.jpg) Gibson in 1956 | |
| Country (sports) |  United States |
|---|---|
| Born | (1927-08-25)August 25, 1927[1] |
| Died | September 28, 2003(2003-09-28) (aged 76) East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] |
| Retired | 1958 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1971(member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 0–0 |
| Career titles | 56[3] |
| Highest ranking | No.1 (1957) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | F (1957) |
| French Open | W (1956) |
| Wimbledon | W (1957,1958) |
| US Open | W (1957,1958) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 0–0 |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1957) |
| French Open | W (1956) |
| Wimbledon | W (1956,1957,1958) |
| US Open | F (1957, 1958) |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1957) |
| French Open | QF (1956) |
| Wimbledon | F (1956,1957,1958) |
| US Open | W (1957) |
Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an Americantennis player andprofessional golfer, and one of the firstBlack athletes to cross thecolor line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first Black player to win aGrand Slam event (theFrench Open).[4] The following year she won bothWimbledon and theUS Nationals (precursor of theUS Open), then won both again in 1958 and was votedFemale Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam titles: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title.[5] "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived," saidBob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach ofVenus andSerena Williams. "Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters."[6] Gibson was inducted into theInternational Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971[7] and theInternational Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.[8] In the early 1960s, she also became the first Black player to compete in theLadies Professional Golf Association.
At a time whenracism and prejudice were widespread in sports and in society, Gibson was often compared toJackie Robinson. "Her road to success was a challenging one," saidBillie Jean King "but I never saw her back down."[9] "To anyone, she was an inspiration, because of what she was able to do at a time when it was enormously difficult to play tennis at all if you were Black." said formerNew York City MayorDavid Dinkins.[10] "I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps," wrote Venus Williams. "Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her legacy will live on."[11]
Gibson was born on August 25, 1927, in the town of Silver, inClarendon County, South Carolina, to Daniel and Annie Bell Gibson, who worked assharecroppers on a cotton farm.[12] TheGreat Depression hit rural southern farmers sooner than much of the rest of the country,[13] so in 1930 the family moved toHarlem as part of theGreat Migration, where Althea's three sisters and brother were born.[14]
Their apartment was located on a stretch of143rd Street (betweenLenox Avenue andSeventh Avenue) that had been designated aPolice Athletic League play area; during daylight hours it was barricaded so that neighborhood children could play organized sports.[9][15] Gibson quickly became proficient inpaddle tennis, and by 1939, at the age of 12, she was the New York City women's paddle tennis champion.[16][17][18]
Gibson quit school at the age of 13 and, using the boxing skills taught to her by her father, engaged in a life of what she would later refer to as "street fighting", girls basketball, and watching movies. Fearful of her father's violent behavior, after dropping out of school, she spent some time living in aCatholic protective shelter for abused children.[19]
In 1940, a group of Gibson's neighbors took up a collection to finance a junior membership and lessons at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in theSugar Hill section of Harlem. At first, Gibson didn't like tennis, a sport she thought was for weak people. As she explained, "I kept wanting to fight the other player every time I started to lose a match."[19] In 1941, she entered—and won—her first tournament, theAmerican Tennis Association (ATA) New York State Championship.[20] She won the ATA national championship in the girls' division in 1944 and 1945, and after losing in the women's final in 1946, won her first of ten straight national ATA women's titles in 1947.[21] "I knew that I was an unusual, talented girl, through the grace of God," she wrote. "I didn't need to prove that to myself. I only wanted to prove it to my opponents."[22]
Gibson had a very aggressive style of play, which would still be out of place even today. She had a powerful and versitile serve that she could use to manipulate her opponent's position on the court, leaving her with space to make an easy point. Gibson played close to the net, preferring to make points herself instead of waiting for her opponent to make an error.[23]
