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1963 French Championships – Women's Singles
Second-seeded Lesley Turner defeated fifth-seeded Ann Jones 2–6, 6–3, 7–5 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1963 French Championships. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Lesley Turner is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Margaret Smith ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lesley Turner ''(champion)'' # Darlene Hard ''(second round)'' # Jan Lehane ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ann Jones ''(finalist)'' # Heather Segal ''(fourth round)'' # Renée Schuurman ''(third round)'' # Vera Suková ''(semifinals)'' # Françoise Dürr ''(fourth round)'' # Jill Blackman ''(quarterfinals)'' # Christine Truman ''(semifinals)'' # Mary Habicht ''(fourth round)'' # Liz Starkie ''(third round)'' # Robyn Ebbern ''(quarterfinals)'' # Rita Bentley ''(third round)'' # Silvana Lazzarino ''(second round)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Turner (tennis)
Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, Order of Australia, AM (née Turner; born 16 August 1942) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the French Open, French Championships, one of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam events, in 1963 French Championships (tennis), 1963 and 1965 French Championships (tennis), 1965. In addition she won 11 Grand Slam events in doubles and mixed doubles. Turner Bowrey achieved her highest singles ranking of No. 2 in 1964. Career Bowrey won 13 Grand Slam (tennis), 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 Open, French Championships. In 1963, she defeated Ann Haydon-Jones in the final, and in 1965, she defeated Margaret Court, Margaret Smith in the final. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qualifier (tennis)
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of '' spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the ''server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a ''deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yola Ochoa
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Suzanne Le Besnerais
Suzanne Josette Marguerite Schmitt (18 October 1928 — 27 October 2019) was a French tennis player. Schmitt, a relation of tennis player Nanette le Besnerais, was active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. She made the women's doubles final of the 1954 French Championships, where she and Maud Galtier lost in three sets to Maureen Connolly and Nell Hall Hopman. In 1955 she was a women's doubles quarter-finalist at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * .... She began competing under her husband's name in the mid-1950s after marrying French engineer Denys Le Besnerais. Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmitt, Suzanne 1928 births 2019 deaths French female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Seghers
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Marie Anne Maréchal
Mary Marechal was a female Belgian tennis player who has represented Belgium in the Federation Cup in 1963, and also played in Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * .... She also represented Belgium in hockey in the 1960 World Cup. She is wife to Christopher Penn, mother to 4 (Erica, Sophie, Bella and Victoria) and grandmother to 12 (Benjamin, Oliver, Rebecca, Natalie, Sally, Patrick, Emily, Thomas, Elizabeth, William, Samuel and Phoebe). References External links * * Belgian female tennis players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Belgium-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Beltrame
Roberta Beltrame (born 19 April 1938) is an Italian former tennis player. Born in Ferrara, Beltrame was a seven-time winner of the Italian Tennis Championships, twice in women's doubles and five times in mixed doubles. During the 1960s she made main draw appearances at the French Championships and Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * .... She married tennis coach Gerardo Bonardi. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beltrame, Roberta 1938 births Living people Italian female tennis players Sportspeople from Ferrara 20th-century Italian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Brown
Virginia Ruth Brown (March 11, 1934 – February 8, 2016) was an American nuclear physicist known for her contributions on the structure, interaction, reactions, and bremsstrahlung of nucleons and atomic nuclei. She spent most of her career as a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Life Brown was born on March 11, 1934, in Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern University. She became a graduate student at McGill University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1964 under the supervision of Bernard Margolis. After postdoctoral research at Yale University in 1963 and 1964, she became a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, working there until 1995. While at Livermore, she served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Division of Nuclear Physics from 1986 to 1995. She was a program officer at the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1995 to 1998. In 1998 she moved again, from the NSF to the University of Maryland, College Park a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Berson
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Monique Di Maso
Monique Salfati (born 18 May 1945) is a French former professional tennis player. She was also known as Monique Di Maso during her tennis career. Salfati, a two-time French national champion from Cannes, played Federation Cup tennis for France in 1967 and 1968, then appeared in the same tournament with Italy in 1974, following her marriage to Italian tennis player Gaetano Di Maso. She featured in a Federation Cup quarter-final for both countries. Her best performance in a grand slam tournament was a third round appearance at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships. She had success as a junior, winning the girls' singles titles at the French Championships and Wimbledon, back to back in 1963. See also * List of France Fed Cup team representatives *List of Italy Fed Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Italy Fed Cup team in an official Fed Cup match. Italy have taken part in the competition since 1963. Players References External linksFe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Repoux
Françoise () is a French feminine given name (equivalent to the Italian Francesca) and may refer to: * Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange (1772–1816), French actress * Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711), French adventuress * Françoise Adnet (1924-2014), French figurative painter * Françoise Ardré (1931-2010), French phycologist and marine scientist * Françoise Arnoul (1931–2021), French actress * Françoise Atlan (born 1964), Moroccan singer * Françoise Balibar (born 1941), French physicist and science historian * Françoise Ballet-Blu (born 1964), French politician * Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947), virologist and Nobel Prize winner * Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), French painter * Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621–1689), French memoir writer * Françoise Bertin (1925-2014), French actress * Françoise Boivin (born 1960), Canadian politician * Françoise Bonnet (born 1957), French long-distance runner * Françoise Briand (born 1951), French po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
