Abigail Tere-Apisah
Full name | Abigail Agivanagi Tere-Apisah |
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Country (sports) | ![]() ![]() |
Residence | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
Born | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | 13 July 1992
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $55,261 |
Singles | |
Career record | 111–68 |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 276 (6 August 2018) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 61–51 |
Career titles | 6 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 224 (11 June 2018) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 16–12 |
Medal record |
Abigail Agivanagi Tere-Apisah (born 13 July 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Papua New Guinea.
Tere-Apisah has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 276, achieved on 6 August 2018. She is the daughter of Kwalam Apisah and Verenagi Tere. Her sister Marcia, and her nieces, Violet and Patricia Apisah, are also tennis players.
Tennis career
[edit]In 2010, Abigail graduated from Albury High School in Albury, Australia. She then attended Georgia State University, playing tennis for the Panthers, and graduated in 2014 with a BS in Health and Physical Education.[citation needed] Apisah is a two time All-American tennis player (2012 and 2014).
On 24 May 2014, she reached the semifinals of the NCAA Championship, losing in the third-set tiebreak to Lynn Chi. She reached a collegiate national ranking of No. 8 in singles.
On 3 December 2017, in the Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff final for the 2018 Australian Open, she was looking to become the first player from Papua New Guinea to compete in a Grand Slam main draw, but lost the final match 6–4, 5–7, 4–6 to Wang Xinyu of China.[1]
On 19 May 2019, Tere-Apisah became the first Pacific islander to win a professional tennis singles title beating Russian top seed, Valeria Savinykh, at a $25k event in Singapore.
ITF Circuit finals
[edit]Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2017 | ITF Cairns, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 2–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1–1 | May 2019 | ITF Singapore | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
6–3, 6–2 |
Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner–ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Sep 2016 | ITF Brisbane, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7(4), 6–2, [10–3] |
Win | 2–0 | Jun 2017 | ITF Bethany Beach, United States |
25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–0 |
Win | 3–0 | Sep 2017 | ITF Penrith, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 7–5 |
Win | 4–0 | Sep 2017 | ITF Brisbane, Australia (2) | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–1 |
Loss | 4–1 | Oct 2017 | ITF Toowoomba, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 5–7 |
Win | 5–1 | Oct 2017 | ITF Cairns, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–2, [10–6] |
Loss | 5–2 | May 2018 | Kurume Cup, Japan | 60,000 | Carpet | ![]() |
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2–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 5–3 | May 2019 | ITF Singapore | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–0, [6–10] |
Win | 6–3 | Jun 2019 | ITF Hong Kong | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 2–6, [10–6] |
Loss | 6–4 | Feb 2020 | Launceston International, Australia |
25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7(4), 3–6 |
Loss | 6–5 | Feb 2020 | ITF Perth, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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1–6, 6–4, [7–10] |
National representation
[edit]Fed Cup
[edit]Tere-Apisah made her Fed Cup debut for Pacific Oceania in 2015, while the team was competing in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II.
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Singles (10–5)
[edit]Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Opponent | W/L | Score |
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2015 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool D | 14 April 2015 | Hyderabad, India | ![]() |
Hard (i) | Lavinia Tananta | L | 6–2, 1–6, 3–6 |
15 April 2015 | ![]() |
Medhira Samarasinghe | W | 6–0, 6–3 | ||||
5th-8th Play-off | 17 April 2015 | ![]() |
Angeline Devanthiran | W | 6–0, 6–3 | |||
2016 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool A | 11 April 2016 | Hua Hin, Thailand | ![]() |
Hard | Maggie Ng | W | 2–6, 6–1, 7–5 |
12 April 2016 | ![]() |
Sadaf Sadeghvaziri | W | 6–1, 6–1 | ||||
13 April 2016 | ![]() |
Anna Clarice Patrimonio | W | 6–1, 6–0 | ||||
2017 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool B | 18 July 2017 | Dushanbe, Tajikistan | ![]() |
Hard | Sara Amiri | W | 6–3, 6–0 |
19 July 2017 | ![]() |
Zhang Ling | L | 4–6, 4–6 | ||||
5th-8th Play-off | 21 July 2017 | ![]() |
Y-kit Nicole Tan | W | 6–7(5–7), 6–0, 6–0 | |||
2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool C | 7 February 2018 | Isa Town, Bahrain | ![]() |
Hard | Fatma Al-Nabhani | W | 7–6(7–4), 7–5 |
8 February 2018 | ![]() |
Suhana Sofia Mohd Adam Das | W | 6–2, 6–0 | ||||
Promotional Play-off | 10 February 2018 | ![]() |
Stefanie Tan | W | 2–6, 6–2, 6–4 | |||
2019 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I |
Pool B | 6 February 2019 | Astana, Kazakhstan | ![]() |
Hard (i) | Zhang Shuai | L | 1–6, 2–6 |
7 February 2019 | ![]() |
Beatrice Gumulya | L | 4–6, 6–2, 4–6 | ||||
8 February 2019 | ![]() |
Han Na-lae | L | 1–6, 7–5, 3–6 |
Doubles (5–5)
[edit]Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Partner | Opponents | W/L | Score |
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2015 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool D | 14 April 2015 | Hyderabad, India | ![]() |
Hard (i) | ![]() |
Ayu Fani Damayanti Lavinia Tananta |
L | 0–6, 2–6 |
5th-8th Play-off | 17 April 2015 | ![]() |
Wi Joanne Koh Sarah Pang |
W | 6–0, 6–3 | ||||
2016 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool A | 11 April 2016 | Hua Hin, Thailand | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
Sher Chun-wing Zhang Ling |
L | 3–6, 2–6 |
13 April 2016 | ![]() |
Khim Iglupas Katharina Lehnert |
L | 4–6, 3–6 | |||||
2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
Pool C | 6 February 2018 | Isa Town, Bahrain | ![]() |
Hard | Shahrzad Banisaeid Kimia Rahmani |
W | 6–0, 6–0 | |
7 February 2018 | ![]() |
Maryam Al Balushi Aisha Al Suleimani |
W | 6–0, 6–1 | |||||
8 February 2018 | ![]() |
Jawairiah Noordin Suhana Sofia Mohd Adam Das |
W | 6–4, 6–2 | |||||
Promotional Play-off | 10 February 2018 | ![]() |
Charmaine Shi Yi Seah Stefanie Tan |
W | 6–1, 6–1 | ||||
2019 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I |
Pool B | 6 February 2019 | Astana, Kazakhstan | ![]() |
Hard (i) | Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai |
L | 6–3, 3–6, 4–6 | |
7 February 2019 | ![]() |
Deria Nur Haliza Jessy Rompies |
L | 4–6, 4–6 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Wang beats Tere-Apisah to win Australian Open wildcard". WTAtennis.com. 3 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
External links
[edit]- Abigail Tere-Apisah at the Women's Tennis Association
- Abigail Tere-Apisah at the International Tennis Federation
- Abigail Tere-Apisah at the Billie Jean King Cup
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)
- Papua New Guinean female tennis players
- Georgia State Panthers women's tennis players
- Expatriate tennis players in the United States
- Pacific Games gold medalists for Papua New Guinea
- Pacific Games silver medalists for Papua New Guinea
- Pacific Games bronze medalists for Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinean sportspeople stubs
- Tennis biography stubs