1952

Iniital compiling of these results was by Rollo starting in 2003. Major additions supplied by Ugarte and additional results and comments from Andrew Tas and GeeTee.

Ned Potter's World Rankings
1. Maureen Connolly
2. Doris Hart
3. Shirley Fry
4. Louise Brough
5. Nancy Chaffee Kiner
6. Pat Todd
7. Jean Walker-Smith (GB)
8. Dottie Knode
9. Angela Mortimer (GB)
0. Anita Kanter
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(Check) Connolly won 11 events between January and the PSW. Her only 2 defeats were to Brough in May and Hart at Orange.

Hart won every event entered except one (She lost to Fry at Bombay) before Wimbledon. Hart also lost twice to Mo, and to Todd at Wimbledon and Kanter at Essex.

Fry made the semis in every event save one (South Africa). besides that one upset, all her defeats were by Hart (6 times) or Mo (4).

Walker-Smith not at Forest Hills, being left off her nation's Wightman Cup team.

Dottie Head Knode lost to Connolly at Palm Springs, La Jolla, and the Bay Counties. Knode won the Swiss, German, Turkish, Lausanne, Cologne, and Parisian titles on a summer clay court run, skipping Forest Hills. in the middle of all that she went from being Miss Head to Mrs. Knode

Mortimer won Southdean and Sutton-losing to Walker-Smith at Shirely park and Tally Ho.

Kanter won California State, Colorado, The Tr-State, and the US clay.

Tournaments with unknown dates

Danish Indoor Championships

FI: Lisa Granholm Gram-Andersen d. ??

DF: Vera Nielsen Johansen/Lisa Granholm Gram-Andersen d.??

MX: Vera Nielsen Johansen/Kurt Nielsen d. ??
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Danish Outdoor Championships

FI: Milly Svanberg Vagn-Nielsen d. ??

DF: Agnete Friis/Milly Svanberg Vagn-Nielsen d.??

MX: Agnete Friis/Torben Ulrich d. ??

December 15 1951 - January 1 1952 County of Cumberland Tournament, Sydney

SF Beryl Penrose d. Mary Carter 6-2 6-2
SF Esme Ashford d. Alison Hattersley 7-5 5-7 6-3

FI Penrose d. Ashford 6-4 6-3

WDF Penrose/Ashford d. Dawn Fogarty/Hattersley 6-0 6-4

MXDF Ross Sherriff/Fogarty d. K Meyer/P. Colyer 4-6 7-5 9-7
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January 1, City of Perth Championships, Australia

FI: Joan Ryan d. Mary Blacklock 6-1 7-5

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December 29 1951 – January 6 1952 Manly Seaside Championships, Sydney

SF Beryl Penrose d. Thelma Coyne Long 4-6 7-5 6-4
SF Mary Bevis Hawton d. Esme Ashford 6-1 6-4

FI Penrose d. Hawton 6-1 5-7 6-2

DF Hawton/Long d. Nell Hall Hopman/Penrose 6-4 6-4

MXDF George Worthington/Long d. Robert Howe/Ashford 6-4 6-4

Dec 31-Jan 6, Dixie International, Tampa, FL, US (CL)

QF Magda Rurac (1) d. Doris Popple 6-2 7-5
QF Laura Lou Kunnen (2) d. Louise Fowler 6-0 7-5

SF Rurac d. Maggie Mae Beeland 6-0 6-1
SF Kunnen d. Ann Gray 4-6 6-2 6-0

FI Rurac d. Kunnen 7-5 6-1

DF Kunnen/Rurac d. Evelyn Cowan/Fowler 6-1 6-2

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Jan 6 --Doris Hart and Shirley Fry set sail on the Queen Mary on a world tour that will take them to Asia, Egypt, continental Europe, then England.

Jan 5-12 New Zealand Championships, Wellington

FI J MacGibbon d. Judy Burke 6-4 6-4

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Jan 7-13, Florida West Coast Championships, St. Petersburg, FL, US (CL)

SF Magda Rurac (1) d. Ann Gray 7-5 6-2
SF Laura Lou Kunnen d. Doris Popple 6-4 6-2

FI Rurac d. Kunnen 6-3 6-1

DF Kunnen/Rurac d. Evelyn Cowan/Louise Fowler 6-4 6-1

ends Jan 20, Palm Springs Invitation,CA, US (HD)

FI Maureen Connolly d. Dottie Head 6-2 6-4

Jan 20-27, Scandanavian Covered Courts, Stockholm (IN)

2R Jean Rinkel-Quertier (GB) d. Grete Stahl (Fin) 4-6 6-1 6-0
2R Susan Partridge (GB) d. Lill Lind (Nor) 7-5 6-3

QF Rinkel-Quertier d. Mily Vagn-Nielsen (Den) 3-6 6-1 6-2
QF Nelly Adamson (Fr) d. Mary Lagerborg (Swd) 6-1 6-1
QF Lisa Gram Andersen (Den) d. Arvilla McGuire (US) 6-1 6-0
QF Partridge d. Mari Arni (Fin) 6-1 6-1

SF Rinkel-Quertier d. Adamson 6-2 6-4
SF Partridge d. Andersen 6-3 6-3

FI Rinkel-Quertier d. Partridge 6-3 6-2

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Partridge d. Bibi Gulbrandsson Sanden (Swd)/Hilde Krahwinkle Sperling (Den) 6-4 6-2
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January 29, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

FI: Loris Nichols d. Wilma Boyd 5-6 6-5 6-2

January 18 to 28, AUSTRALIAN OPEN, Adelaide

1st Round

Nancye Bolton[1] d. Rosemary Thomas 6-1 6-1
Dorothy Linn d. Joy O'Donoghue default
Pam Southcombe[6] d. Marjorie Blacklock 6-3 7-5
Alison Baker d. Margaret Heron 5-7 6-1 6-1
Beryl Penrose[4] d. Rosemary Rosman 6-2 6-1
Dorothy Diggle d. Gay Sim 6-2 6-1
Helen Angwin[8] d. Fay Muller 6-1 8-6
Clare Proctor d. Margaret O'Donnell 6-2 6-3

Mary Schultz d. Jill Olerenshaw 6-3 6-0
Nell Hopman[5] d. Nancy Cooper 6-1 6-0
Ellen Astley d. H McDonald 6-1 6-1
Mary Hawton[3] d. Norma Ellis 6-2 6-0
Jennifer Staley d. Dawn Fogarty 6-1 6-3
Gwen Thiele[7] d. Joyce Martin 6-0 6-1
Ann Sheidow d. Margaret Wallis 6-4 6-1
Thelma Long[2] d. Pat Thompson 6-0 6-1

2nd Round

Bolton[1] d. Linn 6-3 6-2
Baker d. Southcombe[6] 11-9 6-4
Penrose[4] d. Diggle 6-4 6-1
Angwin[8] d. Proctor 12-10 6-0

Schultz d. Hopman[5] 11-9 1-0 ret
Hawton[3] d. Astley 6-1 6-0
Thiele[7] d. Staley 8-10 6-3 9-7
Long[2] d. Sheidow 6-0 6-2

Quarterfinals

Bolton[1] d. Baker 6-0 6-1
Angwin[8] d. Penrose[4] 2-6 6-1 6-2
Hawton[3] d. Schultz 6-1 6-3
Long[2] d. Thiele[7] 6-0 4-6 6-2

Semifinals

Angwin[8] d. Bolton[1] 4-6 6-4 6-4
Long[2] d. Hawton[3] 6-0 7-5

Final

Thelma Long [2] d. Helen Angwin [8] 6-2 6-3
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Draw notes:
Thiele formerly O'Halloran.
It appears Mrs R. Baker =Alison Baker.
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Summary:
After 14 quarterfinals, 11 semifinals and 4 runner-ups, Thelma Long finally won the Australian title in 1952. Never being able to quite bridge the gap between herself and Nancye Bolton she was known throughout the world as the 'Australian No. 2'. Though she had better volleys, her service and groundstrokes weren't as severe as Bolton's, who covered the court better as well.

In 1952 everything fell into place for Long. Nell Hopman, always a tough opponent for her, had collapsed from heat exhaustion when trailing against Queensland junior Mary Schultz 9-11 0-1 and was forced to forfeit. Bolton lost her semifinal to 20 year-old South Australian Helen Angwin 6-4 4-6 4-6. Angwin had struck a purple patch of form defeating Clare Proctor and the improving Beryl Penrose. Despite this defeat Penrose was still preferred for the team which toured South Africa later in the year.
For Bolton, the time had come to alter her sporting direction. 'When I was beaten by Helen I knew I had enough. That was the end of the road, I didn't want to go downhill. I don't think there's anything worse than watching a former top player who has become a yard short of balls he or she would normally hit for a winner', she said.

