Kingdom Carpet (i) United Kingdom Samantha Smith 4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Doubles (2–0)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 25 April 1988 Sutton, United Kingdom Clay United Kingdom Jo Louis Sweden Maria Ekstrand
Sweden Monica Lundqvist
4–6, 7–6, 6–4
Winner 2. 10 November 1991 Manchester, United Kingdom Carpet (i) United Kingdom Julie Salmon Bulgaria Lubomira Bacheva
United Kingdom Barbara Griffiths
7–6(2), 6–1

See also

References

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