Angela Mortimer

Angela Mortimer

Full name	Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Born	(1932-04-21) 21 April 1932 Plymouth, England
Int. Tennis HoF	1993 (member page)
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 1 (1961, Lance Tingay)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	W (1958)
French Open	W (1955)
Wimbledon	W (1961)
US Open	SF (1961)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	F (1958)
Wimbledon	W (1955)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	F (1958)
Team competitions
Wightman Cup	W (1960)

Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett (born 21 April 1932) is a former World No. 1 British female tennis player. She was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. She is married to the veteran BBC commentator and author John Barrett.

Mortimer won three Grand Slam singles titles, at the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Championships, and Wimbledon in 1961, when she was 29 years old and partially deaf.

Mortimer teamed with Anne Shilcock to win the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1955. That was Mortimer's only career Grand Slam women's doubles title. She teamed with Coghlan to reach the women's doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships.

Mortimer and Peter Newman reached the mixed doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships. That was her only career Grand Slam mixed doubles final.

According to Lance Tingay of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Mortimer was ranked in the world top ten from 1953 through 1956 and from 1958 through 1962, reaching a career high of World No. 1 in those rankings in 1961.

Mortimer was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993.

On 27 July 2014 She Received the Freedom of the Borough of Merton.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1955	French Championships	Clay	Dorothy Head Knode	2–6, 7–5, 10–8
Runner-up	1956	French Championships	Clay	Althea Gibson	0–6, 10–12
Winner	1958	Australian Championships	Grass	Lorraine Coghlan	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1958	Wimbledon	Grass	Althea Gibson	6–8, 2–6
Winner	1961	Wimbledon	Grass	Christine Truman Janes	4–6, 6–4, 7–5

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1955	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Anne Shilcock	Shirley Bloomer Brasher Patricia Ward Hales	7–5, 6–1
Runner-up	1958	Australian Championships	Grass	Lorraine Coghlan	Mary Bevis Hawton Thelma Coyne Long	5–7, 8–6, 2–6

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1958	Australian Championships	Grass	Peter Newman	Mary Bevis Hawton Bob Howe	11–9, 1–6, 2–6

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Tournament	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	Career SR
Australia	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	A	A	A	A	1 / 1
France	A	A	3R	A	W	F	A	A	A	A	A	A	1 / 3
Wimbledon	2R	3R	QF	QF	2R	SF	3R	F	QF	QF	W	4R	1 / 12
United States	A	QF	3R	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	SF	A	0 / 5
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 1	1 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 1	1 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 1	1 / 2	0 / 1	3 / 21

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final
• Angela Mortimer, My Waiting Game (Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1962) [autobiography]
• Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Roll of Honour

External links

• Angela Mortimer at the International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Angela Mortimer at the Women's Tennis Association