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List Of French Open Women's Doubles Champions
Champions French Championships The French Championships tennis tournament began in 1891 but women's doubles didn't make an appearance until 1907. The tournament was open only to French citizens and permanent residents through 1924, but beginning in 1925, the French Championships became an international event open to all nationalities. French Open Statistics Champions by country If the doubles partners are from the same country then that country gets two titles instead of one, while if they are from different countries then each country will get one title apiece. See also French Open other competitions *List of French Open men's singles champions *List of French Open men's doubles champions *List of French Open women's singles champions *List of French Open mixed doubles champions Grand Slam women's doubles *List of Australian Open women's doubles champions *List of Wimbledon ladies' doubles champions *List of US Open women's doubles champions *List of Grand Slam women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fédération Française De Tennis
The French Tennis Federation (french: Fédération française de tennis, FFT) is the governing body for tennis in France. It was founded in 1920, and is tasked with the organisation, co-ordination and promotion of the sport. It is recognised by the International Tennis Federation and by the French Minister for Sports. Its headquarters are at the Roland Garros stadium. It was founded under the name ''Fédération Française de Lawn Tennis'' until it changed to the ''Fédération Française de Tennis'' in 1976. The roles of the FFT include organising tennis competitions in France, most notably the French Open, supporting and co-ordinating tennis clubs, and managing the French tennis teams, including their Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. History Logos File:Logo Fédération Française de Tennis (1992-2015).svg, Logo of FFT (1992-2015) References External linksOfficial site (in French) France Tennis in France Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Billout
Marguerite Marie Broquedis (; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player. Biography Broquedis was born on 17 April 1893 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She moved with her family to Paris around the turn of the century and started playing tennis on two dusty courts that were part of the Galerie des machines. Later she joined the Racing Club de France. Broquedis competed at the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm where she won the gold medal in outdoor singles by beating German Dora Köring 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final. In mixed doubles, she won the bronze medal partnering Albert Canet. In 1913 and 1914, she won the French championships,The French championships were only open to players from French clubs at the time. beating 15-year-old Suzanne Lenglen in the 1914 final. Broquedis, nicknamed "the goddess", is also known for being the only player to ever beat Lenglen in a fully played singles final. She also took part in the 1924 Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Michell
Margaret “Peggy” Amy Michell (''née'' Saunders; 28 January 1905 – 19 June 1941) was a British female tennis player active in the 1920s. She is also known under her married name, Peggy Saunders-Michell. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in London. Along with Phoebe Holcroft, she won two consecutive women's doubles titles at Wimbledon (1928 and 1929) and the US Women's National Championship in 1929. With the same partner, she reached the final at the French Championships in 1927 in which they were defeated by Irene Bowder Peacock and Bobbie Heine. Her best singles results at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1929 when she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals at the U.S. Championships where she lost to Elsie Goldsack and Helen Wills respectively. Michell competed in nine Wimbledon editions between 1925 and 1938. She won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbie Heine Miller
Bobbie Heine-Miller (born Esther Laurie Heine; 5 December 1909 – 31 July 2016) was a South African tennis player. She was born in Greytown in the Colony of Natal. As Bobbie Heine, she won the doubles title at the 1927 French Championships partnering Irene Bowder Peacock. In 1929, she was ranked no. 5 in the world. Her brother was the South African cricketer Peter Heine. Tennis career Heine taught herself to play tennis by hitting the ball against the wall of her father's butcher shop in Winterton. She received the nickname "Bobbie" as a junior player when, at a tournament, a representative of the South African Tennis Union remarked that the round shape of her face resembled that of an English policeman. In 1925, she won the Natal singles championship at the age of 15. Heine made her first trip to Europe in 1927. In May, she won the Surrey Championships at Surbiton, defeating Irene Bowder Peacock; together they won the doubles title. She again teamed up with compatriot B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Bowder Peacock
Irene Evelyn Bowder Peacock (née Bowder; 27 July 1892 – 13 June 1978) was a South African tennis player. Bowder Peacock won the doubles title at the 1927 French Championships with Bobbie Heine Miller defeating Peggy Saunders and Phoebe Holcroft Watson in two straight sets. That same tournament she also reached the final of the singles competition which she lost in straight sets to Kea Bouman of the Netherlands. She won the British Indian Championships singles title from 1915 to 1920, the South of England Championships singles title in 1922, and the South African Championships singles title from 1924 to 1926. At the World Covered Court Championships in 1920 she was a finalist in the doubles and, partnering Francis Fisher, won the mixed doubles title after a walkover in the final against Stanley Doust and Kathleen McKane Godfree. In 1921 she won the mixed doubles at the Queen's Covered Court Championships, again teaming up with Fisher, but lost the final of the singles event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen McKane Godfree
Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree (née McKane; 7 May 1896 – 19 June 1992) was a British tennis and badminton player and the second most decorated female British Olympian, joint with Katherine Grainger According to A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail'', Godfree was ranked in the world top 10 from 1921 (when the rankings began) through 1927, reaching a career high of world No. 2 in these rankings in 1923, 1924, and 1926. Godfree won five Olympic medals in tennis at the Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics, 1920 Antwerp and Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1924 Paris games, the most Olympic medals won by a tennis player until Venus Williams matched this record at the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Olympic Games. In 1923, she captured the title at the World Covered Court Championships. Godfree won the The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon singles title twice. In the 1924 final, Godfree recovered from a set and 4–1 (40–15) down against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Colyer
Evelyn Lucy Colyer (later Munro, 16 August 1902 – 4 November 1930) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. With Joan Austin, sister of Bunny Austin, Colyer played doubles in the 1923 Wimbledon final against Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan. Colyer and Austin were known in the British press as "The Babes." At the 1924 Paris Olympics, she teamed with Dorothy Shepherd-Barron to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event. From 1920 until 1929, she competed in all editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best singles result was reaching the fourth round in 1927 in which she was defeated by Kitty Godfree. In 1925, she teamed with P.B.D Spence and won the mixed doubles title at the Queen's Club Covered Courts Championships. She was part of the winning British Wightman Cup team in 1924 and 1925 as well as the team that lost in 1926. On 13 February 1930 she married Hamish Munro, a tea planter from Assam, British India The provinces of India, earlier presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Bourgeois
Yvonne Bourgeois (6 May 1902 – 12 May 1983) was a French tennis player. She competed in the doubles event at the 1924 Summer Olympics with compatriot Marguerite Billout. They reached the semifinal in which they lost in straight sets to Phyllis Covell and Kathleen McKane. In the bronze medal match they lost to Dorothy Shepherd-Barron and Evelyn Colyer, also in straight sets. In 1928 she competed in the 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 All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, All England Club in ..., reaching the second round in singles, the third round in doubles and the first round in mixed doubles. References External links * 1902 births 1983 deaths French female tennis players Olympic tennis players of France Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics Tennis players from Paris 20th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Broquedis
Marguerite Marie Broquedis (; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player. Biography Broquedis was born on 17 April 1893 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She moved with her family to Paris around the turn of the century and started playing tennis on two dusty courts that were part of the Galerie des machines. Later she joined the Racing Club de France. Broquedis competed at the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm where she won the gold medal in outdoor singles by beating German Dora Köring 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final. In mixed doubles, she won the bronze medal partnering Albert Canet. In 1913 and 1914, she won the French championships,The French championships were only open to players from French clubs at the time. beating 15-year-old Suzanne Lenglen in the 1914 final. Broquedis, nicknamed "the goddess", is also known for being the only player to ever beat Lenglen in a fully played singles final. She also took part in the 1924 Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speranza Wyns
Speranza is the Italian word for '' hope''. It could refer to one of several things: People * Alessandro Speranza, an Italian composer * Giovanni Speranza, an Italian soccer player * Guy Speranza, a US singer with the band Riot * M. Grazia Speranza, Italian applied mathematician and operations researcher * Norma Jean Speranza, the birth name of US pop singer Jill Corey * Sandro Finocchio Speranza, the birth name of Sandro Finoglio, a Venezuelan TV show host * A pseudonym used by the Irish poet Jane Wilde Films * '' Il viale della speranza'', a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi * '' La grande speranza'', a 1954 anti-war film * '' Due soldi di speranza'', a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani * '' Il Cammino della speranza'', a 1950 Italian language drama film directed by Pietro Germi Other * ''Speranza'' (moth), a genus of geometrid moths * Speranza (festival), an annual youth festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi * Speranza Motors, a brand use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Contostavlos
Hélène Alexander Contostavlos-Nicolopoulo (6 August 1903 – 3 February 1963) was a French-born Greek tennis player. She was a semifinalist at the 1925 French Championships, where she lost to eventual champion Suzanne Lenglen. She also made the quarterfinals at Wimbledon twice in 1926 and 1928. Contostavlos played in one major final in doubles at the 1923 World Hard Court Championships, finishing runner-up to Lenglen and Julie Vlasto while partnering with Daisy Speranza. Personal life Hélène Contostavlos was born on 6 August 1903 in Marseille to Julie Scaramanga and Alexander Contostavlos, both of whom were Greek. Her parents moved to France for business. Contostavlos married Jean Nicolopoulo in 1928. She was a cousin of fellow tennis player Julie Vlasto. She was also a great-granddaughter of banker Alexandros Kontostavlos Alexandros Kontostavlos ( el, Αλέξανδρος Κοντόσταυλος; 1789, Chios – 1865, Athens) was a Greek banker, magnate and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Vlasto
Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri (; 8 August 1903 – 2 March 1985) was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles, losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s. She was born as Pénélope Julie Vlasto on 8 August 1903, in Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ..., France. According to Wallis Myers of the '' Daily Telegraph'' and '' Daily Mail'', Vlasto was ranked in the world top ten in 1923 and 1926, reaching a career high of world No. 8 in 1923. She married Jean-Baptiste Serpieri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
