Valerie Eveline Scott (7 January 1918 – 1 April 2001) was an English
tennis
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 ...
player.
Scott won the 1935 Junior
Wimbledon Championship
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the ...
and competed in the 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939 Championships, advancing to the fourth round of the
1937 mixed competition and again in the
1939 singles competition. She was part of the British team that competed in the
1939 Wightman Cup
The 1939 Wightman Cup was the 17th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens in New York City in the United States.
Refer ...
.
In 1942, Scott was arrested in Florida, along with Margaret Schuyler Sternbergh, and accused of threatening Frances Lynch, a wealthy woman.
The pair had allegedly used threats to induce Lynch to hire Scott as her secretary.
[ The case was dismissed later that year, following Lynch's death.][ In 1986, in recognition of her contributions to the sport, she was granted a Distinguished Service Award by the United States Professional Tennis Association.][
]
References
External links
Wimbledon statistics
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Valerie
1918 births
2001 deaths
People educated at Bedford High School, Bedfordshire
Wimbledon junior champions
Sportspeople from Bedford
Sportspeople from Milwaukee
English female tennis players
British female tennis players
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
20th-century English sportswomen