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Margaret CourtAC MBE (néeSmith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles (including 19 major women's doubles and 21 major mixed doubles titles) are the most in tennis history.
Court was born in Albury, New South Wales. In 1960, aged 17, she won the first of seven consecutive Australian Open singles titles. She completed the career Grand Slam in singles aged 21 with her victory at Wimbledon in 1963. Taking a brief hiatus in 1966 and 1967, Court played as an amateur until the advent of the Open Era in 1968. She completed the Grand Slam by winning all four major singles titles in 1970, part of a record six consecutive major singles victories. Court gave birth to her first child in 1972, but returned to tennis later in the year and won three major singles titles in 1973. She took similar breaks after her second and third children were born, retiring from the game in 1977.
Court's all-surface (hard, clay, grass and carpet) singles career-winning percentage of 91.69 is the fourth best of all time.[1][2] Her Open-Era singles career winning percentage of 91.02% (608–60) is unequalled, as is her Open-Era winning percentage of 91.67% (11–1) in major singles finals.[3] Her win–loss performance in all major singles tournaments was 90.00% (207–23). She was 95.24% (60–3) at the Australian Open, 89.80% (44–5) at the French Open, 85.00% (51–9) at Wimbledon, and 89.66% (52–6) at the US Open. She also shares the Open-Era record for most major singles titles won as a mother with Kim Clijsters, at three.[4] In 1973, Court set the record for the most singles titles won at a single major (for either women's or men's), with 11 Australian Open titles. This record was surpassed by Rafael Nadal in 2019 when he won his 12th French Open title, but it remains a women's record.
Court is one of only three players in history (all women) to have won the "Boxed Set", consisting of every major title (the singles, doubles and mixed doubles). She is the only player in tennis history to complete a double Boxed Set. Uniquely, she won all twelve events as an amateur and then, after a hiatus from the sport, returned as a professional to win all twelve again (including a shared title in the 1969 Australian Open mixed doubles, after the final was abandoned and not contested). Court is also one of only six tennis players to win a double career Grand Slam in two disciplines, matching Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova, Frank Sedgman, Doris Hart, and Serena Williams. She also won the Fed Cup with Australia on four occasions. The International Tennis Hall of Fame states "For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match (her)."[5] In 2010, the Herald Sun called her the greatest female tennis player of all time, a view supported by Evonne Goolagong Cawley.[6][7]
Having grown up as a Roman Catholic, Court became associated with Pentecostalism in the 1970s and became a Christian minister in that tradition in 1991. She later founded Margaret Court Ministries.
^Russell, Bill (11 January 2019). "Top 10 Greatest Female Tennis Players Of All Time (2019 UPDATED)". Sporteology. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^"Margaret Court records: International Hall of Fame". Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^"Stats Corner: Kim Joins Elite Club". WTA. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
^"Maternal glow: Mothers who have won Slams". WTA Tour.
^"Hall of Famers – Margaret Court Smith "The Arm"". International Tennis Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 19 November 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2007.
^Schlink, Leo. "Legend Margaret Court tips Sam Stosur to win French Open". Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
^"Margaret Court the greatest: Evonne Goolagong Cawley". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 January 2017. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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venue with a capacity of 15,000, while John Cain Arena seats 10,500 and MargaretCourt Arena 7,500. The three venues feature retractable roofs, allowing events...
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nine times. Navratilova is one of the three tennis players, along with MargaretCourt and Doris Hart, to have accomplished a career Grand Slam in singles...
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extreme heat with its three primary courts, Rod Laver Arena, John Cain Arena and the refurbished MargaretCourt Arena equipped with retractable roofs...
be talking about Monica with the most Grand Slam titles [ahead of] MargaretCourt or Steffi Graf." Mary Joe Fernandez declared that Seles would have at...
a main character in the show. In 2017, she portrayed tennis player MargaretCourt in Battle of the Sexes. In 2018, McNamee played the lead role of Jenna...
combination. MargaretCourt's (1965 and 1969) and Owen Davidson's (1965) Australian mixed doubles titles were unplayed finals. In 1965, MargaretCourt won a...
In the Open Era, several female players such as Martina Navratilova, MargaretCourt, Martina Hingis, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams (the latter two...
list of the main career statistics of Australian former tennis player MargaretCourt. She won 64 Grand Slam events (24 singles, 19 doubles, 21 mixed doubles)...
singles and the Australian Open doubles championships (the latter with MargaretCourt). She won the women's singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1971. In 1980...
1962. Wade also won four Major women's doubles championships with Margaret Smith Court – two of them at the US Open tennis tournament, one at the Australian...
between MargaretCourt and Billie Jean King. More than 8,000 people attended the match, well above the seating capacity of 3,500 on Centre Court. Lenglen...
held two such events, first against the No. 1–ranked woman player Margaret Smith Court, which he won, and another against the then-current women's champion...
1961, she was the sixth seed at Wimbledon and defeated the second seed Margaret Smith 3–6, 6–3, 9–7 in a quarterfinal after trailing 4–1 in the final set...
crossing the border at Berwick upon Tweed on 1 August 1503, Margaret was met by the Scottish court at Lamberton. At Dalkeith Palace, James came to kiss her...
Australian Championships and the French Championships, losing both finals to Margaret Smith. Bueno reached at least the quarterfinals in each of the first 26...
Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from...
The Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) or Palace of Margaret of Austria is an early 16th-century building in Mechelen, Belgium. It was one of the first Renaissance...