Gibson's ATA success drew the attention ofWalter Johnson, aLynchburg, Virginia, physician who was active in the African American tennis community.[24] Under Johnson's patronage—he would later mentorArthur Ashe as well—Gibson gained access to more advanced instruction and more important competitions, and later, to theUnited States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA, later known as the USTA).[25]
In 1946, she moved toWilmington, North Carolina, under the sponsorship of another physician and tennis activist,Hubert A. Eaton[26] and enrolled at the racially segregatedWilliston Industrial High School. In 1949, she became the first Black woman, and the second Black athlete (afterReginald Weir), to play in the USTA's National Indoor Championships, where she reached the quarter-finals.[27] Later that year she enteredFlorida A&M University (FAMU) on a full athletic scholarship[28] and was a member of the Beta Alpha chapter ofAlpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[29]
Despite her growing reputation as an elite-level player, Gibson was effectively barred from entering the premier American tournament, the United States National Championships (now theUS Open) atForest Hills. While USTA rules officially prohibited racial or ethnic discrimination, players qualified for the Nationals by accumulating points at sanctioned tournaments, most of which were held at white-only clubs.[30] In 1950, in response to intense lobbying by ATA officials and retired championAlice Marble—who published a scathing open letter in the magazineAmerican Lawn Tennis[31]—Gibson became the first Black player to receive an invitation to the Nationals, where she made her Forest Hills debut a few days after her 23rd birthday.[32][33] Although she lost narrowly in the second round in a rain-delayed, three-set match toLouise Brough, the reigningWimbledon champion and former US National winner, her participation received extensive national and international coverage.[33][34] "No Negro player, man or woman, has ever set foot on one of these courts", wrote journalistLester Rodney at the time. "In many ways, it is even a tougher personalJim Crow-busting assignment than wasJackie Robinson's when he first stepped out of theBrooklyn Dodgers dugout."[35]
In 1951, Gibson won her first international title, the Caribbean Championships in Jamaica,[2] and later that year became one of the first Black competitors at Wimbledon, where she was defeated in the third round byBeverly Baker.[36] In 1952 she was ranked seventh nationally by the USTA.[37] In the spring of 1953 she graduated from Florida A&M and took a job teaching physical education atLincoln University inJefferson City, Missouri.[38] During her two years at Lincoln she became romantically involved with anArmy officer whom she never named publicly,[39] and considered enlisting in theWomen's Army Corps. She decided against it when theState Department sent her on a goodwill tour of Asia in 1955 to play exhibition matches withHam Richardson, Bob Perry, andKarol Fageros.[40] Many Asians in the countries they visited—Burma,Ceylon,India,Pakistan, andThailand—"felt an affinity to Althea as a woman of color and were delighted to see her as part of an official US delegation. With the United States grappling over the question of race, they turned to Althea for answers, or at least to get a first-hand perspective."[41] Gibson, for her part, strengthened her confidence immeasurably during the six-week tour.[42] When it was over, she remained abroad, winning 16 of 18 tournaments in Europe and Asia against many of the world's best players.[43]
On May 27, 1956,[44] Gibson became the first African-American athlete to win aGrand Slam tournament when she won theFrench Championships singles event, defeating BritonAngela Mortimer in the final. She also won the doubles title, partnered with BritonAngela Buxton.[45] Later in the season she won the Wimbledon doubles championship (again with Buxton), five tournaments in Italy[46] including theItalian Championships in Rome, theIndian Championships in New Delhi and the Asian championship in Ceylon.[47] She also reached the quarter-finals in singles at Wimbledon and the finals at the US Nationals, losing both toShirley Fry.[48]
The 1957 season was, in her own words, "Althea Gibson's year".[49] In July, Gibson was seeded first at Wimbledon—considered at the time the "world championship of tennis"—and defeatedDarlene Hard in the finals for the singles title.[50] She was the first Black champion in the tournament's 80-year history, and the first champion to receive the trophy personally fromQueen Elizabeth II.[51] "Shaking hands with the Queen of England," she said "was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus."[52] She won the doubles championship as well, for the second year running.
