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Bedford Open
The Bedford Open also known as the Bedford Lawn Tennis Open Tournament was men's and women's grass court tennis tournament established in 1880 as the Bedfordshire LTC Tournament. It was held at the Bedford Lawn Tennis Club, Bedford, Berkshire, England and ran through until 1974 when it was abolished. History The first Bedfordshire Lawn Tennis Club evolved out of a croquet club established in June 1871 by the Brooks family of Flitwick Manor. The first tournament tennis was played there on 29 August 1876, one year before the first Wimbledon Championships were held. Records show that the field consisted of six pairs, the final grouping included a Mr G. Tylecote and Miss P. Hodgson who beat Mr. and Mrs. Cobbe in the mixed doubles. By 1879 at least two lawn tennis clubs had been established in Bedfordshire, the South Bedfordshire Lawn Tennis Club (LTC), that usually staged tennis events at Flitwick Manor, Wrest Park, Silsoe and Cranfield Court. The North Bedfordshire LTC had court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst the Borough of Bedford had a population of 157,479. Bedford is also the historic county town of Bedfordshire. Bedford was founded at a ford on the River Great Ouse and is thought to have been the burial place of King Offa of Mercia, who is remembered for building Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border. Bedford Castle was built by Henry I of England, Henry I, although it was destroyed in 1224. Bedford was granted borough status in 1165 and has been represented in Parliament since 1265. It is known for its large Italians in the United Kingdom, population of Italian descent. History The name of the town is believed to derive from the name of a Saxon chief called Beda, and a Ford (crossing), ford crossing the River Great Ouse. Bedford was a marke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cawthorn
John W. Peter Cawthorn (17 February 1931 – 2002) was an Australian amateur tennis player who later turned professional in 1953. As an amateur he competed at the 1950 Australian Championships – Men's singles, 1950 Australian Championships and the 1951 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 1951 Wimbledon Championships. As a professional he was a two time quarter finalist at the Wembley Professional Championships in 1957 and 1958, and a quarter finalist at the French Professional Championship in 1956. He was active from 1949 to 1968 and won 21 career amateur and pro singles titles. He later became a tennis coach. Tennis career :Amateur Peter was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1931. In the 1940s he was educated at Box Hill High School, where he became captain of the football, tennis and swimming teams. Cawthorn played his first senior tournament in 1949 at the New South Wales Hard Court Championships where he reached the quarter finals. He then competed in Australian state ... [...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] |
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] |
Elsie Goldsack Pittman
Elsie Goldsack Pittman (née Goldsack; 21 January 1904 – 28 March 1975) was an English tennis player who competed during the second half of the 1920s and the 1930s. Between 1925 and 1939, she participated in 15 Wimbledon Championships. Her best result in the singles event was reaching the semifinal in 1929 in which she was defeated in straight sets by top-seeded and eventual champion Helen Wills. In the mixed doubles, she reached the quarterfinals in 1930 and 1931. Her biggest success at Grand Slam level came in 1937 when she partnered with Phyllis Mudford King to reach the final of the 1937 Wimbledon Championships, which they lost to Simonne Mathieu and Billie Yorke in straight sets. In 1932, she reached the semifinals of the singles event at the U.S. National Championships, losing to top-seeded and eventual champion Helen Jacobs. During the same tournament, she reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles event. The same year, she won the singles title at the Eastern Grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Holcroft Watson
Phoebe Catherine Holcroft Watson ( Holcroft; 7 October 1898 – 20 October 1980) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom whose best result in singles was reaching the final of the U.S. Championships in 1929, losing to Helen Wills in straight sets. According to A. Wallis Myers, Watson was ranked in the world top 10 in 1926 and from 1928 through 1930, reaching a career high of world No. 2 in 1929. Watson won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1928 and 1929 and at the US Championships in 1929, all with partner Peggy Saunders Michell. Her other Grand Slam title was the women's doubles at the French Championships in 1928 with partner Eileen Bennett. She was part of the British team that won the Wightman Cup against the United States in 1928 and 1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Satterthwaite
