Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

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Women's Tennis
Olympic medal record
Bronze	Seoul 1988	Doubles

**Claudia Kohde-Kilsch**

Country	Germany
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date of birth	11 Dec 1963
Place of birth	Saarbrücken, Germany
Height	6'1 1/2"
Weight	150 lbs
Turned Pro	1 Jan 1980
Retired	1994
Plays	right-handed
Career Prize Money	$2,227,116
Singles
Career record:	408-244
Career titles:	8
Highest ranking:	4
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	?
French Open	?
Wimbledon	?
U.S. Open	?
Doubles
Career record:	398-154
Career titles:	26
Highest ranking:	?
Infobox last updated on: 24 Sep 2006.

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Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (born 11 December 1963 in Saarbrücken) is a former German tennis player. She was born Claudia Kohde, but added the hyphenated "-Kilsch" to her name which came from her adoptive father Jurgen Kilsch, an attorney. She has 1 younger sister, Katrin. Claudia began playing tennis when she only 5, and was soon a rising junior player.

Claudia turned professional on January 1, 1980 and by 1981 she had handed a rare first round defeat to Martina Navrátilová in Oakland. Claudia went on to win Gstaad, the Austrian Open, and Toronto that year. In 1982 she captured the title at Pittsburgh, and in 1984 she triumphed at the German Open defeating Kathleen Horvath of the United States, 7-6(8), 6-1. In 1985 she reached the French Open semi-finals, and also won in Los Angeles. Later that year she defeated Navrátilová in the quarter-finals on the way to a final round match with Chris Evert at the Canadian Open, where she eventually lost to Chris, 6-2, 6-4. In 1987 she again reached the finals of the German Open, where she lost to a rising Steffi Graf 6-2, 6-3.

In doubles play, she was a winner of the 1985 US Open women's doubles championship with Helena Suková and in 1987 partnering again with Suková she took the 1987 Wimbledon women's doubles championship. Between 1983 and 1987 Kohde-Kilsch and Suková , fondly called the "twin towers" for their height, paired to win 19 doubles tournaments. At the 1988 Summer Olympics she partnered with Steffi Graf in the doubles competition, and together they were awarded the bronze medal in the event.

Kohde-Kilsch currently lives in Saarland with her husband, Chris Bennett, and their son, Fynn. The couple operate CeKay Music, a music publishing house and production company.