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Australia · born Melbourne, 1963 · three times Australian junior champion · Wimbledon fourth round 1988 and 1991
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3
Australian girls' singles titles in a row
No. 23
Career-high singles ranking, July 1988
4
WTA singles titles, 1987 to 1989
20-6
Fed Cup win-loss record for Australia
Born in Melbourne in 1963 and first coached by her mother, a state-level player, Minter held an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship and won the Australian girls' singles three years running from 1979. She turned professional in 1981 and played until 1992. She won four WTA singles titles, at Taipei and Singapore in 1987, Puerto Rico in 1988 and Taipei again in 1989, and reached a career-high ranking of No. 23 in July 1988. That year she beat the fourth seed Pam Shriver on the way to the Australian Open quarter-finals and played the Seoul Olympics. She reached the 1984 French Open mixed doubles final with Laurie Warder. In Fed Cup she played from 1981 to 1989, helped Australia to the 1984 final and finished 20-6. She later coached and competed in triathlons.
| Major singles titles | 3: Australian (1979, 1980, 1981) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 1: Australian (1980) |
| Junior finals | 1979: beat Susan Leo 6-4, 6-3. 1980: beat Elizabeth Sayers 6-4, 6-2. 1981: beat Corinne Vanier 6-4, 6-2. Doubles title 1980 with Miranda Yates |
| Wimbledon | Singles fourth round 1988 and 1991. In 1988 beat the ninth seed Hana Mandlíková 6-4, 6-3, then lost to Pascale Paradis 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Doubles third round 1987; mixed doubles quarter-final 1984 |
"I seemed to really play well when I played for my country."
The person behind the player.
Kooyong 1979 to 1981
Minter won the Australian girls' singles three years running, each final in straight sets: 6-4, 6-3 against Susan Leo in 1979, 6-4, 6-2 against Elizabeth Sayers in 1980 and 6-4, 6-2 against the French player Corinne Vanier in 1981. In 1980 she added the doubles with Miranda Yates.
Source: ITFWimbledon 1988
Unseeded, she beat the ninth seed Hana Mandlíková 6-4, 6-3 in the third round; the Reading Eagle ran the story under the headline "Mandlikova upset by Anne Minter". Pascale Paradis ended her run in the fourth round, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. On 4 July she reached her career-high ranking of No. 23.
Source: WikipediaFed Cup 1984
Minter and her younger sister Elizabeth both turned professional, and they became the first sisters to play doubles together for Australia in the Fed Cup. In 1984 Anne helped Australia to the final, which Czechoslovakia won 2-1.
Source: Tennis AustraliaWTA Awards 1987
In 1987, the year she won her first two WTA titles, at Taipei and Singapore, Minter received the WTA's Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award. She succeeded Peanut Louie-Harper as the winner and was followed in 1988 by Svetlana Parkhomenko of the Soviet Union.
Source: WikipediaMelbourne 2020
More than 30 years after her last Fed Cup tie, she received the Fed Cup Commitment Award at the 2020 Australian Open. "That was a nice surprise," she said. "I didn't even know those awards existed." After tennis she took up triathlons, and golf later became her passion.
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