Phyllis Helen Satterthwaite (née Carr; 26 January 1886 – 20 January 1962) was a female tennis player from Great Britain who was active from the early 1910s until the late 1930s. Tennis career In 1911, she participated for the first time in the Wimbledon Championships. In 1919, she reached the final of the All-Comers competition in which she was defeated by eventual champion Suzanne Lenglen in two sets. Two years later, in 1921, she again made it to the final of the All-Comers competition, but this time lost to American Elizabeth Ryan in two straight sets. In total she competed in 20 Wimbledon Championships between 1911 and 1935. In 1920, she won the women's doubles title at the World Hard Court Championships in Paris. Playing alongside her compatriot Dorothy Holman they defeated the French team Germaine Golding and Jeanne Vaussard. She was selected to play in the 1923 Wightman Cup but was unable to participate. In 1924, she participated in the Olympic Games in Paris. Via a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Esplugas
Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertino in Italian as well as ''Tuco'' as a hypocorism. It derives from the name Adalberto which in turn derives from '' Athala'' (meaning noble) and ''Berth'' (meaning bright). People * Alberto Aguilar Leiva (born 1984), Spanish footballer * Alberto Airola (born 1970), Italian politician * Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), Italian racing driver * Alberto Baldonado (born 1993), Panamanian baseball player * Alberto Bello (1897–1963), Argentine actor * Alberto Beneduce (1877–1944), Italian scientist and economist * Alberto Bustani Adem (born 1954), Mexican engineer * Alberto Callaspo (born 1983,) baseball player * Alberto Campbell-Staines (born 1993), Australian athlete with an intellectual disability * Alberto Cavalcanti (1897–1982), Brazili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Mills (tennis)
Alan Ronald Mills, (born 6 November 1935), is a former tennis player and tournament referee for the Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon tennis championships from 1983 to 2005. Although each individual tennis match was controlled by an on-court Official (tennis), umpire, Alan Mills ran the entire tournament. However, perhaps he was most well known because the decision to stop play in the event of rain was that of Mills, and so his face was familiar to millions of television viewers worldwide, in the corner of Centre Court, clutching his two-way radio and glancing upwards at the sky in search of rainclouds. Tennis career Mills was himself an accomplished tennis, tennis player. At the age of 17 he was the senior county champion in his home county of Lancashire, and he reached the last 16 in the men's singles at Wimbledon on two occasions. He was also the first man in the history of the Davis Cup to win a match with the scoreline 6–0, 6–0, 6–0, completing the match in just 32 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Diepraam
Keith Diepraam (born 11 September 1942) is a retired South African male tennis player. Diepraam started playing tennis at age 15 when he went to Glenwood High School in Durban, South Africa. In 1964 he was runner–up to countryman Cliff Drysdale at the Stuttgart tournament. Between 1964 and 1966 Diepraam played seven ties for the South African Davis Cup team and compiled a record of 20 wins and 12 losses. In 1965 and 1966 South Africa reached the final of the Europe zone but lost to Spain and West Germany respectively. After his playing career he became a tennis coach and took a coaching position in Midland, Texas, USA in 1973. In 1990 he became the personal coach of Wayne Ferreira Wayne Richard Ferreira (born 15 September 1971) is a South African former professional tennis player and current tennis coach. Career As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked world no. 1 junior doubles player and no. 6 junior singles player. He .... In 2009 he was inducted into the Texas Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan (born 20 May 1942) is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa who won five grand slam doubles titles including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. All together, he won 63 doubles titles, surpassed only by the Bryan brothers, Mark Woodforde, Todd Woodbridge, John McEnroe and Tom Okker. He was also ranked No.1 in Doubles on the ATP Computer for a significant period from 1977 to 1979 when he was aged 37. Biography McMillan was born in Springs, South Africa. Aside from his considerable success as a doubles player, he had a singles career with good results mostly in South Africa. He played in 38 Grand Slam singles events with a 28 to 38 win–loss record, first playing in 1961 at Wimbledon and last at the first US Open at Flushing Meadows in 1978. His best results in both came at the US Open reaching the quarter finals in 1972 and the last 16 in 1976. Arguably his greatest result was reaching the final of the 1970 South African Open held at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
