Sunday July 4, 2010Former Gator Great Lisa Raymond Reaches Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Final
WIMBLEDON, England
Lisa Raymond & Weslie Moodie receive their trophy plates from the Duke of Kent in the Royal Box(Art Seitz)
Former
University of Florida tennis sensation Lisa
Raymond fell short of winning her 10th professional Grand Slam doubles
title when she and her mixed doubles partner Wesley Moodie
(South Africa) dropped a heated match 6-4, 7-6 (5), to second-seeded Leander Paes (India) and Cara Black (Zimbabwe) in the final of the
2010 Wimbledon Championships.
Raymond, a
2008 UF Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, also reached the women’s doubles
quarterfinals with longtime partner Rennae Stubbs (
Considered
to be one of the greatest collegiate tennis players of all time, Raymond is the
13th woman to capture the career Grand Slam in doubles. She has won
a total of 70 career doubles titles since claiming the 1992 and 1993 NCAA
Singles championships, as well as leading the Gators to the 1992 NCAA Team
title.
Raymond’s
professional resume includes nine Grand Slam titles: 2006 French Open, 2001 and
2005 U.S. Open, 2001 Wimbledon, 2000 Australian Open in women’s doubles and the
2003 French Open, 1996 and 2002 U.S. Open, and the 1999
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