Janet Young

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Janet Young’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

Strongest results came in the Open Era, not the Amateur Era

Her best Amateur Era result was only R64, while in the Open Era she reached R16 seven times and R32 seven times across 17 tournaments. That split shows a clear step up in depth once the Open Era began.

Australian Open was her most productive Slam by far

She played the Australian Open eight times and reached at least R16 in five of those starts, including four R16 finishes and one R64. No other Slam appears more than four times in her record.

1973 was her busiest and most versatile Slam year

In 1973 she entered four different majors and advanced to at least R32 in all four, with an R16 at Wimbledon. That is her only season with four Slam appearances in the supplied data.

Her peak run came at age 21

At age 21 in 1973, she produced her best non-Australian Open result, reaching the R16 at Wimbledon. The same year also included R32 finishes at the US Open, French Open, and Australian Open.

Her career ended with a late-career rebound at the Australian Open

After a 1975 Wimbledon R128 at age 23, she returned to the Australian Open and reached R16 in both 1976 and 1977, at ages 24 and 26. Those were her final two Grand Slam results.

Basics

Born	22 October 1951
Gender	Female
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1968-1977

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	18
Best results Open Era	7 x R16 7 x R32 1 x R64
Best results Amateur Era	1 x R64
Total matches	55
W/L-record	37-18 (67% 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.

Janet Young – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1977	Australian Open (Jan)	Open Era	R16	26
1976	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	24
1975	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	23
1974	US Open	Open Era	R32	22
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	22
1974	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	22
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	21
1973	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	21
1973	French Open	Open Era	R32	21
1973	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	21
1972	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	20
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	R32	19
1970	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	18
1969	US Open	Open Era	R32	17
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	17
1969	French Open	Open Era	R64	17
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	17
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	R64	16