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1953 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

Index 1953 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

Maureen Connolly successfully defended her title, defeating Doris Hart in the final, 8–6, 7–5 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1953 Wimbledon Championships. [1]

25 relations: Angela Buxton, Angela Mortimer, Anne Shilcock, Barbara Scofield, Birgit Gullbrandsson-Sandén, Christiane Mercelis, Doris Hart, Dorothy Head Knode, Erika Vollmer, Janet Morgan, Jean Quertier, Joan Curry, Julia Sampson Hayward, Karol Fageros, Mary Terán de Weiss, Maureen Connolly, Nell Hall Hopman, Nelly Landry, Patricia Ward Hales, Phyllis Mudford King, Sheila Macintosh, Shirley Brasher, Shirley Fry, Vera Thomas, Zsuzsa Körmöczy.

Angela Buxton

Angela Buxton (born 16 August 1934) is an English former tennis player.

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Angela Mortimer

Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett (née Mortimer; born 21 April 1932) is a former world No.

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Anne Shilcock

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Barbara Scofield

Barbara Scofield (born June 24, 1926 in San Francisco) was a post-war American tennis player.

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Birgit Gullbrandsson-Sandén

Birgit "Bibbi" Gullbrandsson (married name Sandén, 22 August 1916 – 6 January 2006), was a Swedish tennis player.

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Christiane Mercelis

Christiane Mercelis (born 5 October 1931) is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Doris Hart

Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was a World No.

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Dorothy Head Knode

Dorothy Head Knode (née Head; born July 4, 1925) is a former tennis player from the United States who reached the women's singles final of the French Championships in 1955 (losing to Angela Mortimer Barrett in three sets) and 1957 (losing to Shirley Bloomer Brasher in straight sets).

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Erika Vollmer

Erika Vollmer (née Obst; born 23 February 1925) is a German professional female tennis player who lost the final of Italian Championships singles title to British player Patricia Ward by 4–6, 3–6 in 1955.

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Janet Morgan

Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan (later known by her married name, Janet Shardlow) (1921–1990) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s.

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Jean Quertier

Jean Rinkel-Quertier (née Quertier; born 12 November 1925), is a female former tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Joan Curry

Joan Curry was an English squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row from 1947-49.

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Julia Sampson Hayward

Julia Ann Sampson Hayward (née Sampson; February 2, 1934 – December 27, 2011) was a female tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1950s.

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Karol Fageros

Karol Fageros (April 27, 1934 – April 4, 1988) was an American female tennis player who was active in the 1950s.

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Mary Terán de Weiss

María Luisa Terán de Weiss (29 January 1918 – 8 December 1984), known in Argentina as Mary Terán de Weiss, and out of Argentina as María Teran Weiss, was an Argentine tennis player, the first Argentine woman to have a relevant sport performance in the international tennis tour.

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Maureen Connolly

Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969) known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s.

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Nell Hall Hopman

Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman (née Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s.

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Nelly Landry

Nelly Adamson Landry (28 December 1916 – 22 February 2010) was a female tennis player from Belgium (became French citizen after marriage).

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Patricia Ward Hales

Patricia Ward Hales (née Ward; 27 February 1929 – 22 June 1985) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 U.S. Championships, losing to Doris Hart.

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Phyllis Mudford King

Phyllis Mudford King (née Mudford; 23 August 1905 – 27 January 2006) was an English female tennis player and the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.

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Sheila Macintosh

Sheila Macintosh (née Speight) was an English squash player who won the British Open in 1960.

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Shirley Brasher

Shirley Brasher (née Bloomer; born 13 June 1934) is a former tennis player from England who won three Grand Slam titles during her career and who was the top-ranked singles player in her country in 1957.

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Shirley Fry

Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; born June 30, 1927) is a former world No.

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Vera Thomas

Vera Sybil Thomas (née Dace), (1921-1995), was a female international table tennis and tennis player from England.

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Zsuzsa Körmöczy

Zsuzsa Körmöczy (25 August 1924 – 16 September 2006) was a female tennis player from Hungary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Wimbledon_Championships_–_Women's_Singles

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