Lynn Kiro
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Full name | Lynn Marie-Joe Kyro |
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Country (sports) | South Africa |
Born | Cape Town, South Africa | 6 August 1995
Plays | Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand) |
College | Texas Tech University |
Prize money | $4,488 |
Singles | |
Career record | 23–11 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 0 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 840 (6 August 2013) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 12–6 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 2 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 744 (29 July 2013) |
Lynn Kiro (born 6 August 1995 in Cape Town) is a South African tennis player and coach. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she achieved her highest ranking of world number 60 in March 2013. In April 2013 she was South Africa's no. 2 ranked junior girls tennis player, behind Ilze Hattingh.
On the pro circuit, Kyro has reached two $10,000 doubles finals alongside Malagasy Zarah Razafimahatratra, winning one and losing one. Her highest singles ranking is 840 while her highest doubles in 744. In 2012, Kyro made her debut for the South Africa Fed Cup team, for which she plays doubles.
Kiro attended Texas Tech University from 2013–2017 and had a decorated collegiate tennis career. She is currently head coach of women’s tennis at Wagner College.
ITF Circuit Finals: 3 (2–1)[]
Doubles: 4 (3–1)[]
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Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 8 December 2012 | Potchefstroom, South Africa | Hard (o) | Zarah Razafimahatratra | Kim-Alice Grajdek Keren Shlomo |
6–2, 4–6, [8–10] |
Winner | 1. | 15 December 2012 | Potchefstroom, South Africa | Hard (o) | Zarah Razafimahatratra | Kim-Alice Grajdek Keren Shlomo |
w/o |
Winner | 2. | 21 July 2013 | Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | Hard (o) | Mayar Sherif | Anna Morgina |
6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 3. | 1 August 2015 | Austin, United States | Hard | Gabrielle Smith |
6–3, 6–2 |
Fed Cup participation: 2 (1-1)[]
Doubles: 2 (1-1)[]
Edition | Round | Date | Location | Partner | Against | Surface | Opponent | W/L | Score |
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2012 Fed Cup | Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs | 20 April 2012 | Cairo, Egypt | Montenegro | Clay (o) | Madrie Le Roux | Vladica Babić Milica Šljukić |
W | 6–1, 6–2 |
Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs | 21 April 2012 | Turkey | Pemra Özgen Melis Sezer |
L | 4–6, 2–6 |
External links[]
- Lynn Kiro at the Women's Tennis Association
- Lynn Kiro at the International Tennis Federation
- Lynn Kiro at the Billie Jean King Cup
Categories:
- 1995 births
- Living people
- South African expatriates in the United States
- South African female tennis players
- White South African people
- African tennis biography stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs