Laura Dupont

Career

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Laura became acquainted with tennis by practicing on the city"s public courts. In her adolescent years, DuPont moved to North Carolina, where she showed promise competing in junior tennis championships. Aside from her tennis accolades at the school, she also played varsity basketball.

In 1970, duPont was named North Carolina Amateur Athletic Union Athlete of the Year.

In 1972, duPont graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and joined the tennis inter-national circuit soon after. Between the years of 1975 and 1981 Laura was on the Women"s Tennis Association, also serving as its treasurer.

Laura duPont was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Charlotte Catholic High School Hall of Fame in 2000. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, DuPont moved back to North Carolina in 1997.

She died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham on February 20, 2002.

Doubles 10 (5–5).

Achievements

• She was the first woman to win a national title in any sport for the University of North Carolina, as well as being the first female All-American at the school. She was not related to the multiple grand slam winner Margaret Osborne duPont. DuPont attended the University of North Carolina where she was thrice named Mid-Atlantic Singles Collegiate Champion. DuPont was singles champion in the years 1968, 1970, and 1971. In 1970 she also secured doubles champion. She won the Canadian (1979), Argentine, New Zealand (singles as well as doubles) and German singles. DuPont"s success continued, becoming the South African doubles champion in 1976, and a doubles and singles finalist in 1975. She won the United States. Clay Court Championships singles title in 1977, as well as being a doubles finalist in 1976. In 1984, duPont won the United States. Open 35 and over singles championship.