Doris Hart
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| Doris Hart | |
| Born | June 2, 1925 St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Nationality |  United States |
Doris Hart (born on June 2, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American tennis champion in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles.
As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg. She started playing tennis when she was 10 years old, greatly encouraged by her brother Bud.
Hart's first Grand Slam title was in women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1947, when she was still a student at the University of Miami (Florida).
Hart's first Grand Slam singles title came at the 1949 Australian Championships. She also won singles titles at the French Championships in 1950 and 1952, Wimbledon in 1951, and the U.S. Championships in 1954 and 1955. In 1951, she beat her long-time doubles partner, Shirley Fry Irvin, in the Wimbledon final. In 1954, she saved a match point while defeating Louise Brough Clapp in the final of the U.S. Championships.
Hart reached at least the quarterfinals in 32 of the 34 Grand Slam singles tournaments she played, failing to reach that round only in her first two tournaments (when she was 15 and 16 years old). She won 6 of the 18 Grand Slam singles finals she contested. She was the champion of the last Grand Slam singles tournament she played, the 1955 U.S. Championships. Her last Grand Slam doubles tournament was the 1969 U.S. Open, where she and partner Carole Graebner lost in the first round.
In 1951, Hart won the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles championships at Wimbledon, playing the finals of all three events on the same day. She also won the "triple crown" at the French Championships in 1952 and the U.S. Championships in 1954.
During her Wightman Cup career from 1946 through 1955, Hart was a perfect 14-0 in singles matches and 8–1 in doubles matches.
Hart is one of only two women to have defeated Maureen Connolly in a Grand Slam singles tournament. Hart won their second round match at the 1950 U.S. Championships 6–2, 7–5. (The other woman was Barbara Scofield, who defeated Connolly in the second round of the 1949 U.S. Championships, 6–4, 6–3.) Connolly won a total of nine Grand Slam singles tournaments during her career, defeating Hart in the final of four of them.
Hart won 35 Grand Slam titles during her career, tieing with Brough Clapp for fifth on the all-time list. Six of her titles were in women's singles, 14 in women's doubles, and 15 in mixed doubles. Hart is one of three players, all women, to have a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles—every possible title (singles, same-sex doubles, and mixed doubles) from all four Grand Slam events. The others are Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova.
Hart retired from the tour in 1955 to become a tennis teaching professional. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1969.
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[edit] Grand Slam record
- Australian Championships
- Singles champion: 1949
- Singles finalist: 1950
- Women's Doubles champion: 1950
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1949
- Mixed Doubles champion (2): 1949, 1950
- French Championships
- Singles champion (2): 1950, 1952
- Singles finalist (3): 1947, 1951, 1953
- Women's Doubles champion (5): 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
- Women's Doubles finalist (2): 1946, 1947
- Mixed Doubles champion (3): 1951, 1952, 1953
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1948
- Wimbledon
- Singles champion: 1951
- Singles finalist (3): 1947, 1948, 1953
- Women's Doubles champion (4): 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953
- Women's Doubles finalist (4): 1946, 1948, 1950, 1954
- Mixed Doubles champion (5): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1948
- U.S. Championships
- Singles champion (2): 1954, 1955
- Singles finalist (5): 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953
- Women's Doubles champion (4): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
- Women's Doubles finalist (9): 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955
- Mixed Doubles champion (5): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
- Mixed Doubles finalist (2): 1945, 1950
[edit] Grand Slam singles finals
[edit] Wins (6)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1949 | Australian Championships |  Nancye Wynne Bolton |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 1950 | French Championships |  Pat Canning Todd |
6–4, 4–6, 6–2 |
| 1951 | Wimbledon | Shirley Fry Irvin |
6–1, 6–0 |
| 1952 | French Championships (2) | Shirley Fry Irvin |
6–4, 6–4 |
| 1954 | U.S. Championships | Louise Brough Clapp |
6–8, 6–1, 8–6 |
| 1955 | U.S. Championships (2) |  Patricia Ward |
6–4, 6–2 |
[edit] Runner-ups (12)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1946 | U.S. Championships | Pauline Betz Addie |
11-9, 6–3 |
| 1947 | French Championships | Pat Canning Todd |
6–3, 3–6, 6–4 |
| 1947 | Wimbledon | Margaret Osborne duPont |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 1948 | Wimbledon | Louise Brough Clapp |
6–3, 8–6 |
| 1949 | U.S. Championships | Margaret Osborne duPont |
6–3, 6–1 |
| 1950 | Australian Championships | Louise Brough Clapp |
6–4, 3–6, 6–4 |
| 1950 | U.S. Championships | Margaret Osborne duPont |
6–4, 6–3 |
| 1951 | French Championships | Shirley Fry Irvin |
6–3, 3–6, 6–3 |
| 1952 | U.S. Championships | Maureen Connolly Brinker |
6–3, 7–5 |
| 1953 | French Championships | Maureen Connolly Brinker |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 1953 | Wimbledon | Maureen Connolly Brinker |
8–6, 7–5 |
| 1953 | U.S. Championships | Maureen Connolly Brinker |
6–2, 6–4 |
[edit] Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
| Tournament | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | Career SR |
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| Australian Championships | A | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | A | A | A | W | F | A | A | A | A | A | 1 / 2 |
| French Championships | NH | R | R | R | R | A | QF | F | SF | A | W | F | W | F | A | A | 2 / 7 |
| Wimbledon | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | QF | F | F | A | SF | W | QF | F | SF | SF | 1 / 9 |
| U.S. Championships | 2R | 1R | QF | SF | QF | SF | F | SF | QF | F | F | SF | F | F | W | W | 2 / 16 |
| SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 1 / 2 | 1 / 4 | 1 / 3 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 1 / 2 | 1 / 2 | 6 / 34 |
NH = tournament not held.
R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
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