Althea Louise Brough Clapp was an American tennis player, born in Oklahoma City on 11 March 1923 and dead on 3 February 2014, who played competitively between 1939 and 1959. She won six Grand Slam singles titles and many doubles and mixed doubles titles, and Lance Tingay of the Daily Telegraph ranked her world number one for 1955. Her family moved to Beverly Hills, California when she was four, and she learned the game on the public courts at Roxbury Park. In doubles she usually teamed with Margaret Osborne duPont, and together they won nine consecutive United States doubles titles from 1942. She won the United States singles title in 1947 and three straight Wimbledon singles titles from 1948 to 1950, adding a fourth in 1955. With duPont she won five Wimbledon doubles titles.
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At Wimbledon, Brough won three consecutive singles titles from 1948 through 1950
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Brough entered the Australian National Championships only once, in 1950, when she won the singles and women's doubles titles.
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At the French International Championships, they won three titles and had a 14-1 record.
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