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1949 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Louise Brough successfully defended her title, defeating Margaret duPont in the final, 10–8, 1–6, 10–8 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships. Seeds Louise Brough (champion) Margaret duPont ''(final)'' Pat Todd ''(semifinals)'' Gussie Moran ''(third round)'' Shirley Fry ''(fourth round)'' Jean Quertier ''(second round)'' Nelly Adamson ''(third round)'' Joan Curry ''(second 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:1949 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Women's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles Wimbledon Championships 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 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Brough
Althea Louise Brough Clapp (née Brough; March 11, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American tennis player. In her career between 1939 and 1959, she won six Grand Slam singles titles as well as numerous doubles and mixed-doubles titles. At the end of the 1955 tennis season, Lance Tingay of the London ''Daily Telegraph'' ranked her world No. 1 for the year. Biography Louise Brough was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1923. Her family moved to Beverly Hills, California when she was four years old. She learned to play tennis on the public courts at Roxbury Park and was coached by Dick Skeen. In 1940 and 1941, she won the U.S. Girls' Championships. In women's doubles, Brough never failed to reach the quarterfinals at the 32 Grand Slam tournaments she played during her career. She reached the semifinals 29 times and the final 28 times. She usually teamed with her longtime friend Margaret Osborne duPont. They won their first U.S. doubles title as a team at the 1942 U.S. National Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freda James
Winifred Alice "Freda" James (married name Hammersley) (11 January 1911 – 27 December 1988) was a British female tennis player of the 1930s. She won the women's doubles in Grand Slam events three times : in 1933 at the US Women's National Championship (with Betty Nuthall), and twice at Wimbledon in 1935 and 1936 (with Kay Stammers). From 1931 to 1939, she was part of the British team 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 .... Grand Slam finals Doubles (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) References {{DEFAULTSORT:James, Freda 1911 births 1988 deaths English female tennis players Sportspeople from Nottingham United States National champions (tennis) Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era) Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles British femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Morgan
Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan (later known by her married name, Janet Shardlow) (1921–1990) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s. She won the British Open on ten consecutive occasions and was the sport's most famous player until the rise of Heather McKay. Born in Wandsworth, London, Morgan was originally a tennis player who played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1946. She quickly turned to squash and in 1948 and 1949 was a losing finalist against Joan Curry. In 1950 she won her first British Open title, beating Curry in the final. She went on to win the trophy for the next ten successive years through to 1959. Before the 1959 British Open Morgan announced that she would retire after the competition due to medical advice because she had suffered from persistent back injuries. Following the tenth victory and retirement she married Roland Horcae “Joe” Bisley later that year in 1959 in London. She became the first chairwoman of the Women's Squas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Matouš
Helena Matouš (nee Štraubeová; born 1921) is a Czech-Italian former tennis player. Born in Plzeň, Matouš was active during the 1940s and 1950s. She married tennis player and ice hockey international Milan Matouš. In 1948, following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, communist takeover, she was one of four Czechoslovak players who were reported missing while on a tennis tour of Italy. Two members of the group, Jaroslav Drobný and Vladimír Černík, ended up returning to Prague before defecting for good a year later, while Matouš and future husband Milan Matouš stayed in Italy. Matouš was a singles runner-up at the 1949 Welsh Championships, reached the women's doubles quarter-finals of the 1950 French Championships (tennis), 1950 French Championships and made the singles fourth round of the 1951 Wimbledon Championships. Settling in the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Matouš and her husband had a child Elena Matous, Elena who was a national champion in alpine skiing. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma Coyne Long
Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career she won 19 Grand Slam tournament titles. In 2013, Long was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Tennis career At the Australian Championships, Long won singles titles in 1952 and 1954 and was a singles finalist in 1940, 1951, 1955 and 1956. In women's doubles, she won ten titles with Nancye Wynne Bolton (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952) and two titles with Mary Bevis Hawton (1956 and 1958). Long was a women's doubles finalist with Bolton in 1946 and 1950. She won mixed doubles titles in 1951, 1952 and 1955 with George Worthington and in 1954 with Rex Hartwig. She was a mixed doubles finalist in 1948 with Bill Sidwell. At Wimbledon, Long was a women's doubles finalist in 1957 with Hawton and a mixed doubles fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Abbas
