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1972 US Open – Women's Singles
Defending champion Billie Jean King defeated Kerry Melville in the final, 6–3, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1972 US Open. It was her third US Open singles title and ninth major singles title overall. For the second consecutive year and third time in her career, King did not lose a set during the tournament. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Billie Jean King is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Billie Jean King ''(champion)'' # Evonne Goolagong ''(third round)'' # Chris Evert ''(semifinalist)'' # Rosie Casals ''(quarterfinalist)'' # Margaret Court ''(semifinalist)'' # Nancy Richey Gunter ''(first round)'' # Françoise Dürr ''(third round)'' # Virginia Wade ''(quarterfinalist)'' # Kerry Melville ''(finalist)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Final eight Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 External links1972 US Open – Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943), also known as BJK, is an American former World number 1 ranked female tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She was a member of the victorious United States Billie Jean King Cup team, United States team in seven Billie Jean King Cup, Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. King is an advocate of gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice. In 1973, at the age of 29, she famously won the "Battle of the Sexes (tennis), Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. King was also the founder of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation. She was instrumental in persuading cigarette brand Virginia Slims to sponsor women's tennis in the 1970s and went on to serve on the board of their parent company Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Morozova
Olga Vasilyevna Morozova ( rus, Ольга Васильевна Морозова, , ˈolʲɡə mɐˈrozəvə, a=Ru-Olga_Morozova.ogg, links=no; born 22 February 1949) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Competing for the Soviet Union, she was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1974 French Open and 1974 Wimbledon Championships, and the first Soviet player to win a major, in women's doubles at the 1974 French Open. Her ground-breaking playing career, combined with her distinguished coaching career, has led to Morozova being labelled the "Godmother of Russian tennis". Career Morozova started playing tennis at the age of 10, with Nina Teplyakova as her first and career-long coach. By 16, Morozova had improved so quickly that she was invited to represent the USSR at Wimbledon in the girls singles. Travelling internationally for the first time and playing on grass for the first time, Morozova won the 1965 Wimbledon Junior Girls' singles title. Morozova would go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Newberry
Janet Newberry (born August 6, 1953) is an American former professional tennis player who was active in the 1970s. She is also known by her former married name Janet Newberry-Wright and Janet Wright. She reached the semifinals of the French Open in 1975 and 1977 and the final of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles. Personal life Janet Newberry is a stepdaughter of lawyer Edward A. Turville, a former Davis Cup Captain, President of the USTA and a founder of the Florida Lawn Tennis Association in 1949 who served as its first president for five years. Janet married Frank I. Wright, a horse trainer at Belmont Park, television horse racing commentator for CBS and ESPN and World War II veteran, in 1981 and went by the name Janet Newberry-Wright. After Wright's death in 1991, she married Ralph Howe, the national grass court 60 & over singles champion, court tennis champion, Yale intercollegiate squash champion, North American singles squash champion, in 1997 and now is known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Fernández De Soto
María-Isabel Fernández de Soto (born 18 September 1950) is a former professional tennis player from Colombia. Biography Fernández, who is originally from Cali, took a tennis scholarship to the University of South Florida at the age of 19. After a year of college, she joined the international tennis circuit and became the first Colombian woman to play professionally. She made several WTA quarterfinals but was most successful on tour as a doubles player. She represented Colombia in the 1972 Federation Cup and won five of her six singles matches. Her two Grand Slam semifinals were both in doubles: the mixed doubles at the 1973 French Open with Jairo Velasco and women's doubles at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships with Fiorella Bonicelli. Fernández won her first WTA title with Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Ann Eisel
Mary–Ann Eisel (born November 25, 1946) also known as Mary–Ann Curtis or Mary–Ann Beattie is an American former tennis player. She was the US Open mixed doubles champion in 1968. Personal life Eisel was born in St. Louis, Missouri, was educated in the Ladue School District, and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, where she competed on the men's tennis team. In 1969, she married fellow tennis player Peter Curtis. Following their divorce, she married Don Beattie on May 12, 1972. In addition to her tennis career, Eisel was an amateur golfer. Career In 1964, Eisel won the US girls' 18 championship. In the same year, she won the Irish National doubles title with Justina Bricka. Eisel reached the finals of the 1967 women's doubles U.S. National Championships at Forrest Hills with Donna Floyd, losing in three sets against Rosemary Casals and Billie Jean King. In 1968, she won the US Open mixed doubles with Peter Curtis, defeating Tory Fretz and Gerry Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Liem Sugiarto
