# Pacific Southwest Championships — Title History

Source: https://tennis-db.com/wta/tournaments/wta_archive:pacific-southwest/pacific-southwest-championships/history
Tour: WTA

Category presentation: Arrows show an edition's recorded category and documented modern equivalent; unresolved editions keep their recorded category.
Details: https://tennis-db.com/glossary#category-equivalence

Archive scope: Pre-Open Era winners are included for tournament history only. They are excluded from TennisDB match and player statistics, title totals, and leaderboards.
Archive lineage: The archive follows the women's Pacific Southwest Championships through its final 1974 edition, not the later Virginia Slims-era Los Angeles tournament.
Historical source: [Los Angeles Tennis Club history](https://www.latennisclub.com/club-history)
Historical source: [Pacific Southwest Championships finals tables](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Open_(tennis))

## Summary
- Total editions: 48
- First edition: 1927
- Latest edition: 1974

## Most titles
- Rosie Casals: 2 (1971, 1968)
*Only Open Era titles from 1968 onwards are counted.*

## Champions by year
| Season | Champion | Runner-up | Score | Category |
| ---: | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1974 | Linda Lewis | Susan Hagey | 6-2 6-2 | WTA 250 |
| 1973 | Kathy May | Lea Antonoplis | 5-7 6-1 6-2 | WTA 250 |
| 1972 | Marita Redondo | Janice Metcalf | 6-3 5-7 6-2 | WTA 250 |
| 1971 | Rosie Casals | Billie Jean King | 6-6(2-0) DEF | WTA 500 |
| 1970 | Sharon Walsh Pete | Lesley Hunt | 6-3 6-2 | WTA 500 |
| 1969 | Billie Jean King | Ann Jones | 6-2 6-3 | WTA 500 |
| 1968 | Rosie Casals | Marcela Bueno | 6-4 6-1 | WTA 500 |
| 1967 | Billie Jean King | Rosemary Casals | 6–0, 6–4 | — |
| 1966 | Maria Bueno | Patti Hogan | 6–2, 6–2 | — |
| 1965 | Carole Caldwell Graebner | Tory Fretz | 6–4, 6–4 | — |
| 1964 | Maria Bueno | Billie Jean Moffitt | 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 | — |
| 1963 | Darlene Hard | Billie Jean Moffitt | 6–3, 6–3 | — |
| 1962 | Carole Caldwell | Darlene Hard | 6–8, 11–9, 2–4 ret. | — |
| 1961 | Darlene Hard | Karen Hantze Susman | 5–7, 6–2, 6–3 | — |
| 1960 | Ann Haydon | Darlene Hard | 6–4, 6–3 | — |
| 1959 | Beverly Baker Fleitz | Maria Bueno | 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 | — |
| 1958 | Beverly Baker Fleitz | Darlene Hard | 6–3, 9–7 | — |
| 1957 | Althea Gibson | Louise Brough | 6–3, 6–1 | — |
| 1956 | Althea Gibson | Nancy Chaffee | 4–6, 6–2, 6–1 | — |
| 1955 | Beverly Baker Fleitz | Barbara Breit | 6–1, 6–4 | — |
| 1954 | Louise Brough | Barbara Breit | 6–3, 4–6, 6–1 | — |
| 1953 | Doris Hart | Shirley Fry | 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 | — |
| 1952 | Maureen Connolly | Doris Hart | 6–4, 3–6, 6–1 | — |
| 1951 | Maureen Connolly | Beverly Baker | 9–7, 6–4 | — |
| 1950 | Helen Perez | Dorothy Bundy Cheney | 6–2, 6–2 | — |
| 1949 | Helen Perez | Beverly Baker | 7–5, 5–7, 4–1 ret. | — |
| 1948 | Louise Brough | Beverly Baker | 6–2, 6–3 | — |
| 1947 | Beverly Baker | Patricia Canning Todd | 6–3, 6–2 | — |
| 1946 | Pauline Betz | Dorothy Bundy | 6–2, 6–2 | — |
| 1945 | Margaret Osborne | Louise Brough | 11–9, 6–2 | — |
| 1944 | Pauline Betz | Margaret Osborne | 6–4, 6–3 | — |
| 1943 | Louise Brough | Mary Arnold | 6–3, 6–3 | — |
| 1942 | Pauline Betz | Louise Brough | 6–2, 6–2 | — |
| 1941 | Sarah Palfrey Cooke | Dorothy Bundy | 6–3, 7–5 | — |
| 1940 | Dorothy Bundy | Valerie Scott | 6–3, 6–3 | — |
| 1939 | Alice Marble | Dorothy Bundy | 9–7, 6–1 | — |
| 1938 | Dorothy Bundy | Sarah Palfrey Fabyan | 6–4, 6–4 | — |
| 1937 | Alice Marble | Gracyn Wheeler | 6–1, 6–0 | — |
| 1936 | Gracyn Wheeler | Alice Marble | 7–5, 2–6, 6–4 | — |
| 1935 | Ethel Burkhardt | Kay Stammers | 6–1, 6–4 | — |
| 1934 | Ethel Burkhardt | Kay Stammers | 10–8, 1–6, 6–4 | — |
| 1933 | Dorothy Round | Alice Marble | 6–2, 6–2 | — |
| 1932 | Anna McCune Harper | Alice Marble | 10–8, 6–3 | — |
| 1931 | Anna McCune Harper | Josephine Cruickshank | 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 | — |
| 1930 | Ethel Burkhardt | Marjorie Gladstone | 8–6, 6–0 | — |
| 1929 | Betty Nuthall | Anna McCune Harper | 8–6, 7–5 | — |
| 1928 | May Sutton Bundy | Marjorie Gladman | 6–1, 6–2 | — |
| 1927 | Kea Bouman | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory | 6–2, 0–6, 6–4 | — |

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Canonical URL: https://tennis-db.com/wta/tournaments/wta_archive:pacific-southwest/pacific-southwest-championships/history
Data source: TennisDB (tennis-db.com)