Margaret Court

Margaret Smith-Court (Albury, 16 July 1942) is a former Australian tennis player. She won a total of 62 grand slam tournaments, of which 24 in singles, more than any other tennis player ever. Of those 24 WINS, she won eleven times the women's singles at the Australian Open. Its peak years were the years 60. She was the second woman ever in 1970 and the first professional woman, who wrote her name on a grand slam, by all four major grand slam tournaments in one year to win. She is the only person to ever hit a grand slam in both a single, realized as a doubles tournament. In 1979 was inducted into the international Tennis Hall of Fame.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Margaret was on 16 July 1942 in Albury in New South Wales born Margaret Jean Smith. She began playing tennis at the age of 8 and when she was seventeen, she won her first of a total of seven Australian Open titles. In 1966 she stopped temporarily with tennis, after which she married (28 October 1967) and adopted the name Margaret Court. In 1968 she came back and won in 1970 all grand slam tournaments in one year. In 1977 they finally stopped with tennis.
 * 2 Palmares
 * 2.1 singles grand slam tournaments Won
 * 3 singles performance timeline
 * 3.1 Grand slam singles
 * 3.2 Grand slam doubles
 * 4 external links

In the foreground the Margaret Court ArenaIn 2003, the so-called Show Court One at Melbourne Park, where the Australian Open is held every year, renamed Margaret Court Arena ==Palmares[ Edit] == ===Won grand slam tournaments singles[ Edit] === ==Performance Table[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Grand slam singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Grand slam doubles<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===