Betty Stöve

Country	Netherlands
Residence	Brasschaat, Belgium
Born	(1945-06-24) 24 June 1945 (age 67) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	69.8 kg (154 lb; 10.99 st)
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	US$ 1,047,356
Singles
Career record	190–151
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 5 (3 July 1977)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (1967, 1980)
French Open	3R (1965, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979)
Wimbledon	F (1977)
US Open	SF (1977)
Doubles
Career titles	75
Highest ranking	No. 1
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1967)
French Open	W (1972, 1979)
Wimbledon	W (1972)
US Open	W (1972, 1977, 1979)
Other Doubles tournaments
WTA Championships	W (1979)
Mixed Doubles
Career titles	4
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	F (1973, 1981)
Wimbledon	W (1978, 1981)
US Open	W (1977, 1978)
Last updated on: 18 September 2009.

Betty Stöve (born 24 June 1945 in Rotterdam) is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.

Career[link]

Stove began playing tennis internationally in the mid 1960s. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 1964 Wimbledon. A virus, complicated by a malfunctioning thyroid gland, forced Stöve out of tennis for an 18-month period in the late 1960s. Despite being advised that she should never play tennis again, Stöve recovered and had her best years on the circuit after that.

Stöve's most notable singles match was the 1977 Wimbledon final, which she lost to Virginia Wade: 4–6, 6–3, 6–1. Queen Elizabeth II attended the final against Wade. This would be the last time she would attend Wimbledon until a second round match between Andy Murray and Jarkko Nieminen on June 24, 2010.

Stöve was also a semifinalist at the 1977 US Open, losing to Chris Evert. She also found success in the 1977 US Open by winning the women's doubles with Martina Navrátilová and the mixed doubles with Frew McMillan.

Stöve had her greatest success in doubles. She won ten Grand Slam doubles championships, six in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles. She won two women's doubles championships with Billie Jean King and two with Wendy Turnbull. Her other two titles were won with Françoise Durr and Martina Navrátilová. All of her mixed doubles championships were with Frew McMillan. Stöve was the runner-up in seventeen Grand Slam doubles tournaments, eight in women's doubles and nine in mixed doubles.

During her career, Stöve won one singles title and 75 doubles titles. She reached a career high singles rank of World No. 5 in 1977. She was also ranked World No. 1 in doubles.

Stöve competed in and lost all three finals at Wimbledon in 1977.

She competed for the Netherlands Fed Cup team in 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1983.

The Dutch rock band Bettie Serveert is named after her. Bettie Serveert means "Bettie serves".

Post-retirement activity[link]

Stöve coached Hana Mandlíková from 1980 through 1990. She also coached Kristie Boogert.

Stöve is a former member of the ITF Committee of Management, its first female member.

She received the WTA Tour Honorary Membership Award in November 1987. She served three terms as President of WTA Tour Players Association.

In 1990, Stöve wrote Total Tennis, a tennis instruction book. She is also an accomplished photographer.

Major finals[link]

Grand Slam finals[link]

Singles: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner-up)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1977	Wimbledon	Grass	Virginia Wade	4–6, 6–3, 6–1

Women's doubles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner-ups)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1972	French Open	Clay	Billie Jean King	Winnie Shaw Nell Truman	6–1, 6–2
Winner	1972	Wimbledon	Grass	Billie Jean King	Françoise Durr Judy Tegart Dalton	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	1972	US Open	Grass	Françoise Durr	Margaret Court Virginia Wade	6–3, 1–6, 6–3
Runner-up	1973	French Open	Clay	Françoise Durr	Margaret Court Virginia Wade	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	1973	Wimbledon	Grass	Françoise Durr	Rosie Casals Billie Jean King	6–1, 4–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1974	US Open	Grass	Françoise Durr	Rosie Casals Billie Jean King	7–6, 6–7, 6–4
Runner-up	1975	Wimbledon	Grass	Françoise Durr	Ann Kiyomura Kazuko Sawamatsu	7–5, 1–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1976	Wimbledon	Grass	Billie Jean King	Chris Evert Martina Navrátilová	6–1, 3–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1977	Wimbledon	Grass	Martina Navrátilová	Helen Gourlay JoAnne Russell	6–3, 6–3
Winner	1977	US Open (2)	Clay	Martina Navrátilová	Renée Richards Betty-Ann Stuart	6–1, 7–6
Winner	1979	French Open (2)	Clay	Wendy Turnbull	Françoise Durr Virginia Wade	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	1979	Wimbledon	Grass	Wendy Turnbull	Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	1979	US Open (3)	Hard	Wendy Turnbull	Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	1980	US Open	Hard	Pam Shriver	Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová	7–6, 7–5

Mixed doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1971	US Open	Grass	Rob Maud	Billie Jean King Owen Davidson	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1973	French Open	Clay	Patrice Dominguez	Françoise Durr Jean-Claude Barclay	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	1975	Wimbledon	Grass	Allan Stone	Margaret Court Marty Riessen	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	1976	US Open	Clay	Frew McMillan	Billie Jean King Phil Dent	3–6, 6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	1977	Wimbledon	Grass	Frew McMillan	Greer Stevens Bob Hewitt	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Winner	1977	US Open	Clay	Frew McMillan	Billie Jean King Vitas Gerulaitis	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	1978	Wimbledon	Grass	Frew McMillan	Billie Jean King Ray Ruffels	6–2, 6–2
Winner	1978	US Open (2)	Hard	Frew McMillan	Billie Jean King Ray Ruffels	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	1979	Wimbledon	Grass	Frew McMillan	Greer Stevens Bob Hewitt	7–5, 7–6
Runner-up	1979	US Open	Hard	Frew McMillan	Greer Stevens Bob Hewitt	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1980	US Open	Hard	Frew McMillan	Wendy Turnbull Marty Riessen	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	1981	French Open	Clay	Fred McNair	Andrea Jaeger Jimmy Arias	7–6, 6–4
Winner	1981	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Frew McMillan	Tracy Austin John Austin	4–6, 7–6, 6–3

