Angela Mortimer
English tennis player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett, MBE (née Mortimer; born 21 April 1932) is a British former world No. 1 tennis player. Mortimer won three Grand Slam singles titles: the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Championships, and 1961 Wimbledon Championships when she was 29 years old and partially deaf.
Full name | Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett |
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Country (sports) | Great Britain |
Born | (1932-04-21) 21 April 1932 (age 92) Plymouth, England |
Int. Tennis HoF | 1993 (member page) |
Singles | |
Career record | 603-90 (87%) |
Career titles | 108 |
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) |
Mortimer also teamed with Anne Shilcock to win the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1955, her only women's doubles title at a major. 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,[1] her only mixed doubles final at a major.
She is married to the former player and broadcaster John Barrett.[2] Following the death of Shirley Fry in 2021, Mortimer became the longest still surviving Wimbledon ladies singles champion.