Juliette Paxton Atkinson Buxton (; April 15, 1873 – January 12, 1944) was an American tennis player. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, United States.

Biography

Atkinson was the daughter of a Brooklyn, New York physician. She won three U.S. Women's singles, seven U.S. Women's doubles and three U.S. Mixed doubles titles. Both natives of Maplewood, New Jersey, she and her sister Kathleen Atkinson partnered to win two women's doubles titles. Also the sisters twice faced each other in the semifinals of the singles competition. She won three mixed doubles titles with Edwin P. Fischer. In 1896 and 1898, she won the Niagara International Tennis Tournament. She won the Canadian Championships three times in a row, 1896, 1897 and 1898. In both 1899 and 1901, Atkinson won the doubles title and reached the singles final at the tournament now known as the

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. She won the 1899 doubles title with Myrtle McAteer (falling to McAteer that year in the singles final) and the 1901 doubles title with Marion Jones Farquhar (falling in the singles final to Winona Closterman). In 1918, she married George B. Buxton and had no children. She was posthumously inducted into the

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in 1974.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles (7 titles)

Mixed doubles (3 titles)

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