Zsuzsa Körmöczy (25 August 1924 – 16 September 2006) was a Hungarian tennis player. She reached a career high of World No. 2 in women's tennis, and won the 1958 French Open at the age of 34.
She was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish.[2][3]
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In Hungary, as a 16-year-old in 1940 she won the national doubles and mixed doubles titles, and she later won the national singles title six times, and the doubles or mixed doubles trophies 10 times.[4]
According to Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Körmöczy was ranked in the world top 10 in 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1958 and again from 1959 through 1961 (no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945), reaching a career high of World No. 2 in those rankings in 1958 at the age of 34.[3][5]
She won the singles title at the 1958 French Championships at the age of 33 and reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1958. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in 1958 after having won the French Championships the same year. She became the first sportswoman granted this award.[3] She won eight of the nine tournaments she entered in 1958, and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon.[3] In 1959 she made Wimbledon's 'round of eight', finishing sixth, and was the French Open Singles runner-up.[3]
She retired from competition in 1964 to work as a coach for Vasas (the Ironworker Union's Sports Club) and act as the national tennis association's manager. After the fall of communism, she was decorated by new democratic governments in 1994 and 2003.
^G.P. Hughes, ed. (1957). Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual 1957. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. p. 331.
^Szalai, Anna (18 August 2002). In the Land of Hagar: The Jews of Hungary : History, Society and Culture. Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. ISBN9789650511579 – via Google Books.
^ ab"Who Is The Greatest Jewish Female Tennis Player Of All Time?". 15 December 2014.
^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. ISBN978-0-942257-41-0.
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