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Julie Heldman (born December 8, 1945) is a retired American tennis player who won 22 professional tennis titles. In 1969 she was World No. 5, her highest career world ranking, and was ranked No. 2 in the U.S. ==Tennis career== The daughter of junior champion and leading amateur player Julius Heldman and ''World Tennis Magazine'' founder and publisher Gladys Heldman, she was born in Berkeley, California. She started playing tennis when she was eight, and won her first national title (the Canadian 18 and under singles) at age 12, in 1958. Heldman won the U.S. Girls Junior Singles Title in 1960 (in the 15s) and 1963 (in the 18s). Heldman was Cincinnati Singles Champion in 1962. While a student at Stanford University in 1964, Heldman reached the national collegiate singles and doubles finals. She received her B.A. from Stanford in 1966, and went on to earn her J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1981, where she was a Law Review editor and was Law School Graduate of the Year, as well as UCLA Graduate Woman of the Year. Heldman won the Canadian Open singles title in 1965. She won three medals (gold in mixed doubles, silver in women's doubles and bronze in women's singles) at the Olympic demonstration tournament in 1968. In 1969, she won the Italian Open, beating Kerry Melville Reid in the final. Also in 1969, at the Curaçao International, she defeated the world no.1 Margaret Court in the semifinal and world no. 2 Nancy Richey in the final to win the singles title. Heldman reached the semifinals of three Grand Slam singles tournaments: the 1970 French Open, the 1974 Australian Open, and the 1974 US Open. She won the doubles title at the US Women's Clay Court Championships and at the Canadian Open in 1974. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Heldman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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