In quarterfinals Long defeated Gwen Thiele, a stalwart of South Australian tennis over many decades who was the first woman elected to the management committee of the state association. Thiele had beaten Jenny Staley the round before 8-10 6-3 9-7.

Long defeated Hawton in the semifinals 6-0 7-5. Hawton was upset by footfault calls in the first set and by the time she settled down the match was virtually over.
Long vs. Angwin, Long dominated the match throughout with consistent deep driving from both wings scoring 6-2 6-3.
That year Long was seeded seven at Wimbledon, and took a set off Maureen Connolly in the quarterfinals the only one of two sets Connolly ever dropped at Wimbledon.

Results coutesy of AndrewTas
Summary courtesy of Louloubelle

January 18 to 28, AUSTRALIAN OPEN DOUBLES, Adelaide

Thanks to Andrew Tas for results

1st Round
Bolton/Long[1] bye
D.Fogarty/J.Martin bye
D.Diggle/P.Southcombe[4] d. H.Astley/R.Thomas 2-6 6-4 6-4
H.Angwin/D.Linn d. N.Ellis/M.Wallis 9-7 7-5
Ann Sheidow/Sybil Sheidow d. J.Olorenshaw/C.Proctor 5-7 7-5 6-0
A.Baker/Hawton[3] bye
H.McDonald/G.Thiele bye
N.Hopman/B.Penrose[2] bye

Quarters
Bolton/Long[1] d. D.Fogarty/J.Martin 6-0 6-0
D.Diggle/P.Southcombe[4] d. H.Angwin/D.Linn 6-2 11-9
A.Baker/Hawton[3] d. A.Sheidow/S.Sheidow 6-4 6-2
N.Hopman/B.Penrose[2] d. H.McDonald/G.Thiele 6-2 6-2

Semis
Bolton/Long[1] d. D.Diggle/P.Southcombe[4] 6-0 6-4
A.Baker/Hawton[3] d. N.Hopman/B.Penrose[2] 6-2 6-1

Final
Bolton/Long[1] d. A.Baker/Hawton[3] 6-1 6-1

Jan. 28- Feb 4, Austin Smith, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

FI Magda Rurac d. Laura Lou Jahn Kunnen 6-1 6-3

Feb 4-10, University of Miami, FL, US (CL)

FI Magda Rurac d. Marta Barnett 6-4 6-4

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February 9, Northern Suburbs Championships, Sydney (or Killara?), NSW, Australia


FI: Esme Ashford d. Alison Hattersley 6-1 9-7

Feb 4-17 Championships of Asia, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

1R Joy Mottram (GB) d. Jean Sedgeman (AUS) 6-0 6-1
1R Jean Walker-Smith (GB) d. Mrs. R.H. Cotton 6-0 6-2

QF Doris Hart (US) d. D. Fonseka (Cey) 6-2 6-2
QF Walker-Smith d. (Mrs.C.R.??) Warren 6-3 6-4
QF Joy Mottram (GB) d. S. Roberts 6-4 6-1
QF Shirley Fry (US) d. Chrisotbal Fonseka (Cey) 6-1 6-3

SF Hart d. Walker-Smith 6-4 4-6 6-3
SF Fry d. Mottram 4-6 6-4 6-1

FI Hart d. Fry 6-4 2-6 6-1

DF Fry/Hart d. Mottram/Walker-Smith 10-8 6-4

Mx Hart/Frank Sedgman (Aus) d. Fry/Straight Clark (US) 6-0 6-1

Feb 9-17 Covered Court Chmps of France (N), Paris

QF Jean Rinkel-Quertier (GB) d. Jacqueline Patorni 4-6 6-2 6-2
QF Anne Marie Seghers d. Lorna Cornell (GB) 3-6 6-1 6-3
QF Susan Partridge d. Myrtil Dubois 1-6 6-1 6-4
QF Nelly Adamson d. Andree Varin 6-2 6-1

SF Rinkel-Quertier d. Seghers 6-4 6-3
SF Adamson d. Partridge 6-4 6-1

FI Rinkel-Quertier d. Adamson 9-7 7-5

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Partridge d. Anderson/Cornell 6-0 6-1

February 16-23 US Indoors, New York City, US (IN) Dr=25

1R Althea Gibson [3] d. Stella Lestingi 6-1 6-1
1R Helen Fletcher (GB) [1] d. Irene Rodhoff 6-1 6-0
1R Jean French-Fallott d. Andreina Drew-Bear (Ven)[2] 3-6 6-4 6-2
1R Pat Canning Todd [2] d. Isabel Troccolle 6-2 6-1
1R Nancy Chaffee Kiner [1] bye
1R Pat Ward (GB) bye

2R Susan Bralower d. French-Fallott 6-3 6-4
2R Ward d. Joan Piken 6-2 6-1
2R Todd d. Helen Germaine 6-2 6-2
2R Kiner d. Diana McIlvaine 6-0 6-0
2R Gibson d. Carolyn Ligouri 6-3 6-1
2R Fletcher d. Barbara Freidberg 6-1 6-1

QF Todd d. Susan Bralower 6-0 6-0
QF Gibson d. Fletcher [1] 5-7 6-4 6-1
QF Kiner d. Edna Salichs 8-6 6-1
QF Ward d. Harriet Stokes 6-1 6-1

SF Kiner d. Gibson [3] 6-4 6-4
SF Todd d. Pat Ward default

FI Kiner [1] d. Todd [2] 6-1 6-0

DF Kiner/Todd d. Fletcher/Ward 6-4 6-4

Helen Fletcher of GB and Adreina Drew-Bear of Venezulea the top 2 foreign seeds.

3,000 see a horribly one-sided final, as Kiner wins the indoors for the third year running.

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Feb 18-25 San Remo, San Remo Italy (CL)

1R Rita Anderson (US) d. Liezel Broz (Ast) 6-0 10-8

QF Joan Curry (GB) d. Anderson 6-0 6-1

SF Curry d. Nicla Migliori 6-3 4-6 7-5
SF Annalies Ullstein Bellani d. Josette Amouretti (Fr) 6-3 6-3

FI Curry d. Bellani 9-7 6-3

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Feb 18-26 Western Indian Chmpionshipss, Bombay, IND

FI Shirley Fry d. Doris Hart 2-6 6-4 6-2

DF Hart/Laxmi Merchant d. Fry/Laura Woodbridge 6-4 5-7 6-1

Mx Hart/Vladislav Skonecki d. Woodbridge/Jimmy Mehta 6-0 6-0

Feb 24-Mar 3 Philipine National Chmpionships, Manila

?R Mottram (GB) d. Julita Foz 6-0 6-1

FI Joy Mottram d. Liu Shang Kuo (Taiwan) 6-2 6-1

DF Catherine Chickett/Mottram d/ Estrella Alburo/Minda Moldero 6-1 6-2

*Mrs/ Moldera's maiden name was Ochoa.

Feb 27-Mar 3 Indian Cricket Club Chmpionships, Bombay, IND

QF Doris Hart (US) d. J. Roberts 6-1 6-2
QF Shirley Fry (US) d. A. Diwan 6-1 6-0

SF Hart d. J. Hawley 6-2 6-4
SF Fry d. Laura Woodbridge 6-2 6-1

FI Fry d. Hart 6-3 6-2
DF Fry/Hawley d. Joan Diwan/Hart 6-3 7-5

Mx Fry/A. Hermann d. Hart/Skonecki 10-8 3-2 retired.

Fry and Hart aren't doubles partners for once!

ends Mar 4 St. Andrew Invitation,Kingston, JAM (GR) Dr=8?

