In 1980 Jo Durie suffered a major back injury which kept her out of the game for eight months.
19 Facts About Jo Durie
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Jo Durie won two top-level WTA singles titles at Mahwah, New Jersey and Sydney, and had career wins over Steffi Graf, Zina Garrison, Pam Shriver, Hana Mandlikova, and Tracy Austin.
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Jo Durie made her last appearance in a WTA tour singles final at the Virginia Slims of Newport tournament in 1990.
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Jo Durie was ranked the No 1 British player for most of her career.
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Jo Durie won the British National Singles title a record seven times.
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Jo Durie was the second British woman player after Virginia Wade to win $1 million in prize money.
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Jo Durie would go on to win five woman's doubles titles from eighteen finals during her career.
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Jo Durie reached the semifinals of the women's doubles at the French Open and Wimbledon.
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Jo Durie won the British National Doubles title a record nine times.
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Jo Durie was a stalwart member of the British Wightman Cup, British Federation Cup and British European Cup teams.
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Jo Durie was the youngest member of the British Federation Cup team, alongside Virginia Wade and Sue Barker, which reached the team final in 1981.
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Jo Durie led the British team to victory in the European Championship in Prague in 1992.
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Jo Durie beat France's Alexia Dechaume-Balleret, ranked No 85 in the world, in straight sets in the first round.
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Jo Durie's last match at Wimbledon was a mixed doubles match on Centre Court, where she played alongside her long-standing partner Jeremy Bates.
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Jo Durie did not take the prescribed medication, as she didn't feel well after taking them.
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Jo Durie revealed this fact in March 2016 in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, after the revelation that Maria Sharapova had been found taking a similar heart-issue drug, which later had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Since retirement, Jo Durie has worked as a TV tennis commentator for both the BBC and British Eurosport.
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Jo Durie used to coach British number one Elena Baltacha alongside her own former coach Alan Jones.
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Jo Durie won back-to-back Wimbledon Ladies' Senior Invitation doubles titles in 1996 and 1997.