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Maria Ester Audion Bueno, born October 11 , 1939 , in São Paulo, Brazil , is a former Tennis champion. Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship. Joining the international circuit in 1958, Bueno won the Italian Open singles title and the first of her 19 Grand Slam titles, capturing the women's doubles at Wimbledon with Althea Gibson . The following year, Bueno won her first singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard , 6-4, 6-3 in the final. She went on to capture the singles title at the US Championships , earning herself the No. 1 ranking for 1959 and the Associated Press Female Athlete Of The Year award. Bueno was the first non-American woman to capture both Wimbledon and the US Championships in the same calendar year. In her native Brazil, she returned as a national hero, honored by the country’s president and given a ticker-tape parade on the streets of São Paulo. According to the end-of-year rankings compiled by the London Daily Telegraph from 1914 through 1972, Bueno was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1959 and 1960. Bueno won the singles title at Wimbledon three times and at the US Championships four times. She was a finalist at the Australian Championships and the French Championships , losing both finals to her rival, Margaret Court . Bueno reached at least the quarterfinals in each of the first 26 Grand Slam singles tournaments she played. As a doubles player, Bueno won 12 Grand Slam championships with six different partners. In 1960, she became the first woman to win the doubles Grand Slam , partnered by Christine Truman Janes at the Australian Championships and Darlene Hard at the French Championships, Wimbledon, and the US Championships. In 1978, Maria Bueno was inducted into the International Tennis Hall Of Fame . HONOURS Grand Slam Titles:
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