Bettina Bunge

Bettina Bunge

Country	Germany
Residence	Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Born	13 June 1963 (1963-06-13) Adliswil, Switzerland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	56.6 kg (125 lb; 8.91 st)
Turned pro	1978
Retired	1989
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	$357,876
Singles
Career record	294–177
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 6 (28 March 1983)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (1981)
French Open	4R (1981)
Wimbledon	SF (1982)
US Open	4R (1981, 1987)
Doubles
Career record	206–153
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 17 (19 January 1987)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1980)
French Open	SF (1981)
Wimbledon	SF (1982)
US Open	SF (1982)

Bettina Bunge (born 13 June 1963) is a retired German tennis player. She was born in Adliswil, Switzerland. She was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff.

Career

With German nationality as the daughter of a German businessman, she was born in Switzerland, and resided in Peru for more than 13 years. She was a national champion in Peru at the age of 13. She later moved to Miami, Florida. She speaks three languages, German, English, and Spanish. She dealt with a series of injuries throughout her career (injuries of ear and knee, among others).

Bunge was a professional player from 1978 to 1989, appearing for the first time at number 150 in July 1978. Her highest ranking was achieved in 1983 when she reached number 6. In 1982, she registered her all-time best achievement in Grand Slam singles competition when she reached the semifinals of Wimbledon.

She won four singles tournaments, including the tournaments at the German Open, Houston, and Tokyo in 1982, and Oakland in 1983. She was finalist in Sydney in 1979, Stockholm in 1980, Houston, Tampa, Cincinnati (indoor) and Tokyo in 1981, Mahwah in 1982 and Knokke in 1987.

Bunge won four doubles tournaments, including the tournaments of Pan Pacific in Tokyo with Steffi Graf in 1986 and The Belgian Open with Manuela Maleeva in 1987. She was a finalist at the German Open with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in 1982, the Swiss Open with Eva Pfaff in 1985, and New England, also Pfaff, in 1987.

She was a part of the German Federation Cup Team from 1980 to 1983, 1985 to 1987 and 1989. She won the 1987 WTA Comeback of the Year Award. Bunge lives in Coral Gables, Florida.

Awards and recognitions

• 1987: WTA Comeback of the Year

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 12 (4–8)

Titles by Surface Hard 0–2) Grass (0–1) Clay (1–1) Carpet (3–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	23 December 1979	Sydney, Australia	Grass	Hana Mandlíková	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	2 November 1980	Stockholm, Sweden	Carpet (I)	Hana Mandlíková	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	22 February 1981	Houston, USA	Carpet (I)	Hana Mandlíková	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	20 September 1981	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (I)	Ann Kiyomura	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	11 October 1981	Tampa, USA	Hard	Martina Navratilova	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	17 January 1982	Cincinnati, USA	Carpet (I)	Barbara Potter	4–6, 6–7(3)
Winner	1.	21 February 1982	Houston, USA	Carpet (I)	Pam Shriver	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	24 May 1982	Berlin, West Germany	Clay	Kathy Rinaldi	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	29 August 1982	Mahwah, USA	Hard	Leigh-Anne Thompson	6–7(4), 3–6
Winner	3.	19 September 1982	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (I)	Barbara Potter	7–6, 6–2
Winner	4.	27 February 1983	Oakland, USA	Carpet (I)	Sylvia Hanika	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	8.	12 July 1987	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Kathleen Horvath	1–6, 6–7(5)

Doubles: 10 (4-6)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–0) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	1.	24 May 1982	Berlin, West Germany	Clay	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch	Liz Gordon Beverly Mould	3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	10 July 1983	Hamburg, West Germany	Clay	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch	Ivanna Madruga-Osses Catherine Tanvier	7–5, 6–4
Winner	2.	17 July 1983	Freiburg, West Germany	Clay	Eva Pfaff	Ivanna Madruga-Osses Emilse Raponi-Longi	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	7 October 1984	Manhattan Beach, USA	Hard	Eva Pfaff	Chris Evert-Lloyd Wendy Turnbull	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	21 October 1984	Filderstadt, West Germany	Carpet (I)	Eva Pfaff	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	18 November 1984	Brisbane, Australia	Grass	Eva Pfaff	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	26 May 1985	Lugano, Switzerland	Clay	Eva Pfaff	Bonnie Gadusek Helena Suková	2–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	14 September 1986	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (I)	Steffi Graf	Katerina Maleeva Manuela Maleeva	6–1, 6–7(4), 6–2
Winner	4.	12 July 1987	Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Clay	Manuela Maleeva	Kathleen Horvath Marcella Mesker	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	8 November 1987	Worcester, USA	Carpet (I)	Eva Pfaff	Elise Burgin Rosalyn Fairbank	4–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	Career SR
Australian Open	A	A	1R	3R	A	A	2R	1R	NH	A	A	A	0 / 4
French Open	A	3R	3R	4R	2R	2R	3R	3R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 8
Wimbledon	A	2R	3R	2R	SF	1R	3R	3R	QF	3R	A	A	0 / 9
U.S. Open	3R	1R	3R	4R	3R	A	3R	1R	2R	4R	A	A	0 / 9
SR	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 30

• 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.

See also

• Manuela Maleeva
• Steffi Graf
• List of female tennis players

External links

• Bettina Bunge at the Women's Tennis Association
• Bettina Bunge at the International Tennis Federation
• Bettina Bunge at the Fed Cup