Betty Stöve
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Betty Stöve is a former Dutch
professional tennis
player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon
in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam
titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.
. A virus, complicated by a malfunctioning thyroid gland, forced Stöve out of tennis for an 18-month period in the late 1960s. Despite being advised that she should never play tennis again, Stöve recovered and had her best years on the circuit after that.
Stöve's most notable singles match was the 1977 Wimbledon
final, which she lost to Virginia Wade
: 4–6, 6–3, 6–1. Queen Elizabeth II attended the final against Wade. This would be the last time she would attend Wimbledon until a second round match between Andy Murray and Jarkko Nieminen
on June 24, 2010.
Stöve was also a semifinalist at the 1977 US Open, losing to Chris Evert
. She also found success in the 1977 US Open by winning the women's doubles with Martina Navrátilová and the mixed doubles with Frew McMillan
.
Stöve had her greatest success in doubles. She won ten Grand Slam doubles championships, six in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles. She won two women's doubles championships with Billie Jean King
and two with Wendy Turnbull
. Her other two titles were won with Françoise Durr
and Martina Navrátilová. All of her mixed doubles championships were with Frew McMillan
. Stöve was the runner-up in seventeen Grand Slam doubles tournaments, eight in women's doubles and nine in mixed doubles.
During her career, Stöve won one singles title and 75 doubles titles. She reached a career high singles rank of World No. 5 in 1977. She was also ranked World No. 1 in doubles.
Stöve competed in and lost all three finals at Wimbledon in 1977.
She competed for the Netherlands Fed Cup team
in 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1983.
The Dutch rock band Bettie Serveert
is named after her. Bettie Serveert means "Bettie serves".
from 1980 through 1990. She also coached Kristie Boogert
.
Stöve is a former member of the ITF Committee of Management, its first female member.
She received the WTA Tour Honorary Membership Award in November 1987. She served three terms as President of WTA Tour Players Association.
In 1990, Stöve wrote Total Tennis, a tennis instruction book. She is also an accomplished photographer.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
professional tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.
Career
Stove began playing tennis internationally in the mid 1960s. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 1964 WimbledonThe Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
. A virus, complicated by a malfunctioning thyroid gland, forced Stöve out of tennis for an 18-month period in the late 1960s. Despite being advised that she should never play tennis again, Stöve recovered and had her best years on the circuit after that.
Stöve's most notable singles match was the 1977 Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
final, which she lost to Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...
: 4–6, 6–3, 6–1. Queen Elizabeth II attended the final against Wade. This would be the last time she would attend Wimbledon until a second round match between Andy Murray and Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
on June 24, 2010.
Stöve was also a semifinalist at the 1977 US Open, losing to Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
. She also found success in the 1977 US Open by winning the women's doubles with Martina Navrátilová and the mixed doubles with Frew McMillan
Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa.He won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. The most notable aspect of his game was that he had both a two-handed backhand and forehand, which simultaneously increased his...
.
Stöve had her greatest success in doubles. She won ten Grand Slam doubles championships, six in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles. She won two women's doubles championships with Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...
and two with Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull
Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...
. Her other two titles were won with Françoise Durr
Françoise Durr
Françoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles....
and Martina Navrátilová. All of her mixed doubles championships were with Frew McMillan
Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa.He won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. The most notable aspect of his game was that he had both a two-handed backhand and forehand, which simultaneously increased his...
. Stöve was the runner-up in seventeen Grand Slam doubles tournaments, eight in women's doubles and nine in mixed doubles.
During her career, Stöve won one singles title and 75 doubles titles. She reached a career high singles rank of World No. 5 in 1977. She was also ranked World No. 1 in doubles.
Stöve competed in and lost all three finals at Wimbledon in 1977.
She competed for the Netherlands Fed Cup team
Netherlands Fed Cup team
The Netherlands Fed Cup team represents the Netherlands in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennis Bond. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group I.-History:...
in 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1983.
The Dutch rock band Bettie Serveert
Bettie Serveert
Bettie Serveert are a Dutch indie-rock band. Their name translates to "Bettie Serves", or "Service to Bettie", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis player Betty Stöve, who made it to the Wimbledon ladies singles final in 1977.-Genesis:...
is named after her. Bettie Serveert means "Bettie serves".
Post-retirement activity
Stöve coached Hana MandlíkováHana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...
from 1980 through 1990. She also coached Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert was a professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29....
.
Stöve is a former member of the ITF Committee of Management, its first female member.
She received the WTA Tour Honorary Membership Award in November 1987. She served three terms as President of WTA Tour Players Association.
In 1990, Stöve wrote Total Tennis, a tennis instruction book. She is also an accomplished photographer.
