Dianne Fromholtz

Australian Born 1956 165 cm Left handed
Head to heads vs Wendy Turnbull (23)vs Martina Navratilova (23)vs Chris Evert (17)vs Billie Jean King (16)vs Evonne Goolagong (15)vs Sue Barker (13)

Match log

1990

Australian OpenHard, January
R128LAndrea Leand2-6 6-4 4-6
BrisbaneHard, January
R64LUlrike Priller6-1 5-7 6-7

1989

WimbledonGrass, June
R128LGabriela Sabatini1-6 0-6
EastbourneGrass, June
R32LZina Garrison2-6 4-6
R64WHeather Ludloff6-4 6-3
Key BiscayneHard, March
R128LKathy Rinaldi Stunkel4-6 2-6
Boca RatonHard, March
R64LTine Scheuer Larsen2-6 2-6
Indian WellsHard, March
R32LGretchen Magers6-4 5-7 2-6
OklahomaHard, February
R16LCarling Bassett Seguso2-6 6-1 3-6
R32WElise Burgin6-3 6-2
WichitaHard, February
R16LLouise Allen6-2 4-6 5-7
R32WNana Smith6-1 6-4
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LCarrie Cunningham4-6 3-6
SydneyHard, January
R32LAnn Grossman6-4 3-6 4-6
R64WAnne Smith6-3 6-3
BrisbaneHard, January
R16LHelena Sukova6-3 5-7 2-6
R32WCarrie Cunningham4-6 6-3 7-5
R64WNicole Jagerman6-2 3-6 6-3

1988

AdelaideHard, November
QFLJana Pospisilova3-6 6-2 2-6
R16WOlga Tsarbopoulou6-7 6-1 6-2
R32WNanne Dahlman6-1 6-3
PhoenixHard, September
R32LWendy White2-6 6-4 5-7
US OpenHard, August
R64LHelena Sukova2-6 3-6
R128WGigi Fernandez6-4 6-0
MahwahHard, August
R16LSylvia Hanika4-6 2-6
R32WNicole Bradtke2-6 6-4 7-5
Los AngelesHard, August
R16LAnne Minter1-6 0-6
R32WAnne Smith6-2 7-6
R64WWendy Turnbull6-3 6-2
WimbledonGrass, June
R64LZina Garrison4-6 3-6
R128WFederica Bonsignori6-7 6-3 6-0
EastbourneGrass, June
R16LGabriela Sabatini6-4 1-6 3-6
R32WSara Gomer6-1 6-1
R64WIngelise Driehuis6-1 6-3
Tokyo Pan PacificCarpet, April
R16LEtsuko Inoue1-6 2-6
R32WCatarina Lindqvist Ryan6-3 1-6 6-0
SingaporeHard, April
SFLMonique Javer0-6 1-6
QFWMichelle Jaggard Lai6-3 6-4
R16WClare Wood1-6 6-3 6-4
R32WRuth Seeman3-6 6-1 6-2
Key BiscayneHard, March
R128LRosalyn Fairbank6-4 3-6 0-6
WichitaHard, February
R32LNatalia Egorova6-7 1-6
OklahomaHard, February
R32LDianne Van Rensburg5-7 5-7
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LWendy Wood2-6 6-4 6-8

1987

BrisbaneGrass, December
R16LClaudia Porwik3-6 2-6
R32WAnn Devries6-2 6-3
Tokyo Pan PacificCarpet, September
QFLKaterina Maleeva2-6 0-6
R16WBeth Herr6-3 6-3
R32WNeige Dias4-6 6-3 6-3
US OpenHard, September
R128LCarling Bassett Seguso4-6 2-6

Dianne Fromholtz

Dianne Fromholtz walked into the January 1977 Australian Open as top seed, a 20-year-old left-hander from Albury, and walked out with the wrong trophy: she won the doubles with Helen Gourlay, but Kerry Reid beat her 7-5, 6-2 in the singles final. The major never came, and that afternoon stayed the near miss in a career of knocking: semifinals at the US Open in 1976 and at Roland Garros in 1979 and 1980, world No. 4 by March 1979, and 23 career titles.

On her day nobody was safe. She beat Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court, and finished her rivalry with Billie Jean King eight wins to seven. A teenager on Australia's 1974 Federation Cup winning team, she lost fifteen months to a car accident in 1981, climbed back to No. 21 by 1986, and played on until 1990 under her married name, Balestrat. The Australian Tennis Hall of Fame called in 2019.