Yola Ramírez

Yola Ramírez
Full name	Yolanda del Monte Carmelo Ramírez Partida
Country (sports)	Mexico
Born	1 March 1935 (age 89); Mexico, DF, Mexico
Plays	Right–handed
Singles
Career record	375-143 (72.4%)
Career titles	51
Highest ranking	No. 6 (1961)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	SF (1962)
French Open	F (1960, 1961)
Wimbledon	QF (1959, 1961)
US Open	QF (1961, 1963)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	W (1958)
Wimbledon	SF (1957, 1958, 1959)
US Open	F (1961)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1962)
French Open	W (1958)
Wimbledon	SF (1959)

Yolanda Ramírez Ochoa (born 1 March 1935) is a Mexican tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. She was twice a singles finalist and once a women's doubles champion and mixed doubles champion at the French Open.

Career

Ramírez was a singles finalist at the French Championships in 1960 and 1961. She lost the 1960 final to Darlene Hard and the 1961 final to Ann Haydon. She also was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1959 and 1961, a quarterfinalist at the 1961 and 1963 U.S. Championships, a semifinalist at the 1962 Australian Championships, a semifinalist at the 1959 Italian Championships, and a finalist in Monte Carlo in 1959. Ochoa won the German Championships in 1957 and was a finalist in 1961.

Ramirez teamed with Rosie Reyes to win the women's doubles title at the 1958 French Championships and to reach the final at the 1957 and 1959 French Championships. She teamed with Billy Knight to win the mixed doubles title at the 1959 French Championships. With Edda Buding, she reached the women's doubles final at the 1961 U.S. Championships. She also won the women's doubles titles at the Italian Championships and in Monte Carlo, both in 1960.

At the tournament in Cincinnati, Ramirez won the singles title in 1956 and the doubles title (with Sara Mae Turber) in 1955. She was a doubles finalist in 1956.

In 1959 she won the South of France Championships in Nice, France.

Ramírez won the singles titles at the 1960 Mexico National Championships and the 1961 Caribbean Lawn Tennis Championship.

During her career, Ramírez had wins over Billie Jean King (in the second round of Wimbledon in 1961, which was King's first appearance at the tournament), Jones, and Christine Truman.

According to Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Ramírez was ranked in the world top 10 in 1957 and from 1959 through 1961, reaching a career high of world no. 6 in 1961.^[1]

She married Alfonso Ochoa on 29 August 1962.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (2 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1960	French Championships	Clay	Darlene Hard	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1961	French Championships	Clay	Ann Haydon	2–6, 1–6

Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1957	French Championships	Clay	Rosie Reyes	Shirley Bloomer Darlene Hard	5–7, 6–4, 5–7
Win	1958	French Championships	Clay	Rosie Reyes	Mary Bevis Hawton Thelma Coyne Long	6–4, 7–5
Loss	1959	French Championships	Clay	Rosie Reyes	Sandra Reynolds Renée Schuurman	6–2, 0–6, 1–6
Loss	1961	US Open	Grass	Edda Buding	Darlene Hard Lesley Turner	4–6, 7–5, 0–6

Mixed doubles (1 title)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1959	French Championships	Clay	Billy Knight	Rod Laver Renée Schuurman	6–4, 6–4

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Tournament	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	Career SR
Australian Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	0 / 1
French Championships	A	A	3R	4R	4R	F	F	A	2R	0 / 6
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	3R	QF	3R	QF	A	1R	0 / 6
U.S. Championships	3R	1R	A	A	A	A	QF	A	QF	0 / 4
SR	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 17

References

^ Collins, Bud (2008). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book. New York, N.Y: New Chapter Press. pp. 695, 703. ISBN 0-942257-41-3.

External links

Yola Ramírez at the Women's Tennis Association
Yola Ramírez at the International Tennis Federation
Yola Ramírez at the Billie Jean King Cup

[1] Collins, Bud (2008). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book. New York, N.Y: New Chapter Press. pp. 695, 703. ISBN 0-942257-41-3.

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