Second-seeded
Doris Hart defeated
Shirley Fry
Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; June 30, 1927 – July 13, 2021) was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 dou ...
6–4, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the
1952 French Championships.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below.
Doris Hart is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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Shirley Fry
Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; June 30, 1927 – July 13, 2021) was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 dou ...
''(finalist)''
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Doris Hart ''(champion)''
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Dorothy Head ''(semifinals)''
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Susan Partridge ''(first round)''
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Mary Terán de Weiss
María Luisa Terán de Weiss (29 January 1918 – 8 December 1984), known in Argentina as Mary Terán de Weiss, and out of Argentina as María Teran Weiss, was a tennis player, the first Argentine woman to have a relevant sport performance in the ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Ginette Bucaille ''(first round)''
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Elena Lehmann ''(third round)''
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Violette Rigollet ''(third round)''
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Joan P. Curry ''(quarterfinals)''
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Julia Wipplinger ''(quarterfinals)''
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Raymonde Jones-Veber ''(third round)''
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Jacqueline Patorni ''(second round)''
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Hazel Redick-Smith
Hazel Redick-Smith (21 May 1926 – 23 June 1996) was a female former tennis player from South Africa who was active in the 1950s.
Career
Redick-Smith teamed with fellow South African Julia Wipplinger to reach the doubles final at the 195 ...
''(semifinals)''
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Erika Vollmer-Obst ''(second round)''
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Christiane Mercelis
Christiane Mercelis (born 5 October 1931) is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and a ...
''(third round)''
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Joopy Van Der Wall-Roos ''(third round)''
Draw
Key
* Q =
Qualifier
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* WC =
Wild card
* LL =
Lucky loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury ...
* r =
Retired
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Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...
Finals
Earlier rounds
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
* on the French Open website
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1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
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1952 in French tennis