- Maureen Connolly
Maureen Catherine ("Little Mo") Connolly (September 17, 1934 - June 21, 1969) was an American tennis player who was the first woman to win the Grand Slam. Connolly was born in San Diego, California, United States. As a child, she loved horseback riding, but her mother was unable to pay the cost of riding lessons. So, she took up the game of tennis. A natural, with tremendous power and accuracy from the baseline, … - John Newcombe
John David Newcombe AO OBE (born May 23, 1944 in Sydney, Australia) is a former World No. 1 tennis champion. A natural athlete, as a boy Newcombe played several sports until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962 and 1963 and became a member of Australia's Davis Cup winning team in 1964. He won his first Grand Slam major in 1965 by taking the Australian Championships doubles title with fellow Australian Tony Roche. - Lew Hoad
Lewis Alan ("Lew") Hoad (born November 23, 1934 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, died July 3, 1994 in Fuengirola, Spain) was a champion tennis player. In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, ranks Hoad as one of the 21 best players of all time. For five straight years, beginning in 1952, he was ranked in the World Top Ten for amateurs, reaching the No. 1 spot in 1956. - Doris Hart
Doris Hart (born on June 2, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American tennis champion in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg. She started playing tennis when she was 10 years old, greatly encouraged by her brother Bud. Hart's first Grand Slam title was in women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1947, when she was still a student at the University of Miami (Florida). - Alice Marble
Alice Marble (September 28, 1913 - December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships from 1936 through 1940. Five of those championships were in singles, six were in women's doubles, and seven were in mixed doubles. Born in the small town of Beckwourth, California, Marble moved with her family at the age of five to San Francisco. A tomboy, she excelled in many sports such as baseball, … - Darlene Hard
Darlene Hard (born January 6, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a tennis player known for her volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Championships in 1960 and 1961. With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 U.S. Open, … - Christine Truman
Christine Truman Janes, MBE, (born on January 16, 1941 in Woodford Green, England), is a female former tennis player from the United Kingdom. The British junior champion in 1956 and 1957, Janes made her Wimbledon debut in 1957 at age 16 and reached the semifinals, where she lost to Althea Gibson. In 1958, Janes caused a sensation by defeating Gibson, the Wimbledon champion, … - Angela Mortimer
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett (April 21, 1932) was a British female tennis player. She was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. Barrett won three Grand Slam singles titles during her career. She defeated Dorothy Head Knode in the final of the 1955 French Championships 2-6, 7-5, 10-8. Barrett defeated Lorraine Coghlan in the final of the 1958 Australian Championships 6-3, 6-4. And Barrett defeated Christine Truman Janes 4-6, 6-4, … - Lesley Turner Bowrey
Lesley Turner Bowrey (born August 16, 1942) is an Australian female tennis player. She was born in Trangie, New South Wales. Bowrey won 13 Grand Slam titles during her career: two in singles, seven in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She lost in the final of 14 other Grand Slam events. Bowrey twice won the singles title at the French Championships. In 1963, she defeated Ann Haydon Jones in the final, and in 1965, she defeated Margaret Smith Court in the final. - Ann Haydon-Jones
Ann Haydon-Jones (born Adrianne Shirley Haydon on October 7, 1938 in Birmingham, England, UK), was a table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won a total of eight Grand Slam championships during her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. Her parents were prominent table tennis players, and, as a young girl, she also took up the game. But she soon developed into a powerful lawn tennis player, … - Owen Davidson
"'"' (born October 4, 1943 in Melbourne) was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Partnering Billie Jean King, he managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967. - Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth Montague Ryan (February 8 1892 - July 8 1979) was an American tennis player who lived most of her life in the United Kingdom. Ryan won 30 Grand Slam titles. Nineteen of those titles were in women's doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, an all-time record for those two events. Twelve of her Wimbledon titles were in women's doubles and seven were in mixed doubles. Ryan also won six women's doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles at the French Championships, … - Angela Buxton
Angela Buxton (born August 16, 1934, in Liverpool, England) is an English tennis player. She won the women's doubles title at both the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1956 with Althea Gibson. Buxton was the first Jewish champion at Wimbledon, and Gibson was the first champion of African descent. - Cilly Aussem