1R Pat Canning Todd (US) [1] d. Ivy Cover Ramsey (US) 6-2 6-1
1R Althea Gibson (US) d. Helen Fletcher (GB) 6-4 5-7 7-5
1R Pat Ward (GB) d. Marta Barnett (US) 6-1 6-0

SF Gibson d. Todd 6-3 6-4
SF Betty Rosenquest Pratt d. Ward 6-3 8-6

FI Betty Rosenquest Pratt d. Althea Gibson 6-2 6-4

Mx Todd/Budge Patty d. Pratt/Dick Savitt 3-6 6-3 6-4

Early March, Australia vs. South Africa Test Matches, Capetown,

Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Nancy Bolton (Aus) 6-1 6-2
Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Beryl Bartlett 4-6 6-2 6-3
Bolton/Penrose (Aus) d. Redick-Smith/Barltett 6-3 7-5
Bolton/Don Candy (Aus) d. Redick-Smith/Eric Sturgess 6-3 7-5
Bartlett/Nigel Cockburn (SA) d. Penrose/Ian Ayre 6-1 6-4

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ends Mar 8 South Australian Chmps, Adelaide(GR)

SF Gwen Thiele d Norma Ellis 64 63
SF Helen Angwin d Mrs C M Rogers 62 62

FI Helen Angwin d. Gwen Thiele 4-6 6-3 6-1

DF ???/Thelma Long d. Alison Baker/Mary Hawton 6-1 6-1

Bolton/Long were defending champs

Mar 5-8 Caribbean Lawn Tennis Chmps, Kingston (GR) Dr=8

1R Althea Gibson (US) d. Marta Barnett (US) 6-4 6-1
1R Pat Canning Todd (US) d. Helen Fletcher (GB) 6-1 6-4
1R Pat Ward (GB) d. Ivy Cover Ramsey (US) 6-3 6-4
1R Betty Rosenquest Pratt d. Gladys Heldman (US) 6-2 7-5

SF Todd d. Gibson 6-3 6-4
SF Pratt d. Ward 6-2 6-3

FI Pat Todd d. Betty Rosenquest Pratt 6-2 6-0

DF Pratt/Todd d. Fletcher/Ward 6-1 6-4

Todd gets revenge on defending champ Gibson in semis.

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March 10, South-West Districts, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

FI: Margaret Wallis d. R Strachan 6-2 6-3

Mar ?? Victorian Hard Court, Melbourne (CL)

FI Loris Nicholls d. Norma Ellis 6-3 6-3

Mar 9-16 Championships of Egypt, Cairo (CL)

1R Doris Hart (US) d. Grant 6-1 6-1
1R Shirley Fry (US) d. Vassiliadis 6-1 6-2

SF Hart d. Georgeina Greiss 6-0 6-1
SF Fry d. Betsy Abbas 6-1 6-1

FI Doris Hart d. Shirley Fry 2-6 6-1 6-2

DF Fry/Hart d. Abbas/Greiss 8-6 6-4

Mx Hart/Jaroslav Drobny d. Fry/Rolando Del Bello (It) 6-4 6-4

Mar 8-17 La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club Invitation, La Jolla, CA, US (HD)

1R Maureen Connolly bye

2R Connolly d. Dean Folger 6-0 6-1

QF Connolly d. Julie Sampson 6-0 6-2
QF Dorothy Head d. Mary Arnold Prentiss 1-6 6-4 6-3,
QF Louise Brough d. Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher 10-8 6-4
QF Nancy Chafee Kiner d. Anita Kanter 6-1 6-3

SF Connnolly d. Head 6-1 6-4
SF Brough d. Kiner 8-6 4-6 6-3

FI Mo Connolly d. Louise Brough 6-2 6-2

Doubles
SF Connolly/Brough d. Prentiss/Kelleher 6-2 6-1

FI Brough/Connolly d. Barbara Kimbrell/Sampson default

Mx Head/Hugh Stewart d. Peggy Welch/Herb Flam 6-2 6-4

Final held on St. Patrick's Day, prompting Mo to wear a shamrock dress with a green ribbon in her hair. In 35 minutes she blasted repeatred winners off both wings to overwhelm Brough.

Mar, Belgium, Verviers

1R Myrtil Dubois (Fr) d. Margaret Carlisle (GB) 6-1 6-3

QF Maud Galtier (Fr) d. Fanny ten Bosch (Neth) d. 9-7 6-1
QF Billie Woodgate (GB) d. Arvilla McGuire (US) 6-3 6-2
QF Bea Carris Walter d. Dubois 6-2 6-2
QF Georgie Woodgate (GB) d. Poucette Coessens 6-3 6-2

SF Galtier d. B. Woodgate 5-7 6-2 7-5
SF G. Woodgate d. Walter 6-3 4-6 6-4

FI Galtier d. G. Woodgate 6-3 6-4

DF G. Woodgate/Walter d. B. Woodgate/Carlisle 7-5 6-4


Mar 10-15 Southdean Covered Courts GB (IN)

1R Angela Mortimer d. K.M. Stott 6-0 6-1
1R J. Duckit d. Jill Sole 3-6 6-2 6-2
1R Audrey Houseley d. Gem Gilbert 6-2 6-4
1R Gay Chandler d. A.M. Mitson 6-1 6-1
1R Mary Harris d. J. Covell 6-2 6-4

QF Mortimer d. Duckit 6-1 6-0
QF Anne Shilcock d. Rosemary Bulleid 4-6 6-3 6-3
QF Chandler d. Houseley 4-6 6-0 6-1
QF Harris d. ?

SF Mortimer d. Shilcock 6-4 6-0
SF Harris d. Chandler 0-6 1-5 ret.

FI Mortimer d. Harris 6-1 6-1

DF Mortimer/Bulleid d. Shilcock/Duckit 6-3 6-3

FI Angela Mortimer d. Harris 6-1 6-1

March 17-23, Menton, Riviera Tournament

1R Pat Harrison (GB) d. N. (Jenny?) de Ridder (Bel) 6-3 6-4

2R Harrison d. Schwarz 6-1 6-4
2R Alice Charbonnier (Swz) d. Jean Trower (GB) 3-6 6-1 6-2

QF Joan Curry (GB) d. Vittoria Tonolli (It) 6-2 6-0
QF Charbonnier d. Liezel Broz (Ast) 6-3 4-6 6-0
OF Susan Partridge d. Harrison 6-2 8-6
QF Sylvana Lazzarino (It) d. Helga Strecker (Ast) 3-6 6-2 6-2

SF Curry d. Charbonnier 6-0 6-3
SF Lazzarino d. Partridge 8-6 8-6

FI Curry d. Lazzarino 6-1 6-0

DD Curry/Rita Anderson (US) d. Strecker/Lucia Manfredi (It) 8-6 6-1

Mar 19-31, International Championships of Egypt, Alexandria

FI Betsy Abbas d. Suzanne Mathieu 6-1 6-4

Mar 24-31 Cannes (CL)

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Susan Partridge 6-3 6-2

Mx Curry/Tower Williams d. Jean Sedgeman/Frank Sedgeman (Aus) 6-2 4-6 8-6

Mar 24-31 Miami Invitational, Miami, FL (CL)

1R Magda Rurac d. Pearl Wrobbel 6-2 6-1
QF Rurac d. Sally Hott 6-3 6-0
QF Betty Ruth Hulbert James d. Marta Barnett 3-6 6-2 6-2

SF Rurac d. Doris Popple 6-0 7-5
SF James d. Karol Fageros 6-2 6-2

FI Magda Rurac [1] d. Betty Ruth James ????

Mx: Rurac/Tony Vincent d. Mrs and Mr. Bob Curtis 6-4 6-1

??? Apr Australian Hard Court

FI Pam Southcombe d. Loris Nicholls 6-4 7-5
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April, Tasmanian Championships, Launceston

FI: Alison Burton Baker d. H.Williams 6-3 6-0


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April 6, Eastern Suburbs Hard Court Championships, Kensington East, NSW, Australia

FI: Esme Ashford d. Joyce Martin 6-2 6-0


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??? Apr Southern Transvaal Championships, Johannesburg (Clay)

FI Hazel Redick-Smith d. Solveig Glietenberg default

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Mar 31-Apr 5 Shirley Park Hard Court Championship, Croydon, GB (Clay)

R2 Joy Mottram d. J Nilen 6-0 6-2
R2 Vera Thomas d. S. Moulton 6-0 6-1
R2 Mrs. Sharp d. Jill Sole 6-46 -2
R2 D.C. Comerford d. P. Rees 6-0 6-2
R2 Lorna Cornell d. Ann Price 3-6 6-2 6-4
R2 Gladys Lines d. Doreen Wedderburn (SA) 6-2 6-1
R2 Denise Collier d. D. Huffer 6-0 6-1
R2 Sheila Speight d. M. Cockell 5-7 8-6 6-1
R2 Rosemary Bulleid d. Taulmes 6-0 6-2
R2 S. Roylance d. J. Syrett 7-5 6-4
R2 Frances Walthew d. J. Covell 6-4 6-4
R2 Angela Mortimer d. Jenny Middleton 6-1 6-2
R2 Gem Gilbert d. Sheila Clayton 6-0 6-0
R2 Mrs. Cox d. Katherine Keith-Steele 3-6 11-9 7-5
R2 Mary Harris d. P. Vernon 6-1 6-3
R2 Jean Walker-Smith d. Joyce Starling 6-3 6-1

