Ann Jones, born Adrianne Haydon on 17 October 1938 and also known as Ann Haydon-Jones, is an English former tennis and table tennis champion. She came to tennis from a table tennis family and reached the singles, doubles and mixed doubles finals at the 1957 world championships in Stockholm. In tennis she won eight Grand Slam championships, three in singles, three in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles, including the French Championships in 1961 and 1966 and Wimbledon in 1969, when she became the first left-handed woman to win the title. That year she was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In 2023 she served as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
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is an English former tennis and table tennis champion
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Ann Shirley Jones (born Adrianne Haydon; 17 October 1938)
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She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career
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is an English former tennis and table tennis champion
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In 1956, she won the Wimbledon girls' singles championship.
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she won the 1961 French Championships
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reached the final of the 1961 U.S. Championships
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