Dora Boothby
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| Full name | Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby | ||||||||
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Finchley, England | ||||||||
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| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (1909) | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (1913) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | 3R (1913) | ||||||||
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Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was an English tennis and badminton player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships.[1] In Badminton, she won the 1909 All England Championships in mixed doubles category.
Biography
Boothby was born in Finchley and, with her older sister Gertrude, lived there with her step-parents Harry and Gertrude Penn. Harry was a civil engineer, and by 1901, they had moved to South Norwood, where she played at Beulah Hill Club, and during the winter months, she played badminton.
In 1908, she won a silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]
In 1909, when she won the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon, the runner-up of the Men's Singles, Josiah Ritchie, was also living in Norwood.[3] Also in 1909, she won the singles title of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, after defeating Madeline O’Neill in the final in straight sets.
In 1911, she became the first female player to lose a Wimbledon final without winning a game, losing to Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–0, 6–0.
In 1914, she married Arthur C. Geen, a professional architect.[3]
She died in Hammersmith[2] or Hampstead,[3] London in 1970.
Grand Slam finals
Singles (1 titles, 2 runners-up)
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 19091 | Wimbledon | Grass | Template:Flagicon Agnes Morton | 6–4, 4–6, 8–6 |
| Loss | 1910 | Wimbledon | Grass | Template:Flagicon Dorothea Lambert Chambers | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1911 | Wimbledon | Grass | Template:Flagicon Dorothea Lambert Chambers | 0–6, 0–6 |
1This was actually the all-comers final as Charlotte Cooper Sterry did not defend her 1908 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and thus Wimbledon in 1909 by walkover.
Doubles (1 title)
| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Win | 1913 | Wimbledon | Grass | Template:Flagicon Winifred McNair | Template:Flagicon Charlotte Cooper Sterry Template:Flagicon Dorothea Lambert Chambers |
4–6, 2–4 ret. |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dora Boothby". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dora Boothby Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dora Boothby". The Norwood Society. 18 May 2010.
External links
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- John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975
- All England champions 1899–2007
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