Maria Esther Andion Bueno, born 11 October 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a female tennis player who won nineteen Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 11 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) during her career.
Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship.
Joining the international circuit in 1958, B...
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Maria Esther Andion Bueno, born 11 October 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a female tennis player who won nineteen Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 11 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) during her career.
Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship.
Joining the international circuit in 1958, Bueno won the singles title at the Italian Championships and the first of her Grand Slam titles, capturing the women's doubles at Wimbledon with Althea Gibson.
The following year, Bueno won her first singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard in the final. She also won the singles title at the U.S. Championships, earning the World No. 1 ranking for 1959 and the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award. Bueno was the first non-North-American woman (she is an American - South American - woman) to capture both Wimbledon and the U...
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