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Ginette Bucaille (née Jucker; 25 January 1926 – 19 January 2021) was a
tennis player Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
from France. She reached the singles final at the 1954 French Championships in which she was defeated by
Maureen Connolly 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 ...
in straight sets. She reached the quarterfinals in 1953 and 1955. Bucaille reached the third round of the singles event at the
Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the ...
in 1950 and 1954. In the doubles event she reached the third round in 1954 and 1956 and in the mixed doubles she made it to the fourth round in 1954 with Neale Fraser and in 1955 with Jean Borotra. In July 1954, Bucaille met Connolly in the finals at the Irish Championships in Dublin, and again Connolly won in straight sets. With compatriot Nelly Adamson she reached the doubles finals of the 1954 Italian Championships. In April 1955 she won the singles title at the International Championships of Paris. Bucaille was jointly ranked No. 1 in France in 1955 and achieved her highest world ranking of No. 10 in 1954.


Grand Slam finals


Singles (1 runner-up)


See also

* Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final


References


External links

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Maureen Connolly's Victory Over Ginette Bucaille At The French Open At Roland Garros In 1954 (Getty Images)
1926 births 2021 deaths French female tennis players 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-tennis-bio-stub