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Christine Truman Janes MBE (born 16 January 1941) is a female former tennis player from the United Kingdom.The British junior champion in 1956 and 1957 Truman made her Wimbledon debut in 1957 at age 16 and reached the semifinals where she lost to Althea Gibson.In 1958 she caused a sensation by defeating Gibson the Wimbledon champion in the Wightman Cup and helped bring the cup back to Great Britain after 21 consecutive defeats by the United States.

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