1920 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
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1920 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Gerald Patterson and Suzanne Lenglen defeated defending champions Randolph Lycett and Elizabeth Ryan Elizabeth Montague Ryan (February 5, 1892 – July 6, 1979) was an American tennis player who was born in Anaheim, California, but lived most of her adult life in the United Kingdom. Ryan won 26 Grand Slam titles, 19 in women's doubles and mi ... in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1920 Wimbledon Championships.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 The nationality of Mrs M Blythman is unknown. Bottom half Section 3 The nationalities of Miss AL Lister and Mme Paravicini is unknown. Section 4 The nationality of Mme AH Gobert is unknown. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1920 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed Doubles X=Mixed Doubles Wimbledon Championship by year – Mixed doubles ...
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Gerald Patterson
Gerald Leighton Patterson MC (17 December 1895 – 13 June 1967) was an Australian tennis player. Patterson was active in the decade following World War I. During his career he won three Grand Slam tournaments in the singles event as well as six titles in the doubles competition and one title in mixed doubles. He was born in Melbourne, educated at Scotch College and Trinity Grammar School and died in Melbourne on 13 June 1967. He was the co- World No. 1 player for 1919 along with Bill Johnston. Playing career Tall and well-built, Patterson played a strong serve-and-volley game. At Wimbledon 1919, Patterson beat 41-year-old Norman Brookes, who was defending champion (Brookes' 1914 title was the last held before World War 1) in the Challenge Round. At Wimbledon 1922, the Challenge Round was abolished and Patterson won the title (the first to be held at the current site at Church Road) beating Randolph Lycett in the final. In 1927, Patterson was five championship points do ...
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Aurea Edgington
Aurea Edgington (21 February 1878 – 27 April 1967) (née Aurea Farrington) was a British tennis player originally from Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. She was active from 1900 to 1930. She was a semi finalist in the women's singles at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships as well as a four time quarter finalist in 1910, 1911, 1919 and 1922. She won 43 career singles titles most of which were on clay courts playing on the British and European circuit in France and Switzerland. Career Aurea was born on 21 February 1878 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. In major tournaments she competed at Wimbledon 18 times between 1904 and 1929. At the 1909 Wimbledon Championships she reached the semi-finals before losing to Agnes Morton in straight sets. She then reached the quarter-finals of the 1910 Wimbledon Championships where she lost to Winifred McNair in three sets, then 1911 Wimbledon Championships where she was beaten by Dora Boothby by two sets to love, the 1919 Wimbledon Championsh ...
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Agnes Tuckey
Agnes Katherine Raymond Tuckey (née Daniell; 8 July 1877 – 13 May 1972) was an English tennis player. With Hope Crisp, she was the winner of the first Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913. In 1906 she married Charles Orpen Tuckey who taught Mathematics at Charterhouse School. They played mixed doubles together. Among their children were Raymond and Kay who played in the Wightman Cup between 1949 and 1951. Agnes, when in her fifties, partnered Raymond in the mixed doubles in 1931 and 1932, the only instance of a parent and child teaming up at the championships. In the 1913 Wimbledon Championships, she won with Crisp the first mixed doubles final at Wimbledon in an unusual fashion - Ethel Thomson Larcombe was struck by a ball in the eye and unable to continue the match. The incident occurred when the second set was 5–3 for Crisp and Tuckey, the first having been won by the opposing pair of James Cecil Parke James Cecil Parke (26 July 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an I ...
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Francis Fisher
Francis Marion Bates Fisher (22 December 1877 – 24 July 1960) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament from Wellington. He was known as Rainbow Fisher for his frequent changes of political allegiance. He was a veteran of the Boer War and an internationally successful tennis player becoming the champion, along with his mixed doubles partner, Irene Peacock, of the World Covered Court Championships in 1920. Early life and family Fisher was the son of George Fisher, a member of parliament and Mayor of Wellington. David Fisher was his uncle. Frank Fisher was a captain in the 10th New Zealand Contingent to the South African Second Boer War in 1902. His eldest daughter, Esther Fisher (1900–1999), became an international pianist. Member of Parliament Fisher represented two Wellington electorates in the New Zealand House of Representatives for nine years from a 1905 by-election to the 1914 general election. Initially from 6 April 1905 he represented the multi-m ...
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Sylvia Lance Harper
Sylvia Harper (née Lance; 1 October 1895 – 21 October 1982) was an Australia tennis player who won the singles title at the 1924 Australian Championships. She reached the singles final there two other times, in 1927, losing to Esna Boyd, and in 1930, losing to Daphne Akhurst. Harper won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships three consecutive years. In 1923, her partner was Boyd, and in 1924 and 1925, her partner was Akhurst. She reached the final an additional three times with three different partners, in 1927, 1929, and 1930. Harper won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships in 1923 with Horace Rice and was the runner-up in that event in 1925. According to A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the ...
