Doris Hart

Doris Hart was a professional tennis player from the United States of America. Her legendary career is an inspiration for success despite seeming impossibilities.

Player Profile

Doris Hart was born on June 20, 1925, in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States of America. She was infected with osteomyelitis, a disease that causes swelling in the bone tissue when she was only fifteen (15) months old.

With the disease affecting her knee, it seemed impossible for Hart to pursue an athletic career, much more to strive to become a sports legend. Then Hart smashed the barriers of impossibility when, at six years old, she started playing tennis as a therapy.

The treatment was so successful and the young Doris Jane showed so much prowess and potential in the sport that the family supported her athletic pursuits.

She died on May 29, 2015 (aged 89) in Coral Gables, Florida in the United States of America.

Career

By her teenage years, Hart had established herself as a force on the tennis court, belonging to the Top 10 rank and staying there, until 1955.

Despite her bowed legs, Hart was a brilliant sensation on the court.

Her amazing control of the tennis racket made her innovate and develop a great variety of shots that were deemed ‘crisp and stylish’. She was a great doubles player, winning eleven (11) major championships with Shirley Fry.

In 1951, she earned the distinction, along with two other women tennis players, to be a Wimbledon Triple Crown awardee. In 1954, she pulled off the very same feat, earning the No.1 ranking with a triple crown at the U.S. nationals and winning the USTA Service Bowl Award the very same year.

After retiring from tennis in 1955, Hart retired and took up a teaching profession.

Career Record

Singles

• Highest Ranking: No. 1 (1951)

Best Grand Slam Singles Performances

• Australian Open - W (1949)
• French Open - W (1950, 1952)
• Wimbledon - W (1951)
• US Open - W (1954, 1955)

Doubles

Best Grand Slam Doubles Performances

• Australian Open - W (1950)
• French Open - W (1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953)
• Wimbledon - W (1947, 1951, 1952, 1953)
• US Open - W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954)

Best Grand Slam Mixed Doubles Performances

• Australian Open - W (1949, 1950)
• French Open - W (1951, 1952, 1953)
• Wimbledon - W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955)
• US Open - W (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955)

People Ask

When was Doris Hart inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame?

>She was part of the class of 1969.

Where did Doris Hart go to college?

>She attended the University of Miami.

How old was Doris Hart when she died?

>She died on May 29, 2015, at the age of 89 years old.