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Maureen Connolly - International Tennis Hall of Fame  Only two other female players can boast the same  Margaret Court in 1970 and Steffi ... After winning the Grand Slam, Connolly was dubbed Little Mo, referring to the ... A car struck her while she was riding her horse known as Colonel Merryboy, ... In 1997, Hingis won her first US Open at 16 years, 11 months, 8 days, and...
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Maureen Connolly, Tennis Star, Dies - The New York Times  DALLAS, June 21 (AP)--Maureen Connolly Brinker, who ruled the woman's tennis ... became, in 1953, the first woman to achieve the grand slam of tennis--the ... Little Mo's meteoric record of court successes began in 1951 when she won the ... Riding a thoroughbred colt named Colonel Merryboy, which had been given to...
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Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation: Little Mo Movie  In 1953, she was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of tennis -the ... Connolly was nicknamed "Little Mo" by a sportswriter from her hometown of San Diego.
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Maureen Connolly - Wikipedia  Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (ne Connolly; September 17, 1934  June 21, 1969) known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments...
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Maureen Connolly facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  She is rememberd as a pioneer of women's tennis, who made significant ... Connolly entered her first tennis tournament shortly after she began to play at the age of ten ... affectionately as "Little Mo," after she won the national junior championship. ... of women's tennis with a series of wins known as the Grand Slam of Tennis.
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List of Grand Slam women's singles champions - Wikipedia  List of Women's singles Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions. Note that some major changes have taken place over the years that have affected how many titles have been won by various players. ... Chris Evert has won 18 Major titles, tied for the third most with Martina .... Dorothy Round (2/3), Nazi Germany...
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Steffi Graf - Wikipedia  Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a German former tennis player, who was ranked world No. ... Graf reached thirteen consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, from the 1987 French ... Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a ... She won no titles during the next three years, but her ranking climbed...
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Grand Slam (tennis) - Wikipedia  Players who have won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in ... the first three events, but lost the last grand slam tournament. ... Women's singles ... 10, Germany ... 18, United States...
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Steffi Graf facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  1969-. German tennis player. When she attained the number one ranking with the ... Graf also became one of only five players in the history of the game to win tennis' Grand Slam, ... Steffi Graf was born Stephanie Maria Graf on June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, ... And indeed, it looked that way at first, as Graf lost the first set 7-5.
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List of Grand Slam women's singles champions - Wikipedia  List of Women's singles Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions. Note that some major changes have taken place over the years that have affected how many titles have been won by various players. ... Since then, 45 women have won at least one grand slam. ... Margaret Court has 24 singles majors, an all-time record.
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Wailea Tennis Club Events - Maui Hawaii  Please CLICK HERE for the Tournament Entry Form and more information about the ... She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments (98'US OPEN, ... Tennis prodigy Tracy Austin stormed into women's tennis in 1977 and set a ... the youngest player to win the U.S. Open at the age of 16 years and nine months.
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Maureen Connolly - Wikipedia  Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (ne Connolly; September 17, 1934  June 21, 1969) known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, ... Country (sports), United States .... Connolly's achievements made her the darling of the media and one of the ... She was the top ranked U.S. player from 1951 through 1953.
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. ... She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus, and the pair .... in the 1999 US Open and went on to win her first Grand Slam singles title. .... The Williams sisters also won the doubles title at this tournament.
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MUSC 2104 - Names Flashcards | Quizlet  You can also find more resources in our Help Center. ... One of the first "individuals" of the jazz age. ... Tenor sax player; One of the leading soloists of the swing era; generally ... This Piedmont native, whose nickname was the "Little Giant of Jazz," is ... A songwriter and best known stride pianist; had a lilting bounce/smooth...
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. ... She is also the only tennis player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate...
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Serena Williams - Tennis Player, Athlete - Biography.com  Sep 12, 2016 ... Since turning pro, she's won countless Grand Slam titles and two ... States Tennis Association tour, and ranked first in the 10-and-under division. ... Tennis Star ... In 1999, she beat out her sister in their race to the family's first Grand Slam ... In 2008, she won the U.S. Open and teamed with Venus to capture a...
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Wimbledon Champions: Women's top 25 - Telegraph - The Telegraph  Jun 28, 2008 ... Not only did she collect three of her four singles titles in that time, but she ... 1970s, winning her first two Wimbledon titles, as Margaret Smith, in 1963 and 1965. ... trophies, Court won a further 21 grand slam singles titles, taking her singles ... In 1989 the then German supremacy in tennis was underlined with...
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. ... Williams holds the most major singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles ... She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus, and the .... At the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, she hit a women's tournament...
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Steffi Graf | The German Way & More  Steffi Graf and husband Andre Agassi on the cover of a German magazine in October ... it earned her the nickname Frulein Vorhand (Miss Forehand)  and great ... Slam (winning the four major tournaments): the 1987 French Open, 1988 ... becoming only the second woman to win a non-calendar-year Grand Slam.
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golf | AthleticPoetics  Althea Gibson won Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2. In 1975 ... She began playing tennis as a teenager and went on to win the national black women's championship twice. At a time when ... In 1960, she toured with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, playing exhibition tennis matches before their games.
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Grand Slam (tennis) - Wikipedia  The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis ..... Six consecutive major titles from the 1992 French Open to 1993 Wimbledon. ... Only six players have completed a Career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles, one male (Roy Emerson) and five female (Margaret Court, Doris...