Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Born | January 31, 1940 |
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Wimbledon | 1R (1963) |
US Open | 1R (1963) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 2R (1963) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 2R (1963) |
Ann Barclay (born January 31, 1940) is a Canadian former tennis player.
Barclay, younger sister of tennis player Lawrence, is a native of Vancouver, British Columbia. [1]
The top ranked Canadian women's player of the early 1960s, Barclay was singles champion at the Canadian Open in 1962 and 1963. She was part of the inaugural edition of the Federation Cup in 1963, representing Canada in a tie against Great Britain at Queen's Club. While in England she also competed in the Wimbledon Championships for the only time. [2] She was a 1994 inductee into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame. [3]
Ann Shirley Jones, is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. As of 2023, she serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Grant Connell is a former professional tennis player from Canada, and has been a real estate agent for the past 14 years in Vancouver. He specializes in West Vancouver North Vancouver and Downtown properties real estate transactions. He is considered one of the world's top doubles player from the early to late -1990s, reaching the world No. 1 doubles ranking in November 1993.
Françoise Dürr is a retired French tennis player. She won 50 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.
Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, AM is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the French Championships, one of the four Grand Slam events, in 1963 and 1965. In addition she won 11 Grand Slam events in doubles and mixed doubles. Turner Bowrey achieved her highest singles ranking of No. 2 in 1964.
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Donna Floyd Fales is an American amateur tennis player. She was ranked in the Top 10 in the United States from 1960 to 1963, and from 1965 to 1966.
Julie Heldman is an American tennis player who won 22 singles titles. In 1968 and 1969, she was ranked No. 2 in the U.S. She was Canadian National 18 and Under Singles Champion at age 12, U.S. Champion in Girls’ 15 Singles and Girls’ 18 Singles, Italian Open Singles Champion, Canadian Singles and Doubles Champion, and U.S. Clay Court Doubles Champion. She won three medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and three gold medals at the 1969 Maccabiah Games.
Pierre Darmon is a French former tennis player. He was ranked No.8 in the world in 1963, and also reached the top ten in 1958 and 1964.
Andrea Neil is a pioneer of women's soccer in Canada. Neil retired from the game after representing Canada more than any other Canadian player in history.
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Claire Lovett was a Canadian badminton and tennis player who competed from the 1940s to 1990s. As a badminton player, she won singles and doubles titles at the Canadian National Badminton Championships from 1947 to 1949. She later won at the mixed doubles event during the 1963 Canadian Open. Apart from badminton, she won 16 Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club championships between 1946 and 1967. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1972 and BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
Vicki Berner was a Canadian professional tennis player. During her career, Berner won the doubles event at the Canadian Open five times. Between 1964 and 1973, Berner competed in Grand Slam events. Her highest finishes were the quarterfinals of the 1967 Wimbledon Championships in women's doubles and the semifinals at the 1964 U.S. National Championships in mixed doubles. At the Fed Cup in the 1960s, Berner reached the quarterfinals at the 1964 Federation Cup in singles and the 1967 Federation Cup in doubles. In 1995, Berner was named into the Tennis Canada Hall of Fame.
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