Bahtiye Musluoğlu

Country (sports)	Turkey
Born	1918 Bolu, Ottoman Empire
Died	1999 Ankara, Turkey
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	3R (1950)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (1950)

Bahtiye Musluoğlu (born 1918 – 1999) is a former female tennis player who competed for the Turkey.

She was born in 1918 in Bolu. She started playing tennis while he was studying in Ankara. Musluoğlu was unrivaled in Ankara when he played tennis. Often, she even trained with male tennis players.^[1] Mualla Gorodetzky was the undefeated name in women's tennis since the early 1940s. Musluoğlu fought for the final with Gorodetzky in the Turkey Championship for years. Until 1947, Gorodetzky was the winner of Turkey. Musluoğlu won his first Turkey Championship in 1948. In 1950, he was invited to France by the French Tennis Federation. He achieved successful results in international tournaments, which he participated many times in Beirut and Athens. He died in 1999.^[2]

She played in singles at the French Open in 1950. She lost to the American player Margaret duPont in the Third Round.^[3] She is the first Turkish female tennis player to play a grand slam and win a match.

Career finals

Singles (5–4)

Result	No.	Year	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	August 1946	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Simonne Mathieu	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2.	June 1947	Athens, Greece	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	4–6, 6–8
Win	1.	August 1947	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Win	2.	September 1947	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Loss	3.	September 1949	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Annalisa Bossi	4–6, 4–6
Win	3.	July 1950	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	6–1, 6–1
Win	4.	August 1952	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Gönül Erk	6–3, 2–0 ret.
Win	5.	August 1952	Brummana, Lebanon	Clay	Vera Mattar	6–2, 6–1
Loss	4.	September 1952	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Dorothy Head Knode	1–6, 3–6

Doubles (10–3)

Result	No.	Year	location	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	August 1946	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Simonne Mathieu Vera Mattar	2–6, 1–6
Win	1.	June 1947	Athens, Greece	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Aspasia Kyriakou Angie Lenou	6–3, 6–4
Win	2.	August 1947	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Nancy Fontes Denise Pritchard	6–2, 6–3
Win	3.	September 1947	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Manuela Bologna Nicoletta Majno	6–2, 5–7, 6–2
Win	4.	September 1948	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Anna Kiriakos Helena Voultzos	6–4 5–7 6–4
Loss	2.	September 1948	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Jean Quertier Vera Mattar	3–6, 2–6
Win	5.	September 1948	Athens, Greece	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Georgina Greiss Jean Quertier	6–3, 6–3
Win	6.	August 1949	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Joan Curry Peggy Dawson-Scott	6–3, 6–4
Win	7.	September 1949	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Joan Curry Peggy Dawson-Scott	6–1, 6–3
Win	8.	July 1950	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Nicla Miglioti Lucia Manfredi	6–4, 7–5
Loss	3.	August 1950	Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Mualla Gorodetzky	Dorothy Head Knode Mary Terán de Weiss	4–6, 2–6
Win	9.	August 1952	Ankara, Turkey	Clay	Georgina Greiss	Louise Dick Heather Macfarlane	6–3, 1–6, 6–1
Win	10.	August 1952	Brummana, Lebanon	Clay	Vera Mattar	Renée Abi Hatab Nena Farrah	6–2, 6–2

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