Barbara Potter

Country	United States
Residence	Harlem, Georgia, USA
Born	October 22, 1961 (1961-10-22) (age 49) Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	1978
Retired	1989
Plays	Left-handed
Career prize money	$1,313,808
Singles
Career record	320–191
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 7 (December 6, 1982)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1984)
French Open	1R (1985)
Wimbledon	Q (1982, 1983, 1985)
US Open	SF (1981)
Doubles
Career record	200–74
Career titles	18
Highest ranking	No. 15 (July 18, 1988)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988)
Wimbledon	SF (1983, 1984)
US Open	F (1982)
Mixed Doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
US Open	F (1982, 1983)
Last updated on: July 12, 2008.

Barbara Potter (born October 22, 1961 in Woodbury, Connecticut) is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning five singles titles and eighteen doubles titles.

Career

Potter turned professional in 1978. A left-hander, she reached the semifinals at the U.S. Open in 1981, and the quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 1984, and Wimbledon in 1985, 1983 & 1982. At the WTA Tour Championships, she reached the semifinals in singles in 1984 and in doubles in 1985 and 1982.

Potter reached a career high ranking of #7 in 1982. She also played in three Grand Slam finals, the 1982 US Open women's doubles, and the 1982 and 1983 US Open mixed doubles. She lost all three, the women's doubles with Sharon Walsh and both mixed doubles with Ferdi Taygan.

In 1986, Potter suffered two herniated disks in her back at a tournament in England and was forced off the tour several times, but after a grueling exercise and fitness program, successfully returned to the tour.

She was a member of the 1982 and 1984 USA Wightman Cup teams and the 1988 United States Fed Cup team. In 1989, she re-aggravated a persistent back condition at the beginning season when she was involved in an automobile accident. She retired in November 1989 due to deteriorating hip cartilage.

Potter currently resides in Harlem, Georgia.

Grand Slam finals

Women's doubles: 1 final (0 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1982	US Open	Hard	Sharon Walsh	Kathy Jordan Anne Smith	6–4, 6–4

Mixed doubles: 2 (0 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1982	US Open	Hard	Ferdi Taygan	Anne Smith Kevin Curren	6–7, 7–6(4), 7–6(5)
Runner-up	1983	US Open	Hard	Ferdi Taygan	Elizabeth Smylie John Fitzgerald	3–6, 6–3, 6–4

Titles (23)

Singles (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	January 11, 1982	Cincinnati, USA	Carpet (i)	Bettina Bunge	6–4, 7–6(3)
2.	September 27, 1982	Philadelphia, USA	Carpet (i)	Pam Shriver	6–4, 6–2
3.	August 19, 1985	Monticello, USA	Hard	Helen Kelesi	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
4.	February 2, 1987	Wichita, USA	Carpet (i)	Larisa Savchenko	7–6(6), 7–6(5)
5.	August 1, 1988	Cincinnati, USA	Hard	Helen Kelesi	6–2, 6–2

Doubles (18)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

• NH = tournament not held.
• A = did not participate in the tournament.
• SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

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