1930 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Frank Hunter and Helen Wills were the defending champions, but did not participate. Jack Crawford and Elizabeth Ryan defeated Daniel Prenn and Hilde Krahwinkel in the final, 6–1, 6–3 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1930 Wimbledon Championships.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Seeds Bill Tilden / Cilly Aussem ''(quarterfinals)'' Jack Crawford / Elizabeth Ryan (champions) Henri Cochet / Eileen Fearnley-Whittingstall ''(semifinals)'' Jean Borotra Jean Laurent Robert Borotra (, ; 13 August 1898 – 17 July 1994) was a French tennis champion. He was one of the "The Four Musketeers (tennis), Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra wa ... / Lilí de Álvarez ''(withdrew)'' 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 * {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Crawford (tennis)
John Herbert Crawford, (22 March 1908 – 10 September 1991) was an Australian tennis player during the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 amateur for 1933, during which year he won the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon, and was runner-up at the U.S. Open in five sets, thus missing the Grand Slam by one set that year. He also won the Australian Open in 1931, 1932, and 1935. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979. Early life Crawford was born on 22 March 1908 in Urangeline, near Albury, New South Wales, the second youngest child of Jack Sr. and Lottie Crawford. He had no tennis training as a child and practised mainly by hitting against the house and school and playing his older brother. Crawford played his first competition match at age 12 in a mixed doubles match at the Haberfield club. He won the Australian junior championships four consecutive times from 1926 to 1929 which entitled him to the permanent possession of the trophy. Career ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phyllis Mudford King
Phyllis Mudford King (23 August 1905 – 27 January 2006) was an English female tennis player and the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100. Phyllis Evelyn Mudford was born in 1905 in Wallington, Surrey. She was educated at Sutton High School, where she was Captain of Tennis, and one of the school's four houses is named in her honour. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Doubles Championship in 1931 with partner Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, and last took part in the tournament in 1953. In 1931, she won the singles title at the Kent Championships after defeating Dorothy Round in the final in straight sets. In 1934, she again won the title beating Joan Hartigan in the final. She played for Britain in the Wightman Cup The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United States and Great Britain. History U.S. player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wanted to generate ... in 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takeichi Harada
was an amateur tennis player from Japan who competed in the 1920s and 1930s, including the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was ranked World No. 7 in 1926 by A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph''. Harada was also ranked World No. 10 by Myers and the U.S. No. 3 in 1925. After becoming Japanese National Doubles Tennis Champion in 1923, Harada moved to the United States to continue his studies at the Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le .... In 1929 he won the All Japan Championship again both in singles and doubles. He was coached by Harry Cowles. Personal life Takeichi Harada was married and his first child was born in 1929. He was the head manager of a mall in Tokyo. In 1925 he was awarded the AAF World Trophy by the Amateur Athletic Foundation for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pierre Henri Landry
Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990) was a Russian-born French international tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. He competed once for the French team in the Davis Cup in 1926, defeating his opponent Colin Gregory in a dead rubber. at daviscup.com In 1932 he was ranked 14th in the French rankings. References 1899 births[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ermyntrude Harvey
Ermyntrude Hilda Harvey (9 June 1895 – 4 October 1973) was a British female tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s. Between 1923 and 1938 she won 37 career singles titles on grass, clay and indoor wood courts. Career Between 1920 and 1948 she participated in 22 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best results in the singles event were reaching the fourth round in both 1927 (lost to Elizabeth Ryan 7–5, 6–1) and 1928 (lost to first-seeded and eventual champion Helen Wills 6–2, 6–3). At the 1927 U.S. National Championships, she partnered with Kathleen McKane Godfree to win the women's doubles title. The following year, Eileen Bennett and she were the women's doubles runners-up at Wimbledon. She also was the runner-up with Vincent Richards in mixed doubles at the 1925 U.S. National Championships. Her other career singles highlights included winning the Dovercourt Clay Courts at Dovercourt, Essex (1923), the East of England Championships, at Felixstowe, Suffo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cam Malfroy
