Maureen Schwartz
Country (sports) Brazil
Born1946 or 1947
Died29 May 2019 (aged 72)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (1965)
Medal record
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place1963 São PauloWomen's doubles

Maureen Schwartz (died 29 May 2019) was a Brazilian tennis player

Schwartz, who grew up in Ceará and is of Jewish descent, was a three-time winner of the Brazilian national championships during the 1960s.[1]

At the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Schwartz and Maria Bueno paired together to claim a doubles silver medal, behind America's Darlene Hard and Carole Caldwell. She made the quarter-finals of the singles draw.[2]

In 1965 she made her only appearance for the Brazil Federation Cup team, in a World Group quarter-final tie against France in Melbourne. She was beaten in her singles match by Janine Lieffrig, then teamed up with Maria Bueno in a live doubles rubber, which they lost in three sets to Lieffrig and Françoise Dürr. This was the first time that Schwartz had ever played on grass.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tenista cearense Maureen Schwartz, que fez dupla com Maria Esther Bueno, morre aos 72 anos". Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "American Girls". New York Daily News. 24 April 1963.
  3. ↑ "Trio hold advantage of more experience Australians favoured in Cup series". The Canberra Times. 14 January 1965. p. 24. Retrieved 23 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
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