Lisa Raymond

Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973) is an American retired professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis.

Raymond has eleven Grand Slam titles to her name: six in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles.

As a junior, Raymond won five U.S. National (USTA) singles and doubles titles, and she was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for players 18-and Under in 1990.

Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Raymond is a 1991 graduate of The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, a private Catholic girls school in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team.

As a Gator, she won the NCAA singles title in 1992 and 1993 and led the Gators to their first NCAA national team championship in 1992.

She was the first player to win all three collegiate Grand Slam titles in a single season (1992).

She received the 1992 Rookie of the Year award, the 1992 Tennis Magazine Collegiate Player of the Year award, and twice received the Honda Sports Award for Tennis, recognizing her as the outstanding collegiate female tennis player of the year in 1991/92 and in 1992/93.

She reached a total of 122 WTA doubles finals and won 79 titles (sixth-most in history); Raymond also won a doubles title every single year between 1993 and 2012, a span of 20 years.

Despite being best known for her doubles prowess, Raymond also achieved moderate success in singles, winning four titles (finishing runner-up on eight other occasions) and reached a career-high of world No. 15 in October 1997.

On June 12, 2000, she reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles for the first time, becoming the 13th player to reach the milestone.

She reached the second week of a Grand Slam eight times, with her best results being two quarterfinal appearances at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships and the 2004 Australian Open, and six separate fourth round finishes.

During her singles career, Raymond recorded wins over former world-number-ones Venus Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis, as well as other accomplished former top 10 players such as World No.2 Jana Novotna, Amanda Coetzer, Magdalena Maleeva, Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Lori McNeil, Zina Garrison-Jackson, Nathalie Tauziat, Irina Spîrlea, Natasha Zvereva, Conchita Martínez, Marion Bartoli, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Kirilenko, Elena Dementieva, Daniela Hantuchová, and Dinara Safina.

Raymond was ranked No. 1 on five separate occasions in her career over a combined total of 137 weeks (the fourth-highest mark of all time) and finished as the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2001 and 2006.

She currently holds the record of most doubles match wins (860) and most doubles matches played (1,206) in WTA history, and earned more than $10 million in prize money in her career.

She was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2003.

Played the first half of the year with Rennae Stubbs before beginning a partnership with Samantha Stosur, winning the US Open, her second doubles crown at Flushing Meadows, and the season-ending championships, also her second.

Raymond and Stosur won six titles together and were named ITF World Doubles Champions of 2005.

She is one of the few players to win a 'Career Grand Slam' in doubles, which she accomplished after winning the 2006 French Open title.

Among her former doubles partners are Lindsay Davenport, Martina Navratilova, Rennae Stubbs, Samantha Stosur, Květa Peschke, Cara Black and Liezel Huber.

In 2006, Raymond and Stosur won ten titles including the French Open and their second season-ending championships.

Raymond and Stosur were again awarded by the ITF as World Doubles Champions of 2006.

They also received the WTA Team of the Year award for their achievements.

In February 2007 she decided to retire from playing singles, instead choosing to focus on her doubles career.

The year 2007 was a good one for Raymond and Stosur, with the pair winning five titles; also that year, Lisa decided to retire from her singles career.

However, Stosur was diagnosed with a virus, forcing her to miss the second half of the season meaning Raymond had to play with various partners.

Even though they only played half the season together, they had still qualified for the season-ending championships but could not compete.

Raymond began 2008 playing with Elena Likhovtseva with solid results but was cut short due to injury but then reunited with former partner Sam Stosur in May, after the latter's return from injury.

They went on to reach the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open, losing both.

Raymond also won titles in Memphis and New Haven.

Raymond now considers her 2008–2009 seasons to be almost 'lost' due to a lack of drive in her fitness.

Raymond started the year by reuniting with former partner Rennae Stubbs.

They lost their first round in Sydney, before reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open, as the No. 6 seeds, losing to Venus and Serena Williams.

Raymond also made the semifinals of the mixed-doubles tournament.

Raymond and Stubbs won the Eastbourne International against Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik in the final, 6–2, 2–6 [13–11].

In 2009, Raymond began a partnership with Květa Peschke, where they reached four finals and two semifinals before their year was cut short by an injury to Peschke, just before Wimbledon.

Lisa played with different partners, winning one title, taking her tally to 68.

Raymond is also an Olympic medalist, having won the bronze medal in the mixed-doubles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics for the US team, partnering with Mike Bryan.

By winning the French Open, Lisa Raymond became only the 13th person in history to have won all four doubles Grand Slam tournaments.

They finished the year as the co-holders of the number-one spot, and won a WTA-leading ten titles.