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Herbert Roper Barrett
Herbert Roper Barrett, KC (24 November 1873 – 27 July 1943) was a tennis player from Great Britain. Biography Barrett was born on 24 November 1873 in Upton, Essex. At the London Olympics in 1908 Barrett won a gold medal in the men's indoor doubles event with Arthur Gore. They also won the doubles in Wimbledon in 1909. In 1912 and 1913 he won the Wimbledon doubles title with Charles Dixon. He played his first Wimbledon singles' competition in 1898, reaching the second round in which he lost to eventual finalist Laurence Doherty. In 1908 he reached the All comers final, beating Anthony Wilding and Major Ritchie before losing in five sets to Arthur Gore. In 1909 he beat James Cecil Parke and Friedrich Rahe before losing to Ritchie in the all comers final. He achieved his best Wimbledon singles result in 1911 when he beat Parke and Gordon Lowe before winning the All-Comers final against compatriot Charles P. Dixon. In the Challenge Round against Anthony Wilding fr ...
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Molla Mallory
Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory ( Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a former Norwegian-American world no 2 ranked tennis player. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics. Tennis career Although she had won a bronze medal in singles for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and was the many-time champion of her homeland, Mallory was relatively unknown when she arrived in New York City to begin work as a masseuse in 1915. She entered the U.S. Indoor Championships that year unheralded and beat Marie Wagner 6–4, 6–4, which was the first of her five singles titles at that tournament. She also won the singles title in Cincinnati in 1915. Mallory had less in the way of stroke equipment than most tennis champions, but she was a fierce competitor, running with great endurance. Robert Kelleher, a former president of the United States Tennis Association (U ...
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Chuck Garland
Charles Stedman Garland (October 29, 1898 – January 28, 1971) was an American tennis player who won the 1920 The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon men's doubles title with Richard Norris Williams. He reached the singles semi finals at Wimbledon in 1919 (losing to Algernon Kingscote) and 1920 (losing to Bill Tilden). His highest U.S. singles ranking was No. 8. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1969. Garland won the US Intercollegiate Championships for Yale University, Yale in 1919 and served as Vice President of the USTA, USLTA. He was born in Pittsburgh. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 title) References External links

* * American male tennis players Tennis players from Pittsburgh 1898 births 1971 deaths Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles International Tennis Hall of Fame inductees Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era) {{US-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Evelyn Colyer
Evelyn Lucy Colyer (later Munro, 16 August 1902 – 4 November 1930) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. With Joan Austin, sister of Bunny Austin, Colyer played doubles in the 1923 Wimbledon final against Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan. Colyer and Austin were known in the British press as "The Babes." At the 1924 Paris Olympics, she teamed with Dorothy Shepherd-Barron to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event. From 1920 until 1929, she competed in all editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best singles result was reaching the fourth round in 1927 in which she was defeated by Kitty Godfree. In 1925, she teamed with P.B.D Spence and won the mixed doubles title at the Queen's Club Covered Courts Championships. She was part of the winning British Wightman Cup team in 1924 and 1925 as well as the team that lost in 1926. On 13 February 1930 she married Hamish Munro, a tea planter from Assam, British India The provinces of India, earlier presid ...
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Phyllis Satterthwaite
Phyllis Helen Satterthwaite (née Carr; 26 January 1886 – 20 January 1962) was a female tennis player from Great Britain who was active from the early 1910s until the late 1930s. Tennis career In 1911, she participated for the first time in the Wimbledon Championships. In 1919, she reached the final of the All-Comers competition in which she was defeated by eventual champion Suzanne Lenglen in two sets. Two years later, in 1921, she again made it to the final of the All-Comers competition, but this time lost to American Elizabeth Ryan in two straight sets. In total she competed in 20 Wimbledon Championships between 1911 and 1935. In 1920, she won the women's doubles title at the World Hard Court Championships in Paris. Playing alongside her compatriot Dorothy Holman they defeated the French team Germaine Golding and Jeanne Vaussard. She was selected to play in the 1923 Wightman Cup but was unable to participate. In 1924, she participated in the Olympic Games in Paris. Via ...
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Jack Hillyard
Major Jack Montagu Hillyard (2 January 1891 – 16 February 1983) played cricket for Harrow in Fowler's match in 1910, served in the British Army in the First World War, and became a moderately successful tennis player in the 1920s and 1930s. Early life Hillyard was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, the son of Commander George Whiteside Hillyard and Blanche Bingley. His father won an Olympic gold medal for tennis in 1908, and his mother won the women's championship at Wimbledon six times between 1886 and 1900. His younger sister Marjorie was born in 1896, in the Hillyard's house "The Elms" in Thorpe Satchville, Leicestershire. He attended Harrow School Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner an ..., and played in the Eton v Harrow cricket match twice. In 1909, ...
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Winifred McNair
Winifred McNair (née Winifred Margaret Slocock, 9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Between 1906 and 1925 she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best Wimbledon result came in 1913 when she reached the final of the all-comers' event and won the doubles title, partnering Dora Boothby. She married Roderick McNair on 22 April 1908. Grand Slam finals Singles (1 runner-up) 1This was actually the all-comers final as Ethel Thomson Larcombe Ethel Larcombe (née Ethel Warneford Thomson, 8 June 1879 – 11 August 1965) was a British female tennis player and badminton player. She won the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships as well as 11 badminton titles ... did not defend her 1912 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the c ...
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