{"id":4047,"date":"2020-12-29T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:55:27","slug":"277-events-from-the-1964-womens-tennis-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/277-events-from-the-1964-womens-tennis-season\/","title":{"rendered":"277 Events From the 1964 Women’s Tennis Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The quest continues, and there are now another 3,200 matches in the women’s tennis database at Tennis Abstract. If you’d rather dive in to the data than read my ramblings about it, click here for the 1964 season page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If you’d like to read more<\/em> of my ramblings, here are my intros to 1965<\/a>, 1966<\/a>, and 1967<\/a> data.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The further back we go, we more we confirm the dominance of Margaret Court<\/a> in the decade before the Open Era. In 1964, she won two majors, reached the final of a third, posted a year-end Elo just shy of 2500, and went undefeated over 44 matches on clay courts. Just about the only stats she didn’t dominate were three-set numbers, because she almost always won in straights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there’s a lot more to 1964 than one Australian star. Importing these thousands of match results meant adding 360 new players to the database, including some important contributors whose career ended this season. Here are a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n