Patricia Canning Todd

Mary Patricia 'Pat' Canning Todd, is born in July 22, 1922, is an American tennis player, native to San Francisco, California, who dominated in the Wimbledon Women's competition right after the World War. She garnered the Championship Cup in the French Open in 1947.

She was able to gain four total Grand Slam championships which include one in women's singles division, two in doubles division and one from women's mixed double division. In 1947, she and her partner, Doris Hart won over Brough-duPont double partnership, which she had lost seven times before the team up with Hart.

In 1947, during the French championships, she won in a semifinal match that took two days with Margaret Osborne duPont, which is the defending champion during that time in Wimbledon. The first set was won by duPont in a 6-2 match which was stopped due to a thunderstorm. The next day, Todd, with a lot of backhand shots won 1-3 down to the final set. Then she won the finals against Doris Hart, making her the Grand Slam Winner for women's singles in 1947. Although in 1948, she lost a match due to default when she complained on being the last on the center court after playing only once. A reschedule was attempted to give room for Landry and Todd to compete but it failed and it made Todd to swear to never play in French Open again but returned in 1950. When she came back, she lost against Hart.

She was ranked top ten in the world from 1946 to 1952, reaching no.4 in 1950 and became one of the Hall of Fame nominees in 2005.