Ann Jones (tennis)

Ann Shirley Jones, CBE (née Adrianne Haydon on 17 October 1938,^[2] also known as Ann Haydon-Jones) is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.^[2] As of 2023, she serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.^[3]

Ann Jones
CBE

Jones as the Daily Express Sports Woman of the Year 1969
Full name	Ann Shirley Jones
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Born	Adrianne Haydon (1938-10-17) 17 October 1938 (age 85) Kings Heath, Birmingham, England
Plays	Left-handed
Int. Tennis HoF	1985 (member page)
Singles
Career record	1077-244 (81.5%)
Career titles	136
Highest ranking	No. 2 (1967, Lance Tingay)^[1]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	SF (1969)
French Open	W (1961, 1966)
Wimbledon	W (1969)
US Open	F (1961, 1967)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1969)
French Open	W (1963, 1968, 1969)
Wimbledon	F (1968)
US Open	F (1960)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (1969)
French Open	F (1960, 1966, 1967)
Wimbledon	W (1969)

Career

Table tennis

Jones was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England.^[4] Her parents were prominent table tennis players, her father, Adrian Haydon, having been English number 1 and a competitor at world championships between 1928 and 1953. Ann, as a young girl, also took up the game, participating in five world championships in the 1950s, the best result being losing finalist in singles, doubles and mixed doubles all in Stockholm 1957.^[5] Soon after this she wrote the book Tackle Table Tennis This Way.^[6]

Jones also won two English Open titles in women's doubles as Haydon.

Tennis

 

Jones after winning the 1969 Wimbledon title

She was also a powerful lawn tennis player, winning the 1954 and 1955 British junior championships. In 1956, she won the Wimbledon girls' singles championship.

Jones played lawn tennis in a highly competitive era that included some of the greatest female tennis players of all time, such as Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, and Maria Bueno. Despite the fierce competition, she won the 1961 French Championships,^[7] beating Margaret Smith, former champion Zsuzsa Körmöczy and Yola Ramírez and reached the final of the 1961 U.S. Championships, beating Wimbledon champion Angela Mortimer, losing to the defending champion Darlene Hard. In 1962, she married Philip F. Jones and played as Ann Haydon-Jones. A debilitating back and neck injury hampered her career in 1964/1965, yet she recovered sufficiently to reach the quarterfinals of the French championships in 1965, yet was controversially unseeded for that year's Wimbledon singles. This led to a fourth-round clash with the top-seeded defending champion Maria Bueno, which many thought was an imbalanced draw.^[8] Jones won the French title for a second time in 1966, beating Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey.^[7] She also won the Italian championships that year, beating Françoise Dürr and Annette Van Zyl.

At both the Wimbledon Championships and the U.S. Championships in 1967, Jones lost in the final to King.^[7][9] Two years later, however, the two again met in the Wimbledon final. This time, Jones took the most coveted title in the sport,^[9] making her the first left-handed female player to do so. She rounded off that year's Wimbledon by winning the mixed doubles championship with Australia's Fred Stolle. Her performances resulted in her being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.^[7] Jones made Wimbledon 1969 her last Grand Slam singles event. She was seeded number one for the 1969 US Open but withdrew before the tournament began. She radically reduced her playing schedule for 1970, playing in South Africa where she won the Orange Free State Championships and the Western Province Championships. She then largely played only events in the United Kingdom for the remainder of the year. She returned to the international scene to play the Federation Cup event in Australia, where she partnered Virginia Wade on the British team.^[2] In 1971, Jones played on the Virginia Slims circuit, winning the U.S.$10,000 first prize for the event staged in Las Vegas, beating King in the final. Jones more or less retired after this event as she was expecting her first child. However, she continued to play the occasional UK event and was part of the 1975 Wightman Cup team for Great Britain. In 1977, Jones teamed with Winnie Wooldridge to play doubles at Wimbledon.^[2]

According to Lance Tingay and Bud Collins, Jones was ranked in the world top 10 from 1957 through 1963 and from 1965 through 1970, reaching a career high of world No. 2 in these rankings in 1967 and 1969.^[1]

According to Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, on 4 July 1969, The Beatles paused the dubbing session for their song "Golden Slumbers" to listen to Jones beat King for the Wimbledon title when live on radio.

