Olga Morozova

Born 1949 170 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Evonne Goolagong (12)vs Chris Evert (11)vs Marina Kroschina (10)vs Galina Baksheeva (9)vs Kazuko Sawamatsu (9)vs Margaret Court (8)

Match log

1980

Soviet ChampionshipsWon the titleJuly
FWLudmila Makarova6-7 6-4 6-4Won the title
Fed Cup WG R2: ITA vs URSClay, May
RRWSabina Simmonds6-4 6-2
Fed Cup WG R1: KOR vs URSClay, May
RRWDuk Hee Lee6-3 6-1
Fed Cup WG QF: USA vs URSClay, May
RRLTracy Austin0-6 1-6

1979

SopotWon the titleClay, August
FWHana Mandlikova4-6 7-6 6-3Won the title
SFWLucia Romanov6-1 6-4
Fed Cup WG R2: URS vs LUXClay, April
RRWSimone Wolter6-0 6-1
Fed Cup WG QF: URS vs SUIClay, April
RRLPetra Delhees Jauch6-1 2-6 4-6
Fed Cup WG SF: USA vs URSClay, April
RRLChris Evert4-6 6-8
Fed Cup WG R1: URS vs PORClay, April
RRWDeborah Fiuza6-0 6-1

1978

Fed Cup WG R2: URS vs YUGNovember
RRWMima Jausovec6-1 6-0
Fed Cup WG R1: URS vs AUTNovember
RRWHelena Wimmer6-1 6-0
Fed Cup WG QF: URS vs ROUNovember
RRWVirginia Ruzici6-4 4-3 RET
Fed Cup WG SF: AUS vs URSNovember
RRWWendy Turnbull6-1 8-6

1977

ChicagoCarpet, February
R32LBrigette Cuypers6-7 1-6
SeattleCarpet, January
SFLChris Evert0-6 1-6
QFWDianne Fromholtz6-2 6-0
R16WCynthia Doerner6-3 6-2
R32WFrancoise Durr6-3 6-2
MinneapolisCarpet, January
BRLRosie Casals6-8
SFLMartina Navratilova4-6 3-6
QFWMima Jausovec7-6 6-2
R16WLinda Mottram3-6 6-1 6-3
R32WMarise Kruger7-5 6-3
HoustonCarpet, January
R32LRegina Marsikova3-6 1-6

1976

US OpenClay, September
R32LKathy Kuykendall4-6 3-6
R64WPam Teeguarden6-1 6-1
WimbledonGrass, June
QFLChris Evert3-6 0-6
R16WNatasha Chmyreva6-4 4-6 6-1
R32WRegina Marsikova6-4 6-1
R64WMary Mclean6-2 6-0
R128WAnn Kiyomura Hayashi6-3 6-1
EastbourneGrass, June
SFLJeanne Evert2-6 3-6
QFWRosie Casals6-3 6-4
R16WPam Teeguarden6-0 2-6 6-1
R32WWendy Turnbull6-1 3-6 6-1
R64WIngrid Bentzer6-2 6-1
BeckenhamWon the titleGrass, June
FWMarise Kruger7-5 2-6 6-3Won the title
SFWSharon Walsh Pete6-1 6-3
QFWLaura Dupont7-5 6-3
R16WSue Mappin6-3 6-3
R32WCorinne Molesworth6-2 6-2
Virginia Slims ChampionshipsCarpet, April
R16LFrancoise Durr6-7(1) 3-6
PhiladelphiaCarpet, March
QFLVirginia Wade5-7 2-6
R16WJoanne Russell6-1 6-1
R32WMima Jausovec6-2 4-6 7-6(1)
BostonCarpet, March
R32LMona Guerrant6-3 4-6 3-6
AkronCarpet, February
SFLVirginia Wade1-6 6-7(3)
QFWSue Barker3-6 6-2 6-4
R16WMona Guerrant6-4 6-1
R32WMarina KroschinaW/O

Olga Morozova

No Soviet player had reached a Grand Slam singles final until Olga Morozova walked into two in a month. At Roland Garros in 1974 she lost to Chris Evert 6-1, 6-2, then the Wimbledon final to Evert three weeks later, 6-0, 6-4, after beating defending champion Billie Jean King. They left Paris as doubles champions. Her attacking serve-and-volley game was made for grass: she won Queen's in 1973, beating Evonne Goolagong, and rose to world No. 3 in 1974.

All of it as a state amateur. The Soviet federation set her schedule and kept her prize money, the £1,000 Queen's cheque included, and her career effectively ended in 1977 when Moscow barred its athletes from facing South Africans. The 41 career titles came anyway. Her second act ran longer: head coach of the Soviet women's team that reached its first Federation Cup final in 1988, head of girls' tennis for Britain's LTA from 1990, and coach to Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova, with a young Andy Murray among her pupils.