Helen Gourlay

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Helen Gourlay’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of her tournament results, showing how far she progressed in each Grand Slam event across her career.

Basics

Born	23 December 1946
Gender	Female
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1964, 1968-1978, 1980
Strengths	Net play Experience Variety
Less strong	Movement Baseline consistency

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	35
Best results Open Era	2 x finalist 3 x semifinalist 3 x quarterfinalist
Best results Amateur Era	1 x quarterfinalist 1 x R64
Total matches	122
W/L-record	87-35 (71% won)
Compared with other women	In the Open Era #71 of 1956 With overlapping career #13 of 502 From Australia #8 of 209 Born in 1946 #1 of 15

During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Helen Gourlay – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1980	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	34
1978	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	31
1977	Australian Open (Jan)	Open Era	S	31
1977	US Open	Open Era	R64	30
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	30
1977	French Open	Open Era	R16	30
1977	Australian Open (Dec)	Open Era	F	30
1976	US Open	Open Era	R32	29
1976	Australian Open	Open Era	S	29
1975	US Open	Open Era	R32	28
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	28
1975	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	28
1974	US Open	Open Era	R32	27
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	27
1974	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	27
1973	US Open	Open Era	R64	26
1973	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	26
1972	US Open	Open Era	R64	25
1972	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	25
1972	French Open	Open Era	R16	25
1972	Australian Open	Open Era	S	25
1971	US Open	Open Era	R32	24
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	24
1971	French Open	Open Era	F	24
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	24
1970	US Open	Open Era	Q	23
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	23
1970	French Open	Open Era	R64	23
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	22
1969	French Open	Open Era	R32	22
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	22
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	21
1968	French Open	Open Era	R32	21
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	R64	21
1964	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	17

Helen Gourlay

Basics

Grand Slam statistics

Grand Slam results