Beatrice "Betsy" Abbas (née Venter born 1930s) is a South African-born Egyptian former tennis player. She played in singles in the 1960 French Championships. She lost to Mexican player Yola Ramírez in the quarterfinals. She played in singles at the Wimbledon in 1952. She lost to the British Pat Harrison in the second round. Her partner in women's doubles, British Doreen Spiers, lost in the third round to British players Molly Blair and Mary Halford. Her partner in mixed doubles, Władysław Skonecki, lost in the fourth round to Australian player Lew Hoad and American Dorothy Head Knode. In 1954 Wimbledon she lost to American Margaret Osborne duPont Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a world No. 1 American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places ... in the third round. Career finals Singles (7–3) Doubles (11–7) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Terán De Weiss
María Luisa Terán de Weiss (29 January 1918 – 8 December 1984), known in Argentina as Mary Terán de Weiss, and out of Argentina as María Teran Weiss, was a tennis player, the first Argentine woman to have a relevant sport performance in the international tennis tour. Tennis career She played between 1938 and 1959, and was considered a top 20 player, winning the Irish Open (tennis), Irish Open (1950), Israel International (1950), Cologne International (1951), Baden-Baden (1951) and Welsh International (1954), and several times the Rio de la Plata Championship. In 1948, she reached quarterfinals at the French Open and won the All England Plate, a tennis competition held at the Wimbledon Championships that consisted of players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition. She also won two gold and bronze medals at the 1951 Pan American Games.Lupo, Víctor F. (2004). ''Historia política del deporte argentino'', Buenos Aires: Corregidor, capítulo X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgit Gullbrandsson-Sandén
Birgit "Bibbi" Gullbrandsson (married name Sandén, 22 August 1916 – 6 January 2006), was a Swedish tennis player. She won the women's Swedish Open in 1954. Tennis career Beginning in 1938 when she was 22, Bibbi Gullbrandsson won 49 Swedish national championships, 16 in singles. She often partnered in doubles with Mary Lagerborg. Like many others, she lost several years of international competitive opportunities to World War II. After the war, she won the women's Swedish Open in 1954, defeating Milly Vagn-Nielsen in straight sets, and in 1955, when she was 39, she won the German Tennis Championship. Personal life Gullbrandsson was born in Kalmar."Gullbrandsson, Birgit (Bibbi)", ''Vem är det?: Svensk biografisk handbok, Volume 20'' (1950 ed.p. 362 . She lived in Stockholm for most of her life, and worked in cartography Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Piercey Summers
Sheila Piercey (18 March 1919 – 14 August 2005) was a South African tennis player. She was also known under her married name Sheila Piercey-Summers. Piercey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. With her compatriot Eric Sturgess, she won three mixed doubles titles: at the French Open in 1947 and 1949 and at Wimbledon in 1949. In 1947, she became the first South African woman to reach a Wimbledon semifinal in the singles event. She lost the match in straight sets to top-seeded and eventual champion Margaret Osborne. Two years later, in 1949, she again reached the semifinals of the French Championships The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ... and again lost to Osborne in straight sets. Summers won the South African Championships singles title in 1948, 1949 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Violette Rigollet
Violette Alvensleben-Rigollet (3 September 1930 — 30 July 1991) was a Swiss tennis player. She was a countess, married to Count Londolf Alvensleben, a nobleman of Polish origin. Rigollet won six national singles championships in succession from 1948 to 1953. She made the quarter-finals in doubles at both the French Championships and Wimbledon during her career. In 1954 was singles champion at the Swiss International Championships in Gstaad, beating British Wightman Cup player Pat Ward Patrick or Pat Ward may refer to: *Patrick Ward (actor) (1950–2019), Australian actor *Patrick Ward (photographer) (born 1937), British photographer *Pat Ward (footballer) (1926–2003), Scottish footballer *Pat Ward (rugby union) (fl. from 1928) ... in the final. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rigollet, Violette 1930 births 1991 deaths Swiss female tennis players Swiss countesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola White (tennis)
Viola Steeds Cameron (nee White; 20 March 1917 – 25 July 2006) was a British field hockey and tennis player. Born and raised in Wiltshire, White lived on the family farm in Zeals. Locally she captained the Wiltshire country team and was a six-time singles champion at Winchester. White was a regular in the Wimbledon draw from 1947 to 1961, reaching three women's doubles quarter-finals with Mary Eyre. She made the singles fourth round at Wimbledon in 1952 and captained England that year against Wales. As a field hockey player, White was good enough to go on a tour to South Africa with the national team in 1950. She scored four times in a tour match against an International Wanders team, for which she was singled out for praise in the ''Johannesburg Star ''The Star'' is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. The paper is distributed mainly in Gauteng and other provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, and Free State. ''The Star'' is one of the titles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
