Ivo Ferdinand Rinkel (27 October 1920 – 16 March 2000) was a Dutch tennis and

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player who was active in the 1940s and 1950s.

Career

Ivo Rinkel won the 1945 Dutch Championship Singles title. Partnered with Huib Wilton and Hans van Swol, he won six national doubles titles from 1945 to 1950, as well as mixed doubles titles in 1946 and 1950. Rinkel participated in six Wimbledon Championships from 1946 to 1952. With Van Swol, he reached the quarterfinals of the men's doubles competition in 1948. His best result in the singles competition came in 1946 when he reached the third round in which he lost to Frenchman Pierre Pellizza. In 1947, he won the triple crown at the

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at the

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in London. In the singles final, he defeated Ernest Wittman in three sets. With R.E. Carter, he won the men's doubles title, defeating H. Billington and

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in the final. In the mixed doubles, he partnered with Mrs. P.J. Halford and in the final they proved too strong for John Olliff and

Peggy Dawson-Scott Peggy Dawson-Scott (1920 – 1993), born Peggy Maccorkindale, was a British amateur tennis player. Born in Oxfordshire, Dawson-Scott was active in the 1940s and 1950s. She reached the singles quarter-finals of the 1949 Wimbledon Championships, b ...

. From 1946 to 1952, he played in 10 ties for the Dutch

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team, comprising a record of seven wins and five losses. Rinkel played field hockey for the Gooische Hockey Club. In 1950–1951, he was a member of the Dutch National Hockey Team. After his sports career, Rinkel became captain of the

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Personal life

He married British tennis player

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on 28 February 1952 in Roehampton, and the couple had two daughters.

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