With the dawn of the open era in 1968, Jones joined King and others to organise the first professional female touring group. In 1970, she was hired by the BBC as a guest commentator^[7] and worked with it for over three decades, occasionally commentating for tennis coverage on U.S. TV stations. Jones was chairwoman of the Women's International Tennis Council and for many years the British team captain for events such as the Federation and Wightman Cups.^[2]

Over her career, she reached six Wimbledon semifinals in addition to her two appearances in the final: in 1958, beating Maria Bueno and losing to defending champion Althea Gibson; 1960, beating Renée Schuurman Haygarth and losingto Sandra Reynolds; 1962, beating Billie Jean Moffitt and losing to eventual champion Karen Hantze Susman; 1963, losing to runner-up Billie Jean Moffitt; 1966, beating Nancy Richey and losing a three-set match to Maria Bueno; and 1968 losing, after leading by a set and a break, to holder Billie Jean King.^[10] In the U.S. Nationals, as well as her final appearances in 1961 and 1967, Ann Jones reached three semifinals: in 1959, beating second-seed Sandra Reynolds (Price) and losing to Christine Truman;^[11] in 1963, beating second-seed Darlene Hard and losing 9–7 in the third set to eventual winner Maria Bueno;^[12] and in 1968, losing to eventual winner Virginia Wade.

As well as winning the French Championships twice, Jones reached three other French finals, beating Annette Van Zyl and losing to Nancy Richey in 1968, and beating Rosemary Casals and Lesley Turner and losing in three sets to Margaret Court in 1969. Of her three losing finals in the French championships, there was one which nearly added to her total of wins: 1963 when she led Lesley Turner 5–2 in the final set.^[13] She also reached the semifinals in 1957 aged 18, beating third seed Christiane Mercelis and losing a tough semifinal to Dorothy Head Knode, and in 1962 beating Jan Lehane and losing to Lesley Turner.^[14]

In the British Hard Courts championships, after losing in the finals in 1958 to Shirley Bloomer Brasher and 1960 to Christine Truman, she was undefeated from 1963 to 1966, winning finals against Norma Baylon, Jan Lehane, Annette Van Zyl and Virginia Wade. She was a stalwart in the Wightman Cup from 1957 (aged 18, beating Darlene Hard, then Wimbledon finalist) to 1967, 1970 and 1975, winning the deciding match in 1958 against Mimi Arnold when Britain won for the first time since 1930, taking both her singles against Billie Jean Moffitt and Nancy Richey in 1965 and overall winning nine singles and six doubles. Despite playing at a time when there were four other British winners of the French, Australian, US and Wimbledon titles, (Mortimer, Brasher, Truman and Wade), she was ranked no. 1 in the UK on seven occasions. Naturally a baseliner and effective as such on clay (Tiiu Kivi said it was like playing a brick wall that moved),^[15] she schooled herself to become a most effective net player, perhaps seen at her best when attacking Margaret Court to defeat in the Wimbledon semifinal of 1969. Apart from Althea Gibson, early in her career, there was not a leading player of her era that she did not beat on several occasions.

Personal life

In 1971 she published her tennis autobiography A Game to Love.^[16]

Jones caused something of a stir on 30 August 1962 when she married businessman Philip "Pip" Jones (1907–1993) who was 31 years her senior and five years older than her father.^[4][17] Pip Jones became the first Tour Director of the Virginia Slims Women's Tennis Tour in 1971.^[18][19] The couple's names later became a recurring gag on Monty Python's Flying Circus during its series run, wherein the Pythons frequently inserted "Ann Haydon-Jones and her husband Pip" into any sketch where a list of names was being read.^{[citation needed]}

In 1969, West Bromwich Albion commended Ann Jones on her sporting success and stated that she and her husband were supporters of the club.^[20]

Awards

In 1985, Jones was voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.^[2] For many years, Jones was chairwoman of the International Women's Tennis Council and has long been a member of Wimbledon's Committee of Management. She became the first 'civilian woman' (i.e., not a member of the British Royal Family) to present the trophies at Wimbledon when she awarded the winners of the Mixed Doubles championship their cup in 2007, a ceremony she now regularly performs. She also has presented the junior girls trophy.

Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to tennis.^[21]

The stadium court at the Edgbaston Priory Tennis Club was renamed the Ann Jones Centre Court in 2013.^[22]

Grand Slam finals

Including:^[7][9]

Singles: 9 (3–6)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1961	French Championships	Clay	Yola Ramírez	6–2, 6–1
Loss	1961	US Championships	Grass	Darlene Hard	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1963	French Championships	Clay	Lesley Turner	6–2, 3–6, 5–7
Win	1966	French Championships	Clay	Nancy Richey	6–3, 6–1
Loss	1967	Wimbledon	Grass	Billie Jean King	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1967	US Championships	Grass	Billie Jean King	9–11, 4–6
Loss	1968	French Championships	Clay	Nancy Richey	7–5, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	1969	French Open	Clay	Margaret Court	1–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	1969	Wimbledon	Grass	Billie Jean King	3–6, 6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 6 (3–3)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1960	French Championships	Clay	Patricia Ward Hales	Maria Bueno   Darlene Hard	2–6, 5–7
Loss	1960	US Championships	Grass	Deidre Catt	Maria Bueno   Darlene Hard	1–6, 1–6
Win	1963	French Championships	Clay	Renée Schuurman	Margaret Smith   Robyn Ebbern	7–5, 6–4
Win	1968	French Open	Clay	Françoise Dürr	Rosie Casals   Billie Jean King	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	1968	Wimbledon	Grass	Françoise Dürr	Rosie Casals   Billie Jean King	11–9, 4–6, 2–6
Win	1969	French Open	Clay	Françoise Dürr	Margaret Court   Nancy Richey	6–0, 4–6, 7–5

Mixed doubles: 6 (2–4)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1960	French Championships	Clay	Roy Emerson	Maria Bueno   Bob Howe	6–1, 1–6, 2–6
Loss	1962	Wimbledon	Grass	Dennis Ralston	Margaret Osborne duPont   Neale Fraser	6–2, 3–6, 11–13
Loss	1966	French Championships	Clay	Clark Graebner	Annette Van Zyl   Frew McMillan	6–1, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	1967	French Championships	Clay	Ion Țiriac	Billie Jean King   Owen Davidson	3–6, 1–6
Win	1969	Wimbledon	Grass	Fred Stolle	Judy Tegart   Tony Roche	6–2, 6–3
Win	1969	Australian Open	Grass	Fred Stolle	Margaret Court   Marty Riessen	*Shared, final not played

• Although both teams shared the 1969 Australian Open mixed doubles title, it is not counted in the official Grand Slam title count.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	W–L
Australia	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	SF	3–2
France	A	SF	QF	A	3R	W	SF	F	A	QF	W	QF	F	F	44–9
Wimbledon	2R	3R	SF	QF	SF	4R	SF	SF	QF	4R	SF	F	SF	W	57–13
United States	A	QF	3R	SF	QF	F	A	SF	QF	QF	A	F	SF	A	36–10

Doubles

Tournament	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970–1974	1975	1976	1977	W–L
Australia	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	4–2
France	A	2R	SF	A	F	QF	SF	W	A	QF	SF	QF	W	W	A	A	A	A	32–7
Wimbledon	1R	3R	2R	QF	3R	3R	2R	SF	SF	2R	SF	SF	F	3R	A	A	A	3R	33–15
United States	A	QF	SF	SF	F	QF	A	SF	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A	1R	A	A	17–8

Career finals

Singles titles (136)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (3) ILTF Circuit (119) ILTF Grand Prix/VS Circuit (17)