Singles: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner-up)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
| Runner-up | 1977 | Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
Grass |  Virginia WadeVirginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a... |
4–6, 6–3, 6–1 |
Women's doubles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner-ups)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score in the final |
| Winner | 1972 | French Open | Clay |  Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society... |
Winnie Shaw Winnie Shaw Winifred Mason Shaw was a Scottish tennis player. In 2002 she was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. She was born in Glasgow.... Nell Truman |
6–1, 6–2 |
| Winner | 1972 | Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
Grass | Billie Jean King |
 Françoise DurrFrançoise Durr Françoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles....  Judy Tegart DaltonJudy Tegart Judy Tegart Dalton is a retired professional Australian tennis player who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles. She won at least one women's doubles title at each Grand Slam tournament, a "Career Grand Slam". Five of her doubles titles were in partnership with Margaret Court... |
6–2, 4–6, 6–3 |
| Winner | 1972 | US Open | Grass | Françoise Durr |
Margaret Court Virginia Wade Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a... |
6–3, 1–6, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 1973 | French Open | Clay | Françoise Durr |
Margaret Court Virginia Wade |
6–2, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 1973 | Wimbledon | Grass | Françoise Durr |
Rosie Casals Billie Jean King |
6–1, 4–6, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1974 | US Open | Grass | Françoise Durr |
Rosie Casals Billie Jean King |
7–6, 6–7, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1975 | Wimbledon | Grass | Françoise Durr |
Ann Kiyomura Ann Kiyomura Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi is a former professional tennis player.Kiyomura played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1984. She played in 11 US Opens, reaching the fourth round in 1978. In 1975, she won the Wimbledon women's doubles title, playing with Kazuko Sawamatsu...  Kazuko SawamatsuKazuko Sawamatsu Kazuko Sawamatsu is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. Along with Ann Kiyomura, she is the first person of Asian desent to win a Grand Slam Title, as well as being the first Asian national to do so.... |
7–5, 1–6, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1976 | Wimbledon | Grass | Billie Jean King |
Chris Evert Chris Evert Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...  Martina Navrátilová |
6–1, 3–6, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1977 | Wimbledon | Grass | Martina Navrátilová |
Helen Gourlay Helen Gourlay Helen Gourlay Cawley is a retired female tennis player from Australia.She was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.... JoAnne RussellJoAnne Russell JoAnne Russell is a former American professional tennis player. With partner Helen Gourlay Cawley, Russell won the Wimbledon Ladies' Doubles title in 1977. They beat the team of Chris Evert and Rosie Casals in the first round and the top-ranked team of Martina Navratilova and Betty Stöve in the... |
6–3, 6–3 |
| Winner | 1977 | US Open (2) | Clay | Martina Navrátilová |
Renée Richards Renee Richards Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist, author and former professional tennis player. In 1975, Richards underwent sex reassignment surgery. She is known for initially being denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, citing an unprecedented women-born-women... Betty-Ann Stuart |
6–1, 7–6 |
| Winner | 1979 | French Open (2) | Clay | Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull... |
Françoise Durr Virginia Wade |
3–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1979 | Wimbledon | Grass | Wendy Turnbull |
Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová |
5–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
| Winner | 1979 | US Open (3) | Hard | Wendy Turnbull |
Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 1980 | US Open | Hard | Pam Shriver Pam Shriver Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments... |
Billie Jean King Martina Navrátilová |
7–6, 7–5 |
Mixed doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score in the final |
| Runner-up | 1971 | US Open | Grass | Rob Maud |
Billie Jean King Billie Jean King Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society... Owen DavidsonOwen Davidson ' was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships,... |
6–3, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1973 | French Open | Clay | Patrice Dominguez Patrice Dominguez Patrice Dominguez is a French tennis player born in Algeria. He reached a career high ranking of 36 in 1973. He represented France in the Davis Cup between 1971 and 1979.... |
Françoise Durr Françoise Durr Françoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.... Jean-Claude Barclay |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1975 | Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
Grass | Allan Stone Allan Stone ----Allan Stone played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as World No. 38 in singles on the ATP Rankings , although Stone played for many years before the ATP Rankings were instituted.Stone found the majority of his success on the doubles court... |
Margaret Court Marty Riessen Marty Riessen Marty Riessen played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as No. 11 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings... |
