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Great Britain · born 1965 · twice Australian girls' champion at Kooyong, 1982 and 1983
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Australian girls' singles titles, 1982 and 1983
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Wimbledon singles, 1983 and 1984
7-5, 6-1
Win over Sue Barker, Salt Lake City 1983
1984
Olympic demonstration event and Federation Cup
Born on 2 May 1965, the daughter of the West Ham United footballer Ken Brown, Amanda Brown won the Australian girls' singles on the grass at Kooyong in 1982 and 1983. She played her first WTA matches in November 1982 and was a professional until 1986, reaching the second round at Wimbledon in 1983 and 1984 and at the Australian Open in 1985. In 1984 she reached the semi-finals at Hershey as a qualifier and at Denver, and she was a doubles finalist at Salt Lake City in 1983. Her wins included Sue Barker, Annabel Croft and Gigi Fernández. She represented Great Britain at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where tennis was a demonstration sport, and in the 1984 Federation Cup. Her last matches came at Wimbledon in 1986.
| Major singles titles | 2: Australian (1982, 1983) |
|---|---|
| Australian girls' finals | 1982: beat Pascale Paradis 6-3, 6-4. 1983: beat Bernadette Randall 7-6, 6-3 |
| Wimbledon singles | Second round 1983 as a wild card, beating Lisa Spain 6-4, 6-2 and losing to Sabina Simmonds 6-3, 6-4. Second round 1984, beating Vicki Nelson 6-4, 6-1 and losing to the ninth seed Wendy Turnbull 6-3, 6-4. First round 1985 and 1986 |
| Wimbledon doubles | First round 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 |
| Australian Open at Kooyong | Singles first round 1983, second round 1985 |
The person behind the player.
West Ham
Her father, Ken Brown, played professional football for West Ham United and won one cap for England, in 1959. A generation later his daughter's international career came in a different sport, with Great Britain in the Federation Cup and at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Source: OlympediaKooyong 1983
A year after beating Pascale Paradis of France 6-3, 6-4 in the girls' final, Brown came back to Kooyong and beat the Australian Bernadette Randall 7-6, 6-3 to retain the title. A British girl won it again the following year, when Annabel Croft took the 1984 championship.
Source: ITFWimbledon 1983
Given a wild card into the women's singles at 18, Brown beat the American qualifier Lisa Spain 6-4, 6-2 for her first win at Wimbledon. Sabina Simmonds of Italy stopped her in the second round. A year later she won through a round again before meeting Wendy Turnbull, the ninth seed.
Source: WikipediaSalt Lake City 1983
In September 1983 the 18-year-old Brown met Sue Barker in the round of 32 at Salt Lake City and won 7-5, 6-1. Barker had won the same Australian girls' title in 1975, the last British girl to do so before Brown. Brown also reached the doubles final at Salt Lake City that year.
Source: TennisDBLos Angeles 1984
Tennis was on the Olympic programme in Los Angeles in 1984 as a demonstration sport, and Brown, then 19, played the women's singles for Great Britain. She beat Mercedes Paz of Argentina in the first round before losing to Raffaella Reggi of Italy in the second.
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