Évelyne Terras Explained

Évelyne Terras
Fullname:Évelyne Terras Papale
Birth Date:1944 9, df=y
Birth Place:Toulon, France
Australianopenresult:2R (1967)
Frenchopenresult:3R (1967)
Wimbledonresult:2R (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970)
Australianopendoublesresult:F (1967)
Frenchopendoublesresult:3R (1969)
Wimbledondoublesresult:2R (1970)
Frenchopenmixedresult:2R (1968)
Wimbledonmixedresult:2R (1966, 1967, 1968)

Évelyne Terras (25 September 1944 – 24 September 2012) was a French tennis player who was active in the 1960s and 1970s.

Career

In 1967, she teamed with Lorraine Coghlan in the doubles' event of the Australian Championship, losing the final in straight sets to Lesley Turner Bowrey and Judy Tegart.[1] This made her the first female French player to reach the final of an Australian Open event.

Her best results in a singles' event at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of the 1967 French Championships, losing to Helga Schultze. She reached the second round of the singles event at the Wimbledon Championships between 1967 and 1970.[2]

In February 1968, she was runner-up to Nell Truman in the singles event of the French Covered Championships in Paris.[3]

Terras was Fed Cup captain of the Italian national team in 1974 and 1975.[4] [5]

Personal life

She married Dino Papale and had one daughter. The couple later divorced. She died on 24 September 2012 of pancreatic cancer.[6]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Australian Open players archive – Evelyne Terras. Tennis Australia.
  2. Web site: Wimbledon players archive – Evelyn Terras. www.wimbledon.com. AELTC.
  3. Book: BP Yearbook of World Tennis. 1969. Ward Lock. London. 978-0706318241. 502175694. John Barrett. 159.
  4. Web site: Décès de notre amie Évelyne Terras. IC of France. French. 25 September 2012.
  5. Web site: Lutto nel tennis Italiano. Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT). Italian. 27 September 2012.
  6. Web site: On a beaucoup pleuré à Beaublanc. La Montagne. French. 11 February 2013.