![]() Austin in 2009 | |
Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Rolling Hills, California, U.S. |
Born | Palos Verdes Peninsula, California, U.S.[1] | December 12, 1962
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
Turned pro | October 23, 1978 (age 15) |
Retired | July 1994 (age 31) |
Plays | Right-handed[1] (two-handed backhand) |
Coach | Pancho Segura, Robert Lansdorp, Vic Braden |
Prize money | $2,092,380[2] |
Int. Tennis HoF | 1992 (member page) |
Singles | |
Career record | 335–90 |
Career titles | 30[2] |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (April 7, 1980)[3] |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | QF (1981) |
French Open | QF (1982, 1983) |
Wimbledon | SF (1979, 1980) |
US Open | W (1979, 1981) |
Other tournaments | |
Tour Finals | W (1980) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 13–16[2] |
Career titles | 5[2] |
Highest ranking | No. 41 (August 14, 1989)[3] |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (1977) |
US Open | QF (1978, 1979) |
Mixed doubles | |
Career record | 15–6 |
Career titles | 1 |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | W (1980) |
US Open | SF (1988) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | W (1978, 1979, 1980) |
Wightman Cup | W (1979, 1981) |
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. Austin won 30 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two major titles at the 1979 and 1981 US Opens, as well as five doubles titles, including the mixed doubles title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships, partnering her brother John. Additionally, she won the 1980 WTA Tour Championships and the year-ending 1981 Toyota Championships, both in singles.
Austin remains the youngest US Open women's singles champion (aged 16) and the youngest inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at age 29. A series of injuries and a serious automobile accident in 1989 cut short her professional career.[4][5]