Upon her return home Gibson became only the second Black American, afterJesse Owens, to be honored with aticker tape parade in New York City, and MayorRobert F. Wagner Jr. presented her with theBronze Medallion, the city's highest civilian award.[53] A month later she defeated Louise Brough in straight sets to win her first US National Championship.[54] "Winning Wimbledon was wonderful," she wrote, "and it meant a lot to me, but there is nothing quite like winning the championship of your own country."[55] In all, she reached the finals of eight Grand Slam events in 1957, winning the Wimbledon and US National singles titles, the Wimbledon andAustralian doubles championships, and the US mixed doubles crown, and finishing second in Australian singles, US doubles, and Wimbledon mixed doubles. At season's end she broke yet another barrier as the first Black player on the USWightman Cup team, whichdefeated Great Britain 6–1.[56] With Gibson winning her last 55 matches of the season, plus her first two matches in 1958, she won 57 matches in a row.[57]
In 1958, Gibson successfully defended her Wimbledon and US National singles titles, and won her third straight Wimbledon doubles championship, with a third different partner. She was the number-one-ranked woman in the United States and the world[58][59] in both 1957 and 1958, and was namedFemale Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years, garnering over 80% of the votes in 1958.[60] She also became the first Black woman to appear on the covers ofSports Illustrated[61] andTime.[62]
In late 1958, having won 56 national and international singles and doubles titles, Gibson retired from amateur tennis. Prior to theOpen Era there was no prize money at major tournaments, and direct endorsement deals were prohibited. Players were limited to expense allowances, strictly regulated by the USTA. "The truth, to put it bluntly, is that my finances were in heartbreaking shape," she wrote. "Being the Queen of Tennis is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. Nor can you send the Internal Revenue Service a throne clipped to their tax forms. The landlord and grocer and tax collector are funny that way: they like cold cash... I reign over an empty bank account, and I'm not going to fill it by playing amateur tennis."[63] Professional tours for women were still 15 years away, so her opportunities were largely limited to promotional events. In 1959, she signed to play a series of exhibition matches against Fageros beforeHarlem Globetrotter basketball games.[64][25] When the tour ended she won the singles and doubles titles at the Pepsi Cola World Pro Tennis Championships inCleveland, but received only $500 in prize money.[65]
During this period, Gibson also pursued her long-held aspirations in the entertainment industry. A talented vocalist and saxophonist—and runner-up in theApollo Theater's amateur talent contest in 1943[66]—she made her professional singing debut atW. C. Handy's 84th-birthday tribute at theWaldorf Astoria Hotel in 1957.[67] An executive fromDot Records was impressed with her performance, and signed her to record an album of popular standards.Althea Gibson Sings was released in 1959, and Gibson performed two of its songs onThe Ed Sullivan Show in May and July of that year, but sales were disappointing.[68] She appeared as a celebrity guest on the TV panel showWhat's My Line? and was cast as an enslaved woman in theJohn Ford motion pictureThe Horse Soldiers (1959), which was notable for her refusal to speak in the stereotypic "Negro" dialect mandated by the script.[69] She also worked as a sports commentator, appeared in print and television advertisements for various products, and increased her involvement in social issues and community activities.[70] In 1960, her first memoir,I Always Wanted to Be Somebody, written with sportswriterEd Fitzgerald, was published.[71]
Her professional tennis career, however, was going nowhere. "When I looked around me, I saw that white tennis players, some of whom I had thrashed on the court, were picking up offers and invitations," she wrote. "Suddenly it dawned on me that my triumphs had not destroyed the racial barriers once and for all, as I had—perhaps naively—hoped. Or if I did destroy them, they had been erected behind me again."[72] She also noted that she repeatedly applied for membership in theAll-England Club, based on her status as a Wimbledon champion, but was never accepted. (Her doubles partner, Angela Buxton, who wasJewish, was also repeatedly denied membership.)[73]
In 1964, at the age of 37, Gibson became the first African-American woman to join theLadies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour.[74] Racial discrimination continued to be a problem: many hotels still excluded people of color, and country club officials throughout the south—and some in the north—routinely refused to allow her to compete. When she did compete, she was often forced to dress for tournaments in her car because she was banned from the clubhouse.[75] Although she was one of the LPGA's top 50 money winners for five years, and won a car at aDinah Shore tournament, her lifetime golf earnings did not exceed $25,000.[76]
While she broke course records during individual rounds in several tournaments, Gibson's highest ranking was 27th in 1966, and her best tournament finish was a tie for second after a three-way playoff at the 1970Len Immke Buick Open.[77] She retired from professional golf at the end of the 1978 season.[78] "Althea might have been a real player of consequence had she started when she was young," saidJudy Rankin. "She came along during a difficult time in golf, gained the support of a lot of people, and quietly made a difference."[79]
The loser is always a part of the problem; the winner is always a part of the answer. The loser always has an excuse; the winner always has a program. The loser says it may bepossible, but it's difficult; the winner says it may bedifficult, but it's possible.