6–4, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1976 | US Open | Clay |  Frew McMillanFrew McMillan Frew Donald McMillan is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa.He won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. The most notable aspect of his game was that he had both a two-handed backhand and forehand, which simultaneously increased his... |
Billie Jean King Phil Dent Phil Dent Phillip "Phil" Dent, born on 14 February 1950, in Sydney, Australia, is a former professional tennis player. Dent's high water mark as a pro singles player was reaching the Australian Open final in 1974, which he lost to Jimmy Connors 7–6, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3... |
3–6, 6–2, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1977 | Wimbledon | Grass | Frew McMillan |
Greer Stevens Greer Stevens Greer "Cat" Stevens is a former ladies professional tennis player. A native of Pietermaritzburg, Stevens in 1980 reached a career high singles ranking of World No. 7 and the Wimbledon quarterfinals in both singles and doubles. She also played for the Boston Lobsters of World TeamTennis... Bob HewittBob Hewitt Robert "Bob" Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional male tennis player from Australia... |
3–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
| Winner | 1977 | US Open | Clay | Frew McMillan |
Billie Jean King Vitas Gerulaitis Vitas Gerulaitis Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis was a Lithuanian–American professional tennis player. He is known for winning the men's singles title at one of the two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Gerulaitis won the tournament held in December, while Roscoe Tanner won the earlier January tournament... |
6–2, 3–6, 6–3 |
| Winner | 1978 | Wimbledon | Grass | Frew McMillan |
Billie Jean King Ray Ruffels Ray Ruffels Ray Ruffels is a former professional tennis player.Ruffels was an Australian Open semi-finalist in 1969 and 1975, and a quarter-finalist in 1968, 1970 and 1977.... |
6–2, 6–2 |
| Winner | 1978 | US Open (2) | Hard | Frew McMillan |
Billie Jean King Ray Ruffels |
6–3, 7–6 |
| Runner-up | 1979 | Wimbledon | Grass | Frew McMillan |
Greer Stevens Bob Hewitt |
7–5, 7–6 |
| Runner-up | 1979 | US Open | Hard | Frew McMillan |
Greer Stevens Bob Hewitt |
6–3, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1980 | US Open | Hard | Frew McMillan |
Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull... Marty Riessen |
7–5, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 1981 | French Open | Clay | Fred McNair Fred McNair ----Frederick V. McNair, IV is a former professional tennis player from the United States who reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1976. That year, he teamed up with Sherwood Stewart to capture the men's doubles titles at French Open, the German Open and the Masters... |
Andrea Jaeger Andrea Jaeger Andrea Jaeger is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982... Jimmy AriasJimmy Arias James Arias is a former tennis touring professional player from the United States, a bronze medallist.From Grand Island, near Buffalo, New York, Arias's peak year was 1983, when as a 19 year-old he finished the year ranked World No. 6, having reached the U.S... |
7–6, 6–4 |
| Winner | 1981 | Wimbledon (2) | Grass | Frew McMillan |
Tracy Austin Tracy Austin Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated... John AustinJohn Austin (tennis) John Austin is an American former professional tennis player born in Long Beach, California. He won the Wimbledon mixed doubles championship with his sister, Tracy Austin, in 1980.... |
4–6, 7–6, 6–3 |
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
| Outcome | Year | Location | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score in the final |
| Runner-up | 1973 | New York City | Carpet (i) | Françoise Durr Françoise Durr Françoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.... |
Rosie Casals Margaret Court |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1974 | Los Angeles | Carpet (i) | Françoise Durr |
Rosie Casals Billie Jean King Billie Jean King Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society... |
6–1, 6–7, 7–5 |
| Winner | 1979 | New York City | Carpet (i) | Françoise Durr |
Sue Barker Sue Barker Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3... Ann KiyomuraAnn Kiyomura Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi is a former professional tennis player.Kiyomura played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1984. She played in 11 US Opens, reaching the fourth round in 1978. In 1975, she won the Wimbledon women's doubles title, playing with Kazuko Sawamatsu... |
7–6, 7–6 |
Singles (1)
| No. | Date | Location | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1. | 27 September 1976 | Tokyo, Japan (Sillook Open) | Hard (I) | Margaret Court |
1–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
Doubles (75)
Grand slam events in boldface.- 1971: Monte Carlo (with Katja EbbinghausKatja EbbinghausKatja Ebbinghaus is a German former professional tennis player active from 1969 to 1982, who reached five Grand Slam quarter-finals in singles, and a Grand Slam final in doubles, and who played for West Germany in the Federation Cup in all but two years between 1970 and 1979.-Career:Ebbinghaus...
) - 1971: Buenos Aires (with Olga MorozovaOlga MorozovaOlga Vasilyevna Morozova is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union. She was the runner up in singles at the 1974 French Open and 1974 Wimbledon Championships.-Career:...
) - 1971: Dublin (with Lesley Turner BowreyLesley Turner BowreyLesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey AM is an Australian female tennis player.Bowrey won 13 Grand Slam titles during her career: two in singles, seven in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She lost in the final of 14 other Grand Slam events.Bowrey twice won the singles title at the French...
