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1959 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Sixth-seeded Maria Bueno defeated Darlene Hard in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1959 Wimbledon Championships. Althea Gibson was the reigning champion, but was ineligible to compete after turning professional. Seeds Christine Truman ''(fourth round)'' Angela Mortimer ''(quarterfinals)'' Beverly Fleitz ''(fourth round)'' Darlene Hard ''(final)'' Sandra Reynolds ''(semifinals)'' Maria Bueno (champion) Sally Moore ''(semifinals)'' Ann Haydon ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1959 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Women's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Bueno
Maria Esther Andion Bueno (11 October 1939 – 8 June 2018) was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 Grand Slam titles (seven in women's singles, 11 in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles), making her the most successful South American female tennis player in history, and the only one to ever win Wimbledon. Bueno was the year-end number-one ranked female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play. In 1960, Bueno became the first woman ever to win a calendar-year Grand Slam in doubles (all four majors in a year), three of them with Darlene Hard and one with Christine Truman. Tennis career Bueno was born in São Paulo. According to her official website, her father, a businessman, was a keen club tennis player. Her elder brother Pedro was also a tennis player. She began playing tennis aged six at the Clube de Regatas Tiete in São Paulo and, without having received any formal training, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Sládková-Koželuhová
Hana Sládková-Koželuhová (born 5 December 1928) is a Czech former tennis player. Born in Prague, Sladek left Czechoslovakia soon after the communist takeover. She initially fled to West Berlin, before settling in Montreal in 1952, with her husband Milan and father Antonín (a brother of tennis player Karel Koželuh). While based in Canada in the 1950s she used the surname "Sladek". She was a number one ranked player in Canada and won the 1955 Canadian national championships singles title. Sladek was runner-up to Shirley Brasher at the All England Plate in 1959 and had a notable win that year over Yola Ramírez in an early round of the German international championships. By the 1960s, Sladek was living back in Europe and in 1963 she progressed to the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Cheadle
Hazel Cheadle (nee Austin; 8 November 1922 — 8 March 1999) was a British field hockey and tennis player. Cheadle, raised in Hampshire, developed an interest in tennis while acting as a ball girl for her parents. Her father was headmaster of Milford School. Based in Birmingham, Cheadle was a Warwickshire representative player and won the county singles title nine times in a row. She made the singles fourth round of the 1953 Wimbledon Championships The 1953 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 22 June until Saturday 4 July 1953. It was the 67th .... During the 1960s she played international matches for the England national field hockey team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheadle, Hazel 1922 births 1999 deaths British female tennis players English female tennis players English female field hockey players Tennis players from Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Rees-Lewis
Jacqueline Rees-Lewis (born 23 November 1935) is a French former tennis player. Active since 1955 till 1972, Rees-Lewis made the singles round of 16 at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and U.S. National Championships during her career. She won titles at Cannes and the Riviera Championships. In 1964 she represented France at the Federation Cup and featured in three ties, including the quarter-final against West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O .... See also * List of France Fed Cup team representatives References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rees-Lewis, Jacqueline 1935 births Living people French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Partridge (tennis)
Joan Susan Vernon Partridge (12 September 1930 – 4 December 1999) was a British tennis player. Biography Partridge, born in Shropshire, was the junior Wimbledon runner-up in 1949, before going on to compete with success internationally during the 1950s and 1960s. A British Wightman Cup player in 1952, Partridge switched to representing France following her 1953 marriage to tennis player Philippe Chatrier, from who she later divorced. One of her best performances was at the 1952 Wimbledon Championships, where she troubled the second-seeded Maureen Connolly Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969), known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine major singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win ... in the round of 16, going down 5–7 in the third set. She also reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles, partnering Jean Rinkel-Quertier. In 1953, competing as Sue C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Roberts
