Norma Baylon

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Norma Baylon
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Norma Baylon
Country (sports)Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Born (1942-11-09) 9 November 1942 (age 82)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Singles
Highest rankingNo. 7 (1966)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 3R (1965)
French Open QF (1965)
Wimbledon QF (1964)
US Open QF (1965, 1966)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open SF (1965)
French Open F (1964)
Wimbledon 2R (1963, 1964, 1966)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open 2R (1965)
French Open SF (1964)
Wimbledon 3R (1963, 1964, 1965)
US Open 2R (1964)

Norma Baylon (born 9 November 1942) is an Argentine former tennis player who was active in the 1960s. She was ranked No. 7 in singles in 1966. [1]

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Tennis career

Baylon started playing tennis at age five. [2]

In 1964, Baylon and her teammate Helga Schultze reached the final of the doubles event at the 1964 French Championships, losing in straight sets to Margaret Smith and Lesley Turner.

Baylon's best result at a Grand Slam singles event was reaching the quarterfinals on four occasions. At the 1964 Wimbledon Championships, she reached her first quarterfinals after defeating seventh-seeded Jan Lehane in the third round, but she retired against first-seeded Margaret Smith. [3] At the 1965 French Championships, she was seeded ninth and lost in the quarterfinals to Smith in two sets. Later that year at the U.S. National Championships, Baylon was seeded eighth, and she was defeated in the quarterfinals by third-seeded Nancy Richey. At the 1966 U.S. National Championships, Baylon was seeded sixth and again reached the quarterfinals in which she won just a single game against second-seeded and eventual champion Maria Bueno.

In June 1965, she won the singles title at the Swiss International Championships after her final against Edda Buding was cancelled at 5-all in the final set due to rain. [4]

From 1964 to 1966, she played in four ties for the Argentine Fed Cup team, winning three matches and losing four.

In 1962, she won the Olimpia Award, an Argentine sports award, becoming the first female to receive the recognition. [5]

Personal life

In 1967, she married Peruvian Bartolomé Puiggros and subsequently lived in Peru for 25 years. The couple had three sons.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss1964 French Championships Clay Flag of Germany.svg Helga Schultze Flag of Australia (converted).svg Margaret Smith
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lesley Turner 		3–6, 1–6

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References

  1. ↑ Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York: New Chapter Press. p. 723. ISBN   978-0942257700.
  2. ↑ "Norma Baylon, la primera reina del tenis Argentino" (in Spanish). 14 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Wimbledon players archive – Norma Baylon". www.wimbledon.com. AELTC.
  4. ↑ "Nancy Ousted". The Spokesman-Review . AP. 7 June 1965. p. 11.
  5. ↑ "Todos los ganadores del oro, desde 1954". La Nación (in Spanish). 18 December 2007.
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