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Germaine Golding
Anne Germaine Golding (; ''née'' Régnier; 6 June 1887 – 14 August 1973) was a French tennis player who was mainly active during the interwar period and achieved most of her tournament wins on indoor courts. Personal life Golding was born on 6 June 1887 in Dijon, daughter of Jean Marie Georges Régnier, a trader, and Camille Berthe Dietz. She married George Jackson Lewis Golding from the United Kingdom on 5 March 1912 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Golding lived in London and was an officer in the British colonial army. Career Golding was a finalist at the French Championships singles event on four occasions, before the tournament became open to international players. In 1910 she lost in a close three-set match to Jeanne Matthey. In 1921 she withdrew from her final against Suzanne Lenglen, while in 1922 and 1923 she lost to Lenglen in straight sets. Golding reached the singles final of the 1914 World Hard Court Championships in Paris which she lost to 15-year-old Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dijon
Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France. the Communes of France, commune had a population of 156,920. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic Period (geology), period. Dijon later became a Roman Empire, Roman settlement named ''Divio'', located on the road between Lyon and Paris. The province was home to the Duke of Burgundy, Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries, and Dijon became a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning, and science. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic architecture, Gothic, and Renaissance architecture, Renaissance. Many still-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss International Championships
The Swiss International Championships or simply the Swiss Championships was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament established by the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association, and first played at Grasshopper Club, Zurich, Switzerland in 1897 as the Championship of Switzerland. The championships were then held annually and alternated between different venues until 1967. In 1968 the tournament was renamed the Swiss Open International Championships or simply Swiss Open (tennis), Swiss Open Championships and were then staged permanently at Gstaad. From 1977 the women's tournament was staged at Lausanne and was called the WTA Swiss Open, today that event is branded as the Ladies Open Lausanne. History The first early edition of the Championship of Switzerland, was played at the Grasshopper Club, Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland under the auspices of the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association, the winner of the men's event was presented with a cup valued at 500 francs. In 1898 the Swiss Lawn T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Beamish
Winifred Geraldine Ramsey Beamish (''née'' Ramsey; 23 June 1883 – 10 May 1972) was an English tennis player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Biography Winifred Geraldine Ramsey was born on 23 June 1883 at Forest Gate, London. She married tennis player Alfred Beamish on 30 September 1911. She competed at The Championships, Wimbledon from 1910 throughout 1933 in each year the tournament was held, reaching the semifinals three times in 1919, 1922 and 1923. In 1919 she lost to Phyllis Satterthwaite, in 1922, she lost to Molla Mallory and the following year to Suzanne Lenglen. In 1920 she won the silver medal in the Olympics doubles competition with her partner Dorothy Holman. She also competed in the Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics, mixed doubles event with her husband Alfred, but they were eliminated in the second round. In the Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics, singles competition she had a walkover in the first round and was eliminated in the second round by ... [...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 called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the ..., 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 for France Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics Tennis players from Paris 20t ... [...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 Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... 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 Fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Satterthwaite
Phyllis Helen Satterthwaite (née Carr; 26 January 1886 – 20 January 1962) was a female tennis player from Great Britain who was active from the early 1910s until the late 1930s. Tennis career In 1911, she participated for the first time in the Wimbledon Championships. In 1919, she reached the final of the All-Comers competition in which she was defeated by eventual champion Suzanne Lenglen in two sets. Two years later, in 1921, she again made it to the final of the All-Comers competition, but this time lost to American Elizabeth Ryan in two straight sets. In total she competed in 20 Wimbledon Championships between 1911 and 1935. In 1920, she won the women's doubles title at the World Hard Court Championships in Paris. Playing alongside her compatriot Dorothy Holman they defeated the French team Germaine Golding and Jeanne Vaussard. She was selected to play in the 1923 Wightman Cup but was unable to participate. In 1924, she participated in the Olympic Games in Paris. Via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Holman
