Clare Wood

Clare Jacqueline Wood (born 8 March 1968) is a former British number 1 tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1984 and retired in 1998. Over the course of her career she reached a career-high singles ranking of world no.77 in singles (achieved 2 May 1994) and no.59 in doubles (achieved 21 October 1996). Wood won one ITF singles title, six in doubles and also won a WTA doubles title at the Wellington Classic having been the runner-up there the previous year. Her greatest success in singles at Grand Slam level came in 1991 when she reached the third round of the Australian Open. She also reached the third round in doubles at three of the four Grand Slam events during her career (the exception being the US Open where she never passed the second round) and reached the quarterfinals in the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 1995. At the time of her retirement she had a 212–223 singles win-loss record with notable scalps including Jo Durie and Mary Pierce.
After her retirement from professional competition, Wood became a tennis officiator. From 1999 until 2002 she was a tournament supervisor on the WTA Tour and from 2002 onwards she was an assistant referee at Wimbledon where she was also fully responsible for the qualifying and junior events. In 2004, she was an assistant referee at the 2004 Olympic tennis event and in 2008 it was announced that she would fulfil the role of Tennis Competition Manager at the 2012 Olympic Games.

When Wood lost to Jennifer Capriati on 14 September 1989, her opponent became the youngest ever Wightman Cup player, and the first player for four years to win a Wightman Cup match 6-0 6-0.

Wood played 28 singles and 24 doubles matches for Great Britain in the Fed Cup between 1988 and 1997.

Wood represented the United Kingdom in the Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 1996, when she lost in the quarter-finals of the doubles partnering Valda Lake 6-2 6-1 to Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernández.

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	000000001986-09-08-00008 September 1986	$10,000 Lisbon, Portugal	Clay	María José Llorca	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	000000001987-01-26-000026 January 1987	$25,000 Tarzana, California, United States	Hard	Meskhi, LeilaLeila Meskhi	6–1, 4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 11 (7–4)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner-up	000000001986-01-20-000020 January 1986	$10,000 San Antonio, Texas, United States	Hard	Van Rensburg, DinkyDinky Van Rensburg	Bollegraf, ManonManon Bollegraf Marianne Van Der Torre	5–7, 7–6(7–4), 4–6
Winner	000000001986-11-17-000017 November 1986	$10,000 Croydon, Great Britain	Carpet (i)	Lake, ValdaValda Lake	Digna Ketelaar Simone Schilder	7–6, 2–6, 7–5
Runner-up	000000001987-04-27-000027 April 1987	$25,000 Taranto, Italy	Clay	Simone Schilder	Meskhi, LeilaLeila Meskhi Zvereva, NatashaNatasha Zvereva	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	000000001991-02-04-00004 February 1991	Wellington, New Zealand (1)	Hard	Belinda Borneo	Jo-Anne Faull Richardson, JulieJulie Richardson	6–2, 5–7, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	000000001992-02-03-00003 February 1992	Wellington, New Zealand (2)	Hard	Belinda Borneo	Jo-Anne Faull Richardson, JulieJulie Richardson	6–0, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	000000001995-07-17-000017 July 1995	$25,000 Wilmington, Delaware, United States	Hard	Tessa Price	Catherine Barclay-Reitz Audra Keller	3–6, 6–1, 6–1
Winner	000000001996-02-26-000026 February 1996	$50,000 Southampton, Great Britain	Carpet (i)	Valda Lake	Golarsa, LauraLaura Golarsa Križan, TinaTina Križan	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	000000001996-08-12-000012 August 1996	$25,000 Bronx, New York, United States	Hard	Nanne Dahlman	Horn, LiezelLiezel Horn Papadáki, ChristínaChristína Papadáki	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	000000001997-02-17-000017 February 1997	$25,000 Redbridge, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Guse, Kerry-AnneKerry-Anne Guse	Pullin, JulieJulie Pullin Lorna Woodroffe	6–2, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	000000001997-02-24-000024 February 1997	$25,000 Bushey, Great Britain	Carpet (i)	Olga Lugina	Kirstin Freye Tatarkova, ElenaElena Tatarkova	7–6(8–6), 6–7(6–8), 6–1
Winner	000000001998-03-16-000016 March 1998	$10,000 Jaffa, Israel	Hard	Helen Reesby	Limor Gabai Kate Warne-Holland	7–5, 7–5

Singles

Doubles

Mixed Doubles