Rosemary Casals

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Rosemary Casals’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.

Insights

Peak years came early and were concentrated in 1969-1972

Casals reached her strongest Grand Slam stretch between ages 20 and 23: semifinals at the 1969 US Open and Wimbledon, finals at the 1970 and 1971 US Opens, and a Wimbledon semifinal in 1970 and 1972. That four-year run contains all of her listed finals.

Her best results were split between two eras, but the Open Era carried the higher ceiling

The data shows 3 Amateur Era semifinals and 1 Amateur Era quarterfinal, versus in the Open Era 2 finals, 4 semifinals, and 10 quarterfinals. Her deepest finishes therefore came after the era change, even though she had already reached the semifinals before it.

Wimbledon was her most productive major for deep runs

Across the results table, Wimbledon produced 1 semifinal, 3 quarterfinals, 3 round-of-16 finishes, and only one first-round-level exit at R128. That is a stronger concentration of late-stage results than any other tournament listed.

She stayed competitive into her mid-30s, but the results level dropped sharply

From age 30 through 36, every listed result was R128, R64, or R32, with no quarterfinals or better. The late-career span includes 11 Grand Slam appearances from 1979 to 1985, showing longevity but not another deep run.

Her Grand Slam schedule was uneven, with a long gap before the final stretch

The career spans 1966-1977 and 1979-1985, leaving no listed Grand Slam results in 1978. She also played only one tournament in 1977 and then returned for a fuller run from 1979 onward, including four events in 1981.

Basics

Born	16 September 1948
Gender	Female
Nation	United States
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1966-1977, 1979-1985

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	46
Best results Open Era	2 x finalist 4 x semifinalist 10 x quarterfinalist
Best results Amateur Era	3 x semifinalist 1 x quarterfinalist
Total matches	178
W/L-record	132-46 (74% won)

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.

Rosemary Casals – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1985	US Open	Open Era	R64	36
1984	US Open	Open Era	R64	35
1984	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	35
1983	US Open	Open Era	R32	34
1983	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	34
1982	US Open	Open Era	R64	33
1982	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	33
1981	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	33
1981	US Open	Open Era	R16	32
1981	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	32
1981	French Open	Open Era	R64	32
1980	Australian Open	Open Era	R64	32
1980	US Open	Open Era	R64	31
1980	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	31
1979	US Open	Open Era	R128	30
1979	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	30
1979	French Open	Open Era	R64	30
1977	US Open	Open Era	R16	28
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	28
1976	US Open	Open Era	Q	27
1976	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	27
1975	US Open	Open Era	R64	26
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	26
1974	US Open	Open Era	Q	25
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	25
1973	US Open	Open Era	Q	24
1973	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	24
1972	US Open	Open Era	Q	23
1972	Wimbledon	Open Era	S	23
1972	French Open	Open Era	R32	23
1971	US Open	Open Era	F	22
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	22
1970	US Open	Open Era	F	21
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	S	21
1970	French Open	Open Era	Q	21
1969	US Open	Open Era	S	20
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	S	20
1969	French Open	Open Era	Q	20
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	Q	20
1968	US Open	Open Era	R16	19
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	19
1968	French Open	Open Era	R16	19
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	19
1967	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	S	18
1967	Australian Open	Amateur Era	S	18
1966	US Open	Amateur Era	S	17