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shirley fry irvin

shirley june fry irvin -lrb- june 30 , 1927 -rrb- is a former world number-one-ranked american tennis player .
she is one of 10 women -lrb- along with maureen connolly , margaret court , steffi graf , doris hart , billie jean king , martina navratilova , chris evert , maria sharapova , and serena williams -rrb- to have won each grand slam singles tournament at least once during her career .
she is also one of six women -lrb- with hart , court , navratilova , serena williams , and venus williams -rrb- to have won all four grand slam doubles tournaments .
at the u.s. national championship -lrb- precursor of the u.s. open -rrb- in 1942 , irvin reached the singles quarterfinals at the age of 15 .
at wimbledon in 1953 , irvin and hart lost only four games during the entire women 's doubles tournament and won three matches without losing a game , including the semifinals and finals , the latter over connolly and julie sampson haywood .
irvin won the last three grand slam singles tournaments she entered , including wins over althea gibson in the wimbledon quarterfinal and u.s. championship final in 1956 and the australian open final in 1957 .
irvin was ranked in the world top ten in 1946 and 1948 and from 1950 through 1955 -lrb- no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945 -rrb- , and number one in 1956 .
the united states lawn tennis association ranked her in the u.s. top ten from 1944 through 1955 and number one in 1956 .
she was inducted into the international tennis hall of fame in 1970 .
