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1955 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Louise Brough defeated Beverly Fleitz in the final, 7–5, 8–6 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1955 Wimbledon Championships. Maureen Connolly was the defending champion, but withdrew after breaking her leg. Seeds Doris Hart ''(semifinals)'' Louise Brough (champion) Beverly Fleitz ''(final)'' Angela Mortimer ''(second round)'' Dorothy Knode ''(quarterfinals)'' Darlene Hard ''(semifinals)'' Beryl Penrose ''(quarterfinals)'' Angela Buxton ''(quarterfinals)'' 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:1955 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 ... [...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] |
Inge Pohmann
Inge Pohmann (''née'' Hartelt; 1921 or 1922 – 26 January 2005) was a German female tennis player whose career lasted from the end of World War II until the mid-1950s. Pohmann won the German national singles title in 1950, 1951 and 1953. She was the No.1 ranked player in Germany in 1950. She was a three-time singles runner-up at the International German Championships in Hamburg. In 1948, playing under the flag of Allied-occupied Germany she lost the final to compatriot Ursula Rosenow. The following year, 1949, Mary Terán de Weiss defeated her in the final three sets, as did Joy Mottram in 1954. Pohmann competed in the Wimbledon Championships in 1952 and 1955. At both editions she was defeated in the first round of the singles event. In 1952 she partnered Henri Paul Brechbuhl in the mixed doubles event and lost their first match. She teamed up with compatriot Erika Vollmer in the 1955 doubles event and reached it to the third round. At the international Wiesbaden tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Burton
Alison Violet Burton (3 November 1921 – 9 June 2014) was a left-handed Australian tennis player. She and Joyce Wood won the girls' doubles competition at the Australian Championships (now the Australian Open) in 1938, 1939 and 1940. Biography Burton was born and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She was educated at Huntingtower School and the University of Melbourne, being awarded a tennis blue in 1941. As a schoolgirl, Burton represented the state of Victoria in the 1938 and 1939 Wilson Cup matches. In 1938 and 1939 she also won the Victorian junior championship and was runner-up for the Australian title. In 1952, she partnered with Mary Bevis Hawton and reached the finals of the women's doubles at the Australian Championships. Personal life On 17 September 1946, Burton married fellow Australian tennis player, Robert (Bob) Baker at Lincoln College Chapel, Oxford, England. They later returned to Tasmania, Baker's home state, and lived in Hobart. Their daughter, Barbara B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Cheadle
Hazel Cheadle (nee Austin; 8 November 1922 — 8 March 1999) was a British field hockey and tennis player. Cheadle, raised in Hampshire, developed an interest in tennis while acting as a ball girl for her parents. Her father was headmaster of Milford School. Based in Birmingham, Cheadle was a Warwickshire representative player and won the county singles title nine times in a row. She made the singles fourth round of the 1953 Wimbledon Championships The 1953 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 22 June until Saturday 4 July 1953. It was the 67th .... During the 1960s she played international matches for the England national field hockey team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheadle, Hazel 1922 births 1999 deaths British female tennis players English female tennis players English female field hockey players Tennis players from Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Felix
Lois Lorraine Felix-Spencer (June 1, 1927 – December 23, 2001) was an American amateur tennis player in the 1950s and 1960s. At one time in her career, she was ranked No. 8 in the U.S. singles rankings. At the U.S. Indoor Championships, Felix won the singles title in 1959 and in 1960 was a singles and doubles finalist. At the tournament in Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ..., Felix won the singles and doubles titles in 1957, and won the singles title in 1954. She won the 1957 doubles title with Margareta Bonstrom of Sweden. She was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990. References * "From Club Court to Center Court" by Phillip S. Smith (2008 Edition; ISBN 978-0-9712445-7-3) External links Meriden Hall of Fame {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gem Hoahing
Gem Cynthia Hoahing (20 October 1920 – 15 October 2015) was an English female tennis player of Chinese heritage who was active from the second half of the 1930s until the early 1960s. Early life Hoahing was born in British Hong Kong on 20 October 1920. Her father, Benjamin Hunter Hoahing, was a businessman while her mother, Singha (Susan) Ho A Shoo, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons after the family had moved to England in the late 1920s. Her mother taught her to play tennis on the court at their house in Twickenham. When she was 12 years old she played at the West Twickenham LTC and made a trip to the French Riviera for the first time where she played in a number of handicap tournaments. At age 14 she won the under 16 singles title at the Queen's Club Championships. Career Hoahing won the junior singles Championship of Great Britain and of France in 1936. She was the singles runner-up at the 1938 South of France Championships, held at the Nice Club, losing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Thomas
