Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan (born 13 June 1963 in Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 17,836 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern...

, Värmland

Värmland

' is a historical province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Närke. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are Vermelandia and Wermelandia. Although the province's land originally was Götaland, the...

) is a former professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from Sweden.

Career

Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of #10 in April 1985. She also won 6 WTA Tour singles titles and 1 doubles. She had wins over Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

, Wendy Turnbull

Wendy Turnbull

Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

, Pam Shriver

Pam Shriver

Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

, Helena Suková

Helena Suková

Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

, and Natasha Zvereva

Natasha Zvereva

Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

. She reached the semifinals of Grand Slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

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 tournaments twice, the Australian Open

Australian Open

The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

 in 1987 and Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon

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 in 1989. She lost to Martina Navratilova in both semifinals. She retired from tennis in 1992. She currently resides in New Jersey, and is the mother of Joakim Ryan, a top amateur hockey player who was one of 48 16-year old players invited to try out for the US National Development Program.

In 2009 Lindqvist and her husband Bill Ryan bought the East Brunswick Racquet Club http://ebrctennis.com/ in East Brunswick, New Jersey, where currently Lindqvist is the head teaching pro http://ebrctennis.com/?page_id=7.

Singles (6)

Legend Tier IV (1) Tier V (1) VS(4)

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

No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	9 January 1984	Hershey, USA	Carpet (i)	Beth Herr Beth Herr Beth Herr is an American tennis player. She became the number 1 junior tennis player in the world at age 16. She was the #1 college recruit in 1985 and went on to play for the University of Southern California where she won the NCAA singles title and team title in her freshman year...	6-4, 6-0
2.	15 October 1984	Filderstadt, West Germany Porsche Tennis Grand Prix The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is a tennis tournament held in Stuttgart, Germany . Held since 1978, the tournament is the oldest women's indoor tournament in Europe. Currently it is a Tier II tournament on the WTA Tour. The singles champion also receives a Porsche 911 Carrera sports car in addition...	Carpet (i)	Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...	6-1, 6-4
3.	6 January 1985	Port St. Lucie, USA 1984 Ginny Championships The 1984 Ginny Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Port St. Lucie, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series...	Hard	Terry Holladay Terry Holladay Terry Holladay is an American former professional tennis player who played between 1974 and 1987, reaching the quarter finals of both the U.S...	6-3, 6-1
4.	13 July 1986	Båstad, Sweden Swedish Open The SkiStar Swedish Open is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour held in Båstad, Sweden in July each year.The Collector Swedish Open Women is a tennis tournament held in Båstad, Sweden...	Clay	Catrin Jexell	6-2, 6-0
5.	15 April 1990	Tokyo, Japan (Japan Open) Japan Open Tennis Championships The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...	Hard	Elizabeth Sayers Smylie Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....	6-3, 6-2
6.	10 February 1991	Oslo, Norway Oslo Open The Oslo Open was a women's professional tennis tournament held in Oslo, Norway. The event was part of the Women's Tennis Association Tour and was played only once, in 1991. It was classed as a Tier V event, and it was competed on an indoor carpet surface...	Carpet (i)	Raffaella Reggi Raffaella Reggi Raffaella Reggi is a former professional tennis player from Italy, known for her fiery on-court personality, expressiveness and gesticulations....	6-3, 6-0

Doubles (1)

Legend
VS(1)

No.	Date	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	13 July 1986	Båstad, Sweden Swedish Open The SkiStar Swedish Open is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour held in Båstad, Sweden in July each year.The Collector Swedish Open Women is a tennis tournament held in Båstad, Sweden...	Clay	Maria Lindstrom	Christina Singer    Ellen Walliser	6-3, 6-2

Singles (5)

Legend

Tier IV (1)

VS (4)

No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	9 March 1985	Princeton, USA US Indoors The US Indoors, known formally as the U.S. Indoor Championships, was a national tennis championship for women that was sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association and held 79 times from 1907 through 2001 at various locations and on various surfaces. The event was affiliated with the WTA...	Carpet (i)	Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...	6-3, 7-5
2.	20 October 1985	Filderstadt, Germany Porsche Tennis Grand Prix The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is a tennis tournament held in Stuttgart, Germany . Held since 1978, the tournament is the oldest women's indoor tournament in Europe. Currently it is a Tier II tournament on the WTA Tour. The singles champion also receives a Porsche 911 Carrera sports car in addition...	Carpet (i)	Pam Shriver Pam Shriver Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...	6-1, 7-5
3.	26 October 1986	Brighton, UK Brighton International The Brighton International was a tennis tournament held in Brighton, UK. It was a WTA Tour event from 1978-1995 and an ATP Tour event from 1996-2000, upon the discontinuation of the women's tournament. The women's event was held in October....	Carpet (i)	Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...	6-3, 6-3
4.	12 July 1987	Båstad, Sweden Swedish Open The SkiStar Swedish Open is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour held in Båstad, Sweden in July each year.The Collector Swedish Open Women is a tennis tournament held in Båstad, Sweden...	Clay	Sandra Cecchini Sandra Cecchini Anna-Maria Cecchini is a former Italian professional tennis player.Cecchini or Sandra as she was known on the WTA tour, played from 1981 to 1998 and won 11 singles titles. Her most notable Grand Slam performance came in her first appearance at Roland Garros in 1984, when she reached the quarter...	6-4, 6-4
5.	15 January 1989	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Martina Navratilova	6-2, 6-4

Doubles (2)

Legend
Tier IV (1)
VS(1)

No.	Date	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	17 May 1987	Berlin, West Germany	Clay	Tine Scheuer-Larsen Tine Scheuer-Larsen Tine Scheuer-Larsen is a retired female tennis player from Denmark, who reached her highest individual ranking on September 29, 1986, when she became the number 34 of the world. She became a professional in 1980 and retired in 1994, having won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour.-References:*...	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...     Helena Suková Helena Suková Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...	6-1, 6-2
2.	28 February 1988	Oklahoma City, USA Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup are tennis tournaments held in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships is a men's ATP Tour event that has been held since 1976. In previous years it has been known as the U.S. Indoor Championships, the...	Carpet (i)	Tine Scheuer-Larsen	Jana Novotná Jana Novotná Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...     Catherine Suire Catherine Suire Catherine Suire is a former tennis player from France, who competed as a lucky loser for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won eight doubles titles in her professional career, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on May 14, 1984, when she became the...	6-4, 6-4

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	Career SR
Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...	A	A	2R	QF	NH	SF	4R	QF	A	2R	2R	0 / 7
French Open	A	2R	2R	2R	4R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	1R	0 / 9
Wimbledon	A	1R	2R	1R	QF	4R	1R	SF	1R	4R	2R	0 / 10
US Open	1R	A	3R	4R	4R	4R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 10
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 36

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

External links

• Catarina Lindqvist's East Brunswick Racquet Club: http://ebrctennis.com/