Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández ( born August 19, 1971 in the Dominican Republic) is a former American tennis player.

Career

She reached three times the final of a Grand Slam tournament in her career. However, it was defeated in 1990 at the Australian Open and the 1993 French Open each Steffi Graf in 1992 and at the Australian Open Monica Seles.

Overall Fernández won seven individual titles on the WTA Tour. They celebrated their biggest success in 1997 in Germany at the German Open in Berlin. There they came up with wins over Anna Kournikova, Jana Novotna and Mary Pierce to win the title.

Mary Joe Fernández stayed in the 90s consistently in the top ten and reached position 4 in 1991, their best finish in the rankings.

In doubles, she won in 1991 at the Australian Open on the side of Patty Fendick, 1996, they secured on the side of Lindsay Davenport also the title at the French Open in Paris. In the same year she won with Davenport again the final Masters of the year. The following year she was awarded the WTA as the best player of the double season.

1992 and 1996 they won with Gigi Fernández the gold medal in women's doubles at the Olympic Games in Barcelona and Atlanta. In women's singles, they also won the bronze medal in Barcelona and she was in the 1996 Olympic semi-finals - in the bronze medal match she defeated Jana Novotna.

Among her most impressive achievements is their quarterfinal match at the 1993 French Open against Gabriela Sabatini. Fernández was able to turn the match and defeat the favored opponent after defense of five match points with 1:6, 7:6 and 10:8 after an almost seemingly hopeless residue of 1:6 and 0:5. They then came to the finals, in which they failed to Steffi Graf ( she could only once, in an unofficial invitational tournament in France, defeat ).

Today, Mary Joe Fernández Sportkommentatorin is on ESPN and team leader of the U.S. Fed Cup team.

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