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''' Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont ''' (born |
''' Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont ''' (born March 4, 1918) is a former American [[female tennis player]]. |
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DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the [[Australian Open|Australian Championships]]. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the [[ |
DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the [[Australian Open|Australian Championships]]. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the [[U.S. Open (tennis)|U.S. Championships]], which is an all-time record. |
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==Career== |
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DuPont won 6 Grand Slam singles titles, saving match points in the finals of the 1946 [[French Open|French Championships]] (versus [[Pauline Betz Addie]]) and 1948 U.S. Championships (versus [[Louise Brough Clapp]]). 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 won 6 Grand Slam singles titles, saving match points in the finals of the 1946 [[French Open|French Championships]] (versus [[Pauline Betz Addie]]) and 1948 U.S. Championships (versus [[Louise Brough|Louise Brough Clapp]]). 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). |
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DuPont teamed with Brough Clapp 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 Clapp 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 Irvin]], and [[Sarah Palfrey Cooke]] 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 teamed with Brough Clapp 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 Clapp 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 Irvin]], and [[Sarah Palfrey Cooke]] 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. |
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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]]. |
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]]. DuPont was ranked in the U.S. top 10 (seventh) for the first time in 1938. Her last U.S. top 10 ranking (fifth) was in 1958. Over that 21 year period, she was ranked in the U.S. top 10 fourteen times and went undefeated in ten [[Wightman Cup]] competitions, winning her ten singles and nine doubles matches. She also captained the U.S. team nine times, winning eight. |
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DuPont was ranked in the U.S. top 10 (seventh) for the first time in 1938. Her last U.S. top 10 ranking (fifth) was in 1958. Over that 21 year period, she was ranked in the U.S. top 10 fourteen times and went undefeated in ten [[Wightman Cup]] competitions, winning her ten singles and nine doubles matches. She also captained the U.S. team nine times, winning eight. |
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DuPont married [[William duPont]] in 1947 and later interrupted her career to give birth to a son. She was one of the few women to win a major title after childbirth but never played the Australian Championships because her husband would not let her. "They didn't start to invite people down there and pay their expenses until I got married, and that was wintertime and Will's vacation time, and I just never got to go. He threatened to divorce me if I went to Australia, so I never went. He had that respiratory trouble, and he wanted me to come to California with him. He thought I should be with him. That was that."<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Billie Jean King]] with Cynthia Starr |title=We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |year=1988 |pages= 70|isbn=0-07-034625-9 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref> |
DuPont married [[William duPont]] in 1947 and later interrupted her career to give birth to a son. She was one of the few women to win a major title after childbirth but never played the Australian Championships because her husband would not let her. "They didn't start to invite people down there and pay their expenses until I got married, and that was wintertime and Will's vacation time, and I just never got to go. He threatened to divorce me if I went to Australia, so I never went. He had that respiratory trouble, and he wanted me to come to California with him. He thought I should be with him. That was that."<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Billie Jean King]] with Cynthia Starr |title=We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |year=1988 |pages= 70|isbn=0-07-034625-9 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:35, 16 October 2008
| Personal information | |
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| Date of birth | March 4, 1918 |
| Place of birth |  Joseph, Oregon, United States
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| Grand Slam singles championships (6) | |
| French Championships | 1946, 1949 |
| Wimbledon | 1947 |
| U.S. Championships | 1948, 1949, 1950 |
Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont (born March 4, 1918) is a former 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.
Career
DuPont won 6 Grand Slam singles titles, saving match points in the finals of the 1946 French Championships (versus Pauline Betz Addie) and 1948 U.S. Championships (versus Louise Brough Clapp). 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 Brough Clapp 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 Clapp 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 Irvin, and Sarah Palfrey Cooke 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. DuPont was ranked in the U.S. top 10 (seventh) for the first time in 1938. Her last U.S. top 10 ranking (fifth) was in 1958. Over that 21 year period, she was ranked in the U.S. top 10 fourteen times and went undefeated in ten Wightman Cup competitions, winning her ten singles and nine doubles matches. She also captained the U.S. team nine times, winning eight.
DuPont married William duPont in 1947 and later interrupted her career to give birth to a son. She was one of the few women to win a major title after childbirth but never played the Australian Championships because her husband would not let her. "They didn't start to invite people down there and pay their expenses until I got married, and that was wintertime and Will's vacation time, and I just never got to go. He threatened to divorce me if I went to Australia, so I never went. He had that respiratory trouble, and he wanted me to come to California with him. He thought I should be with him. That was that."[1]
She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1967.
Grand Slam record
- French Championships (5)
- Singles champion (2): 1946, 1949
- Women's Doubles champion (3): 1946, 1947, 1949
- Women's Doubles runner-up: 1950
- Wimbledon (7)
- Singles champion: 1947
- Singles runner-up (2): 1949, 1950
- Women's Doubles champion (5): 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954
- Women's Doubles runner-up (3): 1947, 1951, 1958
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1962
- Mixed Doubles runner-up: 1954
- U.S. Championships (25)
- Singles champion (3): 1948, 1949, 1950
- Singles runner-up (2): 1944, 1947
- Women's Doubles champion (13): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957
- Women's Doubles runner-up (2): 1953, 1954
- Mixed Doubles champion (9): 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960
- Mixed Doubles runner-up (3): 1948, 1949, 1954
Grand Slam singles finals
Wins (6)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1946 | French Championships |  Pauline Betz Addie |
1–6, 8–6, 7–5 |
| 1947 | Wimbledon | Doris Hart |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 1948 | U.S. Championships | Louise Brough Clapp |
4–6, 6–4, 15–13 |
| 1949 | French Championships (2) |  Nelly Adamson-Landry |
7–5, 6–2 |
| 1949 | U.S. Championships (2) | Doris Hart |
6–3, 6–1 |
| 1950 | U.S. Championships (3) | Doris Hart |
6–4, 6–3 |
Runner-ups (4)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1944 | U.S. Championships | Pauline Betz Addie |
6–3, 8–6 |
| 1947 | U.S. Championships | Louise Brough Clapp |
8–6, 4–6, 6–1 |
| 1949 | Wimbledon | Louise Brough Clapp |
10–8, 1–6, 10–8 |
| 1950 | Wimbledon | Louise Brough Clapp |
6–1, 3–6, 6–1 |
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
| Tournament | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | Career SR |
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| Australia | A | A | A | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 |
| France | A | A | NH | R | R | R | R | A | W | SF | A | W | QF | SF | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2 / 5 |
| Wimbledon | A | A | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | NH | SF | W | SF | F | F | QF | A | A | QF | A | A | A | QF | A | A | A | 1R | 1 / 9 |
| United States | 2R | A | 3R | SF | SF | QF | F | QF | QF | F | W | W | W | A | A | QF | 3R | A | QF | A | 3R | A | 1R | A | A | 3 / 17 |
| SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 1 / 3 | 1 / 3 | 1 / 2 | 2 / 3 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 6 / 31 |
NH = tournament not held.
R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation.
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.
See also
External links
References
- ^ Billie Jean King with Cynthia Starr (1988). We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 70. ISBN 0-07-034625-9.