Elizabeth Smylie

Playing career

Elizabeth Sayers was born in Perth in 1963, was ranked among the world's top ten juniors in 1981 and turned professional in 1982. She married the player Peter Smylie in 1984; he later became her coach. Her best singles ranking was No. 20 in 1987, the year she reached the Australian Open quarter-finals, and she won three singles titles. Her career was built on doubles, where she reached No. 5 in 1988.

She won four major titles: the 1985 Wimbledon doubles with Kathy Jordan, and the mixed at the US Open in 1983 with John Fitzgerald, at the US Open in 1990 with Todd Woodbridge and at Wimbledon in 1991 with Fitzgerald. With Jordan she also won the 1990 season-ending championships at Madison Square Garden. She won Olympic bronze in doubles with Wendy Turnbull at Seoul in 1988 and played Federation Cup for Australia from 1984 to 1994. She was named the WTA's Comeback Player of the Year in 1990 and 1993.

She retired from doubles after Wimbledon 1997 and moved into broadcasting for the Nine Network, the Seven Network, the BBC and the Australian Open world feed. She was for many years tournament director of the Australian Women's Hardcourts on the Gold Coast. She entered the Western Australian Hall of Champions in 2024.

On grass

Every grass title: 6

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
1985	Women's doubles	with Kathy Jordan
1991	Mixed doubles	with John Fitzgerald
Birmingham
1991	Women's doubles	with Nicole Provis
1996	Women's doubles	with Linda Wild
New South Wales Championships
1987	Women's doubles New South Wales Open	with Betsy Nagelsen
Eastbourne
1988	Women's doubles	with Eva Pfaff

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions