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Tennis great Margaret Osborne duPont dies at 94

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Margaret Osborne duPont, the winner of more than 30 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles spanning three decades, has died. She was 94.

DuPont died Wednesday in El Paso while in hospice care, Mary Skinner of VNA Hospice said. No other details were released.

DuPont won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1947, the U.S. National Championship (now the U.S. Open) singles...

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