Patricia Ward Hales

Patricia Ward Hales was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 U.S. Championships, losing to Doris Hart 64, 62. She also partnered Shirley Bloomer to reach the womens doubles finals in 1955 at Wimbledon, where they lost to the team of Angela Mortimer Barrett and Anne Shilcock 75, 61, and at the French Championships, where they lost to the team of Darlene Hard and Beverly Baker Fleitz 75, 68, 1311. She again reached the womens doubles final at the 1960 French Championships, where she and Ann Haydon Jones lost to the team of Hard and Maria Bueno 62, 75. With George Worthington, she reached the semifinal of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1953. She won the singles title at the Italian Open in 1955, beating Erika Vollmer she also won the doubles with Christiane Mercelis. She had been runnerup to Maureen Connolly in 1954. Also in 1955 she won Monte Carlo, beating Shirley Bloomer. She reached the semifinal at Wimbledon in 1956, beating Angela Mo

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