Évelyne Terras

Évelyne Terras
Full name Évelyne Terras Papale
Country (sports)  France
Born (1944-09-25)25 September 1944
Toulon, France
Died 24 September 2012(2012-09-24) (aged 67)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 2R (1967)
French Open 3R (1967)
Wimbledon 2R (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open F (1967)
French Open 3R (1969)
Wimbledon 2R (1970)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open 2R (1968)
Wimbledon 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 up with Lorraine Coghlan in the doubles event of the Australian Championship, and finished as runner-ups, 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.[2]

Her best results in a singles event at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of the 1967 French Championships in which she lost to Helga Schultze. She reached the second round of the singles event at the Wimbledon Championships between 1967 and 1970.[3]

In February 1968 she was runner-up to Nell Truman in the singles event of the French Covered Championships in Paris.[4]

Terras was Fed Cup captain of the Italian national team in 1974 and 1975.[5][6]

Personal life

She married Dino Papale and had one daughter. The couple later divorced. She died on 24 September 2012 of pancreatic cancer.[2]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up )

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up1967Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Lorraine CoghlanAustralia Lesley Turner Bowrey
Australia Judy Tegart		0–6, 2–6

References

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


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