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Also known as Kerry Melville Reid

Australian tennis player

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Works
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  • Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide
  • Nursing Student's Maths and Medications Survival Guide
  • Paediatrics and Medications
  • Clinical Placement - E-Book
  • Student nurse

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
JM
Active from
1963-06-06

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Key facts

Full name
Kerry Melville Reid
Country sports
Australia
Born
( 1947-08-07 ) 7 August 1947 (age 78) , Mosman, New South Wales
Height
167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career record
236–104
Highest ranking
No. 7 (4 July 1976)
Australian open
W ( 1977 )
French open
SF ( 1967 )
Wimbledon
SF ( 1974 )
Us open
F ( 1972 )

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Tennis
Team
_Retired Tennis
Position
Tennis Player
Nationality
Australia

via TheSportsDB

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Kerry Melville Reid MBE (née Melville; born 7 August 1947) is an Australian former professional tennis player. During her 17-year career, Reid won a major singles title and 26 other singles titles, and was the runner-up in 40 singles tournaments. Reid was included in the year-end world top-ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968–1979). She won at least one tournament annually from 1966 through 1979, except for 1975. Her career-high ranking was world No. 5 in 1971, behind Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong, and Rosie Casals.

Career

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kerry Reid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.