Judy Tegart

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Judy Tegart Dalton (born December 12, 1937) was an Australian tennis player who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles during her career. She won at least one women's doubles title at each Grand Slam tournament, a "Career Grand Slam." Five of her doubles titles were in partnership with Margaret Court. Dalton was the losing finalist in ten Grand Slam doubles tournaments.

Dalton's best result in singles was reaching the final at Wimbledon in 1968, where she lost to Billie Jean King 9–7, 7–5 after defeating Court in a quarterfinal and Nancy Richey Gunter in a semifinal. She also reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon in 1971 at the age of 33, losing to Court in three sets, and at the Australian Championships in 1968, losing to King in three sets. Her final Grand Slam tournament was the 1977 Australian Open, where at the age of 40 she lost to top-seeded and eventual champion Evonne Goolagong in a quarterfinal 6–3, 6–1.

Dalton was unusual in that she did not reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament outside of Australia until she was 29 years of age. From Wimbledon in 1967 until the end of her career, she reached at least the quarterfinals in half of the Grand Slam singles tournaments she played (ten out of twenty).

Dalton was a member of the Australian Fed Cup team in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1970. Her career won-loss record was 18-4, including 6–1 in singles and 12-3 in doubles. Australia won the Fed Cup in 1965 and 1970.

Dalton was one of the original "Virginia Slims 9," the nine players who in 1971 joined the break-away Virginia Slims tour organized by Gladys Heldman.

[edit] Grand Slam record

Australia
- Women's Doubles Champion: 1964 (with Lesley Turner Bowrey), 1967 (with Bowrey), 1969 (with Margaret Court), 1970 (with Court)
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1968 (with Bowrey)
- Mixed Doubles Champion: 1966 (with Tony Roche)
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1967 (with Roche)

French Championships
- Women's Doubles champion: 1966 (with Court)

Wimbledon
- Singles finalist: 1968
- Women's Doubles champion: 1969 (with Court)
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1966 (with Court), 1972 (with Francoise Durr)
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1965, 1969 (both with Roche)

United States
- Women's Doubles champion: 1970 (with Court), 1971 (with Rosemary Casals)
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1963 (with Ed Rubinoff, 1964 (with Rubinoff), 1965 (with Frank Froehling III), 1970 (with Frew McMillan)

[edit] Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Tournament	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1977 (Dec)	Career SR
Australia	1R	1R	1R	A	3R	QF	2R	QF	QF	QF	QF	SF	1R	QF	A	A	A	QF	A	1R	1R	QF	0 / 17
France	A	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	4R	A	4R	4R	A	A	2R	A	4R	A	A	A	A	A	-	0 / 7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	4R	3R	4R	3R	4R	QF	F	QF	4R	SF	3R	A	A	2R	A	A	-	0 / 12
United States	A	A	A	A	A	2R	4R	4R	3R	3R	4R	QF	A	3R	QF	A	A	A	A	A	A	-	0 / 9
SR	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 45