Camille Enright Malfroy, (21 January 1909 – 8 May 1966)Cam Malfroy Tennis Archives was a prominent New Zealand player of the 1930s and 1940s, competing in numerous grand slam championships of the era, and a fighter pilot and of the . Early and personal life Camille Enright Malfroy was born in[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nancy Lyle
Nancy Lyle (26 February 1910 – 1986) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1930s. She was also known by her married name, Nancy Lyle Glover. Early life and tennis Nancy Lyle was born in London on 26 February 1910 and received education at St. Felix School in Southwold. She learnt playing tennis from her father Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne, an industrialist and politician who had also competed at Wimbledon. Nancy Lyle's biggest success at Grand Slam level came in 1935 when she partnered with Evelyn Dearman to win the doubles title at the 1935 Australian Championships, defeating Louie Bickerton and Nell Hall Hopman in the final in straight sets. Lyle and Dearman also won the doubles titles at the German Championships (1933) as well as the state championships of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (1934). She was a member of the British team at 1934 and 1935 Wightman Cup The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis compet ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig (née Palfrey; September 18, 1912 – February 27, 1996) was an American tennis player whose adult amateur career spanned 19 years, from June 1926 until September 1945. She won two singles, nine women's doubles, and four mixed doubles titles at the U.S. National Championships. Career She was 32 years old, married to Elwood Cooke, and a mother in 1945 when she won her second singles title at the U.S. National Championships. Pauline Betz was her opponent in the final. Since she lost to Cooke in the 1941 final, Betz had won three consecutive titles and 19 consecutive matches at these championships. In 1945, Cooke lost the first set and squandered her 5–2 lead in the second set before recovering to win it 8–6. In the third set, Betz got close to winning yet another title when she served for a 5–3 lead. Cooke, however, broke her serve and then won the next two games to win the tournament. She became only the second mother to win this title, with Haz ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gregory Mangin
Gregory Sylvester Mangin (November 1, 1907 – October 27, 1979) was an American tennis player and Wall Street broker. He won four U.S. Indoor singles titles in the 1930s. Early life and education Mangin was born in Newark, New Jersey. All four of his grandparents were born in Ireland. He was educated at Georgetown University and learned lawn tennis in Montclair, New Jersey. Tennis career In 1931, Mangin and Berkeley Bell were runners-up in the doubles final of the U.S. National Championships in Brookline, Mass., losing in straight sets to compatriots John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison. Mangin won the singles title at the U.S. Indoor Championships, held at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, in 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1936. He was a member of the US Davis Cup teams in 1930 and 1931 but did not play any matches. Military service During WWII Mangin enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces (AAF). He became a tail gunner on the B-17 Flying Fortress and flew 50 mission ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwen Sterry
Gwendolyne Reingale Sterry Simmers (1905–?) was an English tennis player who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1922 she won the Junior Singles British Championship. She competed eight times in the singles event at Wimbledon, reaching the fourth round in 1931 which she lost to fourth-seeded Hilde Krahwinkel. Sterry lost in three sets to Helen Wills during the first round of the 1927 Wimbledon Championships and is one of only three players who were able to win a set against Wills during her eight-year reign as Wimbledon champion. She won the doubles title at the 1926 British Hard Court Championships in Torquay partnering Betty Nuthall. With Kitty McKane Godfree she was runner-up in the doubles event in 1932 when the tournament was held in Bournemouth. That same year she won the singles title at the Surrey Championships. Sterry was part of the British team that lost the Wightman Cup in 1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' bec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phoebe Holcroft Watson
Phoebe Catherine Holcroft Watson ( Holcroft; 7 October 1898 – 20 October 1980) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom whose best result in singles was reaching the final of the U.S. Championships in 1929, losing to Helen Wills in straight sets. According to A. Wallis Myers, Watson was ranked in the world top 10 in 1926 and from 1928 through 1930, reaching a career high of world No. 2 in 1929. Watson won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1928 and 1929 and at the US Championships in 1929, all with partner Peggy Saunders Michell. Her other Grand Slam title was the women's doubles at the French Championships in 1928 with partner Eileen Bennett. She was part of the British team that won the Wightman Cup against the United States in 1928 and 1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |