Jo Durie

Durie playing in the Ladies' Invitation Doubles final at Wimbledon in 2004
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	London, England
Born	(1960-07-27)27 July 1960 (age 65) Bristol, England
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	1977
Retired	1995
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,224,016
Singles
Career record	321–305
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 5 (9 July 1984)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	QF (1983)
French Open	SF (1983)
Wimbledon	QF (1984)
US Open	SF (1983)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	1R (1984)
Doubles
Career record	274–199
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 9 (December 1983)[1]
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1985)
French Open	SF (1983)
Wimbledon	SF (1983, 1984)
US Open	QF (1987, 1991)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (1984)
Career titles	2
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (1991)
Wimbledon	W (1987)
US Open	SF (1991)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	F (1981)

Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a British formertennis player. Her highest singles ranking was world number five; in doubles she reacched number nine, and won twoGrand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles withJeremy Bates.

Born in Bristol, England, Jo Durie was the last British woman to reach the semifinal of a Grand Slam tournament untilJohanna Konta reached the semifinal of the2016 Australian Open,^[2] and the last British woman to win a major title in any discipline, untilHeather Watson won the2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles title withHenri Kontinen.

After a successful junior career which included winning junior British titles on all three surfaces (grass, hard court and indoor) in 1976; Jo Durie turned professional in 1977, and played her first match at Wimbledon that year against the eventual championVirginia Wade. In 1980 Durie suffered a major back injury which kept her out of the game for eight months. However, she made a successful return to the woman's tennis circuit in 1981, reaching the fourth round of the singles atWimbledon and theUS Open and climbing to her highest singles ranking so far of 31.^[3]

Her most successful year as a singles player was 1983, ending the season at No. 6 in the world rankings and on the prize money leader board. As an unseeded player Durie reached the semifinals of theFrench Open, beating bothPam Shriver andTracy Austin along the way.^[4] Later that year she made anotherGrand Slam singles semifinal appearance at theUS Open, where she eventually lost toChris Evert in straight sets. Her dramatic rise up the singles rankings that year ended with a quarterfinal at theAustralian Open in December. Durie's success as a singles player during 1983 gained her a coveted place at the 1984WTA Tour Championship as the fifth seed.

Her most successful year atWimbledon as a singles player came in 1984 when she reached the quarterfinals, beating a 15-year-oldSteffi Graf in a memorable fourth-round match. It was just after Wimbledon that she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5.

She won two top-level WTA singles titles (both in 1983) atMahwah, New Jersey and Sydney, and had career wins over Steffi Graf,Zina Garrison,Pam Shriver,Hana Mandlíková, andTracy Austin. Further back injuries in 1989 led to a remodeling of her service action. Durie made her last appearance in a WTA tour singles final at theVirginia Slims of Newport tournament in 1990. In 1991 at the age of 30, and one of the oldest singles competitors that year, she had another successful run to the fourth round of theUS Open.

She was ranked the No. 1 British player for most of her career. She won the British National Singles title a record seven times. She was the second British woman player afterVirginia Wade to win $1 million in prize money.

Partnering her fellow British playerJeremy Bates, Durie won the mixed doubles title atWimbledon in 1987,^[5] the first British doubles team to win the title for fifty-one years. In 1991 they became the first British doubles team ever to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title.^[4] As of 2013 both of these records still stand. As a team Bates and Durie reached an additional three mixed doubles quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1986, 1990 and 1993. They also reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 1992 as defending champions.

Durie would go on to win five woman's doubles titles from eighteen finals during her career. Her most successful year as a doubles player, aside from the Grand Slams in 1987 and 1991 was in 1983, when she reached six finals, winning three titles. Durie also reached the semifinals of the women's doubles at the French Open andWimbledon. By virtue of this success she gained a place at the 1984WTA Tour Championship in doubles, and reached the final partneringAnn Kiyomura.^[6]

Durie won the British National Doubles title a record nine times.

Durie was a stalwart member of the BritishWightman Cup (1979, 1981–89), BritishFederation Cup (1981–95) and British European Cup teams (1989–92). Durie was the youngest member of the British Federation Cup team, alongsideVirginia Wade andSue Barker, which reached the team final in 1981. Durie led the British team to victory in the European Championship inPrague in 1992.

