Amanda Coetzer

Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004. She won her first top-level singles title in 1993 in Melbourne, and her second later that year in Tokyo.

Amanda Coetzer

Coetzer in 2003
Country (sports)	South Africa
Residence	Hoopstad, South Africa, Africa
Born	(1971-10-22) 22 October 1971 Hoopstad, South Africa
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	January 1988
Retired	June 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$5,594,821
Singles
Career record	568–337
Career titles	9 WTA
Highest ranking	No. 3 (3 November 1997)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (1996, 1997)
French Open	SF (1997)
Wimbledon	4R (1994)
US Open	QF (1994, 1996, 1998)
Doubles
Career record	269–219
Career titles	9 WTA
Highest ranking	No. 15 (27 September 1993)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2002)
French Open	SF (1993, 1994)
Wimbledon	3R (1998, 2001)
US Open	F (1993)
Mixed doubles
Career record	18–18
Career titles	0
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1995, 2001)
French Open	QF (1994)
Wimbledon	QF (2000)
US Open	2R (1992, 1993)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	QF (1995, 1996), Total 31 - 13
Hopman Cup	W (2000)

Coetzer entered the top twenty on the women's world rankings in 1992 and remained there for most of the next ten years. She earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her, and reached the peak of her career in 1997. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two stature, she gained her nickname: "The Little Assassin."

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Personal life

Coetzer is the daughter of Nico and Suska Coetzer. She started playing tennis at the age of 6. During her playing career she resided primarily in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was coached by Gavin Hopper. She is married to the Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan.

Career

At the Canadian Open in 1995, Coetzer defeated three players ranked in the world's top-5 – Steffi Graf (No. 1), Jana Novotná (No. 4) and Mary Pierce (No. 5) – before finally losing to Monica Seles in the final. The defeat of Graf ended a 32-match winning-streak for the German.

At the Australian Open in 1996, Coetzer became the first South African woman in the Open era to reach a Grand Slam semi-final, where she lost in three sets to Anke Huber.

1997 was the best season of Coetzer's career. In reaching the Australian Open semi-finals for the second consecutive year, she defeated World No. 1 Graf in the fourth round. She then beat Graf for a second time in the quarter-finals at Berlin (it was her worst-ever loss: 6–0, 6–1 in just 56 minutes). And then, in the quarter-finals of the French Open, she defeated Graf yet again to become one of just six players to beat Graf three times in one year, and one of only four to defeat her more than once in Grand Slam matches. Coetzer lost in the French Open semi-finals to eventual-champion Iva Majoli. Later in the year in Leipzig, Coetzer beat Martina Hingis, who by then had taken over the World No. 1 ranking. Coetzer won two singles titles that year – in Budapest and Luxembourg.

Coetzer won the biggest title of her career in 1998 at Hilton Head (Tier 1 event).

In 1999 Coetzer became the only player to defeat Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport while they were ranked No. 1.

In 2000, Coetzer teamed-up with Wayne Ferreira to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa. She also was a member of South Africa's Fed Cup team for six years and represented South Africa at the Olympic Games on three occasions.

In 2001, she qualified for her ninth consecutive year-end championship.

In 2002, she obtained an invite from the Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association to play The Hong Kong Ladies Challenge 2002.

During her career, Coetzer won nine top-level singles titles and nine doubles titles. Her final singles title was won in Acapulco in 2003. Her career prize-money earnings totalled US$5,594,821.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1993	US Open	Hard	Inés Gorrochategui	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Helena Suková	6–4, 6–2

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 21 (9–12)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I (1–3) Tier II (1–5) Tier III, IV & V / International (7–4)