In 1959, shortly after retiring, Gibson appeared in the John Ford film,The Horse Soldiers, playing the secondary, but pivotal, role of Lukey,[81] the housekeeper (and slave) to Miss Hannah Hunter, mistress of Greenbriar Plantation. Lukey's dialog was originally written in "Negro" dialect that Gibson found offensive. She informed Ford that she would not deliver her lines as written. Though Ford was notorious for his intolerance of actors' demands,[82] he agreed to modify the script.[83]
In 1968, with the advent of the Open Era, Gibson began entering major tennis tournaments again; but by then—in her forties—she was unable to compete effectively against younger players.[84]
In 1972, Gibson began running Pepsi Cola's national mobile tennis project, which brought portable nets and other equipment to underprivileged areas in major cities.[85] She ran multiple other clinics and tennis outreach programs over the next three decades, and coached numerous rising competitors, includingLeslie Allen andZina Garrison. "She pushed me as if I were a pro, not a junior," wrote Garrison in her 2001 memoir. "I owe the opportunity I received to her."[86]
In the early 1970s, Gibson began directing women's sports and recreation for theEssex County Parks Commission inNew Jersey. In 1976, she was appointed New Jersey's athletic commissioner, the first woman in the country to hold such a role, but resigned after one year due to lack of autonomy, budgetary oversight, and inadequate funding. "I don't wish to be a figurehead", she said.[87]
In 1976, Gibson made it to the finals of the ABC television programSuperstars, finishing first in basketball shooting and bowling, and runner-up in softball throwing.[88]
In 1977, Gibson challenged incumbent Essex County State SenatorFrank J. Dodd in the Democratic primary for his seat.[89] She came in second behind Dodd, but ahead of AssemblymanEldridge Hawkins. Gibson went on to manage the Department of Recreation inEast Orange, New Jersey. She also served on the State Athletic Control Board and became supervisor of the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.[90]
Gibson attempted a golf comeback, in 1987, at age 60, with the goal of becoming the oldest active tour player, but was unable to regain her tour card.[91] In a second memoir,So Much to Live For, she articulated her disappointments, including unfulfilled aspirations, the paucity of endorsements and other professional opportunities, and the many obstacles of all sorts that were thrown in her path over the years.[92]
Althea Gibson married William Darben in 1965, and the couple divorced in 1976.[93] In 1983, she married Sydney Llewellyn, who had been her coach during her prime tennis years, but that marriage also ended in divorce. Gibson did not have any children.[94]
In the late 1980s, Gibson's health began to decline after she suffered twocerebral hemorrhages, followed by astroke in 1992. The resulting medical expenses led to significant financial difficulties. Despite reaching out to several tennis organizations for assistance, she did not receive any support.[30] Her situation came to light when former doubles partner Angela Buxton publicly shared Gibson's plight with the tennis community, successfully raising nearly $1 million in donations from supporters worldwide.[95][96]
Gibson survived aheart attack in 2003, but died on September 28 of that year due to complications from respiratory and bladder infections. Her body was interred in theRosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey, near her first husband, Will.[97][98]
It would be 15 years until another non-White woman—Evonne Goolagong—won a Grand Slam championship in 1971; and 43 years until another African-American woman,Serena Williams, won the first of her six US Opens in 1999, not long after faxing a letter and list of questions to Gibson.[99] Serena's sisterVenus then won back-to-back titles at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2000 and 2001, repeating Gibson's accomplishment of 1957 and 1958.
