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1939 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Don Budge and Alice Marble were the defending champions, but Budge was ineligible to compete after turning professional at the end of the 1938 season. Marble partnered with Bobby Riggs and defeated Frank Wilde and Nina Brown in the final, 9–7, 6–1 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1939 Wimbledon Championships.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Seeds Elwood Cooke / Sarah Fabyan ''(semifinals)'' Bobby Riggs / Alice Marble (champions) Cam Malfroy / Betty Nuthall ''(semifinals)'' Franjo Kukuljević / 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 creat ... ''(fourth round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 The nationality of GE Bean is unknow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 amateur in 1939 and World No. 1 professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 26, 1941. As a 21-year-old amateur in 1939, Riggs won the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. National Championships (now U.S. Open), and was runner-up at the French Championships. He was U.S. champion again in 1941, after a runner-up finish the year before. At the 1939 Wimbledon Championships he also won the Men's Doubles and the Mixed Doubles. After retirement from his pro career, Riggs became well known as a hustler and gambler. He organized numerous exhibition challenges, inviting active and retired tennis pros to participate. In 1973, at age 55, he held two such events, first against the #1-ranked woman player Margaret Smith Court, which he won easily, and then against the then current women's champion Billie Jean King, which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejo Russell
Alejo Domingo Russell (9 September 1916 – 25 May 1977) was an Argentine 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 who competed in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1942 and 1945 and was a finalist in the mixed doubles in 1942 (partnering Patricia Todd). Grand Slam finals Mixed doubles: (1 runners-up) References External links * *Alejo Russell: the "great gentleman" of the courts (article in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Alejo Argentine male tennis players Pan American Games medalists in tennis 1916 births 1977 deaths Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Tennis players at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottó Szigeti
Ottó Szigeti (; 22 December 1911 – 5 April 1976) was a Hungarian tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s. Tennis career Szigeti played under the name Ottó Schmidt as a professional. As an amateur, he reached the semifinals of the French Open (losing to Bobby Riggs) and the fourth round of Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... in 1939. In doubles, he reached the quarterfinals of the 1938 Wimbledon men's doubles. References External links * * Hungarian male tennis players 1911 births 1976 deaths Professional tennis players before the Open Era Sportspeople from Pest County 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scriven
Margaret Croft Scriven-Vivian (née Scriven; 17 August 1912 – 25 January 2001) was a British tennis player and the first woman from that country to win the singles title at the French Championships in 1933. She also won the singles title at the 1934 French Championships, defeating Helen Jacobs in the final. She was ranked No. 5 in the world in 1933 and 1934. Early life Margaret Scriven was born on 18 August 1912 at Chapel Allerton, Leeds. She was educated at home. Her parents were club level tennis players and she played the game from an early age, playing on holiday and entering local tournaments. According to one source, there was a tennis court at her family home and she was coached by her father, Edgar Scriven and by her mother. Career Scriven won the British Junior Championships held at Wimbledon in September 1929. In the final, Scriven defeated Miss P. Burt from Nottingham, 6–1, 6–3. In June 1930, Scriven played at the Wimbledon Championships for the first time, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 was imprisoned in Itter Castle during the latter years of World War II and subsequently fought in the Battle for Castle Itter. Career Borotra was born in Domaine du Pouy, Biarritz, Aquitaine, the oldest of four children. Known as "the Bounding Basque people, Basque", he won four Grand Slam in tennis, Grand Slam singles titles in the French Open, French, Australian Open, Australian, and The Championships, Wimbledon, All England championships. The 1924 French Championship does not count towards his grand slam total as the French was only open to French nationals and members of French clubs. He only failed to win the US Open (tennis), U.S. Championships, as he was defeated in the final by his countryman René Lacoste in straight sets, thus mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Lizana
