As both a singles and doubles player, she featured in the Australian and US Opens, Wimbledon and Roland Garros between 1985 and 1990.
She has a career singles win/loss record of 39–58, and a doubles record of 110–78.Thompson won the 1986 Virginia Slims of Pennsylvania singles title, and won doubles titles in Wellington, Rome and the German Open in 1989, and won competitions in Nashville in 1988.