{{Short description|American tennis player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Sue Stap | image = | fullname = Susan Stap Kust | country_represented = {{USA}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|6|3}} | birth_place = Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = No. 34<ref name="Montreal">{{cite web |title=Last Canadians out of Avon tennis qualifier |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19790201&id=3pQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7108,5499939&hl=en |publisher=Montreal Gazette |date=February 1, 1979}}</ref> | Wimbledonresult = 3R (1972) | USOpenresult = 2R (1970, 1972) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 1R (1973) | WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (1972, 1973) | USOpenDoublesresult = 2R (1975, 1977) | USOpenMixedresult = QF (1974, 1975) }} '''Susan Stap Kust''' (born June 3, 1954) is an American former professional tennis player.
A native of Deerfield, Illinois, Stap was ranked as high as 34 in the world while competing on the professional tour during the 1970s. She and her sister Sandy were coached by their father, Jake Stap, who in his youth was a good enough baseball pitcher to be signed by the Chicago White Sox and is credited with inventing the tennis ball hopper.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Pagan |title=Who Made That Tennis-Ball Hopper? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/who-made-that-tennis-ball-hopper.html |work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2012}}</ref>
Stap made the singles third round at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships and was a two-time US Open quarter-finalist in mixed doubles. She won the 1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic doubles title with Chris Evert and was doubles runner-up with Virginia Wade at the 1974 Virginia Slims of Houston. Her career also included a win over Martina Navratilova and an appearance in the end of season Virginia Slims Championships in 1975.<ref name="Montreal"/>
==WTA Tour finals== ===Doubles (0–1)=== {|class="sortable wikitable" !Result !class=unsortable|W–L !{{ns}}Date{{ns}} !Tournament !Surface !Partner !Opponents !class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#FFA07A;" |Loss | 0–1 | Oct 1974 | Houston, U.S. | Carpet | {{flagicon|GBR}} Virginia Wade | {{flagicon|USA}} Janet Newberry<br />{{flagicon|USA}} Wendy Overton | 6–4, 5–7, 2–6 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{WTA|190252}} * {{ITF profile}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stap, Sue}} Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:American female tennis players Category:Tennis players from Chicago Category:Sportspeople from Deerfield, Illinois Category:20th-century American sportswomen