- Shirley Brasher
Shirley Bloomer Brasher (born
June 13 ,1934 , inGrimsby ,England ,United Kingdom ) was atennis player from the United Kingdom who won three Grand Slam titles during her career and was the second ranked singles player in her country in 1957.Brasher (known at the time as Shirley Bloomer) won the singles title at the 1957 French Championships, defeating
Dorothy Head Knode in the final 6–1, 6–3. She was the runner-up in singles at the 1958 French Championships, losing toZsuzsi Kormoczy 6–4, 1–6, 6–2.Brasher teamed with
Darlene Hard to win the women's doubles title at the 1957 French Championships, defeatingYola Ramirez Ochoa and Rosie Reyes in the final 7–5, 4–6, 7–5. She teamed withNicola Pietrangeli to win the mixed doubles title at the 1958 French Championships, defeatingLorraine Coghlan Robinson andBob Howe in the final 8–6, 6–2.Brasher partnered
Patricia Ward Hales to reach the 1955 women's doubles finals at Wimbledon, where they lost toAngela Mortimer Barrett andAnne Shilcock 7–5, 6–1, and at the French Championships, where they lost to Hard andBeverly Baker Fleitz 7–5, 6–8, 13-11.Brasher played on the British
Wightman Cup team from 1955 through 1960. The 1958 team that includedChristine Truman Janes and Brasher won the cup, which was the first time thatGreat Britain had won the competition since 1930.Brasher played a hard baseline game, and her tennis was concerted rather than spectacular. She was a member of the Grimsby Town Tennis Club, which was located in College Street,
Grimsby .In 1959, she married
Chris Brasher who helped pace another Briton,Roger Bannister , to running the first sub-four minute mile in 1954. They had three children, including their daughter Kate who played on the women's professional tennis tour in the 1980s.Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
See also
* Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final
References
*Martin Hedges, 1978. "The Concise Dictionary of Tennis". Mayflower Books Inc.
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