R3 Mottram d. Thomas 6-3 6-2
R3 Sharp d. Comerford 6-3 6-1
R3 Cornell d. Lines 1-6 7-5 7-5
R3 Collier d. Speight 6-4 7-5
R3 Bulleid d. Roylance 6-2 6-2
R3 Mortimer d. Walthew 6-1 6-0
R3 Gilbert d. Cox 6-3 6-4
R3 Walker-Smith d. Harris 4-6 6-1 6-0

QF Mottram d. Sharp 6-1 6-1
QF Collier d. Cornell 6-1 6-1
QF Mortimer d. Bullied 6-3 6-2
QF Walker-Smith d. Gilbert 6-2 6-1

SF Mottram d. Collier 6-3 6-0
SF Walker-Smith d. Mortimer 6-4 6-2

FI Mottram d. Walker-Smith 3-6 6-4 6-3

DF Mottram/Walker-Smith d. Bulleid/Mortimer 7-5 7-5
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Mar 31 - Apr 5, Paddington Hard Courts

R2 Georgie Woodgate d. V. McLernon 6-4 6-0
R2 Elaine Watson d. Gertie Preston 6-2 6-2
R2 Jean Petchell d. Pat Lewis 4-6 6-4 8-6
R2 Anne Shilcock d. A. Rose 6-1 6-1
R2 Margot Parker d. Audrey Houseley 6-3 6-2
R2 Lorna Byrne d. Stebbings 6-4 3-6 6-2
R2 Pearl Panton d. Betty Wilford 6-3 6-8 6-3

QF Woodgate d. Watson 6-1 8-1- 7-5
QF Petchell d. Shilcock 6-0 6-3
QF Parker d. Byrne 8-6 6-2
QF Panton d. Lewis 6-3 6-3

SF Petchell d. Woodgate 6-4 7-5
SF Panton d. Parker 7-5 8-6

FI Petchell d. Panton 1-6 6-0 6-2

DF Wilford/Shilcock d. Byrne/Panton 5-7 6-4 6-1


Mar 31-Apr 6 Beaulieu Club , France

FI Susan Partridge d. Marta Peterdy 6-0 6-3

Apr 1-6 Everglades Club Invitational, Palm Beach, FL (CL)

1R Pat Todd [1] d. Lois Miller 6-3 6-2

SF Magda Rurac d. Betty Rosenquest Pratt 5-7 6-2 6-2

FI Magda Rurac d. Pat Todd [1] 1-6 6-4 6-1

Apr 5-6, 55th Bay Counties Invitational, San Francisco, CA (HD)

1R Maureen Connolly [1] d. Joan Ross-Dilley (GB) 6-1 6-1

QF Connolly d. Joan Merciadis 6-1 6-2
QF Dorothy Head d. Anita Kanter 1-6 6-3 6-3

SF Connolly d. Louise Snow Isaacs 3-6 6-3 6-2

FI Mo Connolly [1] d. Dottie Head [2] 6-1 6-4

Apr 7-?? Good Neighbor, Miami, FL (CL)

1R Byes for top seeds
1R Gladys Heldman d. Beth Froehling 6-0 6-1,
1R Carol Fageros d. Miriam Rafel 2-6 6-3 6-2

?? Todd [1], Rurac [2] Gibson [3] easily won 2 matches on one day.

R16 Melita Ramirez (Mex) d. Doris Popple 6-4 4-6 8-6

QF Pat Todd d. Marta Barnett 6-2 6-1
QF Rhoda Hopkins d. Susan Herr 7-5 6-0
QF Magda Rurac d. Gladys Heldman 6-2 6-2
QF Althea, Gibson d. Ramirez 6-0 6-2

SF Todd d. Hopkins 6-2 6-2
SF Rurac d. Gibson 4-6 7-5 6-4

FI Magda Rurac d. Pat Todd [1] 5-7 8-6 retired

DF Lois Miller/Rurac d. Gibson/Heldman7-5 6-3

Todd retired in the final due to leg cramps. "It was Mrs. Rurac's 11th straight tournament triumph, and she played her usual steady game until her top seeded opponent ran out of steam."

Apr 3-14 South African Chmpionships, Johannesburg (HD)

2R Julia Wipplinger d. Hazel Redick-Smith 8-6 3-6 6-0

QF Doris Hart (US) d. J. Tooth 6-3 6-2
QF Nancy Wynne Bolton (Aus) d. Beryl Bartlett 6-4 1-4 12
QF Ruth Stevens d. Shirley Fry (US) 6-3 7-5
QF Wipplinger d. Beryl Penrose (Aus) 6-2 5-7 7-5

SF Hart d. Bolton 6-3 9-7
SF Wipplinger d. Ruth 0-6 6-3 6-4

FI Hart d. Wipplinger 6-1 7-5

Doubles
SF Hart/Fry d. Bartlett/Toodles Watermeyer 7-5 7-5
SF Reddick-Smith/Sheila Summers d. Bolton/Penrose 7-5 7-5

DF Fry/Hart d. Redick-Smith/Summers 7-5 7-5

April 7-12, Roehampton Hard Courts, GB

2R Gem Hoahing d. Stebbings 6-3 6-1
2R D. Gaskell d. D.C. Comerford 6-1 9-7
2R Betty Wilford d. Doreen Wedderburn (SA) 6-3 3-6 6-4
2R Georgie Woodgate d. A. Price 6-0 6-2
2R Val Pitt d. S. Cockell 6-1 6-2
2R Jenny Middleton d. S. Roylance 8-6 6-3

QF Hoahing d. Gaskell 6-0 6-2
QF Wilford d Billie Woodgate 7-5 2-6 6-4
QF Pearl Panton d. G. Woodgate 6-4 2-6 6-1
QF Middleton d. Pitt 6-3 6-2

SF Hoahing d. Wilford 6-3 6-2
SF Panton d. Middleton 1-6 6-4 6-0

FI Hoahing d. Panton 6-1 4-6 6-0

DF Hoahing/Joy Mottram d. Woodgate/Woodgate 7-5 6-0

Apr 6-14, Monte Carlo International (CL)

FI Suzi Kormoczy (Hun) d. Helga Strecker (Aut) 7-5 7-5

Mx Jean Quertier-Rinkel (GB)/Jean Borotra (Fr) d. Kormoczy/Josef Asboth (Hun) 6-2 6-2

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Apr 14, Darling Downs Championships, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

FI: Edith Niemeyer Finney d. Mary Schultz 6-2 6-3

April 11-16, Scarborough Hard Courts, GB

QF Jean Petchell d. Barbara Knapp 6-4 3-6 6-3
QF Sheila Blackburn d. P. Whitehead 6-0 6-2
QF Anne Shilcock d. R.M. Bennett 6-2 5-7 6-3
QF Val Lewis d. C. Lyon 6-0 6-4

SF Petchell d. Blackburn 6-3 7-5
SF Lewis d. Shilcock 6-4 6-1

FI Petchell d. Lewis 6-3 7-5

DF Knapp/Shilcock d. Lewis/Blackburn 9-7 9-7

Apr 12-17, Tally Ho Hardcourts, Birmingham, GB

2R Val Pitt d. Helen Fletcher 6-4 2-6 6-2

3R Jean Walker-Smith d. Rosemary Walsh 6-3 6-2
3R Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. Margaret Knott 6-4 8-6
3R Angela Mortimer d. Gill Worrall 6-2 6-3
3R Pat Cowney Gotla d. Y Toyne 6-4 6-3
3R Pitt d. Val Moore 6-4 6-3
3R Rosemary Bulleid d. Frances Walthew 6-2 6-3
3R B. Goodman d. S. Morris 6-4 7-5
3R Joy Mottram d. A. Love 6-0 6-0

QF Walker-Smith d. Wedderburn 6-2 3-0 ret.
QF Mortimer d. Gotla 6-1 6-0
QF Pitt d. Bulleid 6-3 3-6 6-3
QF Mottram d. Goodman 6-2 6-1

SF Walker-Smith d. Mortimer 1-6 6-3 6-4
SF Mottram d. Pitt 6-1 6-1

FI Walker-Smith d. Mottram 6-1 3-6 -63

DF Walker-Smith/Mottram d. Bulleid/Mortimer 6-2 6-3


Apr 14-20, Nice Lawn Tennis Club, France

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Jacqueline Marcellin 7-5 6-3

Apr 14-21 Italian International Championships, Rome

1R Lucia Manfredi d. Arvilla Mcguire (US) 6-3 5-7 6-3
1R Alice Charbonnier (Swz) d. Rita Anderson (US) w.o.

