Louise Brough

Louise Brough
Louise Brough in 1948
Full nameAlthea Louise Brough
Country (sports) United States
Born(1923-03-11)March 11, 1923
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
DiedFebruary 3, 2014(2014-02-03) (aged 90)
Vista, California
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Retired1959
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Int. Tennis HoF1967 (member page) (member page)
Singles
Career record614-134 (82.10%)
Career titles59
Highest rankingNo. 1 (1955, Lance Tingay)[1]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (1950)
French OpenSF (1946, 1947, 1950)
WimbledonW (1948, 1949, 1950, 1955)
US OpenW (1947)
Doubles
Career record0–0
Highest rankingNo. 1 (1946)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (1950)
French OpenW (1946, 1947, 1949)
WimbledonW (1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954)
US OpenW (1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
WimbledonW (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950)
US OpenW (1942, 1947, 1948, 1949)
Team competitions
Wightman CupW (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950)

Althea Louise Brough Clapp (née Brough; March 11, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American tennis player. In her career between 1939 and 1959, she won six Grand Slam titles in singles as well as numerous doubles and mixed-doubles titles. At the end of the 1955 tennis season, Lance Tingay of the London Daily Telegraph ranked her world No. 1 for the year.

  1. ^ Collins, Bud (2008). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book. New York, N.Y: New Chapter Press. pp. 695, 702–3. ISBN 978-0-942257-41-0.