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1929 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Helen Wills successfully defended her title, defeating Helen Jacobs in the final, 6–1, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1929 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Helen Wills Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) d ... (champion) Lilí de Álvarez ''(fourth round)'' Betty Nuthall ''(third round)'' Eileen Bennett ''(fourth round)'' Helen Jacobs ''(final)'' Bobbie Heine ''(quarterfinals)'' Simonne Mathieu ''(third round)'' Cilly Aussem ''(fourth round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1929 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Women's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Wills
Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) during her career, including 19 singles titles. Wills was the first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity, making friends with royalty and film stars despite her preference for staying out of the limelight. She was admired for her graceful physique and for her fluid motion. She was part of a new tennis fashion, playing in knee-length pleated skirts rather than the longer ones of her predecessors, and was known for wearing her hallmark white visor. Unusually, she practiced against men to hone her craft, and she played a relentless predominantly baseline game, wearing down her female opponents with power and accuracy. In February 1926 she played a high-profile and widely publicised match against Suzanne Lenglen which was called t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mence Dros-Canters
Mence Dros-Canters (5 March 1900 – 14 August 1934) was a Dutch female hockey, badminton- and tennis player who was active from the 1920s until her death in 1934. She won seven national tennis titles and made 12 appearances in the Dutch national hockey team. Sports career Tennis Dros-Canters became Dutch doubles tennis champion six times between 1927 and 1933. In addition she won the national mixed doubles title in 1930. Between 1925 and 1931 she participated in five Wimbledon Championships. Her best result in the singles event was reaching the fourth round in 1930, losing in straight sets to eventual champion and World no.1 Helen Wills-Moody. Also in 1930 she reached the third round in the doubles events partnering compatriot Madzy Rollin Couquerque. With Henk Timmer she reached the third round of the mixed doubles in 1928 and 1930. She took part in the French Championships on three occasions. She reached the second round at the 1928 Championships after a bye in the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 mixed doubles at Wimbledon, an all-time record for those two events. Twelve of her Wimbledon titles were in women's doubles and seven were in mixed doubles. Ryan also won four women's doubles titles at the French Championships, as well as one women's doubles title and two mixed-doubles titles at the U.S. Championships. Career Although she reached the Wimbledon singles finals twice, Ryan never won the title. Eight of her losses at Wimbledon were to players generally considered to be among the best ever. Ryan had to play Dorothea Lambert Chambers in the all-comers final of 1920; Suzanne Lenglen in the 1919 semifinals (losing 6–4, 7–5), 1921 final, 1922 quarterfinals, 1924 quarterfinals (losing 6–2, 6–8, 6–4), and 1925 second round; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Heeley
Mary Cartwright Heeley was a British female tennis player. Heeley was born on 30 March 1911 in Birmingham and was educated at the Edgbaston High School. In 1928 she won the Junior Championships of Great Britain. Heeley reached the doubles final at the 1933 Wimbledon Championships with Norman Farquharson but were defeated in the final by Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling and Gottfried von Cramm in two straight sets. Her best singles performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the semifinal at the 1932 Wimbledon Championships which she lost in straight sets to eventual champion Helen Wills Moody. In May 1929 she was a runner–up at the British Hard Court Championships losing the final in straight sets to Simonne Mathieu. In 1931 she defeated Jeanette Morfey in the final of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, with the loss of just one game. In 1932 she won the Kent Championships after a three–sets victory in the final over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Vlasto
Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri (; 8 August 1903 – 2 March 1985) was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles, losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s. She was born as Pénélope Julie Vlasto on 8 August 1903, in Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ..., France. According to Wallis Myers of the '' Daily Telegraph'' and '' Daily Mail'', Vlasto was ranked in the world top ten in 1923 and 1926, reaching a career high of world No. 8 in 1923. She married Jean-Baptiste Serpieri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Owen
Violet Owen (15 February 1902 – 22 October 1998) was a British tennis and field hockey, hockey player. She captained the British Field hockey in England, hockey team, and played at the The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon tennis championships every year from 1926 to 1933, reaching eighth in the British rankings. She won the women's doubles at the British Hard Court Championships in 1927 partnering Agnes Tuckey. She was a runner-up in singles and doubles at the 1929 WTA German Open, German Championships in Hamburg. She was born Violet Chamberlain in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on 15 February 1902. In 1930, she married Llewellyn Gordon Owen, also a notable sportsman, having played tennis at Wimbledon and football for Aston Villa and Wales. They had three children, John, Geoffrey Owen, Geoffrey and Ann. Ann and Geoffrey both played at Wimbledon, and Geoffrey became editor of the ''Financial Times'', was knighted in 1989, and later married literary editor Miriam Gross. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Sandison