Cilly Aussem (Cologne, April 5 1909 - March 22 1963 in Portofino, Italy) was a German female tennis player. She is best remembered for winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1931. She was the first German woman to do so. She also won the women's single titles at the French Championships and German Championships in 1931. Aussem's coach and mixed doubles partner was Bill Tilden. They won the mixed doubles title at the 1930 French Championships. - Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds Price (born March 4, 1939) is a tennis player from South Africa who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Price's best Grand Slam singles result occurred when she reached the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8-6, 6-0. She was the runner-up at the 1959 U.S. Clay Court Championships, losing to Sally Moore in the final. Price won three consecutive German Championships, in 1960, 1961, … - Françoise Durr
Francoise Durr (born December 25, 1942, in Algiers, Algeria) is a former tennis player from France. She won 26 singles titles and 60 doubles titles. She was ranked World No. 3 in 1967 and was nine times ranked in the world's top ten from 1965 through 1976. She finished second to Billie Jean King in annual prize money won in 1971. - Renee Schuurman
Renee Schuurman Haygarth (October 26, 1939 - 2001) was a female tennis player from South Africa who won five Grand Slam women's doubles titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. Haygarth teamed with fellow South African Sandra Reynolds Price to win four Grand Slam women's doubles titles. They won the 1959 Australian Championships and the 1959, 1961, and 1962 French Championships. In addition, they were the runner-ups at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1962. - Eric Sturgess
Eric William Sturgess (born on May 10, 1920) was an South African male tennis player. He reached the singles final of a Grand Slam tournament three times but never won. He reached the singles final of the 1947 French Championships but lost to Hungarian Jozsef Asboth (6-8, 5-7, 4-6). At the same tournament he did win the doubles competition with countryman Eustace Fannin. At the end of his career he had reached nine Grand Slam finals (three in singles, and six in doubles). - Kathleen McKane Godfree
Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree (May 7, 1896 - June 19, 1992) was a British female tennis and badminton player. She was born in Bayswater, London, England and died in London. Godfree finished in the world top 10 in 1925, 1926, and 1927. She ranked second in the world in 1926. Godfree won a total of five Olympic medals at the 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris games. Godfree won the Wimbledon singles title twice. - Margaret Scriven
Margaret Croft "Peggy" Scriven-Vivian (August 17, 1912 - January 25, 2001) was a British tennis player and the first woman from that country to win the singles title at the French Championships in 1933. She also won the singles title at the 1934 French Championships, defeating Helen Jacobs in the final. Scriven-Vivian was the last British woman to win the same Grand Slam singles tournament for two consecutive years. - Eileen Bennett Whittingstall
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (born July 16, 1907 - died 1979) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 through 1931. Although most of her success was in women's doubles or mixed doubles, Whittingstall reached the singles final of the 1928 French Championships and the 1931 U.S. Championships. She lost both of those finals to Helen Wills Moody, 6-1, 6-2 in 1928 and 6-4, 6-1 in 1931. - Lili de Alvarez
Lili de Alvarez was a Spanish multi-sport competitor, an international tennis champion, an author, and a journalist. Elia María González-Alvarez y López-Chicheri was born at the Hotel Flora in Rome, Italy during a stay by her affluent Spanish parents. She was raised in Switzerland and from an early age began competing in a variety of sports. At age eleven, she won her first ice skating competition, and then at age 16, … - Dorothy Head Knode
Dorothy Head Knode (born July 4, 1925) is an American tennis player who reached the women's singles final of the French Championships in 1955 (losing to Angela Mortimer Barrett 2-6, 7-5, 10-8) and 1957 (losing to Shirley Bloomer Brasher 6-1, 6-3). She reached the semifinals of six other Grand Slam singles tournaments from 1952 through 1957. Knode won the singles title at the German Championships in 1950, 1952, and 1953. - Don McNeill
William Donald McNeill (April 30, 1918 - November 28, 1996) was an American male tennis player. He was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma and died in Vero Beach, Florida, United States. In 1939 he became the second American to win the French championships (after Don Budge). Only seven American men in the history of the French Open have won the singles title. He was named to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1965. - Kerry Reid
Kerry Melville Reid, MBE, (born August 7,1947, in Mosman, New South Wales) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Reid is best remembered for winning the women's singles title at the January 1977 edition of the Australian Open, although she won 26 additional singles titles during her 17-year career and reached an additional 40 singles finals. Reid was included in the year-end world top ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968-1979). - Georges Goven
Georges Goven is a retired tennis player from France. Goven won the French Championships junior title in 1964, 1965, and 1966, and the Australian Championships juniors in 1964. He reached the semifinals in both singles and doubles (partnering Francois Jauffret) at the 1970 French Open. Goven has coached such players as Nicolas Escudé, Nathalie Dechy and Tatiana Golovin. - Phoebe Holcroft Watson
Phoebe Holcroft Watson (born October 7, 1898) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom whose best result in singles was reaching the final of the US Championships in 1929, losing to Helen Wills Moody 6-4, 6-2. According to Wallis Myers of the Daily Mail, Watson finished the year ranked in the world top 10 on four occasions: 8th in 1926, 5th in 1928, 2nd in 1929, and 3rd in 1930. - Kay Stammers