A decade after Gibson's last triumph at the US Nationals,Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win a Grand Slam singles title, at the1968 US Open.Billie Jean King said, "If it hadn't been for [Althea], it wouldn't have been so easy for Arthur, or the ones who followed."[100]
In 1980, Gibson became one of the first six inductees into theInternational Women's Sports Hall of Fame, placing her on par with such pioneers asAmelia Earhart,Wilma Rudolph,Gertrude Ederle,Babe Didrikson Zaharias, andPatty Berg.[101] Other inductions included the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame, theInternational Tennis Hall of Fame, theFlorida Sports Hall of Fame, the Black Athletes Hall of Fame, theSports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, theNew Jersey Hall of Fame, the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame, and theNational Women's Hall of Fame.[102] She received aCandace Award from theNational Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1988.[103]
In 1991, Gibson became the first woman to receive theTheodore Roosevelt Award, the highest honor from theNational Collegiate Athletic Association; she was cited for "symbolizing the best qualities of competitive excellence and good sportsmanship, and for her significant contributions to expanding opportunities for women and minorities through sports."[104]Sports Illustrated for Women named her to its list of the "100 Greatest Female Athletes".[105]
In a 1977 historical analysis of women in sports,The New York Times columnistWilliam C. Rhoden wrote
Althea Gibson and Wilma Rudolph are, without question, the most significant athletic forces among Black women in sports history. While Rudolph's accomplishments brought morevisibility to women as athletes ... Althea's accomplishments were morerevolutionary because of the psychosocial impact on Black America. Even to those Blacks who hadn't the slightest idea of where or what Wimbledon was, her victory, like Jackie Robinson's in baseball andJack Johnson's in boxing, proved again that Blacks, when given an opportunity, could compete at any level in American society.[106]
On opening night of the2007 US Open, the 50th anniversary of her first victory at its predecessor, the US National Championships, Gibson was inducted into the US Open Court of Champions.[107][108] "It was the quiet dignity with which Althea carried herself during the turbulent days of the 1950s that was truly remarkable," said USTA president Alan Schwartz, at the ceremony:
[Her] legacy ... lives on, not only in the stadiums of professional tournaments, but also in schools and parks throughout the nation. Every time a Black child or a Hispanic child or an Islamic child picks up a tennis racket for the first time, Althea touches another life. When she began playing, less than five percent of tennis newcomers were minorities. Today, some 30 percent are minorities, two-thirds of whom are African American. This is her legacy.[109]
Gibson's five Wimbledon trophies are displayed at theSmithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.[110] The Althea Gibson Cup seniors tournament is held annually inCroatia, under the auspices of theInternational Tennis Federation (ITF).[111] The Althea Gibson Foundation identifies and supports gifted golf and tennis players who live in urban environments.[112] In 2005 Gibson's friendBill Cosby endowed the Althea Gibson Scholarship at her alma mater, Florida A&M University.[113]
In September 2009, Wilmington, North Carolina, named its new community tennis court facility the Althea Gibson Tennis Complex at Empie Park.[114] Other tennis facilities named in her honor include those at Manning High School (near her birthplace in Silver, South Carolina),[115] the Family Circle Tennis Center inCharleston, South Carolina.[116] and Florida A&M University.[117]
In 2012, abronze statue, created by sculptor Thomas Jay Warren, was dedicated atBranch Brook Park inNewark, New Jersey near the courts named in her honor where she ran clinics for young players in her later years.[118][119][120]
