Nelly Adamson Landry (28 December 1916 – 22 February 2010) was a

tennis player 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 ...

from Belgium who became a French citizen after marriage. She was the 1948 women's singles champion at the

French Championships The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam tennis events eve ...

where she was seeded third, beating

Shirley Fry Shirley June Fry Irvin (née Fry; June 30, 1927 – July 13, 2021) was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 dou ...

in a three-set final. She had been a finalist in 1938, losing to Simonne Mathieu, and reached again the final in 1949, losing to Margaret Osborne duPont. In 1936 and from 1946 until 1948 she won the singles title at the

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, Fra ...

in Paris. She won the singles title at the International Championships of Egypt, played in

Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...

, in 1948 and 1949. In the latter year she also won the Championships of Egypt at the Gezira Sporting Club in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

, defeating

Annalisa Bossi Annalisa Bossi (born Anneliese Ullstein; then Annalisa Bellani after second marriage; 3 November 1915 – 21 February 2015) was an Italian tennis player. She won the singles title at the Italian Championships in 1950 after a straight-sets victo ...

in the final. In 1948 Landry won the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the Scandinavian Covered Court Championships. She was the No. 1 ranked Belgian player in 1933. According to John Olliff of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail'', Landry was ranked in the world top 10 in 1946 and 1948 (no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945), reaching a career high of world No. 7 in these rankings in 1946. In 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1950 she was ranked No. 1 in France. Nelly Adamson married

Pierre Henri Landry Pierre Henri Landry (14 June 1899 – 7 December 1990) was a Russian-born French international tennis player. Landry competed once for the French team in the Davis Cup in 1926, defeating his opponent Colin Gregory in a dead rubber.

on 8 February 1937 in

Bruges Bruges ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is in the northwest of the country, and is the sixth most populous city in the country. The area of the whole city amoun ...

and subsequently Marcel Renault, both former French tennis players.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Doubles (1 runner-up)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under

German occupation German-occupied Europe, or Nazi-occupied Europe, refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet states, by the (armed forces) and the government of Nazi Germany at ...

. ¹In 1946 and 1947, the French Championships were held after Wimbledon.

References

External links