Durie retired from competitive tennis at the Wimbledon Championships in 1995, (her 18th appearance at the Championships), and marked it with a memorable performance. After three successive operations on her left knee, Durie went into the Championships ranked No. 326 in the world, yet reached the second round of the ladies' singles. She beat France'sAlexia Dechaume-Balleret, ranked No. 85 in the world, in straight sets in the first round. Her second round, and last singles match at Wimbledon, was againstJana Novotná. Her last match at Wimbledon was a mixed doubles match on Centre Court, where she played alongside her long-standing partnerJeremy Bates.

She is one of the very few players to have a winning record againstSteffi Graf and leads 4–3 in head-to-heads.^[7]

After retiring from the professional tour, Durie had heart surgery to rectify a problem for which she had originally been prescribedBeta blockers early in her career. She did not take the prescribed medication, as she didn't feel well after taking them. She revealed this fact in March 2016 in an interview withBBC Radio 5 Live, after the revelation thatMaria Sharapova had been found taking a similar heart-issue drug, which later had been banned by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency.^[8]

Since retirement, Durie has worked as a TV tennis commentator for both theBBC and BritishEurosport. She used to coach British number oneElena Baltacha alongside her own former coach Alan Jones.^[4] She won back-to-back Wimbledon Ladies' Senior Invitation doubles titles in 1996 and 1997.

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1987	Wimbledon	Grass	Jeremy Bates	Nicole Provis Darren Cahill	7–6(12–10), 6–3
Win	1991	Australian Open	Hard	Jeremy Bates	Robin White Scott Davis	2–6, 6–4, 6–4

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1984	New York	Carpet (i)	Ann Kiyomura	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 1–6

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 1980	Beckenham, UK	Grass	Andrea Jaeger	4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Feb 1982	Greenville, U.S.	Hard (i)	Cláudia Monteiro	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	1–2	Aug 1983	Mahwah, U.S.	Hard	Hana Mandlíková	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	1–3	Oct 1983	Brighton, UK	Carpet (i)	Chris Evert-Lloyd	1–6, 1–6
Win	2–3	Nov 1983	Sydney, Australia	Grass	Kathy Jordan	6–3, 7–5
Loss	2–4	Jul 1990	Newport, U.S.	Grass	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–7(2–7), 6–4, 5–7

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	Jun 1979	Beckenham, UK	Grass	Debbie Jevans	Elizabeth Little Kerryn Pratt	1–6, 4–6
Win	1.	Jun 1982	Birmingham, UK	Grass	Anne Hobbs	Rosie Casals Wendy Turnbull	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2.	Jan 1983	Houston, U.S.	Carpet (I)	Barbara Potter	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	4–6, 3–6
Win	2.	Mar 1983	Boston, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Ann Kiyomura	Kathy Jordan Anne Smith	6–3, 6–1
Win	3.	May 1983	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Anne Hobbs	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff	6–4, 7–6
Loss	3.	Jun 1983	Eastbourne, UK	Grass	Anne Hobbs	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	1–6, 0–6
Win	4.	Aug 1983	Mahwah, U.S.	Hard	Sharon Walsh	Rosalyn Fairbank Candy Reynolds	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Loss	4.	Oct 1983	Brighton, UK	Carpet (i)	Ann Kiyomura	Chris Evert-Lloyd Pam Shriver	5–7, 4–6
Loss	5.	Feb 1984	Livingston, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Ann Kiyomura	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	4–6, 3–6
Loss	6.	Feb 1984	VS Championships, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Ann Kiyomura	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 1–6
Loss	7.	Jun 1984	Eastbourne, UK	Grass	Ann Kiyomura	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	4–6, 2–6
Loss	8.	Aug 1984	Mahwah, U.S.	Hard	Ann Kiyomura	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–7(3–7), 6–3, 2–6
Loss	9.	Mar 1989	Boca Raton, U.S.	Hard	Mary Joe Fernández	Jana Novotná Helena Suková	4–6, 2–6
Win	5.	Apr 1990	Singapore	Hard	Jill Hetherington	Pascale Paradis Catherine Suire	6–4, 6–1
Loss	10.	Sep 1990	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (i)	Manon Bollegraf	Lise Gregory Gretchen Magers	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Loss	11.	Oct 1990	Brighton, UK	Carpet (i)	Natasha Zvereva	Helena Suková Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 4–6
Loss	12.	Sep 1991	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Isabelle Demongeot	Elena Brioukhovets Natalia Medvedeva	5–7, 3–6
Loss	13.	Feb 1993	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Catherine Suire	Jana Novotná Andrea Strnadová	6–7(2–7), 2–6

• Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

1981 Federation Cup
Date	Venue	Surface	Round	Opponents	Final match score	Match	Opponent	Rubber score
9–15 Nov 1981	Tokyo	Clay	1R	Belgium	3–0	Singles	Ann Gabriel	5–7, 6–3, 6–3 (W)
						Doubles(withSue Barker)	de Witte/de Wouters	6–3, 6–3 (W)
			F	United States	0–3	Doubles(withVirginia Wade)	Casals/Jordan	4–6, 5–7 (L)
1982 Federation Cup
19–25 Nov 1982	Santa Clara	Hard	1R	Italy	2–1	Singles	Sabina Simmonds	6–4, 6–7, 1–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Murgo/Simmonds	6–4, 6–3 (W)
			2R	Israel	3–0	Singles	Rafeket Binyamini	6–4, 6–2 (W)
			QF	Czechoslovakia	1–2	Singles	Helena Suková	3–6, 2–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Budarova/Suková	6–2, 4–6, 6–3 (W)
1983 Federation Cup
17–24 Jul 1983	Zürich	Clay	1R	Luxembourg	3–0	Singles	Simone Wolter	6–2, 6–0 (W)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Huberty/Wolter	6–0, 6–0 (W)
			2R	Brazil	3–0	Singles	Patricia Medrado	6–4, 6–4 (W)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Medrado/Monteiro	6–3, 6–2 (W)
			QF	West Germany	1–2	Singles	Bettina Bunge	3–6, 4–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Bunge/Pfaff	3–6, 6–4, 10–8 (W)
1984 Federation Cup
15–22 Jul 1984	São Paulo	Clay	1R	Bulgaria	0–3	Singles	Manuela Maleeva	4–6, 6–4, 4–6 (L)
1984 Federation Cup Consolation Rounds
15–22 Jul 1984	São Paulo	Clay	1R	BYE
			2R	Hungary	2–1	Doubles(withAmanda Brown)	Ritecz/Rozsavolgyi	6–2, 7–5 (W)
			QF	Canada	2–1	Doubles(withAmanda Brown)	Hetherington/Pelletier	7–6, 6–2 (W)
			SF	Brazil	1–2	Singles	Patricia Medrado	6–3, 6–1 (W)
1985 Federation Cup
6–14 Oct 1985	Nagoya	Hard	1R	West Germany	3–0	Singles	Petra Keppeler	6–4, 6–0 (W)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Betzner/Keppeler	6–4, 3–6, 6–1 (W)
			2R	Japan	2–1	Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Inoue/Yanagi	6–7(2–7), 6–3, 6–2 (W)
			QF	Bulgaria	1–2	Singles	Katerina Maleeva	2–6, 6–4, 6–8 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	K. Maleeva/Man. Maleeva	5–4, ret. (W)
1986 Federation Cup
20–27 Jul 1986	Prague	Clay	1R	Denmark	0–3	Singles	Tine Scheuer-Larsen	3–6, 1–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Moller/Scheuer-Larsen	2–6, 6–7(1–7) (L)
1987 Federation Cup
26 Jul– 2 Aug 1987	Vancouver	N/A	1R	Chile	3–0	Singles	Macarena Miranda	6–2, 6–1 (W)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Espinoza/Miranda	6–1, 6–0 (W)
			2R	Italy	2–1	Singles	Raffaella Reggi	5–7, 4–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Cecchini/Reggi	6–7, 7–5, 6–4 (W)
			QF	United States	0–3	Singles	Chris Evert	3–6, 1–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Burgin/Garrison	5–7, 5–7 (L)
1989 Federation Cup
26 Jul– 2 Aug 1989	Tokyo	Hard	1R	Indonesia	3–0	Singles	Yayuk Basuki	6–2, 7–6(7–5) (W)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Anggarkusuma/Basuki	7–5, 6–3 (W)
