Margaret Court

Margaret Court, born Margaret Smith, is an Australian former world number one tennis player whose 24 women's singles major titles and 64 major titles in all, including 19 in women's doubles and 21 in mixed doubles, are the most in women's tennis history. At 17 she won the first of seven consecutive Australian Open singles titles, and she completed the career Grand Slam in singles at 21 with Wimbledon in 1963. She won all four major singles titles in 1970 as part of a record six in a row, and she kept winning after having children, retiring in 1977. She also won the Fed Cup with Australia four times. After becoming a Pentecostal Christian minister in 1991, she founded Margaret Court Ministries.