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Doris Hart
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Doris Hart was an American tennis player and autobiographer born in St. Louis on June 20, 1925. She competed for the United States as a right-handed player and attended the University of Miami. Her professional career ended in 1955. Hart is an inductee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
During her competitive years, she won the women’s singles titles at the 1949 Australian Championships, the 1950 French Championships, and the 1954 and 1955 U.S. National Championships. She authored two works, including *Tennis with Hart* and *Potato Side Dish Recipes Cookbook*. Doris Hart died in Coral Gables on May 29, 2015.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Potato Side Dish Recipes Cookbook
- Tennis with Hart
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1954-03-16
- Active to
- 2022-05-22
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nearest neighbor pattern classification
· 1967 · cited 13,803x
- A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm
· 1995 · cited 12,723x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- A Formal Basis for the Heuristic Determination of Minimum Cost Paths
· 1968 · cited 9,348x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Country sports
- United States
- Born
- ( 1925-06-20 ) June 20, 1925, St. Louis , Missouri, U.S.
- Died
- May 29, 2015 (2015-05-29) (aged 89), Coral Gables , Florida, U.S.
- Retired
- 1955 (but played at the 1968 Wimbledon Championships and the 1969 US Open )
- College
- University of Miami
- Int tennis hof
- 1969 ( member page )
- Career record
- 679–123
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1951)
- Australian open
- W (1949)
- French open
- W (1950, 1952)
- Wimbledon
- W (1951)
- Us open
- W (1954, 1955)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Doris
- Family name
- Hart
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- Coral Gables
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Educated at
- University of Miami
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Doris Hart1953.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1925-06-20
- Commons category
- Doris Hart
- date of death
- 2015-05-29
- handedness
- right-handedness
- competition won
- 1951 Wimbledon Championships – women's singles
- end of work period
- 1955-00-00
- singles record
- 0–0
- doubles record
- 0–0
- prize money
- 0
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was an American tennis player who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in singles. She was the first of only three players (all women) to complete the career "Boxed Set" of Grand Slam titles, which is winning at least one title in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. Only she and Margaret Court achieved this during the amateur era of the sport.
Hart played collegiate tennis for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doris Hart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.