Titles by surface Clay / Outdoor (51) Grass / Outdoor (44) Hard / Outdoor (12) Hard / Indoor (1) Wood / Indoor (24) Carpet / Indoor (4)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	1955	Norfolk Championships	Grass	Honor Durose	6-0, 6-1
Win	2.	1955	Hunaston Tournament	Grass	Mary Harris	6-2, 6-1
Win	3.	1955	Worthing Clay Courts	Clay	S C Collett	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Win	4.	1956	East Gloucestershire Championships	Grass	Viola White	6–1, 5–7, 6–1
Win	5.	1956	Sunderland and Durham Open Championships	Grass	Kay Newcombe	6-1. 6-1
Win	6.	1956	Welsh Championships	Grass	Daphne Seeney	6–2, 6–3
Win	7.	1956	North of England Championships	Grass	Elaine Watson	6–2, 7–5
Win	8.	1956	Worthing Open	Grass	Sheila Griffin Bramley	6–2, 7–5
Win	9.	1957	Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships	Clay	Rita Bentley	6–2, 6–1
Win	10.	1957	Northumberland County Championships	Grass	Karol Fageros	6–4, 5–7, 6–3
Win	11.	1957	South of England Championships	Grass	Angela Mortimer	6–3, 6–4
Win	12.	1957	Sunderland and Durham Open Championships	Grass	Rita Bentley	6–2, 6–2
Win	13.	1957	Worcestershire Championships	Grass	Edda Buding	6–2, 6–4
Win	14.	1958	Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships	Clay	Rita Bentley	6–2, 6–1
Win	16.	1958	Worcestershire Championships	Grass	Edda Buding	6–1, 6–4
Win	17.	1958	Sunderland and Durham Open Championships	Grass	Honor Clarke	6–0, 6–0
Win	18.	1959	Pan American Championships	Clay	Yola Ramírez	6–0, 6–0
Win	19.	1959	Worcestershire Championships	Grass	Sheila Armstrong	6-2, 10-8
Win	20.	1959	Northumberland County Championships	Grass	Shirley Bloomer Brasher	6-1, 6-4
Win	21.	1960	Finnish Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Angela Mortimer	6-3, 6-3
Win	22.	1960	Scandinavian Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Angela Mortimer	9–7, 3–6, 6–2
Win	23.	1960	Good Neighbor Championships	Clay	Barbara Davidson	6-0, 6-1
Win	24.	1960	Masters Invitational	Clay	Donna Floyd	6-1, 6-2
Win	24.	1960	Caribe Hilton Invitational	Hard	Maria Bueno	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win	25.	1960	St. Andrew International Invitation	Grass	Darlene Hard	6-2, 6-3
Win	26.	1960	Caribbean Championships	Grass	Darlene Hard	divided title
Win	27.	1960	Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships	Clay	Heather Cheadle	6–2, 6–1
Win	28.	1960	Sutton Hard Court Championships	Clay	Shirley Brasher	6-2, 6-2
Win	29.	1960	Worcestershire Championships	Grass	Jill Mills	6-1, 6-2
Win	30.	1960	Cologne Tournament	Clay	Sandra Reynolds	Default
Win	31.	1960	Essex County Invitation	Grass	Darlene Hard	6–3, 2–6, 6–1
Win	32.	1960	Pacific Southwest Championships	Hard	Darlene Hard	6-4, 6-3
Win	33.	1960^[23]	Moroccan International Championships	Clay	Jacqueline Rees-Lewis	6-0, 6-2
Win	34.	1960	West German Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Sheila Armstrong	6-3, 6-0
Win	35.	1960	Palace Hotel Covered Courts Championships	Wood (i)	Angela Mortimer	6-4, 6-2
Win	36.	1961	Good Neighbor Championships	Clay	Suzie Körmöczy	6-0, 6-1
Win	37.	1961	French Championships	Clay	Yola Ramírez	6–2, 6–1
Win	38.	1961	Wolverhampton Open	Grass	Lynne Hutchings	6-0, 6-1
Win	39.	1961	Lowther Open	Grass	Shirley Brasher	6-1, 6-2
Win	40.	1961	Irish Championships	Grass	Kathy Chabot	6-0, 6-3
Win	41.	1961	Welsh Championships	Grass	Jill Mills	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
Win	42.	1961	Canadian Championships	Grass	Ann Barclay	6-4, 6-0
Win	43.	1961	Chilean National Championships	Clay	Lea Pericoli	6–4, 7–5
Win	44.	1961	São Paulo International Championships	Clay	Lea Pericoli	6-4, 6-1
Win	45.	1962	Western Province Championships	Hard	Sandra Reynolds Price	6-4, 6-1
Win	46.	1962	Hulett Natal Sugar Open Championships	Hard	Annette Van Zyl	6-2, 6-0
Win	47.	1962	Scandinavian Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Deidre Catt	6-2, 6-4
