Pauline Betz
Betz in 1949
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| Full name | Pauline May Betz Addie |
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| ITF name | Pauline Addie |
| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Born |
August 6, 1919 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 31, 2011 (aged 91) Potomac, Maryland, U.S. |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Turned pro | 1947 |
| Retired | 1960 |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1965 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1946) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | F (1946) |
| Wimbledon | W (1946) |
| US Open | W (1942, 1943, 1944, 1946) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | F (1946) |
| Wimbledon | F (1946) |
| US Open | F (1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1946) |
| US Open | F (1941, 1943) |
| Team competitions | |
| Wightman Cup | W (1946) |
Pauline Betz Addie (née Pauline May Betz, August 6, 1919 – May 31, 2011) was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer has called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody.
Betz attended Los Angeles High School and learned her tennis from Dick Skeen. She continued her tennis and education at Rollins College (graduating in 1943), where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Betz earned an MA in economics from Columbia University.
Betz won the first of her four singles titles at the U.S. Championships in 1942, saving a match point in the semifinals against Margaret Osborne while trailing 3–5 in the final set. The following year, she won the Tri-State tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, defeating Catherine Wolf in the final 6–0, 6–2 without losing a point in the first set, a "golden set". She won the Wimbledon singles title in 1946, the only time she entered the tournament, without losing a set. At the 1946 French Championships, held that year after Wimbledon, she lost the final in three sets to Margaret Osborne after failing to convert two match points.
Her amateur career ended in 1947 when the USLTA revoked her amateur status for exploring the possibilities of turning professional. Betz played two professional tours of matches against Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1947) and Gussie Moran (1951).
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