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1953 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Shirley Fry and Doris Hart successfully defended their title, defeating Maureen Connolly and Julia Sampson in the final, 6–0, 6–0 to win the ladies' doubles tennis title at the 1953 Wimbledon Championships.100 Years of Wimbledon by Lance Tingay, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1977 Seeds Shirley Fry / Doris Hart (champions) Maureen Connolly / Julia Sampson ''(final)'' Helen Fletcher / Jean Rinkel-Quertier ''(semifinals)'' Barbara Davidson Barbara Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winning photojournalist. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow, 2019-2020, and is travelling the country in her car, with her two dogs, making 8x10 portraits of gun-shot survivors using an 8x10 fi ... / Dorothy Knode ''(second round)'' Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:1953 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles Women's Doubles Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Fry Irvin
Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; June 30, 1927 – July 13, 2021) was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 doubles titles, and was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1956. Early life Fry was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 30, 1927. She started playing tennis competitively at age nine. She was educated at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, graduating in 1949. Career Fry was one of 10 women to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during her career. She was also one of seven women (with Hart, Court, Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams) to have won all four Grand Slam doubles tournaments. At the U.S. National Championship (precursor of the U.S. Open) in 1942, Fry reached the singles quarterfinals at the age of 15. At Wimbledon in 1953, Fry and Hart lost only four games during the entire women's doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman, CBE (née Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and ca ... in the final in straight sets. Lyle and Dearman also won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Lewis
Mercedes Johnson Madden "Baba" Lewis (April 27, 1920 — September 23, 1998) was an American tennis player. Lewis, a quick and nimble player, was a native of Massachusetts who was active on tour in the 1940s and 1950s. She twice won the singles title at the Canadian Championships, including in 1946 when her then husband Morey Lewis was champion in the men's singles. In 1952 she made the singles quarter-finals of the U.S. National Championships, losing to Shirley Fry. She attained her top national ranking of eight in 1952. In addition to tennis she was also nationally ranked in the sport of squash and was the top ranked player in New England for several years. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Baba 1920 births 1998 deaths American female tennis players American female squash players Tennis players from Massachusetts ... [...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] |
Barbara Knapp
Barbara Knapp (29 March 1920 — 1978) was a British tennis player. She was also an England international in squash. Born and raised in Birmingham, Knapp attended King Edward VI High School for Girls and was most active on the tour during the 1950s. She made the singles third round at Wimbledon twice and was a finalist at the 1950 Canadian Championships. At the 1950 U.S. National Championships she played a historic first round match against Althea Gibson, who became the first black player to feature at the tournament. She lost to Gibson in straight sets. Knapp, a physical education at Birmingham University, died in 1978 of a long illness. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Knapp, Barbara 1920 births 1978 deaths British female tennis players English female tennis players English female squash players Tennis people from the West Midlands (county) Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands People educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Georgie Woodgate
Georgiana Elizabeth Cox (nee Woodgate; 6 July 1923 — 12 May 2001) was a British tennis player active from the 1940s to 1960s. Her younger sister Billie was also a tennis player. Woodgate claimed the singles title at the Welsh Championships in 1949, then in 1950 won the singles and doubles at the Welsh Covered Court Championships. In 1951 she won the Henley Hard Courts summer meeting. In 1952 she made the singles fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships, beating Wightman Cup player Pat Ward en route. She was singles runner-up to Angela Mortimer at the 1953 British Covered Court Championships The British Covered Court Championships (BCCC) was an indoor tennis event held from 1885 through 1971 and played in London, England. The dates of the tournament fluctuated between October and March. History For its first five years the tournament .... In 1956 she reached the women's doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodgate, Georgie 1923 births 2001 dea ... [...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] |