death_date death_place birth_place usopendoublesresult wimbledonresult usopenresult frenchopenmixedresult frenchopenresult birth_date frenchopendoublesresult image article_title name highestsinglesranking
28 february 1980 katowice , poland kraków , austria-hungary f -lrb- 1938 -rrb- f -lrb- 1937 -rrb- f -lrb- 1937 -rrb- f -lrb- 1947 -rrb- f -lrb- 1939 -rrb- 15 october 1912 '' ` w '' ' -lrb- 1939 -rrb- jadwiga jędrzejowska 5.jpg jadwiga jędrzejowska
 jadwiga jędrzejowska no. 3 -lrb- 1937 -rrb-
jadwiga jędrzejowska

jadwiga -lrb- `` jed '' -rrb- jędrzejowska -lrb- 15 october 1912 -- 28 february 1980 -rrb- was a polish tennis player .
because her name was difficult to pronounce for many people who did not speak polish , she was often called by the nicknames `` jed '' or `` ja-ja '' .
jędrzejowska reached the singles final of a grand slam tournament on three occasions , still a record for polish tennis .
in 1937 she lost to dorothy round in wimbledon final and at the us championships later that year she was defeated in the final by anita lizana .
in 1939 she was a runner-up at the french championships , losing in the final to simonne mathieu .
in women 's doubles , jędrzejowska won the 1939 french championships with mathieu , defeating alice florian and hella kovac in the final 7 -- 5 , 7 -- 5 .
jędrzejowska 's record in other grand slam women 's doubles finals was as follows : french championships -lrb- 1936 -rrb- : jędrzejowska and susan noel lost to mathieu and billie yorke us championships -lrb- 1938 -rrb- : jędrzejowska and mathieu lost to alice marble and sarah palfrey cooke in the mixed doubles final at the 1947 french championships , jędrzejowska and christian caralulis lost to eric sturgess and sheila summers 6 -- 0 , 6 -- 0 .
at the age of 44 , jędrzejowska reached the women 's doubles quarterfinals of the 1957 french championships with partner pilar barril .
according to wallis myers and john olliff of `` the daily telegraph '' and `` the daily mail '' , jędrzejowska was ranked in the world top ten from 1936 through 1939 -lrb- no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945 -rrb- , reaching a career high of world no. 3 in those rankings in 1937 .
