Elizabeth Norton (born June 13, 1957) is a former professional
tennis
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player from the United States.
A right-handed player from Connecticut, Norton was a
national junior hardcourt champion and leading junior in the world, before competing professionally in the 1970s and 1980s. She reached a career high ranking of No. 20 in the world.
Norton featured in all four grand slam tournaments during her career. A two-time
Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...
doubles quarter-finalist, her best performance in singles came at the
1976 US Open, where she won through to the round of 16. She was
Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, ...
's doubles partner on the West German's Wimbledon debut in 1984.
As a child, she played a team sport called
hocker, which her father invented so that the whole family could play a sport together.
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1957 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Tennis people from Connecticut
21st-century American women