DARLENE HARD

' Darlene Hard '

Personal information
'Date of birth'
'Place of birth'	Los Angeles, CA
Grand Slam Championships
Singles (3)
France	1960
United States	1960, 1961
Doubles (13)
France	1955, 1957, 1960
Wimbledon	1957, 1959, 1960, 1963
United States	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1969

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'Darlene Hard' (born January 6, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a tennis player known for her volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Championships in 1960 and 1961.
With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 U.S. Open, came six years after she had retired from serious competition to become a tennis instructor. She was enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1973.
Hard once said, "I was the last of the amateurs. In our day, I won Forest Hills and got my airfare from New York to Los Angeles. Whoopee." But, she added, "I was happy. I loved it. I loved tennis."
She has worked for the University of Southern California since 1981.[1]

Contents

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (3)

Runner-ups (4)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

See also

External links

Grand Slam record

★ Australian Championships

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★ Women's Doubles finalist: 1962

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★ Mixed Doubles finalist: 1962

★ French Championships

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★ 'Singles champion': '1960'

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★ 'Women's Doubles champion': '1955', '1957', '1960'

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★ Women's Doubles finalist: 1956, 1961

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★ 'Mixed Doubles champion': '1955', '1961'

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★ Mixed Doubles runner-up: 1956

★ Wimbledon

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★ Singles finalist: 1957, 1959

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★ 'Women's Doubles champion': '1957', '1959', '1960', '1963'

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★ 'Mixed Doubles champion': '1957', '1959', '1960'

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★ Mixed Doubles finalist: 1963

★ U.S. Championships/Open

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★ 'Singles champion': '1960', '1961'

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★ Singles finalist: 1958, 1962

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★ 'Women's Doubles champion': '1958', '1959', '1960', '1961', '1962', '1969'

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★ Women's Doubles finalist: 1957, 1963

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★ Mixed Doubles finalist: 1956, 1957, 1961

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (3)

'Year	'Championship	'Opponent in Final	'Score in Final
1960	French Championships	Yola Ramírez Ochoa	6-3, 6-4
1960	U.S. Championships	Maria Bueno	6-4, 10-12, 6-4
1961	U.S. Championships	Ann Haydon Jones	6-3, 6-4

Runner-ups (4)

'Year	'Championship	'Opponent in Final	'Score in Final
1957	Wimbledon	Althea Gibson	6-3, 6-2
1958	U.S. Championships	Althea Gibson	3-6, 6-1, 6-2
1959	Wimbledon	Maria Bueno	6-4, 6-3
1962	U.S. Championships	Margaret Smith Court	9-7, 6-4

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Tournament	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964 - 1968	1969	1970	Career SR
Australian Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	A	'0 / 1'
French Championships	A	A	2R	3R	QF	A	A	'W'	4R	A	2R	A	A	A	'1 / 6'
Wimbledon	A	A	SF	3R	F	A	F	QF	A	QF	SF	A	A	A	'0 / 7'
United States	2R	SF	3R	QF	SF	F	SF	'W'	'W'	F	QF	A	2R	2R	'2 / 13'
SR	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 1	0 / 2	2 / 3	1 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	'3 / 27'

A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

See also

★ Tennis

★ Sports

★ Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

External links

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★ Darlene Hard Biography