- Beth Herr
Beth Herr (born 1964) is an American
tennis player. She became the number 1 junior tennis player in the world at age 16. She was the #1 college recruit in 1985 and went on to play for theUniversity of Southern California where she won the NCAA singles title and team title in her freshman year. She beat Clemson'sGigi Fernandez 7–6 in the 3rd set after being down a match point to win the NCAA singles final. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E7DA1E38F930A15756C0A965948260 Beth Herr Wins - New York Times ] ]She cut short college and went directly into professional tennis after the NCAA Championship and played on tour for 11 years with wins over
Martina Navratilova ,Pam Shriver ,Hana Mandlikova andMary Joe Fernandez . She lost an epic match toBillie Jean King at Wimbledon 8–6 in the 3rd where commentators onHBO Breakfast at Wimbledon made a very big deal out of her ability to hit numerous swinging volleys out of the air for winners which was something that had not been done before especially by a female.After tennis she finished her undergraduate degree at
UCLA and then went to law school at UCLA. She marriedTennis Channel founderSteve Bellamy and after a short stint as a lawyer at Manat, Phelps and Phillips, she stopped working and started raising their 4 children.She later went on to win the US Open of
paddle tennis and became the unofficial world champion of the sport.References
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