Shirley Fry

Shirley June Fry Irvin (1927 to 2021) was an American tennis player born in Akron, Ohio, who began playing competitively at age nine and was educated at Rollins College. Her career ran from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events as well as thirteen doubles titles, being one of ten women to win each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once. She was ranked world number one in 1956. From 1951 to 1956 she played in the Wightman Cup for the United States, compiling a 10 and 2 record. She briefly retired in early 1956 but returned after an invitation to the Wightman Cup, and retired for good in 1957, the year she married Karl Irvin. She entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1970 and died in Naples, Florida, aged 94.