All female tennis players in the finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year before Jasmine Paolini

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All female tennis players in the finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year before Jasmine Paolini

There have been 26 female tennis players in history who have managed to reach the finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon before Jasmine Paolini in the same year (or, like Suzanne Lenglen in 1925, at the French Championships, since the current Roland Garros èfacility was opened in 1928). 15 succeeded in the Open Era . Here is the’complete list. Obviously, there’è no Italians in this list.

1925 Suzanne Lenglen (France)
1928 1929 1930 1932 Helen Wills Moody (United States)
1931 Cilly Aussem (Germany)
1934 Helen Jacobs (United States)
1936 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (Germany)
1946 Pauline Betz (United States)
1949 Margaret Osborne (United States)
1951 Shirley Fry (United States)
1951 1953 Doris Hart (United States)
1953 1954 Maureen Connolly (United States)
1964 Maria Esther Bueno (Brazil)
1964 1965 1970 Margaret Smith Court (Australia)
1969 Ann Haydon Jones (Great Britain)
1971 1972 Evonne Goolagong (Australia)
1972 Billie Jean King (United States)
1973 1974 1979 1980 1984 1985 Chris Evert (United States)
1974 Olga Morozova (Soviet Union)
1981 Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia)
1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 Martina Navratilova (United States)
1987 1988 1989 1992 1993 1995 1996 1999 Steffi Graf (Germany)
1992 Monica Seles (Yugoslavia)
1995 1996 Arantxa Sanchez (Spain)
1997 Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
2002 Venus Williams (United States)
2002 2015 2016 Serena Willams (United States)
2006 Justine Henin (Belgium)
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