Lita Liem Sugiarto (born 27 February 1946), sometimes known by her maiden name Lita Liem, a former Indonesian professional tennis player. She played at Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam events between 1968 and 1975, in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. In women's doubles, she and partner Lany Kaligis reached two Grand Slam quarterfinals: the Australian Open in 1970 and The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in 1971. As such, she and Kaligis were among the first Indonesians to reach the later rounds of a Grand Slam competition. Kaligis was the only partner that Sugiarto ever played with in Grand Slam doubles competition. In singles, her best results were her third round exits from the Australian Championships in 1968, the Australian Open in 1970, Wimbledon in 1972 and the French Open in 1974. At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lany Kaligis, and the bronze medal in the mixed doubles wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Tuero
Linda Tuero (born October 21, 1950) is an American tennis player and paleoanthropologist. She won six U.S Junior Titles and three U.S. Women's Titles. She reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1971, and won the singles titles at the Italian Open in 1972. She represented the United States in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup teams in 1972 and 1973 and served as the Federation Cup Captain in 1973. Tuero was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten Women Singles for four years and in 1972 was ranked No. 10 in the World. Biography Linda Tuero was born in Metairie, Louisiana. She started playing tennis at the age of 11 and was taught by Emmett Paré throughout her career. At age 13, she won the US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship and by the time she had graduated from high school, she had won six national titles: the 1964 US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Doubles Championship, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patti Hogan
Patricia Hogan Fordyce (born December 21, 1949) is a retired professional tennis player from the U.S. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times from 1970 to 1973. at fedcup.com With compatriot , she reached the final of the doubles event at the . In 1967, she won the , a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Minford
Susan Minford (born 3 December 1954) is an Irish former professional tennis player. She was active on ILTF World Circuit from 1969 to 1973 and contested four career singles finals, and won one title. Career Minford comes from Northern Ireland and was associated with the Windsor club in Belfast. She was particularly successful on clay courts. Active on tour in the late 1960s early 1970s, she was a Wimbledon junior runner-up and played two years of Federation Cup tennis for Ireland. Her Federation Cup career included a win over West German Katja Ebbinghaus in 1972. He career highlights include winning the Ulster Hard Court Championships in 1970 against Dorothy Armstrong. She was also a losing finalist at the Framlingham Open in 1969 to Britains Marjorie Love, the Lee-on-Solent Open in 1970 to Uruguayan international Fiorella Bonicelli and the Merseyside Open in 1973 to Australian player Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, (born 26 November 1952) is an Australian retired tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Anthony (tennis)
Julie Anthony (born January 13, 1948) is a former professional American tennis player of the 1970s. She played college tennis at Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth .... Her coach for many years was Ray Casey. Anthony, who earned a Ph.D. while competing on the women's pro circuit, embodies the word 'scholar-athlete.' A promising junior player in Santa Monica, California, Anthony received free lessons from 1904 U.S. champion May Sutton Bundy, whom she called 'Granny.' Awarded academic and tennis scholarships to Westlake School in Los Angeles at age 15, Anthony subsequently entered Stanford University where she and partner Jane Albert claimed the national collegiate doubles crown in 1967. As a professional, Anthony helped to inaugurate World Team T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Stap
Susan Stap Kust (born June 3, 1954) is an American former professional tennis player. A native of Deerfield, Illinois, Stap was ranked as high as 34 in the world while competing on the professional tour during the 1970s. She and her sister Sandy were coached by their father, Jake Stap, who in his youth was a good enough baseball pitcher to be signed by the Chicago White Sox and is credited with inventing the tennis ball hopper. Stap made the singles third round at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships and was a two-time US Open quarter-finalist in mixed doubles. She won the 1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic doubles title with Chris Evert and was doubles runner-up with Virginia Wade at the 1974 Virginia Slims of Houston. Her career also included a win over Martina Navratilova and an appearance in the end of season Virginia Slims Championships Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmé Emmanuel
Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Her best performance at Wimbledon came in 1972 when she was a doubles quarterfinalist, partnering Ceci Martinez. Biography Born in 1947, Emmanuel is a Sephardi Jew, with a mother who was Turkish born but raised in France. Her father was an emigrant to New York from Salonika, Greece. She studied Economics at San Francisco State University. Emmanuel was the girls' singles champion at the 1965 French Championships. She won a doubles gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Ramat Gan Ramat Gan (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exch ..., Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
