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1958 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Defending champion Althea Gibson defeated Angela Mortimer in the final, 8–6, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1958 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Althea Gibson (champion) Christine Truman ''(fourth round)'' Dorothy Knode ''(second round)'' Maria Bueno ''(quarterfinals)'' Shirley Bloomer ''(quarterfinals)'' Zsuzsa Körmöczy ''(semifinals)'' Janet Hopps ''(second round)'' Karol Fageros ''(third round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1958 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Women's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association ... [...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] |
Sonja Pachta
Sonja Pachta (25 April 1941 – 21 August 2024) was an Austrian tennis player. Pachta, a 19-time national singles champion, was active on tour from the 1950s through to the 1970s. From 1963 to 1975, she competed for the Austria Federation Cup team, featuring in 16 rubbers. Her best grand slam performance was a fourth round appearance at the 1962 Wimbledon Championships, where she lost to Billie Jean Moffitt (King). Pachta died in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ... on 21 August 2024, at the age of 83. See also * List of Austria Federation Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pachta, Sonja 1941 births 2024 deaths Austrian female tennis players Tennis players from Vienna 20th-century Austrian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Marsh
Norma Marsh (born 13 January 1936) is an Australian retired tennis player. At the Australian Championships The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held be ..., she reached the semifinals in 1958 (doubles) and the quarterfinals in 1962 and 1971 (singles). She was ranked No. 9 in Australia in 1962. In 1959 she won the singles title at the Dutch Open Championships. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Norma Australian female tennis players 1936 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bostock
Jean Addie Bissett Bostock (née Nicoll, 14 December 1922 – 2 April 1965), was a female international table tennis and tennis player from England. Table tennis career At the age of 16, she won the singles gold medal at the 1939 English Open and the 1940 doubles title with Dora Beregi. Tennis career She was considered the most promising junior player in Great Britain before World War II, and she won all three events at the junior British Championships in 1938. She played at the Wimbledon Championships listed as Mrs Jean Bostock and made the quarterfinals of the women's singles from 1946 to 1948. In the doubles event, she reached the semifinals in 1939 and from 1946 to 1948, partnering four different compatriots. Bostock won all three events at the 1946 British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth, defeating Kay Menzies in straight sets in the singles final. In 1947 she won the singles title at the Irish Championships, and represented Great Britain in the 1946, 1947, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds Price (née Reynolds; born 4 March 1934) is a South African former tennis player who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singles result was reaching the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8–6, 6–0. Reynolds is the only South African woman to reach the Wimbledon singles final, and is one of three to have reached a major singles final. In 1961, she was seeded No. 1 for the Wimbledon singles event, making her the only South African player (man or woman) ever to be seeded first in a singles major. She was the runner-up at the 1959 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, losing to Sally Moore in the final. Price won the German Championships in 1960, 1961, and 1962. She was the runner-up at the 1959 Italian Championships, having defeated Bueno in the semifinals, then losing to Christine Truman in the final. According to Lance Tingay of the ''Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Dai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Thomas
Vera Sybil Thomas (née Dace; 3 December 1921 – 9 July 1995) was an English international table tennis and tennis player. Table tennis career She won seven medals at the World Table Tennis Championships including three gold medals; two in the team events and one as a member of the winning doubles team in the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships with Peggy Franks. She also won three English Open titles. Tennis career As a tennis player she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1946 and 1961. Her best result in the singles was reaching the fourth round in 1948 in which she lost to Nelly Landry. Personal life She married Arthur Thomas in 1947 and became Vera Thomas-Dace. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edda Buding
Edda Buding (13 November 1936 – 15 July 2014) was a German tennis player of Romanian birth. She received the doubles gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics doubles demonstration event partnered with Helga Niessen Masthoff. Along with Yola Ramírez, she was the runner-up in the 1961 U.S. Championships women's doubles event and with Robert Howe was the runner-up in mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1961. She was the sister of Ingo Buding, a two-time junior singles champion at the French Championships, and Ilse Buding. She won the 1961 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships singles title after a three-sets victory in the final against Karen Hantze. In 1964, she received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ... (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gem Hoahing
Gem Cynthia Hoahing (20 October 1920 – 15 October 2015) was an English female tennis player of Chinese heritage who was active from the second half of the 1930s until the early 1960s. Early life Hoahing was born in British Hong Kong on 20 October 1920. Her father, Benjamin Hunter Hoahing, was a businessman while her mother, Singha (Susan) Ho A Shoo, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons after the family had moved to England in the late 1920s. Her mother taught her to play tennis on the court at their house in Twickenham. When she was 12 years old she played at the West Twickenham LTC and made a trip to the French Riviera for the first time where she played in a number of handicap tournaments. At age 14 she won the under 16 singles title at the Queen's Club Championships. Career Hoahing won the junior singles Championship of Great Britain and of France in 1936. She was the singles runner-up at the 1938 South of France Championships, held at the Nice Club, losing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Partridge (tennis)
Joan Susan Vernon Partridge (12 September 1930 – 4 December 1999) was a British tennis player. Biography Partridge, born in Shropshire, was the junior Wimbledon runner-up in 1949, before going on to compete with success internationally during the 1950s and 1960s. A British Wightman Cup player in 1952, Partridge switched to representing France following her 1953 marriage to tennis player Philippe Chatrier, from who she later divorced. One of her best performances was at the 1952 Wimbledon Championships, where she troubled the second-seeded Maureen Connolly in the round of 16, going down 5–7 in the third set. She also reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles, partnering Jean Rinkel-Quertier Jean Rinkel-Quertier (née Quertier; 12 November 1925 – 23 January 2019), was a female former tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s. Career Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the final .... In 1953, competing as Sue Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Mercelis
Christiane Mercelis (5 October 1931 – 14 June 2024) was a Belgian tennis player. She was active from 1947 to 1969 and won 47 career singles titles. Mercelis died on 14 June 2024, at the age of 92. Career In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and at the French Open between 1952 and 1965. In the French Open, she reached the quarter-finals in 1957. Her main international career singles highlights included winning the South of France Championships two time (1956–1957), the Cannes Carlton Club Championships (1957), the Trophée Raquette d'Or (1957), the Moscow International Indoor Championships two times (1958–1959), the French Covered Court Championships (1958), the German Covered Court Championships (1959), the Belgian International Championships three times (1959–1960, 1964), the Kent Championships (1960), the Dutch International Championships and the Cannes Gallia Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Roberts
Pauline Roberts Cox (nee Titchener) is a British former professional tennis player. A Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ... county player, Roberts competed on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Amongst her best performances, she reached the fourth round in mixed doubles at the 1960 Wimbledon Championships and the fourth round in singles at the 1962 U.S. National Championships. Her tour titles include Barcelona, Guildford and Lowther. Roberts was the first coach of tennis player Annabel Croft. She was initially hired to coach her mother, but encouraged nine-year old Croft to take to the court and discovered her potential. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Pauline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English female tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Open, Australian Championships five times. In 1958 she also won the mixed doubles title together with compatriot Robert Howe (tennis), Robert Howe. In 1948, she married Keith Ernest Hawton. She was captain of the Australian Fed Cup team in 1979 and 1980 and director of the NSW Tennis Association. In 1979, Hawton published a book titled ''How to Play Winning Tennis''. She died on 18 January 1981 in Sydney, Australia. The Mary Hawton Trophy, the prize for the winner of the Australian teams championships for girls, was named after her, as is Hawton Place, in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm, Australian Capital Territory, Chisholm. Career Mary Hawton found much success in Australia at the Australian Open, Australian Championships. She made it to the semifinals in singles six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
