Ann Jones (tennis)
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| ITF name | Ann Jones |
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| Country (sports) |
 Great Britain
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| Born |
7 October 1938 Kings Heath, Birmingham, England |
| Plays | Left-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1985 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career titles | 113 |
| Highest ranking | No. 2 (1967, Lance Tingay) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1969) |
| French Open | W (1961, 1966) |
| Wimbledon | W (1969) |
| US Open | F (1961, 1967) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1969) |
| French Open | W (1963, 1968, 1969) |
| Wimbledon | F (1968) |
| US Open | F (1960) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1969) |
| French Open | F (1960, 1966, 1967) |
| Wimbledon | W (1969) |
Ann Shirley Jones CBE (née Adrianne Haydon; born 7 October 1938, thus also commonly known as Ann Haydon-Jones), is a former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won a total of 8 Grand Slam championships during her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. As of 2016, she currently serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.
Jones was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England. Her parents were prominent table tennis players, her father, Adrian Haydon, having been English number 1 and a competitor at world championships between 1928 and 1953. Ann, as a young girl, also took up the game, participating in five world championships in the 1950s, the best result being losing finalist in singles, doubles and mixed doubles all in Stockholm 1957. Soon after this she wrote the book "Tackle Table Tennis This Way".
She was also a powerful lawn tennis player, winning the 1954 and 1955 British junior championships. In 1956, she won the Wimbledon girls' singles championship.
Jones played lawn tennis in a highly competitive era that included some of the greatest female tennis players of all time, including Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, and Maria Bueno. Despite the fierce competition, she won the 1961 French Championships, beating Margaret Smith Court, former champion Zsuzsa Körmöczy and Yola Ramirez Ochoa and reached the final of the 1961 U.S. Championships, beating Wimbledon champion Angela Mortimer, losing to the defending champion, Darlene Hard. In 1962, she married P.F. Jones and, recorded as Ann Haydon-Jones, won the French title for a second time in 1966, beating Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey. She also won the Italian championships that year, beating Françoise Dürr and Annette Van Zyl.
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