Heidi Eisterlehner
This page provides a comprehensive overview of Heidi Eisterlehner’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
Peak run came at the 1976 Australian Open
Her best Grand Slam result was a quarterfinal at the 1976 Australian Open, achieved at age 26. That is the only quarterfinal listed in her 16-tournament Grand Slam career.
Most of her success clustered in 1976-1979
She reached her strongest results repeatedly between 1976 and 1979: Q in 1976, R32 at the 1977 Australian Open and French Open, R16 at the 1978 Australian Open, and R64 at the 1979 French Open. This four-year span contains her deepest and most frequent advances.
Wimbledon was her least productive major
Across five Wimbledon appearances, her best result was only the round of 64 in 1976 and 1981. The other Wimbledon entries were R128 in 1975, 1977, and 1980, showing no run beyond the first two rounds.
She stayed competitive into her early 30s
Her final Grand Slam years still produced wins: she reached Wimbledon R64 at age 31 in 1981 after earlier making the French Open R128 that same year. Her last listed appearance was the 1984 French Open at age 34.
Her record is narrowly above .500 across 33 matches
She played 33 Grand Slam matches and finished 17-16, a 52% win rate. That balance is reflected in the results table, where several early exits are offset by a handful of deeper runs.
Basics
| Born | 25 October 1949 |
| Gender | Female |
| Nation | East Germany |
| Era | Open Era |
| Grand Slam careerCareer | 1975-1981, 1984 |
Grand Slam statistics
| Tournaments | 16 |
| Best results | 1 x quarterfinalist 1 x R16 3 x R32 |
| Total matches | 33 |
| W/L-record | 17-16 (52% won) |
Compared with other women
| In the Open Era | #307 of 1961 |
| With overlapping career | #104 of 362 |
| From East Germany | #1 of 1 |
| Born in 1949 | #7 of 26 |
| Year | Tournament | Result | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | French Open | R128 | 34 |
| 1981 | Wimbledon | R64 | 31 |
| 1981 | French Open | R128 | 31 |
| 1980 | Wimbledon | R128 | 30 |
| 1979 | Wimbledon | R128 | 29 |
| 1979 | French Open | R64 | 29 |
| 1978 | Australian Open | R16 | 29 |
| 1978 | French Open | R32 | 28 |
| 1977 | Australian Open (Jan) | R32 | 28 |
| 1977 | US Open | R128 | 27 |
| 1977 | Wimbledon | R128 | 27 |
| 1977 | French Open | R32 | 27 |
| 1976 | Wimbledon | R64 | 26 |
| 1976 | French Open | R64 | 26 |
| 1976 | Australian Open | Q | 26 |
| 1975 | Wimbledon | R128 | 25 |
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