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Ann Haydon-Jones, born Adrianne Shirley Haydon on
October 7, 1938 in Birmingham, England, is a
former table tennis and lawn tennis champion.

Her parents were prominent table tennis players
and as a young girl she also took up the game but
soon developed into a powerful lawn tennis player,
winning the 1954 British junior championships,
repeating again in 1955. In 1956|the following
year she became the Wimbledon
Championships|Wimbledon List of Wimbledon
champions#Girls' Singles|Girls' Singles champion.

She played lawn tennis in a highly competitive era
that involved a number of the greatest female
players to ever play the game including Billie
Jean King, Margaret Smith Court and Maria Bueno.
Despite the fierce competition, Ann Haydon won the
1961 French Open and made the finals at the US
Open (tennis)|US Open, losing to the defending US
champion, Darlene Hard. In  1962, she married P.
F. Jones and recorded as Ann Haydon-Jones, she won
the French title for a second time in 1966.

At both the 1967 Wimbledon Championships and the
US Open she made it to the finals but lost to
Billie Jean King. However, two years later the two
met in the Wimbledon finals again, this time
Haydon-Jones took the most coveted title in the
sport of tennis, making her the first left-handed
female player to do so. She capped off the 1969
Wimbledon competition by winning the Wimbledon
champions (Mixed Doubles)|Mixed doubles
championship with Australia's Fred Stolle. Her
performances led to her being voted as the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year.

According to Mark Lewisohn in "The Complete
Beatles Recording Sessions", on July 4 1969, The
Beatles paused the dubbing session for their song
"Golden Slumbers", to listen to Jones beat Billie
Jean King for the Wimbledon title, live on radio.

With the dawn of the open era in tennis, in 1968,
Ann Haydon-Jones joined with Billie Jean King and
others to became the first professional female
touring group. In 1970 she was hired by the BBC as
a guest commentator and today is a summarizer for
the network.

In 1985, Ann Haydon-Jones was voted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame. 

Grand Slam tournament career record:
*French Open: 
**Singles champion: 1961, 1966
**Singles finalist: 1963, 1968, 1969
**Doubles champion: 1963, 1968, 1969
**Doubles finalist: 1960
*Wimbledon Championships:
**Singles champion: 1969
**Singles finalist: 1967
** Mixed Doubles champion: 1969
*US Open (tennis)|US Open:
**Singles finalist: 1961, 1967