Catarina Lindqvist

Catarina Lindqvist
Singles
Country (sports)	Sweden
Residence	Hollviken, Sweden & Rumson, New Jersey, USA^[1]
Born	(1963-06-13) 13 June 1963 Kristinehamn, Sweden
Turned pro	1983
Retired	1992
Plays	Right-handed (one handed-backhand)
Prize money	US$1,076,284
Career record	297–207
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 10 (15 April 1985)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (1987)
French Open	4R (1986)
Wimbledon	SF (1989)
US Open	4R (1985, 1986, 1987)
Doubles
Career record	30–70
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 29 (11 April 1988)

Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan (born 13 June 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.

Career

Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of World No. 10 in April 1985 and won five singles titles. She reached the semifinals of Grand Slam tournaments twice, the Australian Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1989. She lost to Martina Navratilova in both semifinals. She retired from tennis in 1992.

Lindqvist six WTA Tour singles titles and one doubles title. She had career wins over Steffi Graf, Virginia Wade, Pam Shriver, Hana Mandlíková, Wendy Turnbull, Manuela Maleeva, Nathalie Tauziat, Dianne Fromholtz, Helena Suková, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Zina Garrison, Kathy Jordan, Jo Durie, and Natasha Zvereva.

She currently resides in New Jersey, and is the mother of Joakim Ryan, a top amateur hockey player. She is also the mother of Christina and Tobias.

In 2009 Lindqvist and her husband Bill Ryan bought the East Brunswick Racquet Club in East Brunswick, New Jersey, where currently Lindqvist is the head teaching pro .

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 10 (5–5)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III (0–0)
Tier IV (1–1)
Tier V (1–0)
Virginia Slims (3–4)

Titles by Surface
Hard (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (3–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	2 January 1984	Hershey	Carpet (i)	Beth Herr	6–4, 6–0
Winner	2.	15 October 1984	Filderstadt	Carpet (i)	Steffi Graf	6–1, 6–4
Winner	3.	31 December 1984	Port St. Lucie	Hard	Terry Holladay	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	4 March 1985	Princeton	Carpet (i)	Hana Mandlíková	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	14 October 1985	Filderstadt	Carpet (i)	Pam Shriver	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	20 October 1986	Brighton	Carpet (i)	Steffi Graf	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	6 July 1987	Båstad	Clay	Sandra Cecchini	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	9 January 1989	Sydney	Hard	Martina Navratilova	2–6, 4–6
Winner	4.	9 April 1990	Tokyo	Hard	Elizabeth Smylie	6–3, 6–2
Winner	5.	14 February 1991	Oslo	Carpet (i)	Raffaella Reggi	6–3, 6–0

Doubles: 2 (0–2)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III (0–0)
Tier IV (0–1)
Tier V (0–0)
Virginia Slims (0–1)

Titles by Surface
Hard (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	11 May 1987	Berlin	Clay	Tine Scheuer-Larsen	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	22 February 1988	Oklahoma City	Carpet (i)	Tine Scheuer-Larsen	Jana Novotná Catherine Suire	4–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	R#	RR	Q#	A	NH

(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; or (NH) tournament not held.

Tournament	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	Career SR
Australian Open	A	A	2R	QF	NH	SF	4R	QF	A	2R	2R	0 / 7
French Open	A	2R	2R	2R	4R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	1R	0 / 9
Wimbledon	A	1R	2R	1R	QF	4R	1R	SF	1R	4R	2R	0 / 10
US Open	1R	A	3R	4R	4R	4R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 10
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 36
Year End Ranking	131	115	18	13	17	16	42	16	38	46	63

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

References

↑ Johnson, Brent. "Nationally ranked tennis pro teaching at East Brunswick club", The Star-Ledger, 19 May 2010. Accessed 14 February 2011. "It’s not the Swedish star’s first connection to New Jersey. Lindqvist has long lived in Rumson, where her husband Bill Ryan is from. And in the 1990s, she served a stint as an assistant women’s tennis coach at Princeton University."

External links

Catarina Lindqvist at the Women's Tennis Association
Catarina Lindqvist at the International Tennis Federation
Catarina Lindqvist at the Fed Cup

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