Ann Haydon-Jones
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| Personal information | |
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| Date of birth | October 7, 1938 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Grand Slam singles championships (3) | |
| French Championships | 1961, 1966 |
| Wimbledon | 1969 |
Ann Haydon-Jones (born Adrianne Shirley Haydon on October 7, 1938 in Birmingham, England, UK), was a table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won a total of eight Grand Slam championships during her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
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[edit] Career
Her parents were prominent table tennis players, and, as a young girl, she also took up the game. But she soon developed into a powerful lawn tennis player, winning the 1954 and 1955 British junior championships. In 1956, she won the Wimbledon girls' singles championship.
Haydon-Jones played lawn tennis in a highly competitive era that included some of the greatest female tennis players of all time, including Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, and Maria Bueno. Despite the fierce competition, she won the 1961 French Championships and reached the finals of the 1961 U.S. Championships, losing to the defending champion, Darlene Hard. In 1962, she married P.F. Jones and, recorded as Ann Haydon-Jones, won the French title for a second time in 1966.
At both the Wimbledon Championships and the U.S. Championships in 1967, Haydon-Jones lost in the final to King. Two years later, however, the two again met in the Wimbledon final. This time, Haydon-Jones took the most coveted title in the sport, making her the first left-handed female player to do so. She capped off that year's Wimbledon by winning the mixed doubles championship with Australia's Fred Stolle. Her performances resulted in her being voted as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
According to Mark Lewisohn in "The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions," on July 4 1969, The Beatles paused the dubbing session for their song "Golden Slumbers" to listen to Haydon-Jones beat King for the Wimbledon title, live on radio.
With the dawn of the open era in 1968, Haydon-Jones joined with King and others to organize the first professional female touring group. In 1970, she was hired by the BBC as a guest commentator and worked with them for over three decades.
In 1985, Haydon-Jones was voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
[edit] Grand Slam record
- Australian Open
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1969
- French Championships/Open
- Singles champion: 1961, 1966
- Singles finalist: 1963, 1968, 1969
- Women's Doubles champion: 1963, 1968, 1969
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1960
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1960, 1966, 1967
- Wimbledon
- Singles champion: 1969
- Singles finalist: 1967
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1968
- Mixed Doubles champion: 1969
- Mixed Doubles finalist: 1962
- U.S. Championships
- Singles finalist: 1961, 1967
- Women's Doubles finalist: 1960
[edit] Grand Slam singles finals
[edit] Wins (3)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1961 | French Championships |  Yola Ramírez Ochoa |
6–2, 6–1 |
| 1966 | French Championships (2) |  Nancy Richey Gunter |
6–3, 6–1 |
| 1969 | Wimbledon | Billie Jean King |
3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
[edit] Runner-ups (6)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1961 | U.S. Championships | Darlene Hard |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 1963 | French Championships |  Lesley Turner Bowrey |
2–6, 6–3, 7–5 |
| 1967 | Wimbledon | Billie Jean King |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 1967 | U.S. Championships | Billie Jean King |
11-9, 6–4 |
| 1968 | French Open | Nancy Richey Gunter |
5–7, 6–4, 6–1 |
| 1969 | French Open | Margaret Court |
6–1, 4–6, 6–3 |
[edit] Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
| Tournament | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | Career SR |
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| Australia | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | A | SF | 0 / 2 |
| France | A | SF | QF | A | 4R | W | SF | F | A | QF | W | QF | F | F | 2 / 11 |
| Wimbledon | 2R | 3R | SF | QF | SF | 4R | SF | SF | QF | 4R | SF | F | SF | W | 1 / 14 |
| United States | A | QF | 3R | SF | QF | F | A | SF | QF | QF | A | F | SF | A | 0 / 10 |
| SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 1 / 3 | 3 / 37 |
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.
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| Preceded by David Hemery |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1969 |
Succeeded by Henry Cooper |