Anita Lizana de Ellis (19 November 1915 – 21 August 1994) was a world No. 1 tennis player from Chile. She was the first Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 tennis player. Also, Lizana was the first Latin American to win a Grand Slam singles championship. She won the U.S. Championships singles title in 1937, defeating Jadwiga Jędrzejowska in the final in straight sets. Career In the singles event of the 1937 U.S. Championships Lizana defeated three seeded players without losing a set to reach the final where she beat Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, also in straight sets. At the Wimbledon Championships she reached the singles quarterfinals in 1936 and 1937. In 1936 she lost to second-seeded and eventual champion Helen Jacobs while in 1937 sixth-seeded Simonne Mathieu proved too strong. She won the Scottish Championships four times (1935–37, 46). In 1936 Lizana won the singles titles at the British Covered Court Championships, played on w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald MacPhail (tennis)
Donald MacPhail (1910–1997) was a Scottish tennis player in the years before and after World War 2. MacPhail won the Scottish Championships men's singles four times (1933, 1936, 1939 and 1946) on grass. and he won the Scottish Hard Court Championships singles title two times (1937–38) on clay. He was a quarter finalist at Wimbledon in 1938, where he beat third seed Roderich Menzel Roderich Ferdinand Ottomar Menzel (; 13 April 1907 – 17 October 1987) was a Czech-German amateur tennis player and, after his active career, a writer. Birth Roderich Menzel was born in Reichenberg in Bohemia (today Liberec in the Czech Republi ... when Menzel retired at the end of the second set. Although the match was marred by Menzel's retirement, according to The Glasgow Herald, "there is little doubt that the Scot would have won it anyway after securing the vital second set". MacPhail was a Flight Lieutenant. MacPhail competed in the Wimbledon men's singles from 1933 to 1946. In later l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Rurac
Magda Rurac (née Berescu;11 July 1918 – 9 May 1995)Brief biography of Magda Rurac was a player in the 1940s and 1950s. Rurac was ranked in the top 10 in unofficial world rankings in 1948 and 1949. For that reason, she is considered by many to be one of the best female players to come out of Romania. She played for Romania's Federation Cup team. Despite being Romanian, she was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten during her stay in the country. She was ranked No. 9 in 1951. At the tennis tournament in |
Annalisa Bossi
Annalisa Bossi born Anneliese Ullstein and then Annalisa Bellani after second marriage (3 November 1915 - 21 February 2015) was an Italian tennis player. She won the singles title at the Italian Championships in 1950 after a straight-sets victory in the final against Joan Curry Patricia Joan Curry Hughesman (December 1918 – August 2020) was a British squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row from 1947 to 1949. Her toughest victory was in 1948, when she beat the 10-tim .... See also * Best result of an Italian tennis player in Grand Slam References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bossi, Annalisa 1915 births 2015 deaths Italian female tennis players Naturalised citizens of Italy Naturalised tennis players Sportspeople from Dresden Expatriate sportspeople in Germany by nationality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Göpfert
Rolf Göpfert (born 16 February 1916) is a German former tennis player. A member of Berlin's Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, Göpfert was a German indoor singles champion and had two stints in the national Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ... team, the first in 1938 and 1939. He featured in the Davis Cup again from 1951 to 1953, during this time partnering Gottfried von Cramm in doubles. Göpfert twice reached the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships. See also * List of Germany Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gopfert, Rolf 1916 births Year of death missing German male tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Batt
Betty Batt (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s. A London native, Batt won the British junior hard court title in 1934 and featured in her first Wimbledon main draw the following year. In 1946 she appeared for Great 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 ..., partnering Molly Lincoln in doubles, then two weeks later made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals with Lincoln. Batt's first marriage, in 1940, was to Noel Passingham, with whom she had one child. She divorced Passingham in 1949 and soon after was married to Frank Martin-Davies, a colonial administrator in Nigeria. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Batt, Betty 1916 births 2003 deaths British female tennis players English female tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Shayes
Ronald Alfred Shayes (12 September 1912 – 17 December 1940) was a British tennis player. A native of London, Shayes got his first introduction to tennis at the Garden Lawn Tennis Club in West Wickham and was active on tour during the 1930s. He was an architect by profession. Shayes reached the singles fourth round at Wimbledon three times and was a doubles semi-finalist twice. In his only appearance at the U.S. National Championships in 1938 he took Bobby Riggs to five sets in a third round loss. From 1938 to 1939, Shayes played for Great Britain in the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis .... His 1939 reverse singles win over Bernard Destremau, which was considered an upset, secured a tie against France. Shayes ended 1939 as Great Britain's third ranke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
