Rosemary Casals

Rosemary "Rosie" Casals (born September 16, 1948) is an American professional tennis player. She was born in San Francisco, California, to Salvadoran parents.

Casals was twice the women's singles runner-up at the U.S. Open, losing to Margaret Court in the 1970 final as she completed a calendar year Grand Slam and losing to Billie Jean King in 1971.

Casals won twelve Grand Slam doubles tournaments during her career, nine of which were in women's doubles. Seven of those titles were in partnership with King. Casals was part of the losing team in fifteen other Grand Slam doubles finals.

Casals won 112 professional doubles tournaments, the second most in history behind Martina Navratilova. Her last doubles championship was at the 1988 tournament in Oakland, California, where her partner was Navratilova.

Casals played in a total of 685 singles and doubles tournaments during her career.

Casals was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996.

Grand Slam record

*Australian Open
**Women's Doubles runner-up: 1969 (with Billie Jean King)

*French Open
**Women's Doubles runner-up: 1968 (with King), 1970 (with King), 1982 (with Wendy Turnbull)

*Wimbledon
**Women's Doubles champion: 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973 (all with King)
**Women's Doubles runner-up: 1980, 1983 (both with Turnbull)
**Mixed Doubles champion: 1970, 1972 (both with Ilie Nastase)
**Mixed Doubles runner-up: 1976 (with Dick Stockton)

*U.S. Championships/Open
**Singles runner-up: 1970, 1971
**Women's Doubles champion: 1967 (with King), 1971 (with Judy Tegart Dalton), 1974 (with King), 1982 (with Turnbull)
**Women's Doubles runner-up: 1966 (with King), 1968 (with King), 1970 (with Virginia Wade), 1973 (with King), 1975 (with King), 1981 (with Turnbull)
**Mixed Doubles champion: 1975 (with Stockton)
**Mixed Doubles runner-up: 1967 (with Stan Smith), 1972 (with Nastase)

Grand Slam singles finals (2)

Runner-ups (2)

Grand Slam mixed doubles finals (6)

Wins (3)

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

See also

* Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

References

External links

* [http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=68 International Tennis Hall of Fame profile]
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