Pauline Roberts Cox (nee Titchener) is a British former professional tennis player. A Kent county player, Roberts competed on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Amongst her best performances, she reached the fourth round in mixed doubles at the 1960 Wimbledon Championships and the fourth round in singles at the 1962 U.S. National Championships. Her tour titles include Barcelona, Guildford and Lowther. Roberts was the first coach of tennis player Annabel Croft Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966) is a former professional British female tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain i .... She was initially hired to coach her mother, but encouraged nine-year old Croft to take to the court and discovered her potential. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Pauline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meryl Mark
Meryl Laura Mark (1 March 1938 — 16 September 2006) was a South African tennis player. Mark grew up in Boksburg on the East Rand and is the elder sister of tennis player John Hammill. She competed briefly on the international circuit, notably reaching the third round of the 1959 Wimbledon Championships The 1959 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 22 June until Saturday 4 July 1959. It was the 73rd .... In 1961 she married Australian tennis player Bob Mark and couple settled in South Africa. References 1938 births 2006 deaths South African female tennis players Sportspeople from Boksburg 20th-century South African women {{SouthAfrica-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Pachta
Sonja Pachta (born 25 April 1941) is an Austrian former tennis player. Pachta, a 19-time national singles champion, was active on tour from the 1950s through to the 1970s. From 1963 to 1975, she competed for the Austria Federation Cup team, featuring in 16 rubbers. Her best grand slam performance was a fourth round appearance at the 1962 Wimbledon Championships The 1962 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 25 June until Saturday 7 July 1962. It was the 76th ..., where she lost to Billie Jean Moffitt (King). See also * List of Austria Federation Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pachta, Sonja 1941 births Living people Austrian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Bentley
Rita Bentley (16 July 1931 - 26 October 2016), Rita Lauder after marriage, was a British tennis player of the 1950s and 1960s. She also played field hockey and represented the England women's national team. A native of Blackpool, Bentley was a member of Great Britain's 1966 Wightman Cup team, in a squad which included Ann Haydon-Jones and Virginia Wade. She was used for the deciding doubles rubber, which the Americans won. Bentley twice reached the singles round of 16 at Wimbledon and was the All England Plate winner in 1961. Other career titles include the Queen's Club in 1962 and the Canadian Championships Canadian Championships refers to a number of national-level competition in Canada. It may refer to: * Canadian Championship, a soccer tournament * Canadian Figure Skating Championships * Canadian Professional Figure Skating Championships * Canadi ... in 1966. She was a singles quarter-finalist at both the 1963 Australian Championships and 1967 U.S. National Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Buding
Ilse Buding (born 22 November 1939) is a German former tennis player of Romanian birth who was active from the mid-1950s until 1970. Buding began playing tennis at age 11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the family had moved to after World War II. In May 1954 she became the Argentinian junior singles champion. She became the French Championships girls' singles champion in 1957 after a victory in the final against Pierrette Seghers. At the Wimbledon Championships Buding made it to the second round of the singles event in 1957, 1959, and 1961. In the doubles event she reached the quarterfinal in 1958 and 1959. In 1956 she reached the final of the All England Plate, a Wimbledon competition for players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition, which she lost in two sets to Thelma Coyne. She won the women's doubles event at the Egyptian International Championships in 1957 partnering her sister Edda. Personal life She was born on 22 November 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret R
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * (Welsh) Second half * (English), ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Deloford
Rosemary Deloford (née Walsh, born 26 April 1928) is a British former squash and tennis player. A native of Birmingham, Deloford competed regularly at the Wimbledon Championships during her career. She reached the singles fourth round in 1949, claimed the 1954 All England Plate and was a doubles quarter-finalist in 1955. Deloford won the Surrey tennis championships in Surbiton in 1955. As a squash player she was a semi-finalist at both the British Open The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later th ... and U.S. national championships. Deloford was married to tennis player John Laurence "Jack" Deloford at a London church in 1955. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Rosemary 1928 births Possibly living people British female tennis players English female tennis players English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
