Arvilla McGuire Manning (March 26, 1928 – August 17, 2013) was an American tennis player. A native of

Piedmont, California Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, completely surrounded by the city of Oakland. Its residential population was 11,270 at the 2020 census. The name comes from the region of Piedmont in Italy, and it me ...

, McGuire ranked number one in the state for the 14s age division and was sixth in the United States for the 18s. She competed in four editions of the

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, reaching the singles third round twice. In 1951 she was runner-up to

Betty Lombard Betty Lombard (''c.'' 1920 – March 1984) was an Irish tennis player who was a quarter finalist in the women's doubles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships, and reached the Women's Plate final at Wimbledon, in 1953. Career Betty Lombard was b ...

at the

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. McGuire married Edward M. Manning, Jr. in 1956 and they had two sons.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McGuire, Arvilla 1928 births 2013 deaths American female tennis players Tennis people from California People from Piedmont, California Sportspeople from Alameda County, California