Madzy Rollin Couquerque (14 April 1903 – 16 July 1994) was a Dutch female hockey- and tennis player who was active from the 1920s until the late 1950s. She won 40 national tennis titles and made 37 appearances in the Dutch national hockey team.

Early life and sports career

Madzy Rollin Couquerque was born on 14 April 1903 in The Hague, Netherlands. Her father Louis Marie Rollin Couquerque was a

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. Her mother died in 1918. After she returned from a

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in Bloemendaal in 1921 she started a

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job at an insurance company which provided her with the income that allowed her to pursue her sports career.

Tennis

Rollin Couquerque became Dutch singles tennis champion 14 times between 1927 and 1947. In 1959, aged 56, she reached her last singles final at the Dutch Championships which she lost to Mientje Vletter-Tettelaar who was half her age. In addition she won 14 doubles titles and 12 mixed doubles titles, making a total of 40 national championship titles during her career. Her best singles results in a Grand Slam tournament were achieved at the French Championships. At the 1928 Championships she reached the quarterfinal which she lost in straight sets to eventual champion and World no.1 Helen Wills. In 1935 she again reached the quarterfinal and was defeated by

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she reached the fourth round of the mixed doubles in 1932 and equalled that result with Henk Timmer in 1933 and 1936. In 1929 she won the singles title at the Spanish International Championships, played at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, after a three-sets victory in the final against Ida Adamoff. She took part in the

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, losing in the first round to eventual champion Mary Carter.

Hockey

In the winter months she played field hockey for HOC (HHV-ODIS Combinatie) in The Hague. She made the first team in 1921 which became national champion that year. HOC, with Rollin Couquerque, remained the undefeated national champion until 1935. Rollin Couquerque made her first appearance in the

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in 1926, playing against Belgium in Brussels as a leftback. She would make 37 national appearances and captained the team in the 1930s until the outbreak of the World War II interrupted her hockey activities.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rollin Couquerque, Madzy 1903 births 1994 deaths Dutch female tennis players Dutch female field hockey players Sportspeople from The Hague