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    Dorothy Edith Round (13 July 1909 – 12 November 1982), was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major...
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    and was the runner-up in 36 other tournaments. In 1966, King defeated Dorothy "Dodo" Cheney (then 49 years old) for the first time in five career matches...
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  • Wills won the match 6–3, 6–4. The 1934 Wimbledon singles champion Dorothy Round played H.W. "Bunny" Austin (Wimbledon singles finalist in 1932) on July...
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    Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she...
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    defeated sixth-seeded Irina Spîrlea in the first round, before losing to Venus in the second round in the sisters' first professional face-off. She reached...
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    finals of the 2002 Wimbledon Championships, third round of the 2002 French Open, and second round of the 2001 US Open. From 2003, Sharapova played a...
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    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)...
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    Hingis lost in the third round to Ai Sugiyama. Hingis's return to the US Open was short lived, as she was upset in the second round by world No. 112, Virginie...
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    tournament in October 1982 at Filderstadt, Germany. She lost her first round match 6–4, 6–0 to Tracy Austin, a two-time US Open champion and former world...
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  • singles, whose winner then faced the defending champion in a challenge round. The all comers' winner was automatically awarded the title eleven times...
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    championships to international players in 1925, the elimination of the challenge round in 1922, and the admission of professional players in 1968 (the start of...
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    later in the year at the US Open, where she reached the third round. Following an opening-round loss at the 2016 Australian Open, she won back-to-back Grade-1...
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    French Open. She never lost in the first or second round of a major, and lost in the third round only twice. Evert holds the record of most consecutive...
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    Wills contributed with singles victories over Bennett Whittingstall and Dorothy Round but lost the doubles match with Sarah Palfrey. At the Wimbledon Championships...
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  • Cramm Hilde Krahwinkel 1934 Fred Perry (x3) Dorothy Round George Lott Lester Stoefen Ryuki Miki Dorothy Round 1935 Helen Wills Moody Jack Crawford Adrian...
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  • (fourth round) 10.   Sandrine Testud (first round) 11.   Anke Huber (fourth round) 12.   Amanda Coetzer (second round) 13.   Amélie Mauresmo (first round) 14...
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    beating Joe Hunt in the finals. That same year, 1935, he met Hunt in 17 final-round matches and won all 17 of them. He went undefeated for four years of play...
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    beat compatriot Jade Curtis in the first round. She was defeated by another Britain, Katie O'Brien, in round two. In July, she reached her first ITF semifinal...
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    Vicious Circle (1994) recounts the Round Table from the perspective of Dorothy Parker. 1920s portal Herrmann, Dorothy (1982). With Malice Toward All: The...
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    Perry won a four-man round robin at Long Beach (he, Gorchakoff and Stoefen finished level on 2 wins each). He also won a four-man round robin in San Diego...
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  • major singles title overall. The loss of Karolína Plíšková in the first round and the withdrawals of Victoria Azarenka and Aryna Sabalenka guaranteed...
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    Australia in the first round before losing to Iveta Benešová of the Czech Republic in the second round. The loss denied her a third-round match with Martina...
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    the highest-level junior tournament she played in. She lost in the second round to top seed Markéta Vondroušová. Sabalenka began playing on the ITF Women's...
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    year had reached the fourth round of the French Open. Williams beat her fellow American in two sets. In the second round of the tournament, Williams was...
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    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)...
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    Elisabeth Moore Angela Mortimer Betty Nuthall Nancy Richey Ellen Roosevelt Dorothy Round Elizabeth Ryan Margaret Scriven Eleonora Sears Bertha Townsend Lesley...
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    accept the prize money. At her Wimbledon debut in 1977 she reached the third round where she lost to top-seeded Chris Evert. In September, she made her US...
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    Zhaoxuan in the first round, and was the beneficiary of a retirement by Kirsten Flipkens in the second round. In the third round, Kenin saved a match point...
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    1990 (although he first played there in 1987, only to lose in the first round to Henri Leconte) and publicly stated that he did not wish to play there...
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    round on both occasions. Paes again teamed with Bhupathi for the US Open, but lost in the first round again. The duo had a disappointing second round...
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