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Esmé Emmanuel
Full nameEsmé Emmanuel Berg
Country (sports) South Africa
Born (1947-06-14) 14 June 1947 (age 77)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open3R (1970)
Wimbledon3R (1967, 1970)
US Open2R (1972)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open3R (1970, 1971)
WimbledonQF (1972)
US Open2R (1969, 1972)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open2R (1971)
Wimbledon4R (1972)
US Open3R (1970)

Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a South African former professional tennis player.

Biography

Born in 1947, Emmanuel is a Sephardi Jew, with a mother who was Turkish born but raised in France. Her father was an emigrant to New York from Salonika, Greece.[1]

Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships and won a doubles gold medal at that year's Maccabiah Games in Ramat Gan.[2]

In 1966 she played a Federation Cup tie for South Africa, against the Netherlands.

Emmanuel married husband Roger E. Berg in 1969.[3]

Her best performance in the grand slam tournament came in 1972 when she was a Wimbledon doubles quarter-finalist, partnering Cecilia Martinez. She and Martinez were students together at San Francisco State College.

See also

References

  1. ^ Congregation Shearith Israel (Fall 2016 ed.). p. 22.
  2. ^ "Maccabiah Games". Pacific Stars And Stripes. 1 September 1965. p. 19.
  3. ^ "Esme Emmanuel Is Engaged To Roger E. Berg of Harvard". The New York Times. 30 April 1969.
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