Pauline Betz, later Pauline Betz Addie, was an American tennis player born on 6 August 1919 who won five Grand Slam singles titles and finished runner-up on three other occasions. Four of her titles came at the US Championships between 1942 and 1946, and in 1946 she won Wimbledon in the only year she entered it, without dropping a set. Her amateur career ended in 1947 when the American association revoked her amateur status for exploring a move to the professional ranks, after which she toured as a professional and won the Cleveland Women's World Professional Championships in 1953, 1955 and 1956. Jack Kramer called her the second best female player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody. She entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1965.
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Jack Kramer called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw
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She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions.
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She won five Grand Slam singles titles
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was an American professional tennis player
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She won the Wimbledon singles title in 1946
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Betz won the first of her four singles titles at the U.S. Championships in 1942
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At the 1946 French Championships, held that year after Wimbledon, she lost the final in three sets to Margaret Osborne
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