Pam Teeguarden
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Pam Teeguarden was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 professional tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player in the 1970s and 1980s, reaching the top 30 in the world. Her father Jerry, together with Teeguarden, helped Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...

 to her 1977 Wimbledon
1977 Wimbledon Championships
The 1977 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 20 June until 2 July...

 triumph.

Teeguarden won two grand slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 titles:
  • US Open
    U.S. Open (tennis)
    The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

     Mixed in 1974 (with Geoff Masters
    Geoff Masters
    Geoff Masters is a former Australian tennis player.-Tennis tour career:In 1977 Masters and Ross Case won the doubles in Wimbledon.-Doubles titles :-Post-tennis playing career:...

    );
  • French Open
    French Open (tennis)
    The French Open |Roland Garros]]) is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are...

     in 1977
    1977 French Open
    List of the 1977 French Open champions:- Men's singles : Guillermo Vilas def. Brian Gottfried, 6–0, 6–3, 6–0*It was Vilas's 1st career Grand Slam title.- Women's singles : Mima Jaušovec def. Florenţa Mihai, 6–2, 6–7, 6–1...

     (with Regina Maršíková
    Regina Maršíková
    Regina Maršíková is a former Czechoslovakian tennis player.Maršíková's single titles were at Rome, Toronto and Christchurch in 1978, Phoenix in 1980 and Berlin in 1981...

    ).

Singles 2

Legend
Grand Slam 0
WTA Championships 0
Tier I 0
Tier II 0
Tier III 0
Tier IV & V 0
Olympic Games 0
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 16 June 1978 Chichester
Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...

, England
Grass   Evonne Cawley 4-6, 4-6
Runner-up 2. 9 January 1984 Nashville, Tennessee, USA Hard   Jenny Klitch 2-6, 1-6

Doubles 4 (3-1)

Legend
Grand Slam 1
WTA Championships 0
Tier I 0
Tier II 0
Tier III 0
Tier IV & V 0
Olympic Games 0
Titles by Surface
Hard 2
Clay 1
Grass 0
Carpet 0
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 5 June 1977 French Open, France Clay   Regina Maršiková
Regina Maršíková
Regina Maršíková is a former Czechoslovakian tennis player.Maršíková's single titles were at Rome, Toronto and Christchurch in 1978, Phoenix in 1980 and Berlin in 1981...

  Rayni Fox 
  Helen Gourlay
Helen Gourlay
Helen Gourlay Cawley is a retired female tennis player from Australia.She was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia....

5-7, 6-4, 6-2
Runner-up 2. 29 January 1978 Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California, USA
Hard   Greer Stevens
Greer Stevens
Greer "Cat" Stevens is a former ladies professional tennis player. A native of Pietermaritzburg, Stevens in 1980 reached a career high singles ranking of World No. 7 and the Wimbledon quarterfinals in both singles and doubles. She also played for the Boston Lobsters of World TeamTennis...

  Betty Stöve
Betty Stöve
Betty Stöve is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.-Career:...

 
  Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...

3-6, 2-6
Winner 3. 20 August 1978 Canadian Open, Canada Hard   Regina Maršiková
Regina Maršíková
Regina Maršíková is a former Czechoslovakian tennis player.Maršíková's single titles were at Rome, Toronto and Christchurch in 1978, Phoenix in 1980 and Berlin in 1981...

  Chris O'Neil
Chris O'Neil (tennis)
Christine "Chris" O'Neil is a former professional female tennis player from Australia.O'Neil is best-remembered for her victory at the 1978 Australian Open, the last Australian female to do so. She also became the first unseeded woman to win the Australian title in the open era. This feat would go...

 
  Paula Smith
Paula Smith
Paula Smith is a former American tennis player.Smith played 100 tour singles matches and 47 doubles matches between 1976 and 1988. She reached the finals of the French Open once in 1981, partnering Candy Reynolds, and again in mixed doubles in 1985, partnering Francisco González and losing to...

7-5, 6-7, 6-2
Winner 4. 14 September 1980 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Hard   Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici
Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

  Kathy Jordan
Kathy Jordan
Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

 
  JoAnne Russell
JoAnne Russell
JoAnne Russell is a former American professional tennis player. With partner Helen Gourlay Cawley, Russell won the Wimbledon Ladies' Doubles title in 1977. They beat the team of Chris Evert and Rosie Casals in the first round and the top-ranked team of Martina Navratilova and Betty Stöve in the...

6-4, 7-5

Mixed doubles 2 (1-1)

Legend
Grand Slam 1
WTA Championships 0
Tier I 0
Tier II 0
Tier III 0
Tier IV & V 0
Olympic Games 0
Titles by Surface
Hard 0
Clay 0
Grass 1
Carpet 0
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 8 September 1974 US Open, USA Grass   Geoff Masters
Geoff Masters
Geoff Masters is a former Australian tennis player.-Tennis tour career:In 1977 Masters and Ross Case won the doubles in Wimbledon.-Doubles titles :-Post-tennis playing career:...

  Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

 
  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...

6-1, 7-6
Runner-up 2. 15 June 1975 French Open, France Clay   Jaime Fillol
Jaime Fillol
Jaime Fillol is a former tennis player from Chile. He played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s.Fillol was ranked as high as world number 14 in singles on the ATP Rankings and number 82 in doubles .In the Open era , Fillol won seven singles titles and 15 doubles titles...

  Tomas Koch 
  Fiorella Bonicelli
Fiorella Bonicelli
Fiorella Bonicelli is a retired professional tennis player from Uruguay. During her career, she won the 1975 French Open mixed doubles title with Thomas Koch. She also won the 1976 French Open women's doubles title with Gail Lovera, defeating Kathy Harter and Helga Niessen Masthoff 6–4, 1–6, 6–3....

4-6, 6-7

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