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Pilar Barril (10 October 1931 – 30 September 2011) was a female Spanish tennis player. She and María Josefa de Riba were the first Spanish tennis players to compete internationally after the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. She has won more Spanish Championships than any other player in history.

Career
Born in Barcelona, Pilar Barril was the leader of a new generation of Spanish tennis players who started competing in Grand Slam tournaments during the 1950s. She and María Josefa de Riba remained in the top two positions in the national rankings for most of that decade and paved the way for the younger women.

Pilar played regularly at the French Open and Wimbledon achieving better results at the former, being that tournament played on clay, which was her best surface. She also travelled abroad to play the U.S.Open in 1962 but never competed at the Australian Open.

Between 1951 and 1963 she won twenty one Spanish Championships (9 singles, 10 doubles and 2 mixed), more than any other man or woman from her country.

She never played a full schedule, choosing instead to remain in Europe, though that was the usual practice among the tennis players who were not at the top of the rankings.

Her breakthrough tournament took place in 1961, when she reached the quarterfinals of the French Championships She was the first Spanish woman to reach such stage of a Grand Slam tournament after Lilí de Álvarez lost in the semifinals of that same tournament in 1937. It would take another 26 years until another woman from Spain could reach the last eight of a major tournament.

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
A = did not participate in the tournament.