Margaret “Peggy” Amy Michell (''née'' Saunders; 28 January 1905 – 19 June 1941) was a British female
tennis
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player active in the 1920s. She is also known under her married name, Peggy Saunders-Michell.
She was educated at
St Paul's Girls' School in London.
Along with
Phoebe Holcroft, she won two consecutive women's doubles titles at
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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(1928 and 1929) and the
US Women's National Championship in 1929.
French Championships
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in 1927 in which they were defeated by Irene Bowder Peacock
Irene Evelyn Bowder Peacock (née Bowder; 27 July 1892 – 13 June 1978) was a South African tennis
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and Bobbie Heine.
Her best singles results at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1929 when she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals at the U.S. Championships where she lost to Elsie Goldsack and 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, ...
respectively. Michell competed in nine Wimbledon editions between 1925 and 1938.[
She won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the ]Queen's Club
The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in Barons Court, West Kensington, London, England. The club hosts the annual Queen's Club Championships grass court lawn tennis tournament (currently known as the "HSBC Championships" for spo ...
in London, in 1926 and 1929. Ath the same event she also won the doubles title from 1929 to 1933, with four different partners, and the mixed doubles in 1928 and 1928.Wightman Cup
The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United States and Great Britain.
History
U.S. player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wanted to generat ...
team in 1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...
, 1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
and 1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
and won the cup against the United States in 1928.[
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Grand Slam finals
Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
References
External links
National Portrait Gallery images
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1905 births
1941 deaths
English female tennis players
British female tennis players
People from Chiswick
Tennis players from the London Borough of Hounslow
United States National champions (tennis)
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
20th-century English sportswomen
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