Bettina Bunge

Bettina Bunge

Country (sports)	West Germany
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born	(1963-06-13) 13 June 1963 Adliswil, Switzerland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	1978
Retired	1989
Plays	Right-handed (one handed-backhand)
Prize money	$357,876
Singles
Career record	294–177
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 6 (28 March 1983)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (1981)
French Open	4R (1981)
Wimbledon	SF (1982)
US Open	4R (1981, 1987)
Doubles
Career record	206–153
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 17 (19 January 1987)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1980)
French Open	SF (1981)
Wimbledon	SF (1982)
US Open	SF (1982)

Bettina Bunge (born 13 June 1963) is a retired German tennis player. She was born in Adliswil, Switzerland. She was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff.

Career

With German nationality as the daughter of a German businessman, she was born in Switzerland, and resided in Peru for more than 13 years. She was a national champion in Peru at the age of 13. She later moved to Miami, Florida. She speaks three languages, German, English, and Spanish. She dealt with a series of injuries throughout her career (injuries of ear and knee, among others).

Bunge was a professional player from 1978 to 1989, appearing for the first time at number 150 in July 1978. Her highest ranking was achieved in 1983 when she reached number 6. In 1982, she registered her all-time best achievement in Grand Slam singles competition when she reached the semifinals of Wimbledon.

She won four singles tournaments, including the tournaments at the German Open, Houston, and Tokyo in 1982, and Oakland in 1983. She was finalist in Sydney in 1979, Stockholm in 1980, Houston, Tampa, Cincinnati (indoor) and Tokyo in 1981, Mahwah in 1982 and Knokke in 1987.

Bunge won four doubles tournaments, including the tournaments of Pan Pacific in Tokyo with Steffi Graf in 1986 and The Belgian Open with Manuela Maleeva in 1987. She was a finalist at the German Open with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in 1982, the Swiss Open with Eva Pfaff in 1985, and New England, also Pfaff, in 1987.

She was a part of the German Federation Cup Team from 1980 to 1983, 1985 to 1987 and 1989. She won the 1987 WTA Comeback of the Year Award. Bunge lives in Coral Gables, Florida.

Awards and recognitions

• 1987: WTA Comeback of the Year

WTA career finals

Singles: 13 (4–9)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	29 January 1979	Toronto	Carpet	Barbara Potter	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	23 December 1979	Sydney	Grass	Hana Mandlíková	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	27 October 1980	Stockholm	Carpet	Hana Mandlíková	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	16 February 1981	Houston	Carpet	Hana Mandlíková	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	14 September 1981	Tokyo	Carpet	Ann Kiyomura	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	6.	5 October 1981	Tampa	Hard	Martina Navratilova	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	11 January 1982	Cincinnati	Carpet	Barbara Potter	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Winner	1.	15 February 1982	Houston	Carpet	Pam Shriver	2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner	2.	17 May 1982	Berlin	Clay	Kathy Rinaldi	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	16 August 1982	Mahwah	Hard	Leigh-Anne Thompson	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Winner	3.	19 September 1982	Tokyo	Carpet	Barbara Potter	7–6, 6–2
Winner	4.	21 February 1983	Oakland	Carpet	Sylvia Hanika	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	9.	6 July 1987	Knokke	Clay	Kathleen Horvath	1–6, 6–7(5–7)

Doubles: 10 (4–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 May 1982	Berlin	Clay	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch	Liz Gordon Beverly Mould	3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	10 July 1983	Hamburg	Clay	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch	Ivanna Madruga Catherine Tanvier	7–5, 6–4
Winner	2.	17 July 1983	Freiburg	Clay	Eva Pfaff	Ivanna Madruga Emilse Raponi-Longo	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	7 October 1984	Los Angeles	Hard	Eva Pfaff	Chris Evert-Lloyd Wendy Turnbull	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	21 October 1984	Filderstadt	Carpet	Eva Pfaff	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	18 November 1984	Brisbane	Grass	Eva Pfaff	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	26 May 1985	Lugano	Clay	Eva Pfaff	Bonnie Gadusek Helena Suková	2–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	14 September 1986	Tokyo	Carpet	Steffi Graf	Katerina Maleeva Manuela Maleeva	6–1, 6–7(4–7), 6–2
Winner	4.	12 July 1987	Knokke	Clay	Manuela Maleeva	Kathleen Horvath Marcella Mesker	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	8 November 1987	Worcester	Carpet	Eva Pfaff	Elise Burgin Rosalyn Fairbank	4–6, 4–6

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.

See also

• Manuela Maleeva
• Steffi Graf
• List of female tennis players

References

External links

• Bettina Bunge at the Women's Tennis Association
• Bettina Bunge at the International Tennis Federation
• Bettina Bunge at the Fed Cup