Andrea Jaeger

Andrea Jaeger, born in Chicago on 4 June 1965, is an American former professional tennis player who turned professional at 14 and was ranked second in the world by the age of 16. She reached the French Open singles final in 1982, where she lost to Martina Navratilova after beating Chris Evert in the semifinal, and the Wimbledon final in 1983, again against Navratilova. In mixed doubles she won the 1981 French Open with Jimmy Arias. She won ten singles titles and about 1.4 million US dollars in prize money before a shoulder injury ended her career at 19. She then turned to charity, founding the Silver Lining Foundation in 1990 for children with cancer, later renamed the Little Star Foundation, and she joined an Anglican Dominican order in 2006 and left it in 2009.