) - 1971: Hilversum (with Christina SandbergChristina SandbergChristina Sandberg is a former professional Swedish tennis player. She reached the quarter finals of the 1970 Australian Open in both the singles and doubles...
) - 1972: French Open (with Billie Jean KingBillie Jean KingBillie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...
) - 1972: Wimbledon (with Billie Jean King)
- 1972: Newport (with Judy Tegart DaltonJudy TegartJudy Tegart Dalton is a retired professional Australian tennis player who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles. She won at least one women's doubles title at each Grand Slam tournament, a "Career Grand Slam". Five of her doubles titles were in partnership with Margaret Court...
) - 1972: US Open (with Françoise DurrFrançoise DurrFrançoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles....
) - 1973: Miami (with Françoise Durr)
- 1973: Hilton Head Island (with Françoise Durr)
- 1973: Nashville (with Françoise Durr)
- 1973: Allaire (with Françoise Durr)
- 1973: Newport (with Françoise Durr)
- 1973: Colombus (with Françoise Durr)
- 1974: Washington, D.C. (with Billie Jean King)
- 1974: Fort Lauderdale (with Françoise Durr)
- 1974: St. Petersburg (with Olga Morozova)
- 1974: Orlando (with Françoise Durr)
- 1974: Denver (with Françoise Durr)
- 1974: Phoenix (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Washington, D.C. (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Akron (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Houston (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Dallas (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Philadelphia (with Evonne GoolagongEvonne GoolagongEvonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, AO, MBE is a former World No. 1 Australian female tennis player. She was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s, when she won 14 Grand Slam titles: seven in singles , six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles.-Early life:Goolagong is the...
) - 1975: Denver (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Phoenix (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Stockholm (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: Paris (with Françoise Durr)
- 1975: London (with Françoise Durr)
- 1976: Sarasota (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1976: San Francisco (with Billie Jean King)
- 1976: Philadelphia (with Billie Jean King)
- 1976: Phoenix (with Billie Jean King)
- 1976: London (with Virginia WadeVirginia WadeSarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...
) - 1976: Sydney (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1976: Melbourne (with Margaret Court)
- 1977: Washington, D.C. (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Hollywood (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Houston (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Detroit (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Dallas (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: New York City, Virginia Slims Champ's (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Tokyo, Bridgestone Doubles (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Charlotte (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: US Open (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Atlanta (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1977: Melbourne (with Evonne Goolagong)
- 1978: Los Angeles (with Virginia Wade)
- 1978: Chicago (with Evonne Goolagong)
- 1978: Eastbourne (with Chris EvertChris EvertChristine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
) - 1978: Phoenix (with Tracy AustinTracy AustinTracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated...
) - 1978: Brighton (with Virginia Wade)
- 1978: Filderstadt (with Tracy Austin)
- 1978: Tokyo, Gunze World (with Martina Navrátilová)
- 1979: Hollywood (with Tracy Austin)
- 1979: Seattle (with Françoise Durr)
- 1979: Detroit (with Wendy TurnbullWendy TurnbullWendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...
) - 1979: Philadelphia (with Françoise Durr)
- 1979: New York City, Avon Champ's (with Françoise Durr)
- 1979: Tokyo, Bridgestone Doubles (with Françoise Durr)
- 1979: Rome (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: French Open (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Eastbourne (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Richmond (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Mahwah (with Tracy Austin)
- 1979: US Open (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Atlanta (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Phoenix (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1979: Stockholm (with Wendy Turnbull)
- 1980: Chichester (with Pam ShriverPam ShriverPamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...
) - 1980: Filderstadt (with Hana MandlíkováHana MandlíkováHana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...
) - 1980: Amsterdam (with Hana Mandlíková)
- 1980: Sydney (with Pam Shriver)
- 1980: Adelaide (with Pam Shriver)
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
| Tournament | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | Career SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
A | A | A | 3R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | 2R | 2R | 0 / 4 |
| France | A | 3R | A | 2R | A | A | 1R | 3R | 3R | 3R | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 0 / 10 | |
| Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
2R | 1R | 3R | 2R | A | 2R | 2R | 2R | 4R | 1R | 1R | QF | 4R | F | 4R | 4R | 3R | 2R | A | 0 / 17 | |
| United States U.S. Open (tennis) The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881... |
1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 3R | 2R | 2R | 2R | 1R | SF | 4R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 13 | |
| SR | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 44 | |
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.
See also
- Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam finalTennis performance timeline comparison (women)This article presents in a tabular form the career tennis Grand Slam, World Hard Court Championships and Olympic singles results of every woman who has reached the singles final of at least one Grand Slam, World Hard Court Championships or Olympic tournament during her career...