In August 2013, theUnited States Postal Service issued apostage stamp honoring Gibson, the 36th in its Black Heritage series.[121][122] A documentary titledAlthea, produced for theAmerican Masters Series onPBS, premiered in September 2015.[123]
In November 2017, theCouncil of Paris inaugurated theGymnase Althea Gibson, a public multisport gymnasium in the12th arrondissement of Paris.[124] Gibson will be honored on a U.S. quarter in 2025 as part of the final year of theAmerican Women quarters program.[125]
In 2018, the USTA unanimously voted to erect a statue honoring Gibson at Flushing Meadows, site of the US Open.[126] The statue, created by sculptor Eric Goulder and unveiled in 2019,[127] is only the second Flushing Meadows monument erected in honor of a champion.[19] "Althea reoriented the world and changed our perceptions of what is possible," said Goulder. "We are still struggling. But she broke the ground."[19] The Gibson comemorative also includes footage from her games and a voice over recorded by Gibson herself.[23]
"I hope that I have accomplished just one thing", she said, in her 1958 retirement speech, "that I have been a credit to tennis, and to my country."[128] "By all measures," reads the inscription on her Newark statue, "Althea Gibson certainly attained that goal."[129]
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1956 | French Championships | Clay |  Angela Mortimer | 6–0, 12–10 | [130] |
| Loss | 1956 | US Championships | Grass | Shirley Fry | 3–6, 4–6 | [131] |
| Loss | 1957 | Australian Championships | Grass | Shirley Fry | 3–6, 4–6 | [132] |
| Win | 1957 | Wimbledon | Grass | Darlene Hard | 6–3, 6–2 | [133] |
| Win | 1957 | US Championships | Grass | Louise Brough | 6–3, 6–2 | [131] |
| Win | 1958 | Wimbledon(2) | Grass | Angela Mortimer | 8–6, 6–2 | [134] |
| Win | 1958 | US Championships(2) | Grass | Darlene Hard | 3–6, 6–1, 6–2 | [131] |
Key: (#) denotes her number of singles titles at the tournament at the time.
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1956 | French Championships | Clay | Angela Buxton | Darlene HardDorothy Head Knode | 6–8, 8–6, 6–1 | [30] |
| Win | 1956 | Wimbledon | Grass | Angela Buxton |  Fay MullerDaphne Seeney | 6–1, 8–6 | [135] |
| Win | 1957 | Australian Championships | Grass | Shirley Fry | Mary Bevis HawtonFay Muller | 6–2, 6–1 | [136] |
| Win | 1957 | Wimbledon(2) | Grass | Darlene Hard | Mary Bevis HawtonThelma Coyne Long | 6–1, 6–2 | [137] |
| Loss | 1957 | US Championships | Grass | Darlene Hard | Louise BroughMargaret Osborne duPont | 2–6, 5–7 | [138] |
| Win | 1958 | Wimbledon(3) | Grass |  Maria Bueno | Margaret Osborne duPontMargaret Varner Bloss | 6–3, 7–5 | [139] |
| Loss | 1958 | US Championships | Grass | Maria Bueno | Darlene HardJeanne Arth | 6–2, 3–6, 4–6 | [138] |
Key: (#) denotes her number of doubles titles at the tournament at the time.
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 1956 | Wimbledon | Grass | Gardnar Mulloy | Shirley FryVic Seixas | 6–2, 2–6, 5–7 | [140] |
| Loss | 1957 | Wimbledon | Grass | Neale Fraser | Darlene HardMervyn Rose | 4–6, 5–7 | [141] |
| Win | 1957 | US Championships | Grass |  Kurt Nielsen | Darlene HardRobert Howe | 6–3, 9–7 | [142] |
| Loss | 1958 | Wimbledon | Grass | Kurt Nielsen | Lorraine Coghlan Robert Howe | 3–6, 11–13 | [143] |
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| Tournament | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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| Australian Championships | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | F | A | 0 / 1 | 4–1 | 80% |
| French Championships | A | A | A | A | A | A | W | A | A | 1 / 1 | 6–0 | 100% |
| Wimbledon Championships | A | 3R | A | A | A | A | QF | W | W | 2 / 4 | 17–2 | 89% |
| US Championships | 2R | 3R | 3R | QF | 1R | 3R | F | W | W | 2 / 9 | 27–7 | 79% |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 15–2 | 16–1 | 12–0 | 5 / 15 | 54–10 | 84% |
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