2R Thelma Long (Aus) d. Andreina Sciaudone 6-0 6-1
2R Susan Partridge (GB) d. Josefa de Riba (Sp) 6-3 4-6 6-0
2R Liezel Broz (Aut) d. Josette Amouretti (Fr) 6-8 6-4 6-3
2R Joan Curry (GB) d. Charbonnier 6-3 9-7
2R Pat Harrison (GB) d. Totte Zehden (Ger) w.o.
2R Helena Matous (Cz) d. Chiara Ramorino (It) 6-2 6-4
2R Manuela Bologna d. Maria Weiss (Arg) 7-5 4-0 ret.
2R Nicla Migliori d. Manfredi 6-4 6-1

QF Partridge d. Long 6-4 6-3
QF Curry d. Broz 3-6 6-1 7-5
QF Harrison d. Matous 2-6 6-1 6-3
QF Migliori d. Bologna 4-6 6-3 6-3

SF Partridge d. Migliori 6-26-3
SF Harrison d. Curry 6-3 6-3

FI Partridge d. Harrison 6-3 7-5

Doubles
SF Migliori/Vittoria Tonolli d. Anderson/Curry 5-7 9-7 6-4
SF Hopman/Long d. Bologna/Manfredi 6-1 6-1

FI Hopman/Long d. Migliori/Tonnelli 6-2 6-8 6-3

April 14-19, Cumberland Hard Courts, GB

QF Gem Hoahing d. Billie Woodgate 6-4 6-1
QF Viola White d. Jenny Middleton 6-0 6-2
QF Pearl Panton d. Elaine Watson 4-6 6-0 6-4
QF Georgie Woodgate d. Patsy Rodgers 6-2 6-3

SF Hoahing d. White 7-5 6-3
SF G. Woodgate d. Panton 6-4 8-6

FI Hoahing d. G. Woodgate 2-6 6-4 6-3

DF Mary Halford/Pat Ward d. Woodgate/Woodgate 7-5 4-6 7-5

Apr 17-21 Havana, Cuba (CL?)

2R Doris Popple (US) d. Josefina Piedra 6-2 6-0

QF Pat Canning Todd (US) d. Lois Miller (US) 6-0 6-0
QF Popple d. Marta Barnett (US)8-6 9-7
QF Magda Rurac (Rom) d. Suzanne Herr (US) 6-0 6-1

SF Todd d. Popple 6-2 6-0
SF Melita Ramirez (Mex) d. Rurac 6-3 6-3

FI Ramirez d. Todd 5-7 9-7 4-2 retired

The end of Ms. Rurac's streak after winning 11 events(Need to confirm)
In the final Todd retires with a foot cramp in the third set.

Apr 19-27, Paris International Championships(CL)

FI Anne-Marie Seghers d. Raymonde Jones-Veber 6-4 5-7 8-6

DF Arvilla McGuire (US)/Jacqueline Patorni d. Myrtil Dubois/Susanne Panetier 6-3 6-3

Mx Patorni/Jean Borotra d. McGuire/Kurt Nielson (DenI 6-4 6-2

4,000 on final day see a 54 Jean Borotra capture the mixed with his much younger partner

April 21-26, Connaught Hard Courts, Chingford, GB

QF Jean Walker-Smith d. Anne Shilcock 6-4 6-0
QF Leonie Brighton d. Baker Howard 6-1 6-1
QF Betty Wilford d. Doreen Wedderburn (SA) 6-3 6-3
QF Joy Mottram d. Elaine Watson 6-2 6-0

SF Walker-Smith d. Brighton 6-0 6-0
SF Mottram d. Wilford 6-0 6-0

FI Walker-Smith d. Mottram 1-6 9-7 6-4

DF Walker-Smith/Mottram d. Brighton/Wilford 6-2 7-5

Apr 21-26 Surrey Hard Courts Sutton, GB(CL)

R16 Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Shirley Bloomer 6-2 6-1
R16 Effie Peters d. Gertie Preston 8-10 6-2 6-2
R16 Gladys Lines d. Townsend 6-2 6-4
R16 Pat Ward d. Pat Gotla 6-4 6-0
R16 Heln Fletcher d. Wilson 7-5 5-7 6-3
R16 V. Uber d. Val Lewis 6-8 6-4 6-4
R16 Rosemary Bulleid d. Margot Parker 3-6 6-3 6-1
R16 Angela Mortimer d. Frances Walthew 6-3 6-3

QF Rinkel-Quertier d. Peters 6-2 6-3
QF Ward d. Lines 6-3 6-1
QF Fletcher d. Uber 6-1 6-4
QF Mortimer d. Bulleid w.o.

SF Ward d. Rinkel-Quertier 3-6 6-3 6-4
SF Mortimer d. Fletcher 6-2 6-1

FI Mortimer d. Ward 6-4 6-1

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Susan Partridge d. Mortimer/Bulleid 6-2 8-6

ends Apr 27, Sicily International, Palermo, It (CL)
Venue: Circolo Tennis

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Thelma Long (Aus)7-5 6-4

DF Curry/Rita Anderson Jarvis (GB) d. Silvana Lazzarino/Josefa de Riba (Sp) 6-4 6-3

ends April 27, River Oaks, Houston

FI Gladys Heldman d. Lucille Scoggins 6-3 6-2

Apr 28-May 3 British Hard Courts, Bournemouth (HD)

1R Doris Hart (US) d. Kathleen Scott 6-1 6-1
1R Mary Wavish d. Enid Andrews w.o.
1R Joy MacLeod d. Knott 7-5 6-3
1R Viola White d. Pat Cowney Gotla 4-6 6-3 6-2
1R Susan Partridge d. Patience Chapman 6-3 6-2
1R B. Langrick d. Margaret Grace 11-9 6-0
1R Pat Ward d. Baker Howard 6-0 7-5
1R Pearl Panton d. K. Keith-Steele 6-1 6-0
1R Jean Walker-Smith d. Mary Harris 6-0 6-0
1R Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. Sheila Speight 6-4 6-1
1R Pat Harrison d. S.C. Collett 3-6 6-3 10-8
1R Lorna Byrne d. M.E. Morgan 6-1 7-5
1R Georgie Woodgate d. Roberts 6-3 6-2
1R Lorna Cornell d. A. Rose 6-4 6-2
1R Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Effie Hemmant Peters 6-0 6-4
1R Elaine Watson d. B. Goodman 5-7 6-1 6-3
1R Rosemary Bulleid d. Jean Trower 8-6 7-9 7-5
1R R.M. Bennett d. Shearing w.o.
1R Frances Walthew d. A. Love 6-0 5-7 6-4
1R Joy Mottram d. Pat Lewis 6-0 6-1
1R Jean Petchell d. Shirley Bloomer 8-6 6-4
1R Audrey Houseley d. Gem Gilbert 6-03-6 6-4
1R V. Uber d. Jenny Middleton 6-1 4-6 6-2
1R Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Billie Woodgate 6-1 6-1
1R J. Davy d. Pat Hird 3-6 7-5 6-4
1R Helen Fletcher d. Sue Waters 6-2 6-3
1R Anne Shilcock d. Jean Sedgman (Aus) 6-3 6-2
1R Angela Mortimer d. Rosemary Walsh 6-1 6-0
1R E.M. Hill d. Val Lewis 0-6 6-3 6-4
1R Margaret Carlisle d. Judy Wallace 3-6 6-0 6-0
1R Vera Dace Thomas d. Fraser 6-2 6-1
1R Shirley Fry (US) d. Gladys Lines 6-1 6-1

2R Hart d. Wavish 6-0 6-1
2R White d. MacLeod 7-9 6-3 6-2
2R Partridge d. Langrick 6-2 6-0
2R Ward d. Panton 6-0 5-7 6-4
2R Walker-Smith d. Wedderburn 6-2 6-2
2R Harrison d. Byrne 6-4 6-0
2R G. Woodgate d. Cornell 6-1 7-9 6-3
2R Penrose d. Watson 6-3 6-0
2R Bulleid d. Bennett 6-0 6-2
2R Mottram d. Walthew 6-1 6-3
2R Petchell d. Houseley 2-6 6-4 6-4
2R Rinkel-Quertier d. Uber 6-3 6-1
2R Flethcer d. Davy 6-0 6-2
2R Mortimer d. Shilcock 6-0 6-1
2R Carlisle d. Hill 6-0 6-4
2R Fry d. Thomas 6-3 6-3

