(1942-08-23) August 23, 1942 (age 81) San Angelo, TX, US
Height
5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Plays
Right-handed
Int. Tennis HoF
2003 (member page)
Singles
Career record
664–169 (79.7%)
Career titles
73
Highest ranking
No.2 (1969)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
W (1967)
French Open
W (1968)
Wimbledon
SF (1968)
US Open
F (1966, 1969)
Doubles
Career record
no value
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
W (1966)
French Open
F (1969)
Wimbledon
W (1966)
US Open
W (1965, 1966)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon
QF (1965)
Team competitions
Fed Cup
W (1969)
Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942) is an American former tennis player. Richey won two major singles titles (the 1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four major women's doubles titles (the 1965 US Championships, 1966 Australian Championships, 1966 Wimbledon Championships, and 1966 US Championships). She was ranked world No. 2 in singles at year-end in 1969. Richey won 73 singles titles during her career and helped the US win the Federation Cup in 1969. She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships a record six consecutive years, from 1963 through 1968.
Richey married Kenneth S. Gunter on December 15, 1970. They were divorced on December 28, 1976, and Richey reverted to her maiden name. She is the sister of American tennis player Cliff Richey. They were the first brother-sister combination to both be concurrently ranked in the USA Top Ten. They were ranked in the Top Three concurrently in 1965, 1967, 1969 and 1970.[1] Nancy Richey was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003.
^Bill Shannon, ed. (1981). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (3rd, Revised and updated ed.). New York [u.a.]: Harper & Row. pp. 427, 433, 434. ISBN 9780060148966.
NancyRichey (born August 23, 1942) is an American former tennis player. Richey won two major singles titles (the 1967 Australian Championships and 1968...
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final of the Federation Cup. At the U.S. Championships, fifth-seeded NancyRichey upset third-seeded King in the quarterfinals. Late in the year, King...
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event in 1984). It was at this point that Navratilova began working with Nancy Lieberman to improve her fitness and toughen her mental approach to better...
Karen Hantze Susman 1965: Carole Caldwell Graebner / NancyRichey 1966: Maria Bueno / NancyRichey 1967: Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King Open Era 1968:...
Karen Hantze Susman 1965: Carole Caldwell Graebner / NancyRichey 1966: Maria Bueno / NancyRichey 1967: Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King Open Era 1968:...
Karen Hantze Susman 1965: Carole Caldwell Graebner / NancyRichey 1966: Maria Bueno / NancyRichey 1967: Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King Open Era 1968:...
Smith Court 1965: Margaret Smith Court 1966: Margaret Smith Court 1967: NancyRichey 1968: Billie Jean Moffitt King Open Era 1969: Margaret Court 1970: Margaret...
(1972)). Versus #5 seeds, King was 0–2 (Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat (1980), NancyRichey Gunter (1968)). Versus #6 seeds, King was 1–0 (Virginia Wade (1972))...
Karen Hantze Susman 1965: Carole Caldwell Graebner / NancyRichey 1966: Maria Bueno / NancyRichey 1967: Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King Open Era 1968:...
Smith Court 1965: Margaret Smith Court 1966: Margaret Smith Court 1967: NancyRichey 1968: Billie Jean Moffitt King Open Era 1969: Margaret Court 1970: Margaret...
Karen Hantze Susman 1965: Carole Caldwell Graebner / NancyRichey 1966: Maria Bueno / NancyRichey 1967: Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King Open Era 1968:...
against Mary Joe Fernández, 6–3 against Gabriela Sabatini, 6–5 against NancyRichey Gunter (winning the last six matches), 6–8 against Steffi Graf (losing...
Smith Court 1965: Margaret Smith Court 1966: Margaret Smith Court 1967: NancyRichey 1968: Billie Jean Moffitt King Open Era 1969: Margaret Court 1970: Margaret...
Smith Court 1965: Margaret Smith Court 1966: Margaret Smith Court 1967: NancyRichey 1968: Billie Jean Moffitt King Open Era 1969: Margaret Court 1970: Margaret...
Coyne Long Simonne Mathieu Elisabeth Moore Angela Mortimer Betty Nuthall NancyRichey Ellen Roosevelt Dorothy Round Elizabeth Ryan Margaret Scriven Eleonora...
Smith Court 1965: Margaret Smith Court 1966: Margaret Smith Court 1967: NancyRichey 1968: Billie Jean Moffitt King Open Era 1969: Margaret Court 1970: Margaret...
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