Kathy Jordan

American Born 1959 173 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Chris Evert (15)vs Martina Navratilova (14)vs Pam Shriver (12)vs Hana Mandlikova (12)vs Virginia Wade (10)vs Wendy Turnbull (9)

Match log

1991

Key Biscayne, qualifyingHard, March
Q1LBettina Fulco2-6 6-4 5-7

1990

Brentwood, qualifyingHard, October
Q1LTami Jones3-6 4-6
US OpenHard, August
R128LGabriela Sabatini1-6 1-6
TorontoHard, July
R64LMagdalena Maleeva4-6 3-6
Q2WCatherine Suire7-5 3-6 6-2
Q1WJennifer Goodling7-5 6-4
Newport, qualifyingGrass, July
Q2LGinger Helgeson7-5 4-6 3-6
Q1WSusan Gilchrist6-2 6-0
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LJulie Halard Decugis5-7 2-6
Eastbourne, qualifyingGrass, June
Q2LSophie AmiachW/O
Q1WLinda Wild7-5 6-1
BirminghamGrass, June
R32LNathalie Tauziat7-5 3-6 5-7
R64WJill Hetherington4-6 6-4 6-3
Q2WMasako Yanagi5-7 6-1 6-0
Q1WAkiko Gooden6-2 6-4
Tokyo Japan Open, qualifyingHard, April
Q1LMagdalena Maleeva3-6 3-6
Indian WellsHard, February
R64LIsabelle Demongeot3-6 6-2 0-6
OklahomaHard, February
R16LManuela Maleeva Fragniere1-6 2-6
R32WHu Na7-6 6-7 6-3

1989

AlbuquerqueHard, August
R32LRaffaella Reggi Concato6-7 7-5 3-6

1987

WorcesterCarpet, November
R16LGabriela Sabatini2-2 RET
R32WRosalyn Fairbank6-2 6-3
BrightonCarpet, October
SFLPam Shriver1-6 5-7
QFWSandra Cecchini6-1 6-3
R16WElise Burgin6-3 6-3
R32WZina Garrison6-7 6-2 6-0
FilderstadtCarpet, October
R16LLori Mcneil3-6 6-4 2-6
R32WJudith Wiesner6-3 6-1
US OpenHard, September
R128LManuela Maleeva Fragniere5-7 2-6
HaverfordHard, August
SFLHelen Kelesi3-6 4-6
QFWSusan Sloane Lundy6-2 6-3
TorontoHard, August
R16LPam Shriver3-6 3-6
R32WIsabel Cueto6-2 6-3
R64WMolly Van Nostrand7-5 6-3
AptosHard, July
QFLElly Hakami6-2 2-6 1-6
R16WNoelle Porter7-6 6-3
R32WGabriela Dinu6-0 6-1
ITF Philadelphia, challengerHard, July
R32LLise Gregory6-1 6-7 4-6
NewportGrass, July
R32LPam Shriver3-6 0-6
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LCatarina Lindqvist Ryan2-6 2-6
EastbourneGrass, June
R32LElizabeth Minter2-6 4-6
R64WWendy Turnbull7-5 3-6 6-3
Tokyo Japan OpenHard, April
QFLBarbara Gerken3-6 6-3 5-7
R16WChristiane Jolissaint6-1 6-4
R32WAdriana Villagran Reami7-6 3-6 6-2

1986

HilversumCarpet, September
R32LNathalie Tauziat2-6 6-7
US OpenHard, August
R16LPam Shriver4-6 4-6
R32WElizabeth Minter6-1 6-3
R64WMarianne Werdel Witmeyer6-0 6-3
R128WKim Sands6-3 3-6 6-3

Kathy Jordan

Wimbledon, third round, 1983: Kathy Jordan beat Chris Evert 6-1, 7-6, the first player to stop her before a Grand Slam semifinal since Evert's major debut in 1971, a run of 34 straight tournaments. The All England Club had turned down Evert's request to push the match back while she recovered from food poisoning. Jordan carried the form to the Australian Open final that same year, where Martina Navratilova beat her 6-2, 7-6. A second major semifinal followed at Wimbledon in 1984, and that March she reached a career-high world No. 5.

Singles alone undersells her. A serve-volleyer out of Stanford, where she won the 1979 collegiate doubles with her sister Barbara Jordan, she built a doubles resume that outran her ranking: four majors alongside Anne Smith, a full career Grand Slam as a pair, plus Wimbledon 1985 with Elizabeth Smylie for a fifth. Mixed doubles brought two more with Ken Flach in 1986. Across singles, doubles and mixed she finished with 2 career titles.