3R Hart d. White 6-2 7-5
3R Partridge d. Ward 6-2 6-1
3R Walker-Smith d. Harrison 6-2 6-3
3R G. Woodgate d. Penrose 6-4 4-6 9-7
3R Mottram d. Bulleid 7-5 6-2
3R Rinkel-Quertier d. Petchell 3-6 6-1 6-4
3R Mortimer d. Fletcher 6-2 6-2
3R Fry d. Carlisle 6-0 6-1

QF Hart d. Partridge 6-3 10-8
OF Walker-Smith d. G. Woodgate 6-2 6-4
QF Mottram d. Rinkel 6-3 6-1
QF Fry d. Mortimer 6-3 6-3

SF Hart d. Walker-Smith 6-4 6-3
SF Fry d. Mottram 6-1 6-4

FI Doris Hart [1] d. Shirley Fry [2] 6-4 6-3

DF Fry/Hart d. Partridge/Rinkel 6-1 6-4

Mx Rinkel/Geoffrey Paish d. Fry/Don Candy (Aus) 6-3 7-5

Apr 28-May 4 Bermuda International, Hamilton (GR)

1R Pat Canning Todd [1] d. Mrs. Rendell Arton 6-0 6-0

QF Betty Rosenquest Pratt d. Ann Smith 6-0 6-0

FI Todd [1] d. Barbara Scofield Davidson 6-4 6-0

DF Pratt/Todd d. Heather Brewer/Kay Hubbell 6-3 6-2

Apr 28-May 4 Wiesbaden, Germany (CL)

QF Thelma Long (Aus) d. Hanna Kramer 6-0 6-2
QF Julia Wipplinger (SA) d. A. Hammann 6-1 4-6 8-6
QF Totta Zehden d. Erika Vollmer 6-0 6-4
QF Joan Curry (GB) d. Muller Hein 6-0 6-0

SF Long d. Wipplinger 6-2 6-3
SF Curry d. Zehden

FI Long d. Curry 2-6 6-3 6-4

DF Curry/Arvilla McGuire (US) d. Long/Nell Hopman (AUS)

May 5-10 London Hard CourtsHurlingham (CL)

1R Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Gladys Lines 6-4 6-1
1R Margaret Carlisle d. S. Collett 6-4 3-6 6-1
1R Bobbie Wilson d. Baker Howard 6-1 6-2
1R Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Mary Harris 7-5 6-1
1R Lorna Byrne d. Jacqueline Beswick 6-3 7-5
1R Effie Hemmant Peters d. Elaine Watson 6-4 6-2
1R Pearl Panton d. Angela Buxton 7-5 2-6 6-0
1R Julia Wipplinger (SA) d. Mrs. Preston 6-3 6-3
1R Shirley Bloomer d. Sheila Blackburn 6-1 6-0
1R P. Knight d. A. Wallace 6-3 6-1
1R Betty WIlford d. Gem Gilbert 6-3 6-3
1R Lorna Cornell d. Leonie Brighton 6-4 8-10 6-4
1R Gay Chandler d. Pat Lewis 6-3 6-3
1R Frances Walthew d. Mrs. Cox 9-7 6-1

2R Redick-Smith d. Carlisle 6-2 6-4
2R Patsy Rodgers d. Wilson 6-1 7-5
2R Peters d. Panton 6-1 6-2
2R Penrose d. Byrne 6-4 6-2
2R Wilford d. Knight 6-2 6-4
2R Bloomer d. Wipplinger 6-3 3-6 6-4
2R Cornell d. Chandler 7-5 1-6 6-0
2R Walthew d. Thelma Lister 6-3 7-5

QF Redick-Smith d. Rodgers 6-2 6-1
QF Penrose d Peters 6-4 6-1
QF Wilford d. Bloomer 6-1 5-7 6-2
QF Cornell d. Walthew 6-1 6-3

SF Redick-Smith d. Penrose 5-7 6-4 6-1
SF Cornell d. Wilford 3-6 6-1 7-5

FI Redick-Smith d Cornell 7-5 6-2

DF Mary Halford/Molly Blair d. Wilford/Peggy Dawson-Scott 6-3 6-3

May 5-10 Coral Beach Invitation, Hamilton, Bermuda (GR)
QF Todd d. ????, Hubbell d. Heather Brewer 3-6 6-3 7-5
QF Dav. d. Diana Mcilvaine 6-0 6-1, Pratt d. Midge Buck 3-6 6-1 6-3
SF Todd d. Kay Hubbell 8-6 6-3, Pratt d. Barbara Davidson 6-4 6-3
FI Pat Todd d. Barbara Davidson 6-3 6-2
DF Davidson/Todd d. Buck/Pratt 6-4 6-2

May 5-11 Southern California Chmpionships, Los Angeles, US (HD)

QF Louise Brough d. Evelyn Conrad 7-5 6-1
QF Mary Prentiss d. Barbara Green 6-1 6-2

SF Maureen Connolly d. Helen Perez 6-1 6-2
SF Brough d. Prentiss 7-5 4-6 6-4

FI Louise Brough d. Maureen Connolly 5-7 6-2 6-3

Doubles

QF Brough/Connolly d. Pat Yeomans/Roxie Turpin 6-1 6-0
QF Prentiss/Green d. Conrad/Conny Bowan 6-1 6-3

SF Brough/Connolly d. Dodo Cheney/Gracyn Kelleher 6-1 6-0
SF Barbara Kimbrell/Julia Sampson d. Green/Prentiss 6-3 6-0

Brough's comeback is oh so sweet. "I'm a pretty healthy girl now" the blonde chuckled after the year's biggest upset so far. She injured her arm at the 1950 French-and quit the tour totally after Wimbledon to recover. "I didn't touch a racquet until Januray", Louise declared. During her layoff she got in the best shape of her life by running, skipping rope, and doing "those things that strenthen your tummy muscles." Louise heads east to practice with good freind Margaret Dupont before flying to Enlgand with Mo Connolly to try and snag her 4th Wimbledon crown.

May 9-?? Hanover, GER (CL)

1R Shirley Fry (US) d. Inge Pohmann 6-1 6-4
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May 11-17 Harrowgate, GB

2R Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Shirley Bloomer 7-5 6-4
2R Evelyn Moeller d. A. Wood 6-0 6-0
2R Vera Dace Thomas d. S. Leader 6-1 6-2
2R Jean Petchell d. Jean Sedgman (Aus) 6-1 6-1
2R Helen Flethcer d. Pat Gotla 6-3 7-5
2R Glenda Love (SA) d. Sheila Speight 7-5 0-6 7-5
2R Billie Woodgate d. Chow 6-0 6-1
2R Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Val Lewis 6-3 6-4

QF Bartlett d. Moeller 6-2 6-3
QF Thomas d. Petchell 6-2 6-3
QF Fletcher d. Love 9-7 6-1
QF Penrose d. Woodgate 6-1 6-1

SF Thomas d. Bartlett 4-6 7-5 6-0
SF Penrose d. Fletcher 6-1 6-4

FI Thomas d. Penrose 9-7 6-2

DF Bartlett/Love d. Penrose/Fletcher 6-3 11-9

May 11-17 Guilford Hard Courts, GB (CL)

2R Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Mary Harris 6-1 6-1
2R Bea Walter d. Enid Luxton 6-3 6-3
2R Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. J. Tarr 6-3 6-0
2R Lorna Cornell d. V. Uber 6-3 4-6 6-3
2R Gladys Lines d. E.M. Hill 6-4 4-6 6-3
2R Gem Gilbert d. J. Nilen 6-8 6-4 6-0
2R Viola White d. Angela Buxton 3-6 6-1 6-4
2R Julia Wipplinger (SA) d. Anne Shilcock 6-1 7-5

QF Redick-Smith d. Walter 6-2 6-1
QF Cornell d. Wedderburn 6-4 3-6 8-6
QF Lines d. Gilbert 6-2 6-3
QF Wipplinger d. White 5-7 6-3 6-2

SF Redick-Smith d. Cornell 6-4 6-2
SF Wipplinger d. Lines 6-1 7-5

FI Redick-Smith d. Wipplinger 6-3 6-2

DF Redick-Smith/Wipplinger d. Bobbie Wilson/Cornell 6-2 6-1

May 12-17, St. Annes on Sea, GB (HC)

QF Pat Harrison d. H. Westmacott 6-3 6-3
QF K.M. Stott d. M. Booth 6-0 6-1
QF Audrey Houseley d. Joy MacLeod 8-6 7-5
QF Pat Hird d. Nancy Liebert 6-4 8-6

