Zsuzsi Kormoczy

Zsuzsi Kormoczy was a Hungarian tennis player. During the 1958 French championship, she won the singles title at the age of 33 and was able to reach the semi finals at Wimbledon. She was ranked in the world top ten in 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1958. She was ranked again on 1959 until 1961. She received no rankings during 1940 until 1945. She even reached the 2nd rank in 1958.

On the French championship, she defeated Shirley Bloomer Brasher by the score of 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. And on the French Open in 1959, she received the runner up title with her opponent Christine Truman Janes with a very tight score of 6-4, 7-5. She did not join any Australian Championship matches. She was no also there during the U.S Championships not until the year 1963 where she won two grand slam single titles.

She didn’t also join the French Championships starting from the year 1949 up to 1951. In 1954, she didn’t participate in the Australian Championship, the French Championship, Wimbledon, and the U.S Championship. In 1963, she received three remarkable Grand Slam single titles.

She retired of playing tennis in 1964 to work as coach for Vasas (the Iron Worker Union’s Sports Club) and became the national tennis association’s manager. When the communism stopped, she was decorated by the new democratic governments in 1994 and 2003.

She received the award as Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in 1958. To honor her as one of the many talented personalities that the Hungarian race had produced.