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Rosie Casals |
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Rosie Casals |
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Rosie won the Girls' National 16 Doubles Championships with Pixie Lamm (on far right). They defeated Ginger Pfeiffer and Marmee Fry in the final. |
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(Left) Rosie won the
women's singles title at the Northern Californina Championships over
Gerry Carter. (Right) U.S. Wightman Cup Chairman Margaret Osborne duPont presents Rosie with the trophy for winning the Delaware Girls Grass Court Championships, which was one of the major junior events in the 1960s. Behind Rosie is the consolation winner Cheryl English, and Lynn Abbes, who won the doubles title with Rosie. |
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At age 16, Rosie won the Girls 18 title for the second year in a row at the National Junior Hard Courts in Burlingame, California. Earlier in her junior career, Rosie had won the Girls 11 Singles, Girls 13 Singles, Girls 14 Singles, Girls 15 Singles and Girls 18 Doubles at the National Junior Hard Courts. |
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won the 1966 Golden Gate Tennis Club's Annual Tournament, which was held on San Francisco's public courts, with a final round victory over Lynn Abbes. |
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 (Above) Rosie, Billie Jean King and Donna Fales won the Federation Cup for the United States in 1967. The matches were played at the Blau Weiss Club in West Berlin.
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(Right) Rosie and Billie Jean King won their doubles match against Ann Jones and Virginia Wade during the 1967 Wightman Cup, played at the Howard Clark Stadium in Cleveland. The U.S. team defeated the British 6-1. Team members (lower right) included Rosie, Billie Jean King, captain Betty Pratt, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (the donor of the Wightman Cup), Mary Ann Eisel, Carole Caldwell Graebner and Nancy Richey.
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Rosie and Billie Jean King won the 1968 Wimbledon Women's Doubles.
Princess Marina presented the trophy.
(Right) Rosie won the 1968 Pacific Southwest Championships with three spectacular wins. She beat Margaret Smith Court in the quarterfinals, Ann Jones in the semifinals, and Maria Bueno in the final. |
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The women's doubles final of the 1969 Pacific Southwest Championships was played on a Sunday night under the new lights at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. Rosie and Billie Jean King (far court) defeated Ann Jones and Francoise Durr 6-8 8-6 11-9. |
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Rosie and Ilie Nastase won their first of two Wimbledon mixed doubles titles in 1970. In the final, they defeated the Russian pair of
Alex Metreveli and Olga Morozova. In the third round they defeated
the top-seeded team of Billie Jean King and Bob Hewitt. (Lower left) Rosie and Billie Jean King won their third of four Wimbledon women's doubles titles in 1970 with a final round win over Francoise Durr and Virginia Wade.
(Right) Rosie won the 1970 Swiss title
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Rosie
had spectacular results in 1971, winning two singles titles and
twenty doubles tournaments, including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
She also reached the women's singles final of the 1971 U.S. Open against
Billie Jean King.
At left, the scoreboard at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York shows that Billie Jean won the first set and the second set is tied at 4-4. Notice that the women's winner receives a Ford Torino, courtesy of Virginia Slims. At right, Rosie is playing singles on a side court in an earlier round. |
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The
last match of the 1972 Wimbledon was the mixed doubles final, won by
Rosie and Ilie Nastase (near court) over Kim Warwick and Evonne
Goolagong.
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Rosie won the inaugural Family Circle Cup in 1973 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In the semifinals she defeated Billie Jean King 7-5 6-4, and in the final she defeated Nancy Richey Gunter 3-6 6-1 7-5 after Nancy led 5-4 and 30-love in the third set. At the time, Rosie's first-place prize money was the largest amount ever offered in women's tennis. |
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Rosie and Billie Jean King won the 1974 U.S. Open Women's Doubles title in three sets over Francoise Durr and Betty Stove. At right, they are playing Wendy Overton and Pat Bostrom in an early round match. |
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After taking a break from the tour, Rosie and Billie Jean King returned to action and won the 1975 Virginia Slims of Boston doubles title over Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. |
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In the United States' Bicentennial Year, Rosie and Billie Jean King took on the world and won the Federation Cup. Chris Evert was suppose to play, but had to withdraw because of inflamed tendons in her playing hand. Rosie and Billie Jean swept through Israel, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and the Netherlands without losing a match to gain the final against Australia. Rosie dropped her singles match to Kerry Reid, 1-6 6-3 7-5 and Billie Jean beat Evonne Goolagong 7-6 6-4. In the deciding doubles match, Rosie and Billie Jean beat Goolagong and Reid 7-5 6-3. Pictured with Rosie and Billie Jean is team manager Vicki Berner. |
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(Left) Rosie and Dick
Stockton won their second consecutive Dallas Mixed Doubles Championship
in early January 1977 with a fifth-set tiebreak win over Frew McMillan
and Betty Stove
(Right) Members of the victorious 1977 U.S. Wightman Cup team: Joanne Russell, Kris Kemmer, Rosie, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert.
(Left) During the 1977 Virginia Slims Circuit, Rosie teamed up with Chris Evert to win three titles in a row: Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. |
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Rosie, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert won the Federation Cup for the United States in 1978 in Melbourne. In the deciding doubles match, Billie Jean and Chris defeated Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull 4-6 6-1 6-4. In the semi-finals, Rosie and Billie Jean completed a 3-0 shutout of Great Britain by edging Sue Barker and Anne Hobbs 4-6 6-3 6-4. |
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victorious 1979 U.S. Federation Cup team of trainer Connie Spooner, Rosie, Tracy Austin, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and captain Vicki Berner. Matches were played on the red clay courts of Madrid's Club de Campo. |
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Rosie and Wendy Turnbull won
(Right) Rosie was playing captain on the winning 1980 Wightman Cup team. The U.S. defeated Great Britain 5-2 in London. Team members also included Chris Evert, Kathy Jordan, Andrea Jaeger, Anne Smith, trainer Connie Spooner and masseuse Ann Allemand
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The winning 1981 U.S. Wightman Cup team: Tracy Austin, Andrea Jaeger, Pam Shriver, playing captain Rosie, and Chris Evert. Played at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, the U. S. defeated Great Britain 7-0. Rosie partnered with Chris in doubles to beat Glynis Coles and Virginia Wade 6-3 6-3. |
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(Left) Rosie
was on the winning 1982 Wightman Cup team,
which defeated Great Britain 6-1. Team members also
included Anne Smith, Barbara Potter, Chris Evert
and Sharon Walsh-Pete.
(Right) Rosie and Wendy Turnbull |
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