Amanda Coetzer Biography, Age, Husband, Career And News

Amanda Coetzer Biography

Amanda Coetzer is a South African former professional tennis player. She was born on October 22nd, 1971 in Hoopstad.

Coetzer is the little girl of Nico and Suska Coetzer. She began playing tennis at 6 years old. During her playing profession, she dwelled principally in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was trained by Gavin Hopper. She is hitched to the Hollywood filmmaker Arnon Milchan. She won her first top-level singles title in 1993 in Melbourne, and her second soon thereafter in Tokyo.

Coetzer entered the best twenty on the ladies’ reality rankings in 1992 and stayed there for the majority of the following ten years. She earned notoriety for consistently beating players who were positioned higher than her, and arrived at the pinnacle of her profession in 1997. By uprightness of scoring such a large number of bombshell wins notwithstanding her five-foot-two stature, she picked up her epithet: “The Little Assassin.”

Amanda Coetzer Age

She was born on October 22nd, 1971 in Hoopstad. She is 47 years old as of 2018.

Amanda Coetzer and Family

Amanda Coetzer Husband

She is hitched to the Hollywood filmmaker Arnon Milchan.

Amanda Coetzer Career

At the Canadian Open in 1995, Coetzer vanquished three players positioned on the planet’s main 5 – Steffi Graf (No. 1), Jana Novotná (No. 4) and Mary Pierce (No. 5) – before at long last losing to Monica Seles in the last. The thrashing of Graf finished a 32-coordinate series of wins for the German.

At the Australian Open in 1996, Coetzer turned into the principal South African lady in the Open time to arrive at a Grand Slam elimination round, where she lost in three sets to Anke Huber.

1997 was the best period of Coetzer’s profession. In arriving at the Australian Open semi-finals for the second sequential year, she crushed World No. 1 Graf in the fourth round. She at that point beat Graf for a second time in the quarter-finals at Berlin (it was her most noticeably awful ever misfortune: 6–0, 6–1 in only 56 minutes).

And after that, in the quarter-finals of the French Open, she vanquished Graf once more to end up one of only six players to beat Graf multiple times in a single year, and one of just four to overcome her more than once in Grand Slam matches.

Coetzer lost in the French Open semi-finals to inevitable victor Iva Majoli. Later in the year in Leipzig, Coetzer beat Martina Hingis, who by then had assumed control over the World No. 1 positioning. Coetzer won two singles titles that year – in Budapest and Luxembourg.

Coetzer won the greatest title of her profession in 1998 at Hilton Head (Tier I occasion). In 1999, Coetzer turned into the main player to crush Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis, and Lindsay Davenport while they were positioned No. 1.

In 2000, Coetzer collaborated with Wayne Ferreira to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa. She additionally was an individual from South Africa’s Fed Cup group for a long time and spoke to South Africa at the Olympic Games on three events. In 2001, she qualified for her ninth successive year-end title.

In 2002, she got a welcome from the Hong Kong Tennis Patrons’ Association to play The Hong Kong Ladies Challenge 2002. In her vocation, Coetzer won nine top-level singles titles and nine duplicates titles. Her last singles title was won in Acapulco in 2003. Her profession prize-cash income totaled $5,594,821.

Amanda Coetzer vs Steffi Graf 1997 AO Highlights

Coetzer Interview/NEWS

SA tennis aims to return to the golden era

From the 1960s to the early 1990s, South Africa was a dominant force in tennis because sponsors were pumping so much money into the sport that it had more cash than rugby and cricket, former South African tennis No 1 Amanda Coetzer has said.

The former world No 3 told City Press that, in the mid-1990s, South Africa was only behind the US and Australia in terms of the number of players representing the country at Wimbledon.

“South Africa produced a host of top players – men and women – in singles and doubles and, in the mid-1990s, had the second biggest main draw representation at Wimbledon.”

It had 22 men and 12 women in the main draw.

The former Hopman Cup champion said the reason for that success was that the country had a strong and stable national association that showed a big profit each year.

“The monies were plowed into development and super squad systems, where top junior and emerging senior players were paid,” said Coetzer.

“Coaches were paid to travel the world with players. This enabled junior and senior players to earn important points by participating in major tournaments.”

This also served as a springboard for amateur players to move into professional ranks, regardless of whether they came from rich or poor backgrounds.

“In those days, we had major sponsorship. Tennis was the richest sponsored sport after soccer and was even ahead of cricket and rugby. With money, anything is possible – if managed properly.”

A host of local players dominated the world rankings. Cliff Drysdale reached the final at the US Open in 1965. He reached the semi-finals of both the French Open and Wimbledon consecutively in 1965 and 1966. In 1971, he made it to the Australian Open quarter-finals.

Johan Kriek won the Australian Open in 1981 and 1982. In 1980, he reached the semi-finals at the US Open and, four years later, reached the French Open semi-finals. He progressed to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 1981 and 1982.

Kevin Curren amassed four Grand Slam titles in the 1980s. In 1981, he won the US Open mixed doubles. In 1982, he won the Wimbledon mixed doubles, and the men’s doubles and mixed doubles at the US Open.

Coetzer was a doubles finalist at the US Open in 1993.

She said South Africa hosted a number of international tournaments during that time and the SA Open was the fifth biggest tournament in the world after the Grand Slams.

“With South Africa hosting lots of tournaments, it gave the local players a great opportunity to earn world ranking points in their back yard.”

This resulted in players including her and Wayne Ferreira reaching the pinnacle of their careers.

They became local sporting heroes and helped generate massive interest in the game, allowing the national tennis federation to promote the game easily.

Coetzer said South Africa’s Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams were in the world groups, so when they played at home, the best players in the world would travel to South Africa. This, in turn, inspired local tennis players.

Tennis SA (TSA) chief executive officer Richard Glover said that it was probably harder now to make it as a professional tennis player in South Africa than it was in the past.

He said TSA as a federation had in the recent past been unable to put in place the right support structure to help the next generation.

But this was starting to change, with 15-year-old Kholo Montsi winning three titles in three weeks in Namibia, and two in Mozambique.

Philip Henning (17) made it to the junior doubles quarter-finals at the Australian Open earlier this year, and he will play at the Junior French Open and at Wimbledon. Lloyd Harris (21) was beaten in the first round of qualifying at the French Open last month.

World No 7 Kevin Anderson is the highest-ranked South African player in the men’s game.

“It will probably take a generation to get us back to where we need to be in terms of producing players to be part of the Association of Tennis Professionals and the Women’s Tennis Association,” said Glover.

He said TSA had signed about nine sponsors in the past year and a half. This week, TSA announced that French bank BNP Paribas would be the title sponsor for a new TSA coaching mentorship program.

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