Lise Gregory

Lise Gregory

Country (sports)	South Africa
Born	29 August 1963 Durban, South Africa
Retired	1993
Plays	Left-handed
Prize money	$244,383
Singles
Career record	88–76
Highest ranking	No. 167 (7 December 1987)
Doubles
Career record	182–105
Career titles	7
Highest ranking	No. 17 (8 April 1991)

Lise Gregory (born 29 August 1963) is a South African former tennis player who played primarily doubles. She played left-handed. Her career-high doubles ranking in 1990 was no. 18. She reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and was one of the top eight teams participating in the year-end Virginia Slims Championships.

She played in college for the University of Miami, earning seven NCAA All-American awards in both singles and doubles and the NCAA doubles championship in 1986 with long-time doubles partner Ronni Reis.

After her playing career, she became a college coach, first assistant coach at Vanderbilt University, then head coach at Florida State University and the University of North Carolina at Asheville, earning numerous coaching awards.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles 13 (7–6)

Legend Grand Slam 0 WTA Championships 0 Tier I 0 Tier II 0 Tier III 2 Tier IV & V 3

Titles by Surface Hard 4 Clay 1 Grass 1 Carpet 1

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	18 October 1987	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Hard	Ronni Reis	Cammy MacGregor Cynthia MacGregor	7–5, 7–5
Winner	2.	31 July 1988	Aptos, California, USA	Hard	Ronni Reis	Patty Fendick Jill Hetherington	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	26 February 1989	Wichita, Kansas, USA	Clay	Manon Bollegraf	Sandy Collins Leila Meskhi	6–2, 7–6
Runner-up	4.	21 May 1989	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Gretchen Magers	Liz Smylie Janine Tremelling	7–5, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	28 May 1989	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Gretchen Magers	Mercedes Paz Judith Wiesner	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	25 February 1990	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA	Hard	Manon Bollegraf	Mary Lou Daniels Wendy White	5–7, 2–7
Runner-up	7.	17 June 1990	Birmingham, England	Grass	Gretchen Magers	Larisa Savchenko Natalia Zvereva	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Winner	8.	22 July 1990	Newport, Rhode Island, USA	Grass	Gretchen Magers	Patty Fendick Anne Smith	7–6, 6–1
Winner	9.	30 September 1990	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet	Gretchen Magers	Manon Bollegraf Jo Durie	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	10.	17 February 1991	Aurora, Colorado, USA	Hard	Gretchen Magers	Patty Fendick Lori McNeil	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	7 April 1991	Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA	Clay	Mary Lou Daniels	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Natalia Zvereva	4–6, 0–6
Winner	12.	28 July 1991	Westchester, New York, USA	Hard	Rosalyn Fairbank	Katrina Adams Lori McNeil	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	13.	11 August 1991	Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA	Hard	Mareen Harper	Katrina Adams Isabelle Demongeot	7–6, 4–6, 3–6

References

• Lise Gregory at the Women's Tennis Association
• Lise Gregory at the International Tennis Federation
• Biography on the UNC Asheville site
• University of Miami women's tennis records