			2R	Austria	1–2	Singles	Barbara Paulus	6–2, 4–6, 3–6 (L)
						Doubles(withAnne Hobbs)	Paulus/Schwarz	3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3 (W)
1990 Federation Cup
21–29 Jul 1990	Atlanta	Hard	1R	Dominican Republic	3–0	Doubles(withClare Wood)	Sánchez/Schad	6–2, 6–0 (W)
			2R	Italy	2–1	Doubles(withClare Wood)	Golarsa/Reggi	6–4, 6–1 (W)
			QF	Austria	1–2	Singles	Barbara Paulus	6–7(3–7), 7–5, 4–6 (L)
						Doubles(withClare Wood)	Paulus/Reinstadler	5–2, ret. (W)
1991 Federation Cup
24 Jul 1991	Nottingham	N/A	1R	BYE
			2R	Italy	0–2	Singles	Sandra Cecchini	5–7, 4–6 (L)
1992 Federation Cup World Group1
13–17 Jul 1992	Frankfurt	Clay	1R	United States	0–3	Singles	Lori McNeil	5–7, 3–6 (L)
						Doubles(withClare Wood)	Graham/Shriver	4–6, 6–7(6–8) (L)
			PO 1R	Chile	3–0	Singles	Paula Cabezas	6–7(5–7), 6–0, 6–1 (W)
			PO (Final)	Finland	1–2	Singles	Petra Thorén	3–6, 5–7 (L)
>1993 Federation Cup World Group2
20–22 Jul 1993	Frankfurt	Clay	1R	Spain	0–3	Singles	Conchita Martínez	2–6, 1–6 (L)
						Doubles(withClare Wood)	Martínez/Sánchez Vicario	1–6, 6–4, 1–6 (L)
			PO (Relegation)	Poland	1–2	Singles	Magdalena Feistel	6–2, 5–7, ret. (L)
1994 Federation Cup Europe/Africa Zone (Group I)
18–23 Apr 1994	Bad Waltersdorf	Clay	RR	Luxembourg	3–0	Singles	Rosabel Moyen	7–5, 6–0 (W)
						Doubles(withClare Wood)	Kremer/Moyen	6–4, 6–0 (W)
				Russia	2–1	Singles	Elena Makarova	4–6, 7–5, 7–5 (W)
			PO R1	Israel	3–0	Singles	Shiri Burstein	6–3, 6–2 (W)
						Doubles(withClare Wood)	Burstein/Obziler	6–1, 6–0 (W)
			PO (Promotion)	Belgium	0–2	Singles	Dominique Monami	5–7, 3–6 (L)
1995 Federation Cup Europe/Africa Zone (Group I)
17–19 Apr 1995	Murcia	Clay	RR	Slovenia	1–2	Doubles(withClare Wood)	Jezernik/Križan	2–6, 6–1, 6–2 (W)
				Czech Republic	0–3	Doubles(withClare Wood)	Novotná/Suková	7–6(12–10), 1–6, 2–6 (L)
				Poland	2–1	Doubles(withClare Wood)	Grzybowska/Olsza	6–2, 7–5 (W)

• 1 – In 1992 the 16 teams which lost in the first round of the main draw were re-drawn to face each other to maintain their positions in the World Group in 1993. The four teams which won their two knock-out play-off ties successfully defended their places in the World Group whilst the 12 teams which did not were relegated.
• 2 – In 1993 the 16 teams which lost in the first round of the main draw were re-drawn to face each other to maintain their positions in the World Group in 1994. The eight teams which won their knock-out play-off ties successfully defended their places in the World Group whilst the eight losing teams were relegated.

• Jo Durie at theWomen's Tennis Association
• Jo Durie at theInternational Tennis Federation
• Jo Durie at theBillie Jean King Cup (archived)

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