SF Harrison d. Stott 6-0 6-4
SF Houseley d. Hird 6-3 6-3

FI Harrison d. Houseley 7-5 6-4

DF Harrison/Liebert d. MacLeod/Westmacott 13-11 6-3

May 19-28 California State Championships, Berkeley US (HD)

FI Anita Kanter d. Virginia Kovacs 6-1 1-6 9-7

May ???? Connecticut State, US

FI Lois Felix. d. Ann Gray 6-0 12-10

May ??? Stuttgart, Germany

SF Jacqueline Patorni (Fr) d. Elena Lehmann 4-6 6-2 6-1

FI Maria Weiss (Arg) d. Jacqueline Patorni (Fr) 6-1 6-4

May 19-24, Phyllis Hard Courts Henley, GB

QF Angela Buxton d. E. Gunnell 6-2 6-0
QF Glenda Love (SA) d. Val Lewis 4-6 6-4 7-5
QF Margot Parker d. S. Collett 6-4 6-2
QF Shirley Bloomer d. Sheila Blackburn

SF Love d. Buxton 6-0 6-1
SF Parker d. Bloomer 10-8 6-3

FI Love d. Parker 4-6 6-3 6-1

DF Love/Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Parker/M. Slaney 6-2 7-5

May 19-24, Sutton Coldfield, GB

QF Rosemary Walsh d. Lorna Cornell 6-3 4-6 6-4
QF Pat Gotla d. Rosemary Bulleid 6-4 6-2
QF Jenny Wagstaff d. Jean Trower 6-3 7-5
QF Heather Cheadle d. Elaine Watson 6-2 6-1

SF Walsh d. Gotla 6-4 2-6 6-2
SF Cheadle d. Wagstaff 9-7 6-2

FI Walsh d. Cheadle 6-4 6-3

DF Lorna Cornell/Billie Woodgate d. Bulleid/Trower 3-6 6-0 7-5

May 20 to June 2, FRENCH CHAMIOPNSHIPS
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1st round
Doris Hart (US) bye
Janine de la Giroday bye
Christiane Mercelis (Bel) bye
Gilberte Jamain bye
Elena Lehmann (Arg) bye
Suzanne Pannetier bye
Julia Wipplinger (SA) bye
Michelle Bourbannais d. Jacqueline Foy 6-1 6-0

Dottie Head(US) d. Suzanne Schmitt 6-0 6-3
Francine Isaac (Bel) d. Annie Haillet-Passet(Fr) wo
Beryl Penrose(Aus) d. Andree Varin 6-3 6-1
Erika Volmer-Obst(Ger) d. Jacqueline Kermina 6-4 2-6 13-11
Joy Mottram(GB) d. Ginette Bucaille(Fr) 6-0 6-3
Jacqueline Boutin (Fr) d. Maud Galtier 6-2 6-1
Raymonde Jones-Veber(Fr) d. Manuela Bologna(It) w/o
Myrtil Dubois(Fr) d. Nell Hopman(Aus) 6-4 7-5

Arvilla McGuire(US) d. Fanny Ten Bosch(Hol) w/o
Jacqueline Patorni(Fr) d. Alice Charbonnier(Swi) 6-0 6-4
Pat Ward(GB) d. Anne-Marie Seghers 9-7 6-4
Maria Weiss(Arg) d. Suzanne Savoye 6-0 6-2
Hazel Redick-Smith(SAf) d. Josette Amouretti 6-0 6-2
Francoise Cor(Arg) d. Arlette De Cazalet w/o
Francoise Lemal d. Margareta Bonstrom (Swe) 8-10 6-1 6-1
Charlotte Gazeau d. Susan Partridge(GB) 6-3 3-6 6-2

Joan Curry (GB) bye
Monique Coste bye
Violetta Rigollet (Swz) bye
Annamaria Frisaco (It) bye
Joopy Roos-van der Wal (Neth) bye
Margaret Carlisle (GB) bye
C. Michael-Bernard bye
Shirley Fry (US) bye

2nd Round
Hart d. de la Giroday 6-1 7-5
Mercelis d. Jamain 7-5 6-4
Lehmann d. Pannetier 6-2 6-2
Wipplinger d. Bourbonnais 7-5 6-2
Head d. Isaac 6-0 6-1
Penrose d. Wolmer-Obst 6-3 3-6 6-4
Mottram d. Boutin 6-0 6-1
Jones Veber d. Dubois 8-6 4-6 6-4

McGuire d. Patorni 6-4 6-4
Weiss d. Ward 6-3 6-1
Redick-Smith d. Core 6-1 6-2
Gazeau d. Lemal 1-6 6-2 6-4
Curry d. Coste w/o
Rigollet d. Frisaco w.o.
Roos d. Carlisle 6-2 6-0
Fry) d. Michael-Bernard 6-0 6-0

3rd Round
Hart d. Mercelis 7-5 10-8
Wipplinger d. Lehmann 6-4 6-1
Head d. Penrose 6-2 6-2
Mottram d. Jones Veber 7-5 1-6 6-4
Weiss d. McGuire 6-1 6-2
Redick-Smith d. Gazeau 6-3 6-3
Curry d. Rigollet 6-0 6-1
Fry d. Roos 6-1 6-0

Quarters
Hart d. Wipplinger 8-6 6-4
Head d. Mottram 6-3 4-6 7-5
Redick-Smith d. Weiss 6-3 6-1
Fry d. Curry 4-6 6-0 6-4

Semis
Hart d. Head 6-2 8-6
Fry d. Redick-Smith 8-6 6-4

Final
Hart d. Fry 6-4 6-4
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Thanks to AndrewTAs for full results

Well attended, with a full house of 13,000 on finals day, and some 2,000 turned away at the gate. Week two was usually drizzly.

Despite the close final, a writer remarked that it "lacked sparkle". Hart ran up a first set lead of 5-0, then lost 4 before closing it out.

Mottram=married name of Gannon
Head=maiden name of Knode
Redick=Redick-Smith

May 20 to June 2, FRENCH DOUBLES

1st Round
Redick-Smith/Wipplinger bye
Madeline Imbert/Lemal bye
McGuire/Patorni bye
J Foy/Varin bye
Mottram/ Ward d. Bucaille/Schmitt 6-2 6-4
Kermina/Rigollet d. Bourbonnais/Mercelis ? score
Dubois/Jones Veber d. Coste/Galtier 6-4 4-6 6-4
Hure/Passet d Annie Soisbault/Volmer Obst 4-2 ret
Halff/Seghers d Carlisle/Partridge 4-6 6-0 6-0
Boutin/Pannetier d Hopman/Penrose 6-1 6-3
Butler/Head d. Bonstrom/Core 6-0 6-4
Lehman/Weiss bye
Amouretti/Gazeau bye
Curry/Isaac bye
Charbonnier/Roos bye
Fry/Hart bye

2nd Round
Redick-Smith/Wipplinger d. Imbert/Lemal 6-2 6-3
McGuire/Patorni d. J.Foy/Varin 6-8 6-3 6-2
Mottram/Ward d. Kermina/Rigollet 7-5 4-6 6-1
Dubois/Jones Veber d Hure/Passet 6-2 6-2
Halff/Seghers d. Boutin/Pannetier 1-6 6-4 6-3
Butler/Head d. Lehman/Weiss 6-0 6-4
Amouretti/Gazeau d. Curry/Isaac 6-0 6-3
Fry/Hart d. Charbonnier/Roos 6-3 6-0

Quarters
Redick-Smith/Wipplinger d. McGuire/Patorni 6-2 6-3
Mottram/Ward d. Dubois/Jones Veber 6-1 6-2
Halff/Seghers d. Butler/Head 7-5 6-8 7-5
Fry/Hart d. Amouretti/Gazeau 6-0 6-1

Semis
Fry/Hart d. Halff/Seghers 6-0 6-1
Redick-Smith/Wipplinger d. Mottram/Ward 6-3 6-2

Final
Fry/Hart d. Redick-Smith/Wipplinger 7-5 6-1
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Thanks to AndrewTas for full results

13,000 see finals. On a wet court Fry's volleys and serves sometimes desert her, giving Hart the edge and reversing the result of the 1951 final. The mixed doubles proves to be the most exciting final, as Hart/Sedgeman come back from 0-3 in the third. Fry gets thunderous applause for her volleys and smashes. "She retrieved all over the court and scored sensational winners. her cleverness in always sighting for a vulnerable point was fully appreciated by the crowd, and when she actually outvolleyed Sedgeman to win the third game of the final set, she was given the greastest ovation of the tournament.

