Pearl Iris Panton ( Gannon; 6 September 1921 – 2014) was a British tennis player. Panton, a

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county representative, was the elder sister of tennis player

Joy Mottram Joy Mottram (née Gannon; born 21 March 1928) is a retired female tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Career Her best singles performances at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1952 when she reached the quart ...

. On her

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debut in 1946, Panton made the third round of the singles, losing to

Doris Hart Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was an American tennis player from who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in ...

. She continued to feature at Wimbledon until 1960 without again reaching that stage. In 1956 she beat Christine Truman in the final of the

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in Roehampton. By the end of the war she had married Robert Panton, a Lieutenant who served in the Pacific. The couple had a baby born in 1949, which they named Joy. Panton died in Merton, London in 2014, at the age of 92.

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