Pam Whytcross

Pam Whytcross (born 25 November 1953) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. In a nine-year professional career beginning in 1977, Whytcross won 3 doubles titles and was a losing finalist with Naoko Satō at the 1978 Australian Open. In singles Whytcross' best Grand Slam results were at Melbourne and Roland Garros in 1977, where she reached the quarter finals. Whytcross reached a career-high singles ranking of 150 and number 141 in doubles.

Career

Although Pam Whytcross did not turn professional until 1977, she began competing in tournaments in 1973 and played in her first doubles final in Sydney in January 1974. Her best achievement was reaching the final of the Australian Open in 1978 with her Japanese partner Naoko Satō, but they ultimately lost out to Betsy Nagelsen and Renáta Tomanová. In singles competition at the Grand Slams she reached the third round of the French Open in 1977 and at Wimbledon in 1978 Wimbledon Championships.

Whytcross won her first doubles title at the Head Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria in July 1983. Successive titles followed in October at two tournaments in Tokyo: the Japan Open and the Borden Classic. She competed in one more doubles final in Mahwah, New Jersey in 1978 but she lost with partner Barbara Potter.

She retired in 1986 at the age of 33.

Post-tennis career

In 1998, Whytcross became involved with mentoring rising Australian player Jelena Dokić, as part of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) mentoring scheme.^[1] She held the responsibility for two years before she was appointed the tennis competition manager at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Following the conclusion of the games she took up a new role as a WTA Tour supervisor.^[1]

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Women's Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1978	Australian Open	Hard	Naoko Satō	Betsy Nagelsen Renáta Tomanová	7–5, 6–2

Titles

Women's doubles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament Name	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	18 July 1983	Head Cup	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Chris Newton	Nathalie Herreman Pascale Paradis	2–6, 6–4, 7–6
2.	10 October 1983	Borden Classic	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Chris O'Neil	Brenda Remilton-Ward Naoko Satō	5–7, 7–6, 6–3
3.	17 October 1983	Japan Open	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Chris O'Neil	Helena Manset Micki Schillig	6–3, 7–5

Finals

Women's doubles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament Name	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	1 January 1974	New South Wales Open	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Janet Fallis	Ann Kiyomura Sawuko Kawamatso	6–3, 6–3
2.	28 August 1978	Bergen County Classic	Mahwah, NJ, United States	Hard	Barbara Potter	Ilana Kloss Marise Kruger	6–1, 6–3
3.	25 December 1978	Australian Open	Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Naoko Satō	Betsy Nagelsen Renáta Tomanová	7–5, 6–2

References

External links

• WTA Tour profile
• ITF profile