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1936 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Fred Perry and Dorothy Round successfully defended their title, defeating Don Budge and Sarah Fabyan in the final, 7–9, 7–5, 6–4 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1936 Wimbledon Championships.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Seeds Fred Perry / Dorothy Round (champions) Don Budge / Sarah Fabyan ''(final)'' Jean Borotra / Susan Noel ''(fourth round)'' Cam Malfroy / Hilde Sperling Hildegard "Hilde" Krahwinkel Sperling ( née Krahwinkel; 26 March 1908 – 7 March 1981) was a German tennis player who became a dual-citizen after marrying Dane Svend Sperling in December 1933. She won three consecutive singles titles at the Fr ... ''(semifinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 The nationality of Mrs JC Bouch is unknown. Section 7 Section 8 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1936 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed Doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Perry
Frederick John Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world No. 1 from England who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slam tournaments and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title, until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open. Perry remains the last English player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title. Perry was the first player to win a " Career Grand Slam", winning all four singles titles, which he completed at the age of 26 at the 1935 French Championships. He remains the only British player ever to achieve this. Perry's first love was table tennis and he was World Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonne Mathieu
Simonne Mathieu ( Passemard; (Spelled "Simone" in many sources.) 31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine who was active in the 1930s. During World War II, she created and led the Corps of French Volunteers in the Free French Forces. Career Mathieu is best remembered for winning two major singles titles at the French Open, French Championships (in 1938 and 1939), and for reaching the final of that tournament an additional six times, in 1929, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, and 1937. In those finals, she lost three times to Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, twice to Helen Wills Moody, and once to Margaret Scriven. Mathieu won 11 Grand Slam doubles championships: three women's doubles titles at Wimbledon (1933–34, 1937), six women's doubles titles at the French Championships (1933–34, 1936–39), and two mixed-doubles titles at the French Championships (1937–38). She completed the rare triple at the French Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Avory
Edward Raymond Avory (21 June 1909 – 26 October 1995) was a British tennis player. Born in London, Avory was educated at Stowe School. He was a great-nephew of High Court judge Sir Horace Avory. Most active in tennis during the 1930s, he made regular appearances at Wimbledon in this period and also reached the singles fourth round of the 1932 U.S. National Championships. His career titles include the Kent Championships, Middlesex Championships, Scottish Championships and St George's Hill Tournament. Avory became chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association in the 1960s and was the youngest ever person to ascend to the role. He was vice-president of the All England Club during the 1980s. One of his children, Sonia Avery, was the first wife of famous English satirist William Donaldson Charles William Donaldson (4 January 1935 – 22 June 2005) was a British satirist, writer, playboy and, under the pseudonym of Henry Root, author of '' The Henry Root Letters''. Life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ewart Bean
George Ewart Bean (1903 – 7 December 1977) was an English archaeologist and writer who specialized in classical Turkey. His father William Jackson Bean was a botanist, author, and curator of Kew Gardens. Bean was educated at St Paul's School, London from 1916 to 1921. He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge and won the Schoolbred Scholarship and the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship for Classics. Career Bean returned to St Paul's School to teach ancient Greek in 1926. He took his MA from Cambridge in 1930. In the 1930s, he organized summer school trips to the Aegean coast of Turkey. In 1943, in the middle of World War II, he was recruited by the British Council to teach English in Izmir. Several years later, he helped to set up the archaeology department at the University of Istanbul. He stayed on in Istanbul, teaching classics at the university for 24 years. Between 1943 and 1971, Bean travelled extensively in rural Turkey in order to discover and record its classi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kingsley (tennis)
Charles Herbert Kingsley (6 March 1899 – 9 January 1996) was an amateur English tennis player. He won the Scottish Championships singles title in 1924. He reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and the final of Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (; ; french: Monte-Carlo , or colloquially ''Monte-Carl'' ; lij, Munte Carlu ; ) is officially an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is ... in 1926. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kingsley, Charles English male tennis players British male tennis players 1899 births 1996 deaths People from Mawlamyine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bea Seal
Beatrice Mary Seal (nee Watson; 13 January 1914 — 13 January 2011) was a Belgian-born British tennis player. Early life Seal was born in Courtrai but was sent to school in England. Her father, Belgian Davis Cup player George Watson, was in the country working in the flax industry. The whole family fled to England at the onset of the German invasion. Tennis A regular at Wimbledon, Seal began competing on tour in the 1930s. Her best performances included a fourth round appearance in singles at the 1946 Wimbledon Championships. She was a two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist in women's doubles, with Mary Halford in 1948 and Doreen Spiers in 1956. Seal was non-playing captain of the British Wightman Cup team from 1959 to 1963. She was also a tournament referee, who in 1972 was involved in an incident with Pancho Gonzales while overseeing the 1972 Queen's Club Championships. Gonzales, playing in a semi-final, demanded that a linesman be replaced following a series of disputed line c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Van Den Eynde
