Faye Urban (28 October 1945 – 11 November 2020) was a Canadian tennis player, the top-ranked player in Canada from 1967 to 1969.

Career

Raised in

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, she competed in three of the four

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tournaments in singles (the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open) and two in doubles (Wimbledon and the US Open), her best results being reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon (

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in doubles) and the second round of the US Open (

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in singles). In 1969, she won the Canadian Open (then called the Canadian Championships), the last Canadian to do so for 50 years, until

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defeated

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in 2019. Urban was inducted into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996. She died on 11 November 2020, after battling cancer.

References

1945 births 2020 deaths Canadian female tennis players Racket sportspeople from Ontario Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Tennis players at the 1967 Pan American Games Deaths from cancer in Canada {{Canada-tennis-bio-stub