Andrea Temesvári

Andrea Temesvári was a Hungarian tennis player who played professionally from 1981 to 1997. Temesvári achieved a career-best singles ranking of #7 in the world in January 1984, and a doubles ranking of #13 in the world in December 1986. She won a Grand Slams doubles title and represented the Hungarian Fed Cup team from 1981 to 1996.

On the ITF Circuit Temesvári won three singles and four doubles titles from September 1981 to February 1997. On the WTA Tour she won five singles titles with her first victory coming in March 1982 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, beating Catherine Tanvier in straight sets. Temesvári won her first of seven WTA doubles titles at the 1984 Zürich Open with Andrea Leand. Her biggest victory came in winning the 1983 Italian Open singles title when she was only 16-years-old.

Temesvári’s best performance in Grand Slams came at the 1986 French Open when she and Martina Navratilova won the doubles title with a straight sets victory against Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini. Temesvári competed in the singles and doubles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where she lost in the first round in the singles and reached the second round in the doubles with Virág Csurgó.