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1956 French Championships – Women's Singles
Althea Gibson defeated Angela Mortimer in the final, 6–0, 12–10 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1956 French Championships. It was her first Grand Slam tournament title, and Gibson became the first African American to win a Grand Slam tournament. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Althea Gibson is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Angela Mortimer ''(finalist)'' # Dorothy Knode ''(third round)'' # Althea Gibson ''(champion)'' # Mary Hawton ''(first round)'' # Zsuzsi Körmöczy ''(semifinals)'' # Shirley Bloomer ''(quarterfinals)'' # Christiane Mercelis ''(second round)'' # Barbara Davidson ''(second round)'' # Suzanne Le Besnerais ''(third round)'' # Edda Buding ''(quarterfinals)'' # Thelma Long ''(third round)'' # Darlene Hard ''(third round)'' # Annalissa Bellani ''(third round)'' # Ginette Bucaille ''(third round)'' # Angela Buxton ''(semifinals)'' # Myrtil Dubois ''(third round)'' Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Gibson
Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam event (the French Open). The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam titles: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived," said Bob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams." Martina avratilovacouldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters." Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971 and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. In the early 1960s, she also becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell Hopman
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman, CBE (née Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams. Early life Hopman was born on 9 March 1909 at Coogee, Sydney and was the only daughter and second of three children of Charles Ernest Hall, clerk, and Mabel Gertrude, née Tipper. She was educated at Claremont College, Randwick and as a student she excelled at tennis and music. She obtaining her licentiate and teaching diploma at the Royal College of Music, London, and received a scholarship in 1928 but instead elected to pursue a tennis career. Career Hopman teamed with her husband to win four mixed-doubles titles at the Australian Championships (1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939). They were mixed-doubles finalists at Wimbledon in 1935, losing to Fred Perry and Dorothy Round Little in three sets. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Ramorino
Maria Chiara Ramorino (born 13 April 1931) is an Italian orienteer and a former tennis player. Biography She won two medals at the Summer Universiade. After her tennis career she became a proponent of the sport of Orienteering, and in 2008 wrote also a book of this theme. She was also a scientist, among the researchers who participated to the first Italian missions to Antarctica in the early 1990s, and manager of the Italian team that compiled and promulgated the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, 1998–2006. The Ramorino Glacier in Antarctica was named after her in 2006 by US-ACAN The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established .... Achievements References External links *Athlete profileat FISO web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramorino, Maria Chiara 1931 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josette Amouretti
Josette Amouretti (5 March 1914 − 5 September 1990) is a former French tennis player. Josette emerged as runners-up in the South of France Championships in 1950, which is also her career achievement in tennis. She also represented France in her only 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 * W ... appearance during the 1950 Wimbledon Championships, where she couldn't qualify beyond the 3rd round. She was also the quarter-finalist in the women's singles at the 1954 French Championships. References French female tennis players Professional tennis players before the Open Era 1914 births 1990 deaths 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Barbara Davidson (tennis)
Barbara Scofield (June 24, 1926 – January 31, 2023) was an American tennis player who was active from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. Tennis career Scofield learned playing tennis at age 11 by taking lesson at the Golden Gate Park. With the Argentine Enrique Morea, Scofield won the mixed doubles at the French Championships in 1950, and the following year, she was a runner-up in the women's doubles event with Beryl Bartlett. Scofield's best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the semifinal of the 1950 French Championships where she lost to fourth-seeded Patricia Todd. In the quarterfinal Scofield had caused an upset by defeating the defending champion and world No. 1 Margaret duPont in three sets. As an unseeded player Scofield reached the singles quarterfinals of the 1949 U.S. National Championships and the 1950 Wimbledon Championships, in both cases losing to third-seeded Doris Hart. In the Wimbledon doubles event, she reached the semifinals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Pouchain
Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the United States since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for Canada although mostly used by French speakers in Quebec and is rare in the English parts of Canada. Notable people named Monique Acting * Monique Alves Frankenhuis (1962–1994), Brazilian actress * Monique Alfradique (born 1986), Brazilian actress * Monique Chaumette (born 1927), French actress * Monique Coleman (born 1980), American actress, singer, and dancer * Monique Curi (born 1969), Brazilian actress * Monique Gabriela Curnen (born 1970), American actress * Monique Dupree (born 1974), American actress * Monique Evans (born 1956), Brazilian television personality * Monique Evans (born 1992), American beauty pageant titleholder * Monique Gabrielle (born 1963), American actress * Mo'Nique Hicks (born 1967), American actress and comedian * Monique Joyce (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angèle Salvet
Angèle is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Angèle (singer) (born Angèle Van Laeken, 1995), Belgian singer * Angele Anang, Thai drag queen * Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah (born 1955), Togolese archaeologist *Angèle Arsenault Angèle Arsenault, (October 1, 1943 – February 25, 2014) was a Canadian-Acadian singer, songwriter and media host. Early life Arsenault was born to Acadian parents Arthur and Joséphine in Abrams Village, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 19 ... (1943–2014), Canadian-Acadian singer, songwriter and media host * Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (born 1967), Ivorian born Canadian poet and journalist * Angèle Dubeau (born 1962), Canadian Québécoise violinist * Angèle Etoundi Essamba (born 1962), Cameroonian photographer * Angèle Rawiri (1954–2010), Gabonese novelist * Angéle de la Barthe (1230–1275), prosperous woman of Toulouse, France; tried for witchcraft and condemned to death by the Inquisition See also * Angel (given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Buding
Ilse Renate Buding (22 November 1939 – 5 May 2023) was a Romanian-born German tennis player who was active from the mid-1950s until 1970. Career Buding began playing tennis at age 11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the family had moved to after World War II. In May 1954 she became the Argentinian junior singles champion. Buding became the French Championships girls' singles champion in 1957 after a victory in the final against Pierrette Seghers. At the Wimbledon Championships Buding made it to the second round of the singles event in 1957, 1959, and 1961. In the doubles event she reached the quarterfinal in 1958 and 1959. In 1956 she reached the final of the All England Plate, a Wimbledon competition for players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition, which she lost in two sets to Thelma Coyne. Buding won the women's doubles event at the Egyptian International Championships in 1957 partnering her sister Edda. Personal life and death I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Staley Hoad
Jenny Staley Hoad (3 March 1934 – 14 February 2024) was an Australian tennis player who was mainly active in the 1950s. Career In January 1951 Staley won the junior doubles title at the Australian Championships partnering Margaret Wallis. In 1953 she also won the junior Australian singles title. As Jenny Staley she reached the singles final of 1954 Australian Championships, played in Sydney, but lost in straight sets to top-seeded Thelma Coyne Long. Also in 1954, Staley won the women's singles title at the Australian Hard Court Championships, defeating the defending champion Beryl Penrose in a close match.In November 1954 she reached the final of the New South Wales Championships which she lost in three sets to Beryl Penrose. In December 1954 she was runner-up to Coyne Long at the Victorian Championships, played in Kooyong. Staley won the women's singles title at the South Australian Championships at Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide in January 1955 defeating Fay Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retired (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