Jenny Sandison (born 1910) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player. She was born at Kharagpur, Bengal (now West Bengal, India). Career She played her first tournament in January 1927 at the Bengal Championships where she reached the final before losing to Mrs. E.S. Graham. She was the first to hold the top position in women single tennis for a straight six years between 1930 and 1935. She once beat Betty Nuthall at Surbiton in 1930 at the Surrey Championships tournament. Archived frooriginalvia Wayback Machine on 5 December 2012 Sandison was the first player of Indian origin to play at Wimbledon in 1929 but lost in the first round. In the years 1929 and 1930 she got twice the opportunity to compete at Wimbledon. She supported herself as a typist while being in England from 1929 to 1930. On 4 October 1930 Jenny departed by sea voyage to Calcutta boarding the Mulbera ship. The rest of her career she never travelled outside the Indian subcontinent. Sandison, in her entire career won mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madzy Rollin Couquerque
Madzy Rollin Couquerque (14 April 1903 – 16 July 1994) was a Dutch female hockey- and tennis player who was active from the 1920s until the late 1950s. She won 40 national tennis titles and made 37 appearances in the Dutch national hockey team. Early life and sports career Madzy Rollin Couquerque was born on 14 April 1903 in The Hague, Netherlands. Her father Louis Marie Rollin Couquerque was a jurist. Her mother died in 1918. After she returned from a boarding school in Bloemendaal in 1921 she started a bookkeeping job at an insurance company which provided her with the income that allowed her to pursue her sports career. Tennis Rollin Couquerque became Dutch singles tennis champion 14 times between 1927 and 1947. In 1959, aged 56, she reached her last singles final at the Dutch Championships which she lost to Mientje Vletter-Tettelaar who was half her age. In addition she won 14 doubles titles and 12 mixed doubles titles, making a total of 40 national championship titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Blair-White
Rosetta Phoebe "Binky" Blair-White (10 September 1894 – 6 March 1991) was an Irish tennis player. Biography Phoebe Blair-White was born Rosetta Phoebe Newell in Omagh, County Tyrone, in 1895 or on 10 September 1894. Her parents were R. J. Newell, DL and JP, of Hillside, Omagh and Anna Frances Scott. She began playing tennis when the family moved to Monkstown, County Dublin playing everyday against a wall. On 31 December 1918 she married Arthur Blair-White, a cricketer. They had three daughters, Rachel Majory (1921–2012), Juliet Francis (1926–2003), and Rosemary (1933–2007). Blair-White was first noted as a tennis player in 1919 when she won the Monkstown lawn tennis club's ladies’ championships. She went on to win this event again in 1920 and 1921. In 1923, she also won the prestigious ladies’ singles at the Ulster Grass Court Championships at the Boat Club tournament in Belfast, the same year she won County Cavan Championships at Cavan against Freda Pearson. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Michell
Margaret “Peggy” Amy Michell (''née'' Saunders; 28 January 1905 – 19 June 1941) was a British female tennis player active in the 1920s. She is also known under her married name, Peggy Saunders-Michell. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in London. Along with Phoebe Holcroft, she won two consecutive women's doubles titles at Wimbledon (1928 and 1929) and the US Women's National Championship in 1929. With the same partner, she reached the final at the French Championships in 1927 in which they were defeated by Irene Bowder Peacock and Bobbie Heine. Her best singles results at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1929 when she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals at the U.S. Championships where she lost to Elsie Goldsack and Helen Wills respectively. Michell competed in nine Wimbledon editions between 1925 and 1938. She won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Cross
Edith Cross Jensen (née Cross; August 2, 1907 – July 15, 1983) was an American tennis player who achieved a No. 3 national ranking in 1928, 1929 and 1930. Career Cross, originally from San Francisco, began to play tennis after graduating from high school in 1927. In 1930, she won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title with Wilmer Allison after a straight-sets victory in the final against Marjorie Morrill and Frank Shields. She reached the U.S. National Championships doubles final in 1928 and 1930 with Anna Harper. In 1930, she reached the final of the doubles event at Wimbledon with Sarah Palfrey, losing to Helen Wills and Elizabeth Ryan in straight sets. In 1928 and 1931, she won the singles title at the Pacific Coast Championships. In 1931, she won the singles title at the Canadian Championships, defeating Marjory Leeming in straight sets. She was part of the American team that won the Wightman Cup against Great Britain 1929. Cross won her singles match aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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