Margaret Du Pont
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| Full name | Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont |
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| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Born |
March 4, 1918 Joseph, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 2012 (aged 94) El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1967 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1947) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | W (1946, 1949) |
| Wimbledon | W (1947) |
| US Open | W (1948, 1949, 1950) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1946, 1947, 1949) |
| Wimbledon | W (1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954) |
| US Open | W (1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | W (1962) |
| US Open | W (1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960) |
Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a World No. 1 American female tennis player.
DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Championships, which is an all-time record.
DuPont won six Grand Slam singles titles, saving match points in the finals of the 1946 French Championships (versus Pauline Betz) and 1948 U.S. Championships (versus Louise Brough). In terms of games played, the 1948 final at the U.S. Championships is the longest women's singles final ever played at that tournament (48 games).
DuPont teamed with Louise Brough to win 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, which ties Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver for the most Grand Slam titles ever won by a women's doubles team. DuPont and Brough won nine consecutive titles at the U.S. Championships from 1942 through 1950. They won that tournament 12 of the 14 years they entered as a team. Their 12 titles is an all-time record for a women's doubles team at the U.S. Championships, easily surpassing the four career titles won by the teams of Navratilova and Shriver, Doris Hart and Shirley Fry, and Sarah Palfrey and Alice Marble. DuPont won a total of 13 women's doubles titles at the U.S. Championships, which also is an all-time record, as is her 10 consecutive women's doubles titles at the U.S. Championships from 1941 through 1950.
DuPont won more mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Championships than any other player. She won nine titles, including four with William Talbert (a record for a mixed doubles team at the U.S. Championships) and three with Neale Fraser.
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