Edith Dorothy Holman (18 July 1883 – 15 June 1968) was a British tennis player and three time ILTF world champion twice in singles winning the World Covered Court Championships in 1919, and the World Hard Court Championships in 1920 and once in doubles the same year. In addition she was a double silver medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics (singles and doubles). Career Holman was born in Kilburn, London. In 1920 she won the silver medal in the singles event as well as in the doubles competition with her partner Geraldine Beamish. She also competed in the mixed doubles event with Gordon Lowe but they were eliminated in the first round. In 1919 she won the singles title at the World Covered Court Championship, played on wooden courts at the Sporting Club de Paris, defeating Germaine Regnier Golding in the final in straight sets. She also won the World Hard Court Championship in 1920 defeating Francisca Subirana in straight sets. Her best result at the Wimbledon Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Jung Henrotin
Sylvie Jung Henrotin (née Jung; ;10 July 1904 – 15 December 1970) was a French tennis player who was active during the late 1920 and the 1930s. She had her best results in the doubles event, finishing runner-up in seven Grand Slam doubles and mixed-doubles competitions. She participated in the singles event of the Wimbledon Championships from 1930 to 1939, and her best result during this period was reaching the fourth round in 1933 and 1939. Henrotin also took part in the French Championships, reaching the quarterfinals in the singles on five occasions (1929, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938). She was a runner-up in the singles event of the 1933 German Championships after losing the final in straight-sets loss to Hilde Krahwinkel. In August 1936, she won the singles title at the Eastern Grass Court Championships in Rye, New York with victories against Alice Marble Alice Irene Marble (September 28, 1913 – December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis Club De Paris
Tennis Club de Paris (Tennis Club of Paris), also known as the TCP, is a tennis club founded in 1895 in Paris. History 1895 to 1930 In 1895, a few sportsmen, including Armand Masson and Paul Lecaron, had the idea of creating a tennis club that would bring together covered parquet courts and open clay courts. These first founding members of the TCP, who were also patrons, financed the rental of a piece of land located at the corner of rue de Civry (at no. 2) and boulevard Exelmans and extending as far as boulevard Murat, halfway between Porte d'Auteuil and Porte de Saint Cloud, by means of shares at a nominal rate of 5,000 francs. They had just formed the Société Anonyme Immobilière du Tennis Club de Paris. In association with the owner of the land, they also financed the construction of 4 covered parquet courts and 5 open clay courts. In compensation for their financing, the first founding members were admitted as lif e members of the TCP. But legal disputes ensued as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Covered Court Championships
The French Covered Court Championships its original name or Championnats de France sur Court Couvert also known as the French Covered Court Open Championships and the French Indoors was a tennis event held from 1895 through 1971 in Paris, France and Lyon, France. History The French Covered Court Championships was played at the Tennis Club de Paris the original location was Rue de Civry in the 16th arrondissement of Paris shortly before the beginning of the 1st World War it changed location to Port de Saint Cloud until shortly after the 2nd World War when it moved again to its current location at 91 Boulevard Exelmans, Auteuil, Paris, France. The club still exists today, it originally had four very fast Indoor (Oak Parquet Wood) courts and five Outdoor Clay courts. The tournament was one of earliest events open to international players for the indoor event the staging of the tournament tended to fluctuate between February, April and November annually the men's competition c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen McKane
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 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris games, the most Olympic medals won by a tennis player until Venus Williams matched this record at the 2016 Olympic Games. In 1923, she captured the title at the World Covered Court Championships. Godfree won the Wimbledon singles title twice. In the 1924 final, Godfree recovered from a set and 4–1 (40–15) down against Helen Wills to win the title. This was the only defeat at Wimbledon for Wills who later won eight titles. In the 1926 final, Godfree re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Wills
Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) during her career, including 19 singles titles. Wills was the first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity, making friends with royalty and film stars despite her preference for staying out of the limelight. She was admired for her graceful physique and for her fluid motion. She was part of a new tennis fashion, playing in knee-length pleated skirts rather than the longer ones of her predecessors, and was known for wearing her hallmark white visor. Unusually, she practiced against men to hone her craft, and she played a relentless predominantly baseline game, wearing down her female opponents with power and accuracy. In February 1926 she played a high-profile and widely publicized match against Suzanne Leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