Titles by Surface Hard (2–6) Grass (0–0) Clay (6–3) Carpet 1–3)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	21 October 1991	San Juan	Hard	Julie Halard	5–7, 5–7
Win	1.	11 January 1993	Melbourne	Hard	Naoko Sawamatsu	6–2, 6–3
Loss	2.	22 February 1993	Indian Wells	Hard	Mary Joe Fernández	6–3, 1–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	2.	20 September 1993	Tokyo	Hard	Kimiko Date	6-3, 6–2
Loss	3.	21 February 1994	Indian Wells	Hard	Steffi Graf	0–6, 4–6
Win	3.	9 May 1994	Prague	Clay	Åsa Carlsson	6–1, 7–6(16–14)
Loss	4.	14 August 1995	Toronto	Hard	Monica Seles	0–6, 1–6
Loss	5.	16 October 1995	Brighton	Carpet (i)	Mary Joe Fernández	4–6, 5–7
Loss	6.	19 February 1996	Oklahoma City	Hard (i)	Brenda Schultz-McCarthy	3–6, 2–6
Win	4.	21 April 1997	Budapest	Clay	Sabine Appelmans	6–1, 6–3
Loss	7.	22 September 1997	Leipzig	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	5.	20 October 1997	Luxembourg	Carpet (i)	Barbara Paulus	6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Win	6.	30 March 1998	Hilton Head Island	Clay	Irina Spîrlea	6–3, 6–4
Loss	8.	1 February 1999	Tokyo	Carpet (i)	Martina Hingis	2–6, 1–6
Loss	9.	22 February 1999	Oklahoma City	Hard (i)	Venus Williams	4–6, 0–6
Loss	10.	8 May 2000	Berlin	Clay	Conchita Martínez	1–6, 2–6
Win	7.	15 May 2000	Antwerp	Clay	Cristina Torrens Valero	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win	8.	26 February 2001	Acapulco	Clay	Elena Dementieva	2–6, 6–1, 6–2
Loss	11.	9 April 2001	Amelia Island	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	4–6, 5–7
Loss	12.	16 February 2003	Memphis	Clay	Lisa Raymond	3–6, 2–6
Win	9.	24 February 2003	Acapulco	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	7–5, 6–3

Doubles: 23 (9–14)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–1) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I (1–2) Tier II (3–7) Tier III, IV & V / International (5–4)

Titles by Surface Hard (4–6) Grass (0–0) Clay (5–7) Carpet (0–1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	27 April 1992	Taranto	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	Rachel McQuillan Radka Zrubáková	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Loss	1.	6 July 1992	Kitzbühel	Clay	Wiltrud Probst	Alexia Dechaume Florencia Labat	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	28 September 1992	Taipei	Hard	Cammy MacGregor	Jo-Anne Faull Julie Richardson	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Win	2.	26 October 1992	San Juan	Hard	Elna Reinach	Gigi Fernández Kathy Rinaldi	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	3.	5 April 1993	Amelia Island	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere Leila Meskhi	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	4.	30 August 1993	US Open	Hard	Inés Gorrochategui	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Helena Suková	4–6, 2–6
Loss	5.	20 September 1993	Tokyo	Hard	Linda Wild	Lisa Raymond Chanda Rubin	4–6, 1–6
Loss	6.	1 November 1993	Oakland	Carpet (i)	Inés Gorrochategui	Patty Fendick Meredith McGrath	2–6, 0–6
Loss	7.	4 April 1994	Amelia Island	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	Larisa Neiland Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	2–6, 7–6(8–6), 4–6
Win	3.	9 May 1994	Prague	Clay	Linda Wild	Kristie Boogert Laura Golarsa	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Win	4.	3 April 1995	Amelia Island	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	Nicole Arendt Manon Bollegraf	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Win	5.	115 May 1995	Berlin	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	Larisa Neiland Gabriela Sabatini	4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
Loss	8.	18 September 1995	Tokyo	Hard	Linda Wild	Lindsay Davenport Mary Joe Fernández	3–6, 2–6
Win	6.	16 September 1996	Tokyo	Hard	Mary Pierce	Park Sung-hee Wang Shi-ting	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Win	7.	21 April 1997	Budapest	Clay	Alexandra Fusai	Eva Martincová Elena Wagner	6–3, 6–1
Loss	9.	4 May 1998	Rome	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–7(1–7), 4–6
Loss	10.	22 February 1999	Oklahoma City	Hard (i)	Jessica Steck	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	3–6, 4–6
Loss	11.	26 April 1999	Hamburg	Clay	Jana Novotná	Larisa Neiland Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	2–6, 1–6
Loss	12.	20 September 1999	Tokyo	Hard	Jelena Dokic	Conchita Martínez Patricia Tarabini	7–6(7–5), 4–6, 2–6
Loss	13.	8 May 2000	Berlin	Clay	Corina Morariu	Conchita Martínez Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 2–6, 6–7(7–9)
Win	8.	19 February 2001	Oklahoma City	Hard (i)	Lori McNeil	Janet Lee Wynne Prakusya	6–3, 2–6, 6–0
Loss	14.	21 May 2001	Strasbourg	Clay	Lori McNeil	Silvia Farina Elia Iroda Tulyaganova	1–6, 6–7(7–0)
Win	9.	10 September 2001	Bahia	Hard	Lori McNeil	Nicole Arendt Patricia Tarabini	6–7(8–10), 6–2, 6–4