Katharine "Kay" Esther Stammers (April 3, 1914 - December 23, 2005) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom. Stammers was born in St Albans, United Kingdom where her parents taught her to play tennis on the grass court at their family home. Left-handed and with a good forehand, Stammers played an attacking style of tennis and was trained by Dan Maskell. Stammers played in an era when the women's game was dominated by Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, and Alice Marble. - Jozsef Asboth
Jozsef Asboth (born on September 18 1917 in Szombathely - died on September 22 1986) was a Hungarian male tennis player, best remembered for being the first Hungarian tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title, at the 1947 French Championships. He held a Davis Cup record of 24 wins, and 17 loses. - Nell Hall Hopman
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman (born March 19, 1909 in Sydney, Australia - died January 10, 1968 in Hawthorn, Australia) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams. Hopman teamed with her husband to win four mixed doubles titles at the Australian Championships (1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939). - Nelly Landry
Nelly Adamson Landry (born December 7, 1916, in Bruges, Belgium) was a female tennis player from France (became French citizen after marriage). She is best remembered as the 1948 women's singles champion at the French Championships. On January 16, 1934, Adamson (not yet Landry) married American author and emigre Tod Robbins at the town hall in Villefranche on the French Riviera. - Beverly Baker Fleitz
Beverly Baker Fleitz (born March 13 1930) from Bakersfield, California, was a top women's tennis player from the United States. She began playing tennis at age 11 and played mostly on the public courts in Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, California. Her father Frank Baker was her only coach and was the assistant director of recreation for the city of Santa Monica. Fleitz was ranked in the U.S. top ten several years during the 1950s, and reached the No. 1 ranking in 1959. - Patricia Canning Todd
Patricia Canning Todd (born 1922-07-22 in San Francisco, California), was an American tennis player who had her best results just after World War II. In 1947 and 1948, she won a total of four Grand Slam championships: one in singles, two in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles. Todd probably would have been more successful in Grand Slam women's doubles and mixed doubles events had she not had to play Louise Brough and/or Margaret Osborne duPont. - Kea Bouman
Kornelia "Kea" Bouman (born November 23, 1903 in Almelo, the Netherlands — died November 17, 1998 in Delden, the Netherlands) was a female tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Peacock of South Africa in the final. Bouman was the first, and so far the only, Dutch woman to have won a Grand Slam singles tournament. - Yola Ramírez
Yola Ramírez Ochoa was an internationally renowned tennis player in the 1950s and 1960s. Ochoa was a singles finalist at the French Championships in 1960 and 1961. She lost the 1960 final to Darlene Hard and the 1961 final to Ann Haydon Jones, both International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinees. She also was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1959 and 1961, a quarterfinalist at the 1961 and 1963 U.S. Championships, a semifinalist at the 1962 Australian Championships, … - Margaret Molesworth
Maud Margaret 'Mall' Molesworth (1894 - July 9 1985) (nee Mutch) was a tennis player from Queensland, Australia who won the inaugural Australian Championships women's singles title in 1922. She won her first major tennis title in 1914 - the Queensland ladies doubles. For much of the next five years, sporting contests in Australia were cancelled due to World War I. Molesworth won tennis championships in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, … - François Jauffret
François Jauffret is a retired professional tennis player from France. He holds the record for most ties played for the France Davis Cup team with 35, between 1964 and 1978. Jauffret was twice a semifinalist at the French Championships, in 1966 and 1974. He won 2 singles and 7 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. - Julie Sampson Haywood
Julie Ann Sampson Haywood (born February 2, 1934) was a female tennis player from the United States who won two Grand Slam titles. As the second seeded foreign player, Haywood reached the singles final of the 1953 Australian Championships, losing to Maureen Connolly 6-3, 6-2. Haywood and Rex Hartwig teamed to win the mixed doubles title at the 1953 Australian Championships, defeating Connolly and Hamilton Richardson in the final 6-4, 6-3. - Patricia Ward Hales
Patricia Ward Hales (born February 27, 1929) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 U.S. Championships, losing to Doris Hart 6-4, 6-2. She also partnered Shirley Bloomer to reach the women's doubles finals in 1955 at Wimbledon, where they lost to the team of Angela Mortimer Barrett and Anne Shilcock 7-5, 6-1, and at the French Championships, where they lost to the team of Darlene Hard and Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 6-8, 13-11. - Mary Arnold
Mary Arnold Prentiss was an important amateur American tennis player of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was ranked in the U.S. top 10 every year between 1939 and 1947. Her highest ranking came in 1942 and 1944 when she was ranked No. 5 in both years. At the 1948 French Championships, she paired with future International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Shirley Fry to reach the doubles finals. At the Cincinnati Masters, she reached five finals, …
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