Belinda Jane Cordwell is a retired female tennis player from New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Tennis returned to the Summer Olympic Games at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, having been left out since the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Tennis had been a demonstration sport at the 1984 Summer Olympics....

 in Seoul, South Korea. There she lost in the first round of the women's singles competition to Great Britain's Sara Gomer

Sara Gomer

Sara Louise Gomer is a former tennis player from Great Britain.Gomer competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...

. Cordwell won one singles (at Singapore) and two doubles (at Singapore & Tokyo

Japan Open Tennis Championships

The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...

) titles during her career and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 4 December 1989, when she became the number seventeen of the world. Her most notable result was reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open

Australian Open

The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

 in 1989

1989 Australian Open

The 1989 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 77th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1989.-Men's Singles:...

, where she lost to Helena Suková

Helena Suková

Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

. Cordwell currently is a sports commentator at One Sport

ONE Sport

One Sport is a division of TVNZ which airs many of the sports telecasts in New Zealand.One Sport broadcasts programs like the ASB Classic, Heineken Open, Commonwealth Games and the America's Cup...

. She does not only tennis but many other sports.