Heidi Eisterlehner

Heidi Eisterlehner (25 October 1949 – 15 May 2025) was a German tennis player who was active from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Background Eisterlehner was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, East Germany but moved in her youth to Nuremberg, where she started playing at the local club 1. FC Nürnberg. She studied social pedagogy.

Eisterlehner died on 15 May 2025, at the age of 75.

Career Eisterlehner's best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1976 when she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. In the second round, she defeated fourth-seeded Sue Barker.

She won the singles title at the Auckland Open, a non-tour event, in January 1977 after a victory in the final against Karen Krantzcke. In May that year, Eisterlehner reached the singles final at the German Open in Hamburg. Also in 1977, she won the national indoor singles title in Hamburg.

In 1976 and 1978, she participated in five ties as a member of the German Fed Cup team and compiled a 3–2 win–loss record.

WTA Tour finals

Singles (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 May 1977 German Open, Germany Clay Laura duPont 1–6, 4–6

Doubles (0–2) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Dec 1975 NSW Open, Australia Grass Helga Masthoff Evonne Goolagong Helen Gourlay 3–6, 6–4, 3–6Loss 0–2 July 1976 Austrian Open, Austria Clay Katja Ebbinghaus Helena Anliot Mimmi Wikstedt 4–6, 6–2, 5–7