Rosie Casals

American Born 1948 157 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Billie Jean King (48)vs Francoise Durr (37)vs Kerry Reid (33)vs Margaret Court (32)vs Virginia Wade (28)vs Valerie Ziegenfuss (26)

Match log

1991

AuroraHard, February
R32LAndrea Leand1-6 2-6

1990

Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LHalle Cioffi3-6 4-6

1989

San DiegoHard, July
R32LJo Durie4-6 2-6
Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LLinda Ferrando0-6 0-6

1988

Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LJudith Wiesner1-6 2-6
WichitaHard, February
R32LPascale Paradis Mangon2-6 2-6
Oakland, qualifyingHard, February
Q1LCamille Benjamin3-6 2-6

1986

Los AngelesHard, August
R64LPatty Fendick3-6 4-6
Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LCamille Benjamin1-6 4-6

1985

Salt Lake CityHard, September
R32LJanine Tremelling1-6 2-6
US OpenHard, August
R64LAnne Hobbs6-2 3-6 6-7(7)
R128WBetsy Nagelsen1-0 RET
Amelia Island, qualifyingClay, April
Q1LCatherine Suire2-6 1-6
Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LPetra Delhees Jauch2-6 1-6
Oakland, qualifyingCarpet, February
Q2LTina Mochizuki3-6 4-6
Q1WClaudia Monteiro6-4 7-6
Delray BeachHard, February
R128LSusan Mascarin3-6 2-6

1984

Manhattan Beach, qualifyingHard, October
Q1LVicki Beggs1-6 0-6
US OpenHard, August
R64LMelissa Gurney0-6 3-6
R128WSusan Leo1-6 6-4 6-4
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LBetsy Nagelsen3-6 1-6
Eastbourne, qualifyingGrass, June
Q2LNatasha Reva3-6 6-3 3-6
Q1WGinny Purdy7-5 6-4
Hilton HeadClay, April
R64LMarie Christine Calleja4-6 4-6
Marco IslandClay, January
R32LBonnie Gadusek0-6 3-6

1983

DetroitCarpet, October
R32LSharon Walsh Pete3-6 4-6
HartfordCarpet, September
R32LZina Garrison4-6 1-6
RichmondCarpet, September
R32LKim Jones7-5 1-6 3-6
US OpenHard, August
R32LAnne White2-6 5-7
R64WJulie Harrington6-1 6-3
R128WCorinne Vanier6-2 7-5
MahwahHard, August
R32LIva Budarova5-7 4-6
R64WBetsy Nagelsen4-6 6-4 6-3
TorontoHard, August
R64LChristiane Jolissaint6-2 3-6 4-6
Manhattan BeachHard, August
R32LKathy Jordan0-6 6-2 2-6
R64WTerry Holladay6-2 6-4
NewportGrass, July
R32LLiz Smylie7-5 3-6 3-6
WimbledonGrass, June
R32LBillie Jean King3-6 4-6
R64WPetra Delhees Jauch6-3 3-6 6-2
R128WMary Lou Piatek3-6 7-6 6-3
EastbourneGrass, June
R16LWendy Turnbull2-6 1-6
R32WEva Pfaff7-5 6-2
R64WJulie Salmon6-0 6-2
Q2WSherry Acker5-7 6-2 6-4
Q1WPatty Fendick6-4 4-6 6-1
AtlantaHard, April
R32LLele Forood4-6 3-6
Oakland, qualifyingCarpet, February
Q1LSue Barker0-6 3-6
Palm BeachClay, January
R32LBetsy Nagelsen3-6 4-6
R64WChris Oneil6-2 7-5

1982

PhiladelphiaCarpet, September
R16LWendy Turnbull3-6 3-6
R32WLeigh Anne Thompson6-4 6-4

Rosie Casals

Rosie Casals signed a one dollar contract with promoter Gladys Heldman in September 1970, one of nine women who broke away to found their own professional tour, then won the rebel tournament itself, beating Judy Dalton 5-7, 6-1, 7-5 in Houston. The WTA grew from that week. Days earlier she took a set off Margaret Court in the US Open final that completed Court's calendar Grand Slam; she lost the 1971 final to Billie Jean King and won 14 career singles titles.

Doubles is where the five foot two San Franciscan, all improvisation and net-rushing nerve, stands with the greats. With King she won five Wimbledon women's doubles titles, the first in 1967 before tennis went open, on the way to twelve doubles majors among 112 career doubles trophies. A great-niece of cellist Pablo Casals, raised on San Francisco's public courts, she called the 1973 Battle of the Sexes for ABC, sparring with Howard Cosell. The Hall of Fame inducted her in 1996, then again in 2021 with the Original 9.