Court, Margaret Smith (1942–)

Australian tennis player. Name variations: Margaret Smith; Margaret Court; Mrs. Barry M. Court; Reverend Margaret Court. Born July 16, 1942, in Albury, NSW, Australia; attended St. Augustine's Convent, c. 1956, and Albury Technical College; m. Barry M. Court (yachtsman and wool broker, later Western Australia agricultural minister), Oct 28, 1967.

Won Australian singles (1960–66, 1969–71, 1973); won French singles (1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973); won Wimbledon singles (1963, 1965, 1970); won US singles (1962, 1965, 1969–70, 1973), Australian doubles (1961–63, 1965, 1969–71, 1973), French doubles (1964–66, 1973), Wimbledon doubles (1964, 1969), US doubles (1963, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1975), Australian mixed (1963–64), French mixed (1963–65, 1969), Wimbledon mixed (1963, 1965–66, 1968, 1975), US mixed (1961–65, 1969–70, 1972) and Federation Cup (1963–65, 1968–69, 1971); was the 4th player in history to win the Grand Slam (1970); won 16 out of 18 tournaments and 78 out of 80 singles matches, 8 out of 10 tournaments on Virginia Slims Tour (1972–April 1973); in a much publicized match, lost to Bobby Riggs, former US tennis professional (May 1973); won Virginia Slims Trophy (1973); retired (1975). Inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.

See also autobiographies, The Margaret Smith Story (1965) and Court on Court: A Life in Tennis (1975); and Women in World History.