Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel is a former professional American

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 tennis player, who retired in September 1997. She won three singles and two doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour, and reached the semifinals of the 1985 Wimbledon Championships

1985 Wimbledon Championships

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Career

Rinaldi reached her highest career ranking on May 26, 1986, when she was ranked World No. 7. The recipent of WTA Most Impressive Newcomer Award

WTA Awards

This is a list with all the WTA Awards given by the Women's Tennis Association to players who have done or achieved something remarkable during the season or their career.-Player of the Year:-Doubles Team of the Year:-Most Improved Player:...

 in 1981 and WTA Comeback Player of the Year Award

WTA Awards

This is a list with all the WTA Awards given by the Women's Tennis Association to players who have done or achieved something remarkable during the season or their career.-Player of the Year:-Doubles Team of the Year:-Most Improved Player:...

 in 1989, she defeated top players such as Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf

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, Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández

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, Zina Garrison

Zina Garrison

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, Manuela Maleeva

Manuela Maleeva

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, Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná

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, Hana Mandlíková

Hana Mandlíková

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, Pam Shriver

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 and Helena Suková

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Rinald was the youngest player to win a match at Wimbledon (14 years, 91 days) in 1981, a record that stood until 1990.

Rinaldi married Brad Stunkel, her high school sweetheart, on December 11, 1993, and adopted his surname. She gave birth to son Bradley Benton Stunkel, Jr. on February 8, 1995. The family currently resides in Palm City, Florida

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Awards and recognitions

• 1985: WTA Most Impressive Newcomer of the Year
  WTA Awards
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• 1989: WTA Comeback of the Year
  WTA Awards
  This is a list with all the WTA Awards given by the Women's Tennis Association to players who have done or achieved something remarkable during the season or their career.-Player of the Year:-Doubles Team of the Year:-Most Improved Player:...
  
  

Singles (3)

Legend
Virginia Slims (3)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV (0)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 18, 1981	Kyoto, Japan	Hard	Julie Harrington	6–1, 7–5
2.	August 18, 1985	Mahwah, USA WTA New Jersey The WTA New Jersey is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1978 to 1989. It was held in Mahwah, New Jersey in the United States and played on outdoor hard courts....	Hard	Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
3.	November 9, 1986	Little Rock, USA	Carpet (I)	Natalia Zvereva Natasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...	6–4, 6–7(7), 6–0

Doubles (2)

Legend
Virginia Slims (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (1)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV (0)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	April 21, 1991	Houston, USA	Clay	Jill Hetherington Jill Hetherington Jill Hetherington Hultquist is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Hultquist played college tennis for the University of Florida, and is the current women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington....	Patty Fendick Patty Fendick Patty Fendick is a former professional women's tennis player and is the current head women's tennis coach at the University of Texas.She was born on March 31, 1965 in Sacramento, California and played collegiately at Stanford University, where the team won the NCAA title three times...     Mary Joe Fernández Mary Joe Fernández Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...	6–1, 2–6, 6–1
2.	August 4, 1991	San Diego, USA Southern California Open The Southern California Open, currently sponsored by Mercury Insurance and titled the Mercury Insurance Open is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament held at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 2004 until...	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Gigi Fernández Gigi Fernández Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...     Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....	6–4, 3–6, 6–2

Singles (4)

Legend
Virginia Slims (4)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV (0)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 24, 1982	Berlin, West Germany	Clay	Bettina Bunge Bettina Bunge Bettina Bunge is a retired German tennis player. She was born in Adliswil, Switzerland. She was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff.-Career:With German nationality as the daughter of a...	6–2, 6–2
2.	August 1, 1982	San Diego, USA Southern California Open The Southern California Open, currently sponsored by Mercury Insurance and titled the Mercury Insurance Open is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament held at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 2004 until...	Hard	Tracy Austin Tracy Austin Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated...	7–6(5), 6–3
3.	September 22, 1985	Chicago, USA	Carpet (I)	Bonnie Gadusek Bonnie Gadusek Bonnie Gadusek is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who retired in April 1987....	6–1, 6–3
4.	May 11, 1986	Houston, USA	Clay	Chris Evert Chris Evert Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...	6–4, 2–6, 6–4

