Joan Cowell O'Meara Ridley (11 July 1903 – 4 October 1983) was a female British
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. Ridley was a semifinalist at the
1931 Wimbledon Championships where she lost in straight sets to
Helen Jacobs.
Career
In 1928 Ridley won the
Scottish Championships in 1928 and successfully defended her title in 1929. The same year her best Grand Slam result was reaching the final of the mixed doubles event at the
1929 Wimbledon Championships with compatriot
Ian Collins, losing in three sets to the Americans
Anna Harper and
George Lott
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.
In 1930 she won the singles title at the
British Covered Court Championships, played at the
Queen's Club in London, after defeating
Joan Fry
Joan Craddock Fry (6 May 1906 – 29 September 1985) was a British tennis player. Fry was a finalist at the 1925 Wimbledon Championships where she lost in straight sets to Suzanne Lenglen.
She was part of the British team that won the 193 ...
in the final in straight sets. In 1929, she was runner-up at the same event to
Peggy Saunders Michell. With
Stanley Doust, she won the mixed doubles covered court title in 1926.
In 1932, she reached the semifinals at the
U.S. Championships, losing in three sets to
Carolin Babcock.
In October 1932 and 1933, she won the tennis tournament in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
[ In 1931 and 1932 she reached the finals of the Middle States Championships, but lost on both occasions to Elsie Goldsack Pittman. In 1933 after two unsuccessful attempts she won the Middle States Championships against Alice Francis.
In October 1935, she married Daniel Joseph Patrick O'Meara, a gynaecologist.]
Grand Slam finals
Mixed doubles: 1 runner-up
References
External links
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National Portrait Gallery, Portraits of Joan Ridley
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British female tennis players
1903 births
1985 deaths
English female tennis players
Tennis people from Suffolk