fullname death_date birth_place wimbledonresult usopenresult frenchopenmixedresult frenchopenresult birth_date frenchopendoublesresult grandslamsdoublesresults article_title name highestsinglesranking wimbledondoublesresult
patricia evelyn ward hales 22 june 1985 london , england qf -lrb- 1956 -rrb- f -lrb- 1955 -rrb- qf -lrb- 1954 -rrb- 3r -lrb- 1955 -rrb- 27 february 1929 f -lrb- 1955 , 1960 -rrb- yes patricia ward hales
 patricia ward hales no. 8 -lrb- 1956 -rrb- f -lrb- 1955 -rrb-
patricia ward hales

patricia ward hales -lrb- 27 february 1929 -- 22 june 1985 -rrb- was a tennis player from the united kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 u.s. championships , losing to doris hart 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 2 .
she also partnered shirley bloomer to reach the women 's doubles finals in 1955 at wimbledon , where they lost to the team of angela mortimer barrett and anne shilcock 7 -- 5 , 6 -- 1 , and at the french championships , where they lost to the team of darlene hard and beverly baker fleitz 7 -- 5 , 6 -- 8 , 13-11 .
she again reached the women 's doubles final at the 1960 french championships , where she and ann haydon jones lost to the team of hard and maria bueno 6 -- 2 , 7 -- 5 .
she won the singles title at the italian open in 1955 and was a runner-up to maureen connolly in 1954 .
according to lance tingay of the daily telegraph and the daily mail , hales was ranked in the world top ten in 1955 and 1956 , reaching a career high of world no. 8 in those rankings in 1956 .