Year-End Championships finals[link]

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)[link]

Outcome	Year	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1973	New York City	Carpet (i)	Françoise Durr	Rosie Casals Margaret Court	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	1974	Los Angeles	Carpet (i)	Françoise Durr	Rosie Casals Billie Jean King	6–1, 6–7, 7–5
Winner	1979	New York City	Carpet (i)	Françoise Durr	Sue Barker Ann Kiyomura	7–6, 7–6

Titles (75)[link]

Singles (1)[link]

No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	27 September 1976	Tokyo, Japan (Sillook Open)	Hard (I)	Margaret Court	1–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles (75)[link]

Grand slam events in boldface.

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline[link]

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

See also[link]

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

External links[link]

• Betty Stöve at the Women's Tennis Association
• Betty Stöve at the International Tennis Federation
• Betty Stöve at the Fed Cup

Hans Teeuwen
Hans Teeuwen during the Borat premiere in Amsterdam.
Birth name	Hans Eduard Marie Teeuwen
Born	(1967-03-03) March 3, 1967 (age 45) Budel, North Brabant, Netherlands
Medium	Theatre, television, film, radio
Nationality	Dutch
Years active	1991–present
Genres	Improvisational comedy, character comedy, absurdist, shock comedy, stand-up comedy
Influences	Toon Hermans, Andy Kaufman, Monty Python [1]

Hans Eduard Marie Teeuwen (born 3 March 1967 in Budel, the Netherlands) is a Dutch comedian, actor and an occasional singer and director. His work can be described as absurdist, apolitical and confrontational.

Dutch career[link]

Theatre[link]

In the Netherlands, Teeuwen became well known in 1991 when he won an award at the Dutch cabaret festival Cameretten for his show Heist, together with Roland Smeenk. Just before the ending of the try-outs of this show, Smeenk died in a car accident in 1992.

Teeuwen decided to go solo as a 'cabaretier'. (Dutch cabaret is a sort of stand-up comedy often lasting for an hour or two, which has a storyline or theme, and can include songs, music and poetry as opposed to purely stand-up comedy.) Initially he did five shows, Hard en Zielig (Hard and Sad, 1994–1995), Met een Breierdeck (With a Breierdeck, 1995–1997), Trui (Sweater, 1999–2000), Dat Dan Weer Wel (2001–2002, a free translation of the title into English could be On the Other Hand) and Industry of Love (2003–2004). Then after seven years he made a come-back in 2011 with his show Spiksplinter (free translation: Spick and Span, as in 'spick-and-span-new'). One of the other comedy projects he has worked on is Poelmo, Slaaf van het Zuiden (Poelmo, Slave of the South), a series of shorter comedy shows with his friends and colleagues Pieter Bouwman and Gummbah. Bouwman and Teeuwen also worked together on a radio comedy show that was mainly improvised, called Mannen van de Radio (Men of the Radio).

TV & film[link]

Apart from a few comic parts with popular Dutch absurdistic comedy group Jiskefet, he acted in the 1999 film Jezus is een Palestijn (Jesus is a Palestinian). Together with Theodor Holman he co-created the idea for the film Interview, directed by Theo van Gogh in 2003 (and remade in 2007 in the USA by Steve Buscemi). He wrote and directed the film Masterclass in 2005. A couple of years later, he starred in the film Gewoon Hans (Just Hans), written and directed by friend and colleague Diederik Ebbinge from comedy group De Vliegende Panters ("The Flying Panthers"); this film premiered on Dutch television on 30 December 2009, and was released on DVD in January 2010.

Singing career[link]

From 2006 onwards, Teeuwen performed as a crooner in an Amsterdam nightclub, ultimately resulting in a DVD entitled Hans Teeuwen Zingt (literal English: Hans Teeuwen Sings), on which he sings songs by artists such as Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, together with his band. In 2008, Teeuwen performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He released a CD consisting of self-written songs, entitled How It Aches, in March 2010.

International career[link]

Hans Teeuwen at TEDxAmsterdam in november 2010

In 2005, Teeuwen announced he would no longer perform, incidentally coinciding with the death of director and close friend Theo van Gogh. However, in 2007 he decided to try a new challenge: performing in English. He appeared at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective,^[2] which spurred him to do a longer show. In 2008 he performed solo at the Soho Theatre in London.^[3][4] He also returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, and performed at Suffolk's 2008 Latitude Festival.^[5] In October 2008, he performed a show in the Leicester Square Theatre, London that was recorded for a future DVD release. In 2009, he performed at the Leicester Comedy Festival and the Belfast Festival at Queen's.

Political views[link]

Although his work is typically devoid of politics, in real life Teeuwen has repeatedly and openly acted as a fervent supporter of freedom of speech, especially after the murder of his friend Theo van Gogh. His eulogy and speech at the unveiling of a statue in memory of van Gogh were an example of his views. A video clip of Teeuwen advocating freedom of speech while being interviewed by three female Muslim TV presenters has been chosen as "Dutch TV Moment of 2007".^[6]

References[link]

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External links[link]

• HansTeeuwen.tv (in Dutch)
• Hans Teeuwen at the Internet Movie Database
• Hans Teeuwen at The World Stands Up
• Hans Teeuwen at Chortle
• Masterclass at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview at the Internet Movie Database
• Video of interview for the web-series Carpool