Full name | Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett |
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Country (sports) | Great Britain |
Born | Plymouth, England | 21 April 1932
Int. Tennis HoF | 1993 (member page) |
Singles | |
Career record | 603-90 (87%) |
Career titles | 108 |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (1961, Lance Tingay) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | W (1958) |
French Open | W (1955) |
Wimbledon | W (1961) |
US Open | SF (1961) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | F (1958) |
Wimbledon | W (1955) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Australian Open | F (1958) |
Team competitions | |
Wightman Cup | W (1960) |
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett, MBE (née Mortimer; born 21 April 1932) is a British former world No. 1 tennis player. Mortimer won three Grand Slam singles titles: the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Championships, and 1961 Wimbledon Championships when she was 29 years old and partially deaf.
Mortimer also teamed with Anne Shilcock to win the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1955, her only women's doubles title at a major. She teamed with Coghlan to reach the women's doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships. Mortimer and Peter Newman reached the mixed doubles final at the 1958 Australian Championships,[1] her only mixed doubles final at a major.
She is married to the former player and broadcaster John Barrett.[2] Following the death of Shirley Fry in 2021, Mortimer became the longest still surviving Wimbledon ladies singles champion.