Valerie Ziegenfuss

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Valerie Ziegenfuss’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of her tournament results, showing how far she progressed in each Grand Slam event across her career.

Insights

Her standout result came before the Open Era

Ziegenfuss’s best Grand Slam showing was a quarterfinal at the 1967 US Open, listed in the Amateur Era. After that, her Open Era peak was lower: three round-of-16 finishes, with no deeper run.

1967 was her only major breakthrough year

Across 1967, she reached the quarterfinals at the US Open, then in 1968 and 1969 fell to R64, R128, and R32 results. That makes her debut season clearly her highest point in the supplied record.

Wimbledon was her most frequent stage, but not her best one

She appeared at Wimbledon 10 times, more than any other Slam in the data, yet never advanced beyond the round of 32 there. Her Wimbledon results include two R128 exits and several R64/R32 finishes.

Her strongest Open Era stretch came in the mid-1970s

From 1972 to 1976, she produced all three of her Open Era round-of-16 results: French Open in 1972, US Open in 1975, and Wimbledon in 1976. That five-year span contains her best Open Era concentration.

She stayed active into her late 20s, but results trended downward

Her final listed appearances came at age 28 at Wimbledon and age 29 at the 1978 US Open. Those were R128 and R64 results, respectively, after earlier Open Era peaks at R16 and R32.

Basics

Born	29 June 1949
Gender	Female
Nation	United States
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1967-1978

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	26
Best results Open Era	3 x R16 8 x R32 9 x R64
Best results Amateur Era	1 x quarterfinalist
Total matches	64
W/L-record	38-26 (59% won)

During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Valerie Ziegenfuss – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1978	US Open	Open Era	R64	29
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	28
1977	US Open	Open Era	R128	28
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	27
1976	US Open	Open Era	R64	27
1976	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	26
1976	French Open	Open Era	R64	26
1975	US Open	Open Era	R16	26
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	25^?
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	24
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	24
1973	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	23
1972	US Open	Open Era	R32	23
1972	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	22
1972	French Open	Open Era	R16	22
1971	US Open	Open Era	R64	22
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	21
1971	French Open	Open Era	R32	21
1970	US Open	Open Era	R64	21
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	20
1969	US Open	Open Era	R16	20
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	19
1969	French Open	Open Era	R32	19
1968	US Open	Open Era	R64	19
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	18
1967	US Open	Amateur Era	Q	18