# Sue Stap

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{{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](/source/Phoenixville%2C_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](/source/Montreal_Gazette) |date=February 1, 1979}}</ref>
| Wimbledonresult = 3R ([1972](/source/1972_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles))
| USOpenresult = 2R ([1970](/source/1970_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles), [1972](/source/1972_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles))
| doublesrecord = 
| doublestitles = 
| highestdoublesranking = 
| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 1R ([1973](/source/1973_French_Open_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles))
| WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R ([1972](/source/1972_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles), [1973](/source/1973_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles))
| USOpenDoublesresult = 2R ([1975](/source/1975_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles), [1977](/source/1977_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles))
| USOpenMixedresult = QF ([1974](/source/1974_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles), [1975](/source/1975_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles))
}}
'''Susan Stap Kust''' (born June 3, 1954) is an American former professional [tennis](/source/tennis) player.

A native of [Deerfield, Illinois](/source/Deerfield%2C_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](/source/Sandy_Stap) 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](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=August 24, 2012}}</ref>

Stap made the singles third round at the [1972 Wimbledon Championships](/source/1972_Wimbledon_Championships) and was a two-time [US Open](/source/US_Open_(tennis)) quarter-finalist in mixed doubles. She won the [1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic](/source/1971_Charlotte_Tennis_Classic) doubles title with [Chris Evert](/source/Chris_Evert) and was doubles runner-up with [Virginia Wade](/source/Virginia_Wade) at the [1974 Virginia Slims of Houston](/source/1974_Virginia_Slims_of_Houston). Her career also included a win over [Martina Navratilova](/source/Martina_Navratilova) and an appearance in the end of season [Virginia Slims Championships](/source/1975_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](/source/1974_Virginia_Slims_of_Houston)
| [Houston](/source/Virginia_Slims_of_Houston), U.S.
| Carpet
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [Virginia Wade](/source/Virginia_Wade)
| {{flagicon|USA}} [Janet Newberry](/source/Janet_Newberry)<br />{{flagicon|USA}} [Wendy Overton](/source/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

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