Margaret Osbourne DuPont, 6-time Grand Slam singles champion, dies at 94 in Texas
EL PASO, Texas – Margaret Osbourne duPont, who won more than 30 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles spanning three decades, has died in El Paso, Texas. She was 94.
DuPont died late Wednesday while in hospice care in El Paso. Her death was confirmed Thursday by Mary Skinner of VNA Hospice in El Paso.
DuPont won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1947, the U.S. National Championship (now the U.S. Open) singles title from 1948 to 1950 and the French singles title in 1946 and 1948l, according to the website of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum.
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