Sue Barker Height, Age, Net Worth, Family, Husband, Kids, Weight, Tennis Player & More

Sue Barker Height, Age, Net Worth: Sue Barker is an English TV presenter and former tennis player. She won 15 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 1976 French Open Grand Slam singles title. Sue achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 during her career. She began her career as a broadcaster after retiring from tennis, and she has worked for the BBC since 1993, as well as presenting coverage of the Wimbledon tennis championships; she stepped down from this role just after 2022 Wimbledon Championships.

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In the 2000 New Year Honours, she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to sport and broadcasting, Officer of the Attempt of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and charity, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as in 2021 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and charity.

Sue Barker Personal life/Early life

Sue Barker was born on April 19, 1956. She is originally from Paignton, Devon, England. Her nationality is British, and ethnicity is British-White. Her ethnicity is White. As of 2023, she will be 67 years old. She went to a convent school.

Sue Barker was chosen as one of two girls to be instructed by tennis instructor Arthur Roberts in 1966, when she was ten years old. She continued her coaching after the commitment for the selection reward, charging only £1 each session to allow her growth to continue. Throughout her career, Roberts remained Barker’s mentor.

Sue Barker Height, Weight, &Body Measurements

Sue Barker Height, Age, Net Worth: Sue Barker is a stunning woman whose height is 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall. Her body weight is 52 kg. Her eyes are a gorgeous blue, and her hair is blonde. Her physique is slender.

Sue Barker Boyfriend, Husband & Children

Sue Barker is a married lady. In the year 1988, she married her husband, Lance Tankard. Lance Tankard is a landscape gardener and former police officer. The happily married pair now lives in Stanton, Gloucestershire, the UK, after leaving a mansion on a 26-acre estate in Godalming, Surrey. Her sexual orientation is heterosexual.

She previously dated Syd Ball (1978), Greg Norman, Cliff Richard (1982), and Stephen Shaw (1976). In a 1999 interview, Sue stated that during her tennis career, she was approached in locker room by a lesbian tennis player and caressed “in a way that didn’t feel right.” Barker refused to identify the female tennis player in question.

Name	Sue Barker
Age (as of 2023)	67 Years Old
Date of Birth	1956-04-19
Place Of Birth	Paignton, Devon, England
Gender	Female
Profession	TV Personality , Former Tennis Player
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	British-White
Religion	Christian
Zodiac sign	Taurus
School	Convent School
College/University	Not known
Sexual Orientation	Straight
Net Worth	$3 Million
Height	5 ft 5 in
Weight	52 KG
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Blue
Martial status	Married
Boyfriend	Cliff Richard (1982), Syd Ball (1978), Greg Norman, and Stephen Shaw (1976)
Husband	Lance Tankard
Children	None
Family	Not known

Sue Barker Career Highlights

She was ranked 21st in the WTA when she was 16 years old.
The International Management Group of Mark McCormack then signed her (IMG).
In 1975, she won her first top-level singles title and three more.
She made her maiden Grand Slam semi-final at the Australian Open in 1975.
She won the German Open in 1976, defeating Renáta Tomanová of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-1 in the final.
She won the French Open at the age of 20 and defeated Tomanová in the final in 1976, the biggest triumph of her career.
Barker won two singles titles in San Francisco and Dallas after a year. In 1977, she reached the Australian Open semi-finals for the second time and the Wimbledon semi-finals. However, she was defeated in the semi-finals by Betty Stöve of the Netherlands.
Her ranking fell to World No. 24 in 1978.
In 1979, she won three solo titles and reached three more finals.
Following that, Sue made one final in 1980 and won her final singles championship at the Brighton International in the year 1981, finishing the year ranked World No. 16.
She won her final two titles in 1982 in Cincinnati.
In 1984, she played her final professional match before retiring from tennis.
She won 15 singles titles and 12 doubles titles in her career, defeating Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Evonne Goolagong, Billie Jean King, Tracy Austin, and Virginia Wade, as well as Maria Bueno, Rosemary Casals, Andrea Jaeger, and Pam Shriver.

Sue Barker retired in 1985 and went on to work as a pundit and sports reporter for Australia’s Channel 7.
From 1990 to 1993, she hosted tennis coverage for British Sky Broadcasting.
In 1993, she joined the BBC Wimbledon coverage as a regular on Today at Wimbledon with Harry Carpenter.
She first hosted “Today at Wimbledon” in 1994, and she continued to anchor the two-week-long coverage for the network from 2000 to 2022.
Since 1997, she has hosted the long-running sports quiz show A Question of Sport.
Barker revealed in September 2020 that she would leave her post as host of the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport after 24 years, saying she was “sorry to say goodbye.”
She has also hosted coverage of the Australian Open, French Open, Queens Club Championships, Eastbourne, Davis Cup, ATP World Tour Finals, and Wimbledon for BBC Sport.
Similarly, she has hosted the Grand National (2000-2007), the Derby (2001-2007), Ascot and Longchamp racing (1995-1999), the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, World Athletics Championships, the Great North Run, and European Athletics Championships (1999-2009), BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1994-2012), Commonwealth Games (1994-2010), Summer Olympics (1996-2012), and Winter Olympics (1994–2010).
She announced on June 9, 2022, that she will be leaving BBC coverage of the Wimbledon tennis event after the 2022 finals, which she has been covering since 1993.

Sue Barker Net Worth, Salary & Assets

Sue Barker Height, Age, Net Worth: Sue Barker, a former tennis player turned TV personality, has a net worth of $3 million as of 2023. As a pundit, she earns $450,000 per year, making her one of the BBC’s highest-paid female employees. Her money is now derived from her television job, whereas in the past it was derived from her tennis career. She is currently living a cool lifestyle. In her tennis career, she collected $878,701 in prize money.