Rosie Reyes
Full name | Rosa Maria Reyes |
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Country (sports) | Mexico |
Born |
Mexico City, Mexico | 23 March 1939
Plays | Right-handed |
Singles | |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
French Open | SF (1959) |
Wimbledon | QF (1957) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | SF (1965) |
French Open | W (1958) |
Wimbledon | SF (1957, 1958, 1959) |
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
French Open | F (1974) |
Wimbledon | SF (1959) |
Rosa Maria "Rosie" Reyes Darmon (born 23 March 1939) is a retired Mexican tennis player whose career spanned from the second half of the 1950s until the
Most of her success came on clay on which she won the women's doubles title at the 1958 French Championships partnering with countrywoman Yola Ramírez.[1] She also reached the finals at the same event in 1957 and 1959.
In the singles her best result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the semifinal of the 1959 French Championships in which she lost in straight sets to Zsuzsa Körmöczy of Hungary.
She competed in the women's doubles event at 1968 Summer Olympics, where tennis was reintroduced as an exhibition and demonstration event. Partnering Julie Heldman she won the gold medal in the exhibition event, held in Mexico City, and the silver medal in the demonstration event which was held in Guadalajara.[2]
She is married to former French tennis player Pierre Darmon.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles (1 title, 2 runners-up)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1957 | French Championships | Clay | Yola Ramírez | Shirley Bloomer Darlene Hard |
5–7, 6–4, 5–7 |
Winner | 1958 | French Championships | Clay | Yola Ramírez | Mary Bevis Hawton Thelma Coyne Long |
6–4, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 1959 | French Championships | Clay | Yola Ramírez | Sandra Reynolds Price Renee Schuurman |
6–2, 0–6, 1–6 |
Mixed doubles (1 runner-up)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1974 | French Open | Clay | Marcello Lara | Martina Navratilova Iván Molina |
3–6, 3–6 |
References
- ↑ Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 401. ISBN 978-0942257700.
- ↑ "Mexico68" (pdf). Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad. pp. 491–496.
External links
- Rosie Reyes at the Women's Tennis Association
- Rosie Reyes at the International Tennis Federation
- Rosie Reyes at the Fed Cup