Winifred McNair (née Winifred Margaret Slocock, 9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a

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 from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the

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, Belgium. Between 1906 and 1925 she competed in 15 editions of the

Wimbledon Championships 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 ...

. Her best Wimbledon result came in 1913 when she reached the final of the all-comers' event and won the doubles title, partnering Dora Boothby. She married Roderick McNair on 22 April 1908.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

¹This was actually the all-comers final as

Ethel Thomson Larcombe Ethel Larcombe (née Ethel Warneford Thomson, 8 June 1879 – 11 August 1965) was a British female tennis player and badminton player. She won the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships as well as 11 badminton titles ...

did not defend her 1912 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and, thus, Wimbledon in 1913 by walkover.

Doubles (1 title)

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* * 1877 births 1954 deaths English Olympic competitors Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic tennis players for Great Britain Tennis players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era) Place of birth missing Olympic medalists in tennis Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics People from Shaw-cum-Donnington English female tennis players British female tennis players Tennis players from Berkshire 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-tennis-bio-stub