TENNIS PLAYER

Margaret Osborne duPont

1918 - 2012

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Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a world No. 1 American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles major titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list, despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of those major titles at the U.S. Championships, which is an all-time record. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Osborne duPont is the 173rd most popular tennis player (up from 353rd in 2019), the 6,030th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,433rd in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Margaret Osborne duPont ranks 173 out of 1,569Before her are Francis Hunter, George Hillyard, Otto Froitzheim, David Ferrer, Althea Gibson, and Vic Seixas. After her are Kim Clijsters, Ted Schroeder, Nelly Landry, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Jack Kramer, and Helen Jacobs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Margaret Osborne duPont ranks 185Before her are Hank Jones, Zakaria Mohieddin, Eric Ericson, Ted Post, Yevgeniya Sechenova, and Mutsuhiro Watanabe. After her are Alfred Bickel, Anatoly Tarasov, Edward Van Dijck, Otis Bowen, Cameron Mitchell, and George Constantine. Among people deceased in 2012, Margaret Osborne duPont ranks 239Before her are Rashidi Yekini, Armand Penverne, Ann Rutherford, Sergey Kapitsa, Rafael Lesmes, and Xenia Stad-de Jong. After her are William Windom, Eugênio Sales, Ahmed Jabari, Cordelia Edvardson, Boris Parygin, and Leon Schlumpf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Osborne duPont ranks 6,030 out of 20,380Before her are Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971), Vic Seixas (1923), Frederick Wiseman (1930), Virginia Dare (1587), Lou Costello (1906), and Eric Bogosian (1953). After her are Stephen A. Douglas (1813), Marc Lawrence (1910), Dick Powell (1904), Mark Damon (1933), Suge Knight (1965), and Nat Turner (1800).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Margaret Osborne duPont ranks 36Before her are Edgar Leonard (1881), Jennifer Capriati (1976), Jim Courier (1970), Francis Hunter (1894), Althea Gibson (1927), and Vic Seixas (1923). After her are Ted Schroeder (1921), Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886), Jack Kramer (1921), Helen Jacobs (1908), Beals Wright (1879), and James Blake (1979).