Lita Liem Sugiarto Explained

Lita Liem Sugiarto (born 27 February 1946), sometimes known by her maiden name Lita Liem, a former Indonesian professional tennis player. She played at Grand Slam events between 1968 and 1975, in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.

In women's doubles, she and partner Lany Kaligis reached two Grand Slam quarterfinals: the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1971. As such, she and Kaligis were among the first Indonesians to reach the later rounds of a Grand Slam competition. Kaligis was the only partner that Sugiarto ever played with in Grand Slam doubles competition.

In singles, her best results were her third round exits from the Australian Championships in 1968, the Australian Open in 1970, Wimbledon in 1972 and the French Open in 1974.

At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lany Kaligis, and the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Sutarjo Sugiarto. She won the gold medal in the women's singles at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran.

She was part of Indonesia's Fed Cup team in 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981.

ITF finals

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Singles (10–6)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.		Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Otty Oey	6–1, 6–0
Win	2.		Surabaya, Indonesia	Grass	Mien Suhadi	6–2, 6–4
Loss	3.		Semarang, Indonesia	Hard	Mien Suhadi	6–4, 4–6, 7–9
Win	4.		Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Mien Suhadi	6–1, 6–1
Win	5.		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Clay	Cheri Chihyana	6–0, 6–0
Win	6.		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Clay	Dechu Appaiah	6–1, 6–1
Win	7.		Ostend, Belgium	Clay	Monique Bedoret	6–3, 6–4
Win	8.		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Win	9.		Penang, Malaysia	Hard	Loanita Rachman	6–4, 6–2
Loss	10.		Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grass	Evonne Goolagong	2–6, 1–6
Win	11.		Hong Kong	Carpet		6–3, 6–1
Loss	12.	29 October 1972	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	5–7, 7–5, 5–7
Loss	13.	21 April 1974	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	5–7, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	14.	22 September 1974	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Hard	Lany Kaligis	5–7, 6–1, 1–6
Loss	15.	21 April 1975	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	2–6, 4–6
Win	16.		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard		6–0, 6–3

Doubles (16–6)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.		Surabaya, Indonesia	Grass	Jooce Suwarimbo	Vonny Djoa Mien Suhadi	2–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	2.		Manila, Philippines	Hard	Mien Suhadi	Desideria Ampon Patricia Yngayo	3–6, 4–6
Win	3.		Semarang, Indonesia	Hard	Mien Suhadi	Otty Oey Lany Kaligis	6–2, 6–2
Win	4.		Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Mien Suhadi	Lany Kaligis Vonny Djoa	6–1, 6–3
Win	5.		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Hard	Mien Suhadi		6–4, 7–5
Win	6.		Ipoh, Malaysia	Hard	Mien Suhadi		7–5, 6–2
Win	7.		Colombo, Sri Lanka	Clay	Lany Kaligis		6–2, 6–3
Win	8.		Ostend, Belgium	Clay	Lany Kaligis	Monique Bedoret Michele Kahn	6–4, 1–6, 6–2
Win	9.		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Mien Suhadi Yolanda Soemarno	6–2, 6–0
Win	10.		Penang, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis		6–3, 6–2
Win	11.		Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Lany Kaligis		6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	12.		Singapore, Singapore	Hard	Mien Suhadi	Lee Duk-hee Chang Ching-ling	2–6, 3–6
Loss	13.		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Cecelie Fleming Lee Duk-hee	4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Win	14.		Hong Kong	Carpet	Lany Kaligis	Cecelie Fleming Chang Ching-ling	6–2, 6–1
Loss	15.		Hilversum, Netherlands	Clay	Lany Kaligis	Michèle Gurdal Betty Stöve	4–6, 0–6
Win	16.		Singapore, Singapore	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Hideko Goto Kimiyo Hatanaka	6–2, 6–1
Loss	17.	13 May 1973	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay		Christina Sandberg Mimmi Wikstedt	6–7, 6–7
Win	18.	21 April 1974	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Lois Raymond Gwen Stirton	6–2, 5–7, 9–7
Win	19.	30 June 1974	Heerlen, Netherlands	Clay	Lany Kaligis	Carmen Perea Silvia Blume	6–3, 6–4
Win	20.	22 September 1974	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Susan Das Nirupama Mankad	7–5, 1–6, 6–1
Win	21.	21 April 1975	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lany Kaligis	Lois Raymond Gwen Stirton	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Win	22.		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Loanita Rachman		6–4, 3–6, 6–1

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1968	1969	1970					1975
Australian Open	3R	1R	3R	A	A	A	A	A
French Open	A	1R	2R	1R	P1	1R	3R	2R
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	A	A
US Open	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline

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Tournament	1968	1969	1970					1975
Australian Open	2R	1R	QF	A	A	A	A	A
French Open	A	2R	3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	A
Wimbledon	A	2R	2R	QF	2R	2R	A	2R
US Open	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A