Lisa Bonder

Lisa Bonder
Singles
Country (sports)	USA
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, USA
Born	(1965-10-16) October 16, 1965 Columbus, Ohio, USA
Turned pro	June 21, 1982
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$212,395
Career record	139–126
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 9 (August 20, 1984)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (1985)
French Open	QF (1984)
Wimbledon	4R (1984)
US Open	4R (1983, 1984)
Doubles
Career record	30–70
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 158 (December 21, 1986)

Lisa Bonder (also known as Lisa Bonder-Kreiss and Lisa Bonder-Kerkorian) (born October 16, 1965) is a retired American professional tennis player.

Career

Bonder played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1991 and won four titles before retiring, the first in 1982 in Hamburg, West Germany and then three in a row in Tokyo in 1982 and 1983.^[1] She reached the 4th round of the US Open in 1983 and 1984 and at Wimbledon in 1984. She also reached a quarterfinal at Roland Garros in 1984. Notable career victories include wins over Chris Evert, Mary Joe Fernandez, Virginia Ruzici, and Andrea Jaeger. According to TennisForum.com, Bonder reached a career high ranking of 9. She retired with a 139–126 win/loss record.^[2]

Personal life

Parents

Born in Columbus, Ohio to Seth and Julie Bonder, who later divorced, she was raised in Saline, Michigan.^[3] Her father, Seth, an American engineer who founded Vector Research, Inc., was born in the Bronx to Russian emigrants who worked in the garment district.^[4]

Daughter

Bonder was involved in a high-profile child support lawsuit with her ex-husband of 28 days, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian. Kerkorian, forty-eight years older than Bonder, suspected that Bonder's ex-boyfriend, Steve Bing, was the father of her daughter. Kerkorian hired "private-eye to the stars" Anthony Pellicano to take dental floss from Bing's trashcan to do DNA paternity testing. It was confirmed that Bing was the father and not Kerkorian.^[5]

Change of name

She married her compatriot Tom Kreiss on 10 January 1988, so her surname changed to "Bonder-Kreiss".^[6] She divorced from Kreiss to marry Kirk Kerkorian in 1999; then divorced again.

WTA Career finals

Singles: 5 (4–1)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Virginia Slims (4–1)

Titles by Surface
Hard (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (1–1)
Carpet (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	July 11, 1982	Hamburg	Clay	Renáta Tomanová	6–3, 6–2
Winner	2.	October 18, 1982	Tokyo	Hard	Shelley Solomon	2–6, 6–0, 6–3
Winner	3.	September 18, 1983	Tokyo	Carpet (I)	Andrea Jaeger	6–2, 5–7, 6–1
Winner	4.	October 16, 1983	Tokyo	Hard	Laura Arraya	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	August 11, 1984	Indianapolis	Clay	Manuela Maleeva	4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Virginia Slims (0–0)

Titles by Surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	November 10, 1985	Tampa	Hard	Laura Gildemeister	Carling Bassett Gabriela Sabatini	0–6, 0–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	Career SR
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	2R	NH	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1
French Open	A	3R	3R	QF	2R	3R	2R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 7
Wimbledon	A	1R	4R	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A	1R	0 / 7
US Open	1R	2R	4R	4R	2R	3R	3R	1R	A	A	1R	0 / 9
SR	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 2	0 / 24
Career Statistics
Year End Ranking	122	41	34	16	36	55	49	126	300	303	110

NH = tournament not held.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

References

↑ "Sony Ericsson WTA Tour".
↑ "ITF Lisa Bonder-Kreiss (USA)". Retrieved 2011-12-05.
↑ Katz, Jesse (September 2002). "The Game of Love". Los Angeles Magazine: 71.
↑ Cherry, W. Peter (2011). "Seth Bonder". In Assad, Arjang A.; Gass, Saul L. Profiles in Operations Research 147. Springer. pp. 739–752. ISBN 978-1-4419-6280-5. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
↑ "Divorce And Dollars - Forbes.com". 2002-09-27. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
↑ See the paragraph "Biography" at her profile at the Women's Tennis Association

External links

Lisa Bonder at the Women's Tennis Association
Lisa Bonder at the International Tennis Federation

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