Esmé Emmanuel

Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Her best performance at Wimbledon came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez.

Biography Born in 1947, Emmanuel is a Sephardi Jew, with a mother who was Turkish born but raised in France. Her father was an emigrant to New York from Salonika, Greece. She studied Economics at San Francisco State University.

Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships.

She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Ramat Gan, Israel, in women's tennis in doubles with partner Rene Wolpert, defeating Americans Nadine Netter and Carole Wright. She won a silver medal in women's singles, defeating American Marilyn Aschner along the way but losing to Canadian Vicki Berner in the finals. She also competed in women's doubles, with partner South African P. Kriger, winning a silver medal, as they lost in the finals to Americans Julie Heldman and Marilyn Aschner.

Her best performance at Wimbledon came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez. She and Martinez also were students together at San Francisco State College.