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Patricia Canning Todd (born July 22, 1922 in San Francisco, California), was an outstanding tennis player in the mid-20th Century.

At the French National Championships, Todd won the singles title in 1947 and the doubles and mixed doubles titles in 1948. (She won the doubles title with Doris Hart and the mixed title with Jaroslav Drobny). She also reached the French singles semifinals in 1948.

At Wimbledon, she won the 1947 doubles title (with Hart), and in singles reached the semifinals in 1948, 1950 and 1952, and the quarterfinals in 1947.

At the US Nationals, she was a singles semifinalist in 1946 & 1948, and a quarterfinalist in 1945, 1947, 1949 & 1950.

She also won both the singles and the doubles titles in at the historic tournament in Cincinnati in 1951, and won the singles and mixed doubles at the South American championships in 1947 and 1948.

In 1950, she was the singles and doubles winner at the Asian Championships and the Championships of India.

In 1948, she was the US National Indoor Singles Champion.

She was ranked in the U.S. top 10 seven times between 1946 and 1952, reaching a career-high No. 4 in both 1947 and 1949.

She played on the U.S. Wightman Cup team from 1947 to 1951.

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