Christine Clara Truman Janes[1] MBE (born 16 January 1941) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.

[8] After a poor year in 1962, she came back in 1963 to reach the semifinals of the French and quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, losing in three sets to Margaret Smith.

[9][10][11] Truman had another comparatively successful Wimbledon run in 1965, when unseeded, she defeated sixth-seeded Carole Caldwell Graebner, Judy Tegart, Julie Heldman, and fourth-seeded Nancy Richey.

Her run to the semifinals held some irony as it was the first time in Wimbledon history that no British player had been seeded in the women's championship.

In 1965, during practice for the Wightman Cup, Truman severely hurt her Achilles tendon for the second time,[13] and this injury led to an 18-month gap in her career.

In April 1968, she and her sister Nell Truman became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth.

She had a tremendously strong, flat forehand, balanced with a sliced backhand, excellent volleys and smash, and hard serve.

During her career, Truman had wins over most of the other leading players of her day, including Althea Gibson (Wightman Cup 1958); Maria Bueno (Pacific Coast 1958 and Caribbean 1959); Darlene Hard several times, notably in the Wightman Cup in 1959; British rivals Angela Mortimer, Ann Haydon, Shirley Bloomer Brasher, all on several occasions; Zsuszi Körmöczy, Margaret Smith, Billie Jean Moffitt, Sandra Reynolds, Karen Hantze, and Lesley Turner.

In the 2001 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to lawn tennis.