American Shirley Fry, who died on July 13 at the age of 94, won Roland Garros in 1951 before triumphing at Wimbledon, Flushing Meadows and Melbourne for … four Grand Slam titles in total. She only won one each time, but she won everywhere. Shirley Fry, who died on July 13 in Florida at the age of 94, is one of ten women and eight men to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments. A record that notably earned the American player to be introduced to the Hall of Fame in 1970. read also All tennis news The American player has also won twelve Grand Slam tournaments in doubles, most with her compatriot Doris Hart , which she beat during her success in singles at Roland Garros in 1951. But Shirley Fry reached the peak of her career a few years later, when she continued from June 1956 to January 1957 successes at Wimbledon, at the US Open and Australia, a period during which it will reach for the one and only time the rank of world number 1. Married in the wake of her victory in Melbourne, she immediately retired from the top level, at the age of 30, and therefore did not appear at Porte d’Auteuil where she could have tried to obtain the Grand Slam over two years.
