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The Original 9 were a group of nine women's professional tennis players who broke away from the governing bodies of tennis in 1970 to launch their own professional tour, the Virginia Slims Circuit, which later evolved into the modern WTA Tour.
List of Girls' Singles Junior Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions.. Many of these junior champions went on to become major champions and world No. 1s on the senior tour including Evonne Goolagong Cawley (world No. 1 and 8-time major champion), Sue Barker (1976 French Open champion), Mima Jaušovec (1977 French Open champion), Chris O'Neil (1978 Australian Open champion), Tracy Austin ...
This article is a compilation of the performance timelines that are included in the numerous Wikipedia articles covering individual tennis players, such as Helen Wills Moody, Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, and Serena Williams. This article facilitates the comparison of the career Grand Slam ...
Wimbledon Championships, is an annual tennis tournament first contested in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts [a] [b] [3] at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom. [4] The ladies' singles was started in 1884. [2]
Robin Montgomery (born September 5, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 102, attained on 17 February 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 119, achieved on 11 September 2023.
These are players who achieved some form of a tennis Grand Slam. They include a Grand Slam, non-calendar year Grand Slam, Career Grand Slam, Career Golden Slam, and Career Super Slam. No player has won a single season Super Slam. The tennis Open Era began in 1968, after the Australian Open and before the French Open.
At the US Open, Brady was seeded 28th despite being ranked 41st in the world (due to the number of top-20 players who pulled out of the tournament.) She defeated Anna Blinkova , CiCi Bellis and Caroline Garcia in straight sets, before defeating 2016 champion and former world No. 1, Angelique Kerber , to advance to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.
It was composed of the third annual Virginia Slims Circuit a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes. [ 2 ] and the ILTF Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix, a circuit of tournaments sponsored by Commercial Union Assurance Company .