Vera Sybil Thomas (née Dace; 3 December 1921 – 9 July 1995) was an English international table tennis and tennis player. Table tennis career She won seven medals at the World Table Tennis Championships including three gold medals; two in the team events and one as a member of the winning doubles team in the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships with Peggy Franks. She also won three English Open titles. Tennis career As a tennis player she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1946 and 1961. Her best result in the singles was reaching the fourth round in 1948 in which she lost to Nelly Landry. Personal life She married Arthur Thomas in 1947 and became Vera Thomas-Dace. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships The tables below are the English representatives ... [...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] |
Rita Bentley
Rita Bentley (16 July 1931 - 26 October 2016), Rita Lauder after marriage, was a British tennis player of the 1950s and 1960s. She also played field hockey and represented the England women's national team. A native of Blackpool, Bentley was a member of Great Britain's 1966 Wightman Cup team, in a squad which included Ann Haydon-Jones and Virginia Wade. She was used for the deciding doubles rubber, which the Americans won. Bentley twice reached the singles round of 16 at Wimbledon and was the All England Plate winner in 1961. Other career titles include the Queen's Club in 1962 and the Canadian Championships Canadian Championships refers to a number of national-level competition in Canada. It may refer to: * Canadian Championship, a soccer tournament * Canadian Figure Skating Championships * Canadian Professional Figure Skating Championships * Canadi ... in 1966. She was a singles quarter-finalist at both the 1963 Australian Championships and 1967 U.S. National Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Cornell
Lorna Cornell (born 3 January 1933) is a British former tennis player. Cornell is the daughter of athlete Muriel Cornell, Muriel Gunn-Cornell, who was a Women's long jump world record progression, world record holder for long jump. Active in the 1950s and 1960s, Cornell won the The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon junior singles title twice and made regular appearances at the tournaments for two decades. She won the St.George's Hill Open singles title in 1961 and 1964. Cornell married Australian tennis coach Peter Cawthorn in 1953 but towards the end of her career had remarried and was competing as Lorna Greville-Collins. Other than tennis, Cornell also excelled in long jump as a junior and was named on the list of "possibles" to represent Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornell, Lorna 1933 births Living people British female tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Partridge (tennis)
Joan Susan Vernon Partridge (12 September 1930 – 4 December 1999) was a British tennis player. Biography Partridge, born in Shropshire, was the junior Wimbledon runner-up in 1949, before going on to compete with success internationally during the 1950s and 1960s. A British Wightman Cup player in 1952, Partridge switched to representing France following her 1953 marriage to tennis player Philippe Chatrier, from who she later divorced. One of her best performances was at the 1952 Wimbledon Championships, where she troubled the second-seeded Maureen Connolly Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969), known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine major singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win ... in the round of 16, going down 5–7 in the third set. She also reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles, partnering Jean Rinkel-Quertier. In 1953, competing as Sue C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Dawson-Scott
Peggy Dawson-Scott (1920 – 1993), born Peggy Maccorkindale, was a British amateur tennis player. Born in Oxfordshire, Dawson-Scott was active in the 1940s and 1950s. She reached the singles quarter-finals of the 1949 Wimbledon Championships, beating sixth seed Jean Quertier en route. Dawson-Scott's first marriage was to Scottish rugby union international William Penman in 1940. He was killed in World War II while serving with the Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ... and she remarried in 1945 to Edward Dawson Scott. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson-Scott, Peggy 1920 births 1993 deaths British female tennis players English female tennis players Tennis people from Oxfordshire Sportspeople from Brentford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
