Fifth-seeded
Darlene Hard defeated
Yola Ramírez 6–3, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the
1960 French Championships.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below.
Darlene Hard is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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Zsuzsi Körmöczy ''(second round)''
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Maria Bueno ''(semifinals)''
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Florence De La Courtie
Florence de la Courtie-Billat (born 13 November 1935) is a French former tennis player.
Active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s, de la Courtie reached the top of the French rankings during her career. She made the singles round of 16 at the 1961 Wi ...
''(third round)''
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Ann Haydon
Ann Shirley Jones, (née Adrianne Haydon on 17 October 1938, also known as Ann Haydon-Jones) is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in wome ...
''(third round)''
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Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds Price (née Reynolds; born 4 March 1934) is a South African former tennis player who won four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singl ...
''(semifinals)''
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Darlene Hard ''(champion)''
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Jan Lehane
Janice Patricia "Jan" Lehane O'Neill OAM (née Lehane; born 9 July 1941) is a former Australian female tennis player. She was the first leading female player with a double-handed backhand.
She won the singles title at the New South Wales Champ ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Yola Ramírez ''(finalist)''
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Edda Buding ''(third round)''
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Bernice Vukovich
Bernice Carr Vukovich (née Car) (born 12 January 1938) is a retired South African tennis player from South Africa of Croatian origin. Her father was a Croat immigrant from the peninsula of Pelješac. ''(third round)''
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Silvana Lazzarino
Silvana Lazzarino (19 May 1933) is a former female tennis player from Italy. She reached the semifinals at 1954 French Championships. In doubles, she reached the French semifinals in 1953, 1957 and 1964. Her best results at Wimbledon was reachi ...
''(third round)''
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Lea Pericoli
Lea Pericoli (born 22 March 1935) is an Italian former tennis player and later television presenter and journalist from Milan. She reached the last sixteen of the French Open two times and the Wimbledon Championships three times, and is also fam ...
''(third round)''
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Vera Puzejova
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* Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
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''(quarterfinals)''
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Renée Schuurman
Renée Schuurman Haygarth (née Schuurman; 26 October 1939 – 30 May 2001) was a South African tennis player who won five Grand Slam women's doubles titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.
Biography
Schuurman teamed up with fellow Sou ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Christiane Mercelis
Christiane Mercelis (born 5 October 1931) is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and a ...
''(third round)''
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Mary Hawton
Mary Renetta Hawton (née Bevis; 4 September 1924 – 18 January 1981) was a tennis player from Australia. Her career ranged from the 1940s to the 1950s.
Hawton won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times. In 1958 s ...
''(third round)''
Draw
Key
* Q =
Qualifier
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* WC =
Wild card
* LL =
Lucky loser
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* r =
Retired
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Finals
Earlier rounds
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
* on the French Open website
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It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
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