Sport for Women

Margaret Court

Type: Player/Athlete
Sports: Tennis
Location: Australia

Margaret Court (nee Smith) is widely considered to be one of the greatest tennis players in the history of the game. Between 1960 and 1975, she won a record 62 Grand Slam titles - 24 singles, 19 women's doubles and 19 mixed doubles. In 1970, she became only the second female player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in a year. Maureen Connolly in 1953 and Steffi Graf in 1988 are the only other women to have achieved this. During her tennis career she was ranked number one in the world seven times.

Read more at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.