Angela Mortimer

Angela Mortimer
MBE
Full nameFlorence Angela Margaret Mortimer Barrett
Country (sports)United Kingdom Great Britain
Born (1932-04-21) 21 April 1932 (age 92)
Plymouth, England
Int. Tennis HoF1993 (member page)
Singles
Career record603-90 (87%)
Career titles108
Highest rankingNo. 1 (1961, Lance Tingay)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (1958)
French OpenW (1955)
WimbledonW (1961)
US OpenSF (1961)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenF (1958)
WimbledonW (1955)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenF (1958)
Team competitions
Wightman CupW (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.

  1. ^ "Australian Open results archive – 1958 Mixed Doubles". Tennis Australia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Mr SW19 John Barrett looks back over the BBC's 90 years of Wimbledon memories".