Win	48.	1962	French Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Rosie Darmon	6-3, 6-1
Win	49.	1962	British Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Christine Truman	6–4, 4–6, 9–7
Win	50.	1962	Cumberland Hard Court Championships	Clay	Lorna Cawthorn	6-2, 6-1
Win	51.	1962	Sutton Hard Court Championships	Clay	Deidre Catt	6-2, 6-1
Win	52.	1962	London Hard Court Championships	Clay	Christine Truman	6-4, 6-1
Win	53.	1962	East Gloucestershire Championships	Grass	Renée Schuurman	6-2, 8-6
Win	54.	1962	Midland Counties Championships	Grass	Rita Bentley	divided title
Win	55.	1962	Welsh Championships	Grass	Jill Mills	6-4, 6-3
Win	56.	1962	Palace Tournament	Clay	Angela Mortimer	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Win	57.	1963	Coupe Pierre Gillou	Wood (i)	Michelle Boulle	6-2, 6-1
Win	58.	1963	German Indoor Championships	Wood (i)	Christiane Mercelis	6–1, 4–6, 8–6
Win	59.	1963	Scandinavian Indoor Championships	Wood (i)	Deidre Catt	6-0, 6-1
Win	60.	1963	French Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Janine Lieffrig	8-6, 6-1
Win	61.	1963	Carlton International	Clay	Mary Habicht	6-0, 6-1
Win	62.	1963	Surrey Hard Court Championships	Clay	Carol Rosser	divided title
Win	63.	1963	British Hard Court Championships	Clay	Norma Baylon	6–0, 1–6, 9–7
Win	64.	1963	London Hard Court Championships	Clay	Christine Truman	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Win	65.	1963	Wolverhampton Open	Grass	Renée Schuurman	9–7, 1–6, 6–4
Win	66.	1963	East Gloucestershire Championships	Grass	Renée Schuurman	7-5, 9-7
Win	67.	1963	Hoylake and West Kirby Open	Grass	Jill Blackman	6-2, 6-1
Win	68.	1963	Carlyon Bay Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Deidre Catt	6-4, 6-3
Win	69.	1964	British Hard Court Championships	Clay	Jan Lehane	6-2, 12-10
Win	70.	1964	Sutton Coldfield Hard Courts Championship	Clay	Rita Bentley	1–6, 8–6, 6–4
Win	71.	1964	Surrey Grass Court Championships	Grass	Carole Caldwell	6-3, 6-1
Win	72.	1964	Bavarian International Championships	Clay	Annette Van Zyl	3–6, 6–2, 6–4
Win	73.	1964	British Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Fay Toyne	6-3, 6-3
Win	74.	1964	Carlyon Bay Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Fay Toyne	9-7, 6-4
Win	75.	1964	Palace Hotel Covered Courts Championships	Wood (i)	Deidre Catt	6-3, 7-5
Win	76.	1965	French Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Elizabeth Starkie	6–3, 6–8, 6–2
Win	77.	1965	Dutch Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Fay Toyne	6-0, 6-2
Win	78.	1965	Cumberland Hard Court Championships	Clay	Christine Truman	4–6, 6–3, 10-8
Win	79.	1965	Surrey Hard Court Championships	Clay	Winnie Shaw	6-3, 6-0
Win	80.	1965	British Hard Court Championships	Clay	Annette Van Zyl	7-5, 6-1
Win	81.	1965	British Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Fay Toyne	6-2, 6-1
Win	82.	1965	Carlyon Bay Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Virginia Wade	7-5, 6-2
Win	83.	1965	Palace Hotel Covered Courts Championships	Wood (i)	Trish Faulkner	6-1, 6-1
Win	84.	1966	German Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Helga Niessen	7–9, 7–5, 6–3
Win	85.	1966	French Covered Court Championships	Wood (i)	Frances MacLennan	6-2, 6-1
Win	86.	1966	Cumberland Hard Court Championships	Clay	Elizabeth Starkie	6-2, 6-2
Win	87.	1966	Connaught Hard Court Championships	Clay	Virginia Wade	6-4, 6-3
Win	88.	1966	British Hard Court Championships	Clay	Virginia Wade	6-3, 6-1
Win	89.	1966	Italian International Championships	Clay	Annette Van Zyl	8-6, 6-1
Win	90.	1966	French Championships	Clay	Nancy Richey	6–2, 6–1
Win	91.	1966	Moscow International Outdoor Championships	Clay	Anna Dmitrieva	6-1, 6-3
Win	92.	1967	German Indoor Championships	Wood (i)	Ingrid Loeys	6-1, 6-1
Win	93.	1967	Scandinavian Indoor Championships	Wood (i)	Galina Baksheeva	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Win	94.	1967	Dixie International Championships	Clay	Françoise Dürr	6-4, 8-6
