Lesley Hunt

Lesley Hunt

Country (sports)	Australia
Born	29 May 1950 Perth, Australia
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in) [1]
Retired	1979
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Career record	69–69
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (1971)
French Open	4R (1968)
Wimbledon	4R (1971, 1973)
US Open	QF (1970, 1971, 1974, 1978)
Doubles
Career record	79–60
Career titles	1
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (1971)
French Open	SF (1971)
Wimbledon	QF (1970, 1972, 1973)
US Open	SF (1972, 1974)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	W (1971)

Lesley Hunt (born 29 May 1950) is a former tennis player from Perth, Western Australia.

Particularly noted as a junior player, in 1964 at the age of 14 she won a rare double in the Western Australian Women's open, taking both the Open and Junior titles. She won the Australian junior championship in 1967 and 1968 and reached the final of the Wimbledon Junior Invitational in 1968. That year she also won the French and United States Junior Championships.^[2] In 1968 she won the Australian and French Open Junior titles and the Australian Open Junior title again the following year.

In 1974 she was ranked number 3 in Australia. Between 1967 and 1979 she was never outside the top six in Australia, while playing amongst contemporaries in Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull.

Hunt was seeded once in the United States championships (number 8 in 1974); twice at the French Championships (number 4 in 1976 & 7 in 1977; and once at the Australian Championships (number 5 in 1974), but was never seeded at Wimbledon. She was runner-up in the 1971 Virginia Slims tournament, losing to Margaret Court and in 1976 reached the final of the Italian Open. Two years later in 1978 she made her first international open victory with a win in the Swiss Open. She reached the finals of the Canadian and Italian Opens in the same year, as well as the quarterfinals at the US Open.

As a doubles player she won the U.S Open Hardcourt and Claycourt titles with Evonne Goolagong.

In December 1970 she joined with Court and Goolagong in the 1971 Federation Cup victory over Great Britain at Royal King's Park Tennis Club. In the final match she partnered with Court, beating Virginia Wade and Winnie Shaw.

Hunt was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions in 1993.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles 3 (1–2)

Legend Grand Slam 0 WTA Championships 0 Tier I 0 Tier II 0 Tier III 0 Tier IV & V

Titles by Surface Hard 0 Clay 0 Grass 1 Carpet 0

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 January 1971	Australian Open, Australia	Grass	Jill Emmerson	Margaret Court Evonne Goolagong	0–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	15 October 1978	US Indoors, USA	Carpet	Ilana Kloss	Kerry Reid Wendy Turnbull	3–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	26 November 1978	Christchurch, New Zealand	Grass	Sharon Walsh	Katja Ebbinghaus Sylvia Hanika	6–1, 7–5

References

1. Bostic, Stephanie, ed. (1979). USTA Player Records 1978. United States Tennis Association (USTA). p. 203.
2. W.A. Hall of Champions inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport

External links

• Lesley Hunt at the Women's Tennis Association
• Lesley Hunt at the International Tennis Federation
• Lesley Hunt at the Fed Cup