Betty Lombard (''c.'' 1920 – March 1984) was an Irish tennis player who was a quarter finalist in the women's doubles at the 1948

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, and reached the Women's Plate final at

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, in 1953.

Career

Betty Lombard was born Elizabeth Ann Lombard around 1920. She lived on Anglesea Road, Dublin. She took up tennis, first playing at the Anglesea Tennis Club, and later with the Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club. She won the singles title at the

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12 times. Lombard won the singles at the

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in 1941, 1943, and 1951. With Mary Fitzgibbon (née Nichols), Lombard played in the doubles quarter-final on the Centre Court at

in 1948. She won the Irish Championships women's doubles title in 1951 with Fitzgibbon. In 1953, Lombard played in the Women's Plate final at Wimbledon. Lombard ran a typing and secretarial school on

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, Dublin. After her playing career, Lombard helped with the administration of the Leinster Championships for the juniors and the

, both at the Landsowne Lawn Tennis Club. Lombard died in Dublin in March 1984. In 2017, the Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club named their new function room the "Betty Lombard Room".

References

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