TENNIS PLAYER

Maureen Connolly

1934 - 1969

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Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969), known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine major singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win a Grand Slam (all four major tournaments during the same calendar year). She is also the only player in history to win a title without losing a set at all four major championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maureen Connolly has received more than 506,902 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Maureen Connolly is the 78th most popular tennis player (up from 82nd in 2019), the 3,641st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,574th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Tennis Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Maureen Connolly ranks 78 out of 1,569. Before her are Juan Gisbert Sr., Jacques Brugnon, Marat Safin, Martina Hingis, Maurice Germot, and Hedwiga Rosenbaumová. After her are André Prévost, Alex Metreveli, Alex Olmedo, Vincent Richards, Thomas Muster, and Maud Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Maureen Connolly ranks 195. Before her are Dave Grusin, Hendrick Chin A Sen, Pat Boone, Ronald Harwood, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Vernon Dobtcheff. After her are Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Horst Szymaniak, Giancarlo Baghetti, Antigone Costanda, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, and Mikel Laboa. Among people deceased in 1969, Maureen Connolly ranks 104. Before her are Vesto Slipher, Lajos Czeizler, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Ismail al-Azhari, Johannes Dieckmann, and Nicolas Grunitzky. After her are Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Josef Beran, Angelina Beloff, Ben Shahn, Abdirashid Shermarke, and Jan Zajíc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maureen Connolly ranks 3,641 out of 20,380. Before her are Lucia Berlin (1936), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Lawrence Block (1938), Robert Indiana (1928), and David Arquette (1971). After her are Donald Davidson (1917), Ethel Kennedy (1928), Andrea Mead Lawrence (1932), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929), Andre Norton (1912), and Jackie Cooper (1922).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Maureen Connolly ranks 17. Before her are Don Budge (1915), Pancho Gonzales (1928), Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), Bobby Riggs (1918), Althea Gibson (1927), and Doris Hart (1925). After her are Vincent Richards (1903), William Larned (1872), Helen Wills (1905), Beals Wright (1879), Michael Chang (1972), and Richard Sears (1861).

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