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Annette Van Zyl

South African tennis player

Field	Value
name	Annette Van Zyl
image	Annette Van Zyl.jpg
country	RSA South Africa
birth_date
birth_place	Pretoria, South Africa
height
plays	Right-handed
singlestitles	11
highestsinglesranking	No. 6 (1965, 1966)
AustralianOpenresult	SF (1965)
FrenchOpenresult	SF (1967, 1968)
Wimbledonresult	QF (1966)
USOpenresult	QF (1967)
doublestitles	4
AustralianOpenDoublesresult	QF (1965)
FrenchOpenDoublesresult	F (1967)
WimbledonDoublesresult	QF (1963)
USOpenDoublesresult	SF (1967)
AustralianOpenMixedresult	3R (1965)
FrenchOpenMixedresult	W (1966)
WimbledonMixedresult	SF (1966, 1967)

Annette Van Zyl (born 25 September 1943), also known by her married name as Annette du Plooy, is a South African former tennis player. She was ranked in the top ten female players during the mid-1960s, and in 1966 she won the French Open Mixed Doubles title with Frew McMillan, defeating Ann Haydon-Jones and Clark Graebner in three sets.

Tennis career

In January 1965 she won the singles title at the Natal Championships in Durban. In April 1965 Van Zyl reached the final of the British Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth but was beaten in straight sets by Ann Haydon-Jones. In June of the same year, she won the singles title at the grass court tournament in Cheltenham, and later that month, she won the London Grass Court Championship played at the Queen's Club, defeating Christine Truman in the final. In July, she won the Welsh title also against Truman in the final. She reached the semifinal of the French Open singles in 1967, beating Billie Jean King in the quarterfinals and then losing to Lesley Turner Bowrey.

In July 1968, she won the singles title at the Swiss Open, defeating Julie Heldman in the final with the loss of just one game. In August she beat Judy Tegart in straight sets in the final of the singles event at the German Championships in Hamburg, also winning the doubles and mixed doubles events. Van Zyl reached the finals of the South African Championships singles event on three occasions, winning the title in 1963 and 1975 and ending as runner–up in 1965. From 1964 to 1976, she played in 11 ties for the South African Federation Cup team and compiled a 12–7 win-loss record.

According to A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Van Zyl was ranked in the world top 10 in 1965, 1966, and 1968, reaching a career high of world No. 6 in these rankings in 1965 and 1966.

Tournament finals

Singles 13 (11 titles – 2 runner-ups)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	1965	British Hard Court Championships	GBR Ann Haydon-Jones	5–7, 1–6
Loss	2.	1966	Italian Championships	GBR Ann Haydon-Jones	6–8, 1–6
Win	1.	1965	London Championships	GBR Christine Truman	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Win	2.	Jun 1967	Swiss International Championships	AUS Jan Lehane O'Neill	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win	3.	Jan 1968	Natal Championships	USA Carole Graebner	6–1, 6–1
Win	4.	Jun 1968	Swiss International Championships	FRG Helga Niessen	6–3, 6–3
Win	5.	Jul 1968	Gstaad International Championships	USA Julie Heldman	6–0, 6–1
Win	6.	Aug 1968	German Championships	AUS Judy Tegart	6–1, 7–5
Win	7.	Aug 1968	Kitzbühel Championships	HUN Erzsébet Polgár	6–1, 6–0
Win	8.	Nov 1974	South Transvaal Championships	RSA Brenda Kirk	6–3, 6–2
Win	9.	Nov 1975	South African Open	RSA Brigitte Cuypers	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Win	10.	Nov 1975	South Transvaal Championships	RSA Yvonne Vermaak	6–3, 6–2
Win	11.	Nov 1977	South Transvaal Championships	RSA Brenda Kirk	6–4, 0–6, 6–3

Doubles 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Partner	Opponents
Win	1.	1965	Rome, Italy	AUS Madonna Schacht	ITA Silvana Lazzarino
ITA Lea Pericoli	2–6, 6–2, 12–10
Win	2.	1966	Rome, Italy	ARG Norma Baylon	GBR Ann Haydon-Jones
GBR Liz Starkie	6–3, 1–6, 6–2
Loss	3.	1967	French Open	RSA Pat Walkden	FRA Françoise Dürr
FRA Gail Sherriff	2–6, 2–6
Loss	4.	1968	Rome, Italy	RSA Pat Walkden	AUS Margaret Court
GBR Virginia Wade	2–6, 5–7
Win	3.	1968	German Championships	RSA Pat Walkden	GBR Winnie Shaw
AUS Judy Tegart	6–3, 7–5
Win	4.	Jun 1976	Beckenham, England	RSA Brigitte Cuypers	URS Natasha Chmyreva
URS Olga Morozova	9–7, 6–4
Loss	5.	Jul 1976	Gstaad, Switzerland	RSA Brigitte Cuypers	USA Betsy Nagelsen
AUS Wendy Turnbull	4–6, 4–6

Mixed doubles 1

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	1966	French Championships	RSA Frew McMillan	GBR Ann Haydon-Jones
USA Clark Graebner	1–6, 6–3, 6–2

Personal life

On 20 April 1968, Van Zyl married Jan du Plooy in Pretoria. She is currently a head coach at the Brooklyn Union Tennis Club in Brooklyn, Pretoria, South Africa.

References

"French Open – Past Mixed Doubles Champions".
(1977). "Tennis : The South African Story". Owen Williams.
(17 July 1965). "Miss Van Zyl Takes Welsh Tennis Title". The New York Times.
[http://sports123.com/ten/results/wfr-s-1967.html French Open 1967, women, singles.] {{webarchive. link. (8 June 2009)
(1969). "BP Yearbook of World Tennis". Ward Lock.
Collins, Bud. (2008). "The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book". New Chapter Press.
(14 August 1968). "DuPIooy Takes Title in W, German Tennis". The Bridgeport Telegram.
(20 August 1968). "Cops Tennis Crown Kitzbuehel". The Ottawa Journal.
(2 April 1968). "Uit alle sporthoeken". [[Algemeen Handelsblad]].
[https://www.butc.co.za/coaches.html Profile], butc.co.za. Accessed 8 January 2024.

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