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Yola Ramirez

Yola Ramírez
Full name Yolanda Ramírez Ochoa
Country (sports)  Mexico
Born (1935-03-01) 1 March 1935 (age 82)
Mexico, DF, Mexico
Plays Right–handed
Singles
Highest ranking No. 6 (1961)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open F (1960, 1961)
Wimbledon QF (1959, 1961)
US Open QF (1961, 1963)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open W (1958)
Wimbledon SF (1957, 1958, 1959)
US Open F (1961)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open SF (1962)
French Open W (1958)
Wimbledon SF (1959)

Yolanda 'Yola' Ramírez Ochoa (born 1 March 1935) is an internationally renowned tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ramírez was a singles finalist at the French Championships in 1960 and 1961. She lost the 1960 final to Darlene Hard and the 1961 final to Ann Haydon. She also was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1959 and 1961, a quarterfinalist at the 1961 and 1963 U.S. Championships, a semifinalist at the 1962 Australian Championships, a semifinalist at the 1959 Italian Championships, and a finalist in Monte Carlo in 1959. Ochoa won the German Championships in 1957 and was a finalist in 1961.

Ramirez teamed with Rosie Reyes to win the women's doubles title at the 1958 French Championships and to reach the final at the 1957 and 1959 French Championships. She teamed with Billy Knight to win the mixed doubles title at the 1959 French Championships. With Edda Buding, she reached the women's doubles final at the 1961 U.S. Championships. She also won the women's doubles titles at the Italian Championships and in Monte Carlo, both in 1960.

At the tournament in Cincinnati, Ramirez won the singles title in 1956 and the doubles title (with Sara Mae Turber) in 1955. She was a doubles finalist in 1956.

In 1959 she won the South of France Championships in Nice, France.

Ramírez won the singles titles at the 1960 Mexico National Championships and the 1961 Caribbean Lawn Tennis Championship.

During her career, Ramírez had wins over Billie Jean King (in the second round of Wimbledon in 1961, which was King's first appearance at the tournament), Jones, and Christine Truman Janes.


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