Win	95.	1967	City of Barranquilla Championships	Clay	Françoise Dürr	6-3, 6-4
Win	96.	1967	Caracas International Championships	Clay	Virginia Wade	6-2, 6-3
Win	97.	1967	Curaçao International Championships	Clay	Françoise Dürr	6-1, 6-2
Win	98.	1967	Pan American Championships	Clay	Elena Subirats	6-4, 6-3
Win	99.	1967	Caribe Hilton Invitational	Clay	Virginia Wade	7-5, 6-1
Win	100.	1967	Masters Invitational	Clay	Jan O'Neill	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win	101.	1967	Kent Championships	Grass	Virginia Wade	6–3, 1–6, 6–3
Win	102.	1967	Essex Championships	Grass	Gail Sherriff	6-0, 6-2
Win	103.	1968	Copa Altimira International Invitation	Clay	Julie Heldman	6-0, 6-2
Open era
Win	104.	1968	Aix-en-Provence Pros	Hard	Françoise Dürr	divided title
Win	105.	1968^[24]	Madison Square Garden Pro	Hard (i)	Billie Jean King	6-4, 6-4
Win	106.	1968	London Open Grass Court Championships	Grass	Nancy Richey	divided title
Win	107.	1968	Colonial Pro Invitation	Clay	Billie Jean King	6-1, 6-2
Win	108.	1968	South Texas Invitational Pro Tennis Championship	Hard	Rosemary Casals	6-2, 6-2
Win	109.	1968	South American Open Championships	Clay	Nancy Richey	default
Win	110.	1969	New Zealand Open	Grass	Karen Krantzcke	6-1, 6-1
Win	111.	1969	Monte Carlo Open	Clay	Virginia Wade	6-1, 6-3
Win	112.	1969	Nagoya Pros	Hard	Françoise Dürr	6-3, 6-1
Win	113.	1969	Osaka Pros	Hard	Françoise Dürr	6-2, 2-0 ret.
Win	114.	1969	Belgian International Open	Clay	Rosie Casals	6-4, 6-0
Win	115.	1969	Rothmans London Grass Court Open	Grass	Winnie Shaw	6-0, 6-1
Win	116.	1969	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Billie Jean King	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Win	117.	1969	Golden Racquet Open	Clay	Françoise Dürr	6-1, 6-1
Win	118.	1969	Monte-Carlo Open Championships	Clay	Virginia Wade	6–2, 6–3
Win	119.	1969	British Open Indoors	Carpet (i)	Billie Jean King	6-1, 6-1
Win	120.	1970	Orange Free State Championships	Hard	Peaches Bartkowicz	6-4, 8-6
Win	121.	1970	Western Province Championships	Hard	Peaches Bartkowicz	6-1, 6-2
Win	122.	1970	New Zealand Open	Grass	Kerry Melville	0–6, 6–4, 6–1
Win	123.	1970	Bio-Strath London Hard Court Championships	Clay	Joyce Williams	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Win	124.	1970	Rothmans Surrey Grass Court Championships	Grass	Patti Hogan	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win	125.	1970	Chichester International	Grass	Joyce Williams	6-4, 6-4
Win	126.	1970	Istanbul International Championships	Clay	Winnie Shaw	6-4, 6-1
Win	127.	1970	Dewar Cup Torquay	Carpet (i)	Virginia Wade	6-4, 6-1
Win	128.	1971	Caribe Hilton Championships	Hard	Nancy Richey Gunter	6-4, 6-4
Win	129.	1971	Caesar's Palace World Pro Championships	Hard	Billie Jean King	7-5, 6-4
Win	130.	1974	Slazenger Torquay Open	Carpet (i)	Janet Newberry	7-5, 7-6
Win	131.	1975	Slazenger Torquay Open	Carpet (i)	Winnie Wooldridge	4–6, 6–1, 6–3
Win	132.	1975	Midland Counties Championships	Grass	Inge Korsten	6-0, 6-1
Win	133.	1975	Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships	Clay	Julia Lloyd	6-1, 6-3
Win	134.	1977	Red Hackle West of Scotland Championships	Grass	Helena Anliot	6-3, 7-5
Win	135.	1977	Essex Championships	Grass	Debra Parker	6-3, 7-5
Win	136.	1977	Midland Counties Championships	Grass	Corinne Molesworth	6-4, 6-4

Amateur titles														Professional titles
1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1974	1975	1977
3	5	5	3	3	16	9	12	12	6	8	7	11	7	9	8	2	1	3	3

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final
• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships

References

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External links

 

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• Ann Jones at the Billie Jean King Cup  

Awards
Preceded by David Hemery	BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1969	Succeeded by Henry Cooper