Lisa Raymond

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**Lisa Raymond**
Raymond at the 2006 Australian Open
Country	United States
Residence	Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of birth	August 10, 1973 (age 33)
Place of birth	Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight	121 lb (55 kg)
Turned Pro	May 1993
Plays	Right-handed
Career Prize Money	$7,129,577
Singles
Career record:	390-299
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	No. 15 (October 20, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2004)
French Open	4r (1997)
Wimbledon	QF (2000)
U.S. Open	4r (1996)
Doubles
Career record:	590-197
Career titles:	63 (1 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (June 12, 2000)
Infobox last updated on: April 2, 2007.

Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a professional female tennis player from the United States. On June 12, 2000, she reached the #1 spot in the world in doubles. Her career high singles ranking was 15, in October 1997.

Raymond has earned over 7 million dollars in prize money in her career, and reached the quarterfinals in singles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. Raymond, who plays right-handed, has wins over Venus Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Monica Seles and Martina Hingis. She is also one of only a handful of players to win a 'Career Grand Slam' in Doubles.

Of her four singles titles, two have come at the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee.

1 Early career
2 Career titles (71)
3 External links

[edit] Early career

Lisa Raymond obtained significant success before joining the WTA Tour. She won the NCAA Single's title in 1992 and 1993 playing for the University of Florida Gators, and helped the team to the 1992 NCAA Team Championships. Playing for the Florida Gators, she was the first player to win all three collegiate Grand Slams titles in a single season (1992). She received the 1992 Volvo Rookie of the Year award, the 1992 Tennis Magazine Collegiate Player of the Year award, the 1992 and 1993 Broderick Award and the 1993 Honda Award for collegiate tennis.

As a junior, she won five U.S. National (USTA) age group singles and doubles titles, and was ranked No.1 in the U.S. national under 18s in 1990.

[edit] Career titles (71)

[edit] Singles titles (4)

Legend (Singles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (4)
Tier IV & V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 27, 1996	Quebec City, Canada	Hard Indoors	Els Callens	6-4 6-4
2.	June 18, 2000	Birmingham, Great Britain	Grass	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6-2 6-7 6-4
3.	February 23, 2002	Memphis, United States	Hard Indoors	Alexandra Stevenson	4-6 6-3 7-6
4.	February 22, 2003	Memphis, United States	Hard Indoors	Amanda Coetzer	6-3 6-2