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	SR	W–L	W%
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	3R	SF	SF	4R	4R	2R	QF	4R	4R	2R	0 / 12	31–12	7001720000000000000♠72%
French Open	A	4R	1R	2R	3R	2R	4R	2R	4R	SF	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	A	0 / 15	23–15	7001610000000000000♠61%
Wimbledon	Q3	1R	2R	2R	A	2R	4R	2R	2R	2R	2R	3R	2R	3R	2R	2R	A	0 / 14	17–14	7001550000000000000♠55%
US Open	Q1	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	QF	1R	QF	4R	QF	1R	3R	1R	3R	3R	A	0 / 15	25–15	7001630000000000000♠63%
Win–Loss	0–0	3–3	1–3	2–3	4–2	4–4	11–4	4–4	13–4	14–4	8–4	5–4	6–4	8–4	6–4	6–4	1–1	0 / 56	96–56	7001630000000000000♠63%
Year-End Championships
Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	1R	A	A	A	0 / 9	2–9	7001180000000000000♠18%
Tier I Tournaments
Tokyo	Tier III		Tier II			A	A	A	A	QF	SF	F	QF	2R	2R	1R	A	0 / 7	10–7	7001590000000000000♠59%
Boca Raton	Tier II			2R	SF	Tier II			Not Held									0 / 2	5–2	7001710000000000000♠71%
Indian Wells	NH	T III	Tier II							2R	3R	3R	2R	A	QF	QF	A	0 / 6	8–6	7001570000000000000♠57%
Miami	A	3R	2R	2R	QF	4R	4R	4R	3R	2R	4R	QF	QF	4R	4R	2R	A	0 / 15	26–15	7001630000000000000♠63%
Charleston	Tier II		A	2R	3R	QF	3R	3R	2R	QF	W	3R	QF	QF	QF	3R	A	1 / 13	28–12	7001700000000000000♠70%
Berlin	A	2R	1R	3R	A	A	A	2R	2R	SF	3R	1R	F	QF	1R	A	A	0 / 11	15–11	7001580000000000000♠58%
Rome	T IV	T II	2R	2R	SF	3R	2R	3R	A	3R	2R	2R	A	A	A	2R	A	0 / 10	13–10	7001570000000000000♠57%
San Diego	T V	T IV	Tier III			Tier II											A	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Montreal / Toronto	Tier II		A	A	3R	3R	3R	F	3R	QF	3R	QF	2R	3R	3R	3R	A	0 / 12	22–12	7001650000000000000♠65%
Moscow	NH	Tier V			Not Held		Tier III			A	A	A	A	A	SF	1R	A	0 / 2	3–2	7001600000000000000♠60%
Zürich	T IV	T III	Tier II			A	A	A	1R	2R	QF	QF	2R	2R	2R	1R	A	0 / 8	7–8	7001470000000000000♠47%
Philadelphia	Not Held			Tier II		QF	1R	1R	Tier II					Not Held		Tier II		0 / 3	2–3	7001400000000000000♠40%
Career Statistics
Year-End Ranking	157	63	76	67	17	15	18	19	14	4	17	11	12	19	21	25	286

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

Record against other top players

Coetzer's win-loss record against certain players who have been ranked World No. 10 or higher is as follows:Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.

• Dominique Monami 1–4
• Barbara Schett 5-2
• Anna Kournikova 7–2
• Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 4–18
• Steffi Graf 4–11
• Elena Dementieva 3–2
• Jana Novotná 3–3
• Lindsay Davenport 3–13
• Justine Henin 2–1
• Nadia Petrova 2–2
• Anastasia Myskina 2–2
• / Jelena Dokić 2–3
• Martina Hingis 2–10
• Flavia Pennetta 1–0
• Amélie Mauresmo 1–4
• Gabriela Sabatini 1–7
• Venus Williams 1–8
• // Monica Seles 1–9
• Serena Williams 0–1
• Francesca Schiavone 0–3
• / Martina Navratilova 0–4
• Kim Clijsters 0–4
• Conchita Martinez 3–15
• Vera Zvonareva 2–2
• Patty Schnyder 6–2
• Mary Pierce 3-8

External links

• Amanda Coetzer at the Women's Tennis Association
• Amanda Coetzer at the International Tennis Federation
• Amanda Coetzer at the Fed Cup

Awards
Preceded by Kimberly Po	Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award 1995	Succeeded by Yayuk Basuki