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Maureen Connolly

American tennis player known as 'Little Mo' who dominated early 1950s women's tennis.

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Known for: First woman to win a Grand Slam in tennis and winning nine major singles titles in the early 1950s
Listed under: Tennis Legends

About Maureen Connolly

In 1953, she became the first woman to win a Grand Slam (all four major tournaments during the same calendar year). The following year, in July 1954, a horseback riding accident seriously injured her right leg and ended her competitive tennis career at age 19. Her parents divorced when she was age 3, and she was raised by her mother and an aunt. She loved horseback riding as a child, but her mother was unable to pay the cost of riding lessons. So, she took up the game of tennis. Connolly's tennis career began at the age of 10 on the municipal courts of San Diego. Her first coach, Wilbur Folsom, encouraged her to switch from a left-handed grip to a right-handed one, and she soon became a baseline specialist...

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