Facts of Wendy Turnbull

Wendy Turnbull is a former Australian professional tennis player. 

She began her professional career in 1975 and retired in 1989.

She is a legendary player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles during her career.

Affair And Married

She prefers to keep her personal life private, so it’s hard to say about her boyfriend. 

According to sources, it is sure that she has never been married in her life.

She even hasn’t revealed her past love affairs in media to date. 

Several sources doubt about her sexuality that she is a lesbian and dating with her girlfriend. 

But that rumors are not confirmed by Wendy. Neither she has denied those rumors. 

She might be busy in her career that she couldn’t get an appropriate husband type material in her life. 

So, she decided to stay single. 

There are lots of questions about her love affairs and marriage, but all are far from media.

Here is the photo of June 1982, where Wendy and English tennis player John Lloyd showing their trophies after winning the mixed doubles competition at French Open Tennis Championships. 

Father

Talking about her parents, she is the daughter of legendary Australian tennis player late Reginald Turnbull. 

Her mother’s name is not available on wiki sites.

He was born in August 1920 and died in April 2000. He coached all of the seven children tennis. Four of the six children went on to represent Queensland in tennis.

His all seven children played tennis from a very young age. 

Wendy began playing tennis at the age of five because she got the sports environment from her family.

Appeared In Several Tournaments

Though she is already retired from the sports world, her love for tennis is still on. 

She is often seen in several prestigious tournaments of tennis. 

She is invited to several tournaments, and she happily participated in it.

In 2019, she was seen in the final of 2019 Brisbane International WTA Premier tennis tournaments. 

Here is the photo of that tournament where she is posing with Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic.

Net Worth

She has a massive amount of net worth. According to sources, she has a net worth of 1.5 million dollars. 

She manages to earn that sum of money from her career in sports. 

She is the legendary player of her era, ranking her in the top ten for women’s singles for eight consecutive years. 

After retirement, she worked for the Women’s Tennis Association to promote professional female tennis players. 

She served as captain and coach for the Australian team for almost nine years after retirement.

She was the only player who was appointed to the International Tennis Federation Olympic committee in 1991.

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She is not active in the social media account. She loves to play golf.

In her honor, there is a public park in her name in Brisbane.  

Trivia

1. She was born on 26 November 1952 in Brisbane, Australia. Currently, her age is 67.
2. She is Australian by nationality.
3. Her nickname is Rabbit.
4. She is 1.64 m tall.
5. She received the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.
6. Currently, she resides in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.