John "Jack" Van den Eynde (14 April 1914 – 18 September 1993) was a Belgian footballer and Davis Cup tennis player. He played his football as a striker and featured in 40 matches in the Belgian First Division at Beerschot VAC, scoring 12 goals. His brother Stanley Van den Eynde was also a footballer, also playing for Beerschot. Their family was closely involved with the club. Their family house was located on Della Faillelaan in Antwerp. Honours Beerschot * Belgian First Division The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 team ... runner-up: 1936–37 See also * List of Belgium Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * 1914 births 1993 deaths Belgian men's footballers Belgian people of English descent K. Beerschot V.A.C. players Men's associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Murray (tennis)
Robert Dudley Murray (May 16, 1914 – January 15, 1989) was a Canadian tennis player. A native of Montreal, Quebec, Murray won three intercollegiate team championships with McGill University. In 1935 he became the first Canadian win an international title, beating Ian Collins in the final of the Scottish Championships. He was Canada's top ranked player in 1937 and was runner-up at the Canadian Championships that year to American Walter Senior in five sets. In 1938 he played a Davis Cup tie for Canada against Japan in Montreal. In World War II, Murray fought with the Canadian forces in Normandy and later served as a special staff observer, attached to the U.S. Marine Corps in Hawaii. He didn't return to the tour after the war. Murray was a 1994 inductee into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame. See also *List of Canada Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Canada Davis Cup team The Canada men's national tennis team represents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Stammers
Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers (3 April 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom. Career Stammers was born on 3 April 1914 in St Albans, United Kingdom where her parents taught her to play tennis on the grass court at their family home. Left-handed and with a good forehand, Stammers played an attacking style of tennis and was trained by Dan Maskell. Stammers played when Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble, and Pauline Betz dominated. But Stammers defeated Jacobs in the semifinals of the 1939 Wimbledon Championships and in singles matches at the 1935 and 1936 Wightman Cup. At the 1935 Kent Championships in Beckenham, England, Stammers became the first British player to beat Wills Moody in 11 years. According to A. Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Stammers was ranked in the world top ten in 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, and 1946, reaching a career high of world No. 2 in those rankings in 1939. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Austin
Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin (26 August 1906 – 26 August 2000) was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012. He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Championships and a championship winner at Queen's Club. Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup in three consecutive years (1933–35). He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts. Early life and education The son of stockjobber Wilfred Austin and his wife Kate, Austin was brought up in South Norwood, London. Austin concluded that the nickname "Bunny", bestowed on him by school friends, came from the ''Daily Mirror'' comic strip ''Pip, Squeak and Wilfred'' (Wilfred was a rabbit, or bunny). Encouraged by his father, who was determined that he become a sportsman, he joined Norhurst Tennis Club aged six. Austin was educated at Repton School, and studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Meredith
George Robert Broughton Meredith (15 July 1909 — 23 August 1994) was a British tennis player. Career Born in the Leicestershire village of Hugglescote, Meredith was the son of a local doctor. Meredith played cricket for the Dover College first eleven but couldn't pursue the sport further due to the hours he had to work in his part time retail job. Introduced to tennis by his elder sister, he became the Leicestershire junior champion as a 15-year old and was 16 when first picked for the county side, for which he later captained. Meredith won his first open title in 1933 at the Tally Ho! Tournament in Birmingham, by beating Davis Cup player Keats Lester in the final. He also made his Wimbledon singles main draw debut that year and was beaten in the first round by the tournament's top seed Ellsworth Vines. In 1946 he won the Nottinghamshire Championships defeating Peter Hare in the final. In 1947 he won the Northamptonshire Championships at Wellingborough against Jeffrey Michel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Lumb
Margot Lumb (1 July 1912 - 3 January 1998) was a left-handed English squash and tennis player. Margarita Evelyn Lumb was born in London in 1912 to Charles Fletcher Lumb and Margarita Johnson. Her father was a businessman and inventor; her mother was from Cuba. She was one of five children. As a squash player she won the British Open five times in a row from 1935-39. She won all five finals in straight sets. She was also the runner-up at the championship in 1934, when she lost to Susan Noel. Lumb also won the United States Hardball National Championship in 1935. As a tennis player, Lumb participated in the British Wightman Cup team in 1937 and 1938. She was a finalist in the 1937 All England Plate tournament, a tennis competition held at the Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Lawn Tennis and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
