Margaret Court had quite the tennis career. She was known as tall, athletic and very powerful. She is the holder of 24 Grand Slam singles titles which is the most of all-time (take that Roger). She also won the calendar Slam in 1970 and won 3 of the 4 in other four other years, '62, '65, '69 and '73.
Court won 11 homeland titles in Australia, 5 each at Roland Garros and the US Open and 3 at Wimbledon. She also earned the #1 ranking in 1973 - she would certainly have been #1 sooner but the official rankings began in '72.
Margaret was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979.
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