Doubles (10)

Legend
Virginia Slims (0)
Tier I (3)
Tier II (1)
Tier III (3)
Tier IV (3)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	March 31, 1991	San Antonio, USA	Hard	Jill Hetherington Jill Hetherington Jill Hetherington Hultquist is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Hultquist played college tennis for the University of Florida, and is the current women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington....	Patty Fendick Patty Fendick Patty Fendick is a former professional women's tennis player and is the current head women's tennis coach at the University of Texas.She was born on March 31, 1965 in Sacramento, California and played collegiately at Stanford University, where the team won the NCAA title three times...     Monika Seleš Monica Seles Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...	7–6(2), 6–2
2.	October 6, 1991	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (I)	Jill Hetherington	Manon Bollegraf Manon Bollegraf Manon Maria Bollegraf is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands, who finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-History:...     Isabelle Demongeot Isabelle Demongeot Isabelle Demongeot is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on May 1, 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled down further south in Gassin.Demongeot won her only WTA Tour singles title in Purchase...	6–4, 6–3
3.	February 2, 1992	Auckland, New Zealand ASB Classic The ASB Classic is a tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. Held since 1986, this WTA Tour event is an International series tournament and is played on outdoor hardcourts during the first week of the year....	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideffer    Raffaella Reggi-Concato	1–6, 6–1, 7–5
4.	March 1, 1992	Indian Wells, USA Indian Wells Masters The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 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.-Career:...     Stephanie Rehe Stephanie Rehe Stephanie Rehe is a retired American professional tennis player.A successful amateur player, Rehe was ranked No. 1 in every age group as a junior . She was the first player to receive a dual No...	6–3, 6–3
5.	March 22, 1992	Key Biscayne, USA Miami Masters The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...     Larisa Savchenko	7–5, 5–7, 6–3
6.	April 19, 1992	Houston, USA	Clay	Jill Hetherington	Patty Fendick   Gigi Fernández Gigi Fernández Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...	7–5, 6–4
7.	November 1, 1992	San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Open (tennis) The Puerto Rico Open is a defunct tennis tournament. The first edition dates back to 1971 but only from 1986 to 1993 was the tournament played every year. It was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was played on outdoor hard courts. In 1988, when Tier categories were first introduced on the WTA Tour,...	Hard	Gigi Fernández	Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...     Elna Reinach Elna Reinach Elna Reinach is a South African former pro tennis player.With Patrick Galbraith, she won the US Open mixed doubles championship in 1994. She played in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she lost in the first round to Jennifer Capriati. Reinach was runner-up at the French Open with Danie Visser in 1993...	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
8.	February 7, 1993	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Isabelle Demongeot   Elna Reinach	6–2, 6–4
9.	March 21, 1993	Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Larisa Savchenko   Jana Novotná Jana Novotná Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...	6–2, 7–5
10.	May 23, 1993	Strasbourg, France Internationaux de Strasbourg The Internationaux de Strasbourg is a tennis tournament held in Strasbourg, France. Held since 1987, this WTA Tour event is an International-level tournament played on outdoor clay courts....	Clay	Jill Hetherington	Shaun Stafford Shaun Stafford Shaun Stafford is an American tennis player who played professional women's tennis between 1980 and 1996. She won two Women's Tennis Association tournaments in her career, one in singles and the other in doubles.-References:...     Andrea Temesvári Andrea Temesvari Andrea Temesvári is a former professional tennis player once ranked as high as World No. 7. She won the Italian Open at sixteen, but injuries later hampered her career. She received the Most Improved Player Award by WTA Tour and TENNIS Magazine in 1982. At the 1986 French Open she won the women's...	6–7(5), 6–3, 6–4

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