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Clare Wood

b. 1968

British tennis player

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Born 1968. Clare Wood is a British tennis player.

Clare Jacqueline Wood (born 8 March 1968) is a former British number 1 tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1984 and retired in 1998. Over the course of her career, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 77 in singles (achieved 2 May 1994) and No. 59 in doubles (achieved 21 October 1996). Wood won one ITF singles title and six in doubles as well as won a WTA doubles title at the 1992 Wellington Classic, having been the runner-up the previous year. At the time of her retirement, she had a 212–223 singles win–loss record with notable wins over Jo Durie and Mary Pierce.

After her retirement from professional competition, Wood became a tennis officiator. From 1999 until 2002, she was a tournament supervisor on the WTA Tour, and from 2002 onward, she was an assistant referee at Wimbledon where she was responsible for the qualifying and junior events. In 2004, she was an assistant referee at the 2004 Olympic tennis event, and in 2008, it was announced that she would fulfil, the role of tennis competition manager at the 2012 Olympic Games. and the first player for four years to win a Wightman Cup match 6–0, 6–0.

Fed Cup Wood played 28 singles and 24 doubles matches for Great Britain in the Fed Cup from 1988 to 1997.

Olympic Games Wood represented the United Kingdom in the Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 1996,

WTA tour and ITF circuit finals

Singles: 2 (1–1) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Tier I (0–0) WTA Tier II – IV (0–0) ITF Circuit (1–1) Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0) Result Date Tournament Surface Opponent ScoreWin $10,000 Lisbon, Portugal Clay María José Llorca 6–2, 6–2Loss $25,000 Tarzana, California, United States Hard 6–1, 4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 11 (7–4) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Tier I (0–0) WTA Tier II – IV (1–1) ITF Circuit (6–3) Finals by surface Hard (4–2) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

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Who is Clare Wood?

British tennis player

When was Clare Wood born?

Clare Wood was born on 8 March 1968 in Zululand District Municipality.

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Clare Wood is a tennis player.

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Clare Wood is British.

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· Wikipedia: Clare Wood

· Wikidata: Q510614

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