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<!-- .page --><!-- News.page --><!-- specific page -->No More International Tennis New Zealand No 1 Shelley Stephens has announced her retirement from international tennis.

Stephens, 26 brought her retirement forward after the news she and partner, Jeff Bryce are to have a child later this year.

Stephens reached a high of 249 in the world in singles in June 2001 and 133 in doubles in 2002.

She won two ITF singles and 22 ITF doubles titles in her career which saw her play in the doubles main draw at the Australian Open in 2002 and play for the New Zealand Fed Cup team since 1995.

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[Mana]

You rock Shelley!

 

[rated_next]

But, congrats on the baby

 

[ozfan44]

Shelley

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[polishprodigy]

Shelley but now is the time

 

[Brαm]

22 doubles titles :yeah:

Nice career Good luck with the baby!

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

bye Shelley
a baby :bolt:

 

[Ted of Teds Tennis]

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Is there any reason why you had to post the whole #@[email protected]$#% HTML rather than just cutting and pasting text?

 

[Xian]

Shelley Im always sad seeing the Challenger girls retiring

 

[the jamierbelyea]

Is there any reason why you had to post the whole #@[email protected]$#% HTML rather than just cutting and pasting text?

If he has the WYSIWYG editor, it probably did it by its self...

 

[broncosven]

Cya Shelley !!!

Good Luck In Life Now !!!

 

[AUSBOY]

Sorry, I just copied and paste, excuse me for being computer ignorant!!!

 

[Randy H]

Thanks for the news AUSBOY, it's always nice to see some announcement of retirement even though we don't like to see them go!

Congratulations to Shelley on the news of her pregnancy though, a nice way to move forward to a new phase of her life

 

[Mateo Mathieu]

Shelley! Thanks for the news, mate!

 

[Mateo Mathieu]

And congratulations for the baby

 

[Sharapova's_Boy]

OMG Shelley

She was one of the best players to watch.