Doris Hart
Hart in 1953
|
|
| Country (sports) |
 United States
|
|---|---|
| Born |
June 20, 1925 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Died | May 29, 2015 (aged 89) Coral Gables, Florida, United States |
| Retired | 1955 (but played at the 1969 US Open) |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1969 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1951) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1949) |
| French Open | W (1950, 1952) |
| Wimbledon | W (1951) |
| US Open | W (1954, 1955) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1950) |
| French Open | W (1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953) |
| Wimbledon | W (1947, 1951, 1952, 1953) |
| US Open | W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1949, 1950) |
| French Open | W (1951, 1952, 1953) |
| Wimbledon | W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) |
| US Open | W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) |
Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was a World No. 1 American tennis player who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s and was ranked No. 1 in 1951. She won a Career Grand Slam in singles and is one of three players to have a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles—every possible title (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from all four Grand Slam events.
As a child, Hart 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. Her 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. Hart is the first person to complete the career boxed set.
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 (Saturday 7 July 1951). 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 won 35 Grand Slam titles during her career, tying with Brough 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, doubles, and mixed doubles) from all four Grand Slam events. The others are Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova. Hart won nine consecutive Grand Slam women's doubles titles from 1951 through 1953, with her streak of 43 consecutive match wins in Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments finally ending in the 1954 Wimbledon final. Hart was the champion of the last Grand Slam singles tournament she played, the 1955 U.S. Championships. Hart published an autobiography in 1955, Tennis with Hart.
...
Wikipedia