Ann Haydon-Jones

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Ann Haydon-Jones at the trophy ceremony after the Isner Mahut game at Wimbledon 2010

Ann Haydon Jones CBE (* 7. October 1938 as Adrianne Shirley Haydon in Birmingham ) is a former British tennis player .

Career

Her parents Adrian and Doris Haydon (née Jordan) were national table tennis players and so she began to play table tennis, but later gave up this sport and developed as a tennis player. In 1954 and 1955 she won the British Youth Championships. She played tennis at a time when many of the greatest tennis players were active, including Billie Jean King , Margaret Smith Court and Maria Bueno .

Ann Haydon won the 1961 French International Tennis Championships and reached the finals of the US Open , where she was defeated by defending champion Darlene Hard . In 1962 she married PF Jones and won the 1966 French International Tennis Championships as Ann Jones for the second time.

In 1967 she reached the finals at both Wimbledon and the US Open, but lost to Billie Jean King. Two years later, the two players met again in the final at Wimbledon, where this time Ann Haydon-Jones was victorious. At the same tournament she also won the mixed competition with Fred Stolle . During the women's singles at Wimbledon in 1969, the Beatles stopped recording the song "Golden Slumbers" to listen to live radio coverage when Jones beat Billie Jean King. In the same year she was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year , Sportsman of the Year in Great Britain. In 2014 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

At the beginning of the professional era in tennis in 1968, Ann Haydon-Jones was one of the first players on the women's tour, along with Billie Jean King.

In 1970 she became a co-commentator on the BBC .

In 1958 she wrote the book Tackle table tennis this way (edited by Stanley Paul, London).

Career in table tennis

Ann Haydon's father Adrian Haydon took part in 17 table tennis world championships between 1928 and 1953 . Ann herself played at five TT world championships. The left-hander achieved her best results at the 1957 World Cup, where she finished second in singles, doubles and mixed. She lost all the finals - almost tragically - in the fifth set. After this World Cup she shifted the focus to tennis ("Tennis is played outdoors and is therefore healthier for me than table tennis"), but took part again in the 1959 TT World Cup.

In the English rankings she was led in 1959 at number one.

Participation in TT World Championships

More Achievements

  • 1956 English Open Championship: double title (with Diane Rowe )
  • 1958 Open English Championship: double title (with Pat Mortimer)

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   silver  Semifinals  Quarter finals  1
CLOSELY  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   Quarter finals  Semifinals  Quarter finals  4th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   silver  silver  silver  4th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   Quarter finals  Semifinals  silver  2
CLOSELY  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  last 64  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 64  silver  Quarter finals  3

Individual evidence

  1. Table Tennis News November 1973, p. 3 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 26, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tabletennistalk.co.uk
  2. Doris Jordan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed July 24, 2014)
  3. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269031/New-Year-Honours-2014-PM-list.pdf
  4. ^ Ann Haydon-Jones results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 8, 2011)

Web links

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