May 26-31 Surrey Championships, Surbiton (GR)

1R Muareen Connolly (US) d. Jean Petchell 6-0 6-1
1R Audrey Houseley d. Jenny Middleton 1-6 6-4 6-3
1R S. Collett d. Elaine Watson 6-1 7-5
1R Angela Mortimer d. Billie Woodgate 6-3 6-3
1R Galdys Lines d. Gem Gilbert 6-2 6-3
1R Thelma Long (Aus) d. Pat Harrison 6-0 6-3
1R Thelma Lister d. Lorna Cornell 6-4 7-5
1R Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Georige Woodgate 6-8 6-3 7-5
1R Gem Hoahing d. Mary Halford 4-6 6-2 6-3
1R Betty Wilford d. Shirley Bloomer 11-9 6-3
1R Vera Dace Thomas d. Glenda Love (SA) 3-6 7-5 7-5
1R Jean Walker-Smith d. Pearl Panton 6-3 6-1
1R Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Bea Walter 6-0 6-0
1R Helen Fletcher d. Jean Trower 6-2 6-2
1R Peggy Dawson-Scott d. Rosemary Walsh 6-3 6-3
1R Pat Canning Todd (US) d. Anne Shilcock 6-2 6-0

2R Connolly d. Audrey Housley 6-1 6-0
2R Mortimer d. Collett 6-1 6-0
2R Bartlett d. Lister 6-1 6-3
2R Long d. Lines 6-1 6-0
2R Walker-Smith d. Thomas 6-3 6-3
2R Hoahing d. Wilford 7-5 6-3
2R Rinkel-Quertier d. Fletcher 6-1 6-2
2R Todd d. Dawson-Scott 6-0 6-1

QF Connolly d. Mortimor 6-4 6-4
QF Long d. Bartlett 6-0 6-2
QF Walker-Smith d. Hoahing 6-4 6-4
QF Todd d. Rinkel 6-4 6-2

SF Connolly d. Long 10-8 6-1
SF Todd d. Walker-Smith 6-2 6-2

FI Maureen Connolly [1] d. Pat Todd [2] 3-6 6-3 6-4

Doubles
1R Brough/Connolly d. Hale/Ince 6-0 6-0

SF Fletcher/Rinkel-Quertier d. Brough/Connolly 6-3 1-6 6-3
SF Long/Todd d. Bartlett/Walker-Smith 6-3 6-4

FI Fletcher/Rinkel-Quertier d. Long/Todd 6-4 6-4

The British press gobbled up the newest tennis sensation from the moment she stepped off the plane and flashed her mischevious smile. The British Press Association declared her "just like a fresh breeze. Miss Connolly is no fashion plate with a trunk full of frilly panties, and neither is she one of the Amazons who have smashed their silent way to victory in recent years." Maureen provided comedy for the reporters by falling over backwards in an airport lounge chair and landing flat on her back-when she laughed heartily at the pratfall.

Her first match outside the United States was no laughing matter-Connolly wins in devastating style, losing only 4 points in the entire first set (all on errors) vs. Jean Petchell.

The final was a much sterner fight. Todd led 4-2 in the final set. An important victory for Mo, who has lost to Todd twice. "Both players took several spills" on the rain soaked court.

ends Jun 2 Munich,Germany (CL)

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Hanna Kramer 6-2 6-0

May 31- June 5, Glamorgan, Dinas Powis [GR]

QF Billie Woodgate d. Enid? Kerr 5-7 6-4 6-1
QF A.G. Bates d. Anne Shilcock 7-5 0-6 6-4
QF Laura Morgan d. Martin 6-1 6-2
QF Georgie Woodgate d. Mrs. K.M.Ernest 3-6 6-1 6-0

SF B. Woodgate d. Bates 5-7 6-4 6-1
SF Morgan d. G. Woodgate 6-4 4-6 6-0

FI B. Woodgate d. Morgan 8-6 6-4

DF Woodgate/Woodgate d. Ernest/Morgan 6-2 6-4

Jun 2-7 Northern Lawn Tennis Chmps[B], Manchester, UK (GR)

1R Connolly and Brough drew byes

2R Maureen Connolly (US) d. Dorothy Spiers 6-0 6-1
2R Louise Brough (US) d. Sheila Kay 6-1 6-0

3R Connolly d. Dorothy Cooper 6-1 6-0
3R Helen Flether d. Joan MacLeod 7-5 11-9
3R Norma Potts d. Phillips 6-4 4-6 6-3
3R Jean Walker-Smith d. Gladys Lines 6-0 6-1
3R Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Nancy Liebert 6-2 6-2
3R Jean Trower d. Mercer 6-4 6-2
3R Susan Partridge d. K.M. Stott 3-6 6-2 6-2
3R Brough d. Frances Walthew 6-0 6-1

QF Connolly d. Fletcher 6-1 6-3
QF Walker-Smith d. Potts 6-4 6-3
QF Rinkel-Quertier d. Trower 6-3 6-1
QF Brough d. Partridge 6-4 6-2

SF Connolly d. Walker-Smith 6-2 4-6 6-0
SF Rinkel-Quertier d. Brough 6-2 6-8 6-2

FI Mo Connolly d. Jean Rinkel-Quertier 6-3 6-1

Doubles
SF Fry/Hart d. Fletcher/Walker-Smith 6-2 6-1
SF Brough/Connolly d. Partridge/Rinkel-Quertier 3-6 6-4 6-1

FI Brough/Connolly d. Fry/Hart 1-6 6-2 9-7

Mx: Hart/Frank Sedgman d. Connolly/Cockburn 6-4 4-6 6-1

Jean Rinkel, better known under her married name of Quertier, has recently married Dutch Davis Cuppoer Ivo Rinkel. She will continue to represent Britain in international competiton. Her upset of Brough is so huge that fans start lining up for the finals as early as 7 am. Alas, after getting to 2-1 it's all Connolly,as the Yank pounds balls to the corners and keeps Jean on the run.

Jun 2-7 [B]Priory Birmingham UK (GR)

1R Pat Canning Todd (US) bye

2R Todd d. Edith Lawrenson 6-0 6-0

3R Todd d. Mrs. B. W. Knott 6-0 6-1

QF Todd d. Barbara Knapp 6-2 6-2
QF Julia Wipplinger (SA) d. Helena Matous (Cz) 3-6 6-3 6-2
QF Hazel Reddick-Smith (SA) d. Heather Cheadle 6-2 6-3
QF Thelma Long (Aus) d. Rosemary Walsh 6-2 6-0

SF Todd d. Wipplinger 6-1 6-2
SF Long d. Reddick-Smith 7-5 6-1

FI Todd d. Long 6-4 6-2

DF Long/Todd d. Redick-Smith/Wipplinger 6-1 6-1

Mx Todd/Dick Savitt (US) d. Long/Straight Clark (US) 6-3 7-9 6-1

ends Jun 7 Torquay, GB (GR)

FI Rita Anderson (US) d. RC Stebbings 6-0 7-5

DF Sheila M Griffin/ RW Stone d. AC Roberts/ Diane Midgley 6-1 3-6 7-5

Mx Rita Anderson/Jaroslav Drobny d. I. Atwood/Luis Ayala (Ch) 6-1 6-3

June 2-7, Harpenden, GB [GR]

QF Pat Lewis d. Jacqueline? Beswick 6-1 6-8 6-3
QF Shirley Bloomer d. Gertie Preston 6-3 3-6 6-2
QF Elaine Watson d. Steer 1-6 6-0 6-0
QF Mary Harris d. Tarr 7-5 6-4

SF Lewis d. Bloomer 6-3 6-1
SF Watson d. Harris 6-2 6-2

FI Lewis d. Watson 7-5 6-4

DF Watson/Lewis d. Bloomer/Harris 5-7 7-5 6-4

June 2-7, Lowther, Barnes, GB [GR]

QF Gem Hoahing d. Margaret Carlisle 6-3 6-4
QF Peggy Dawson-Scott d. Leonie Brighton 7-5 6-4
QF Jenny Wagstaff d. Pearl Panton 4-6 6-3 6-3
QF Betty Wilford d. Patsy Rodgers 6-3 6-1

SF Hoahing d. Dawson-Scott 4-6 6-3 6-2
SF Wilford d. Wagstaff 3-6 6-0 6-0

FI Wilford d. Hoahing 5-7 6-3 8-6

DF Dawson-Scott/Wilford d. Carlisle/J. White 6-3 6-3

Jun 2-8 Belgian International, Brussels (CL)

QF Angela Mortimer (GB) d. Christiane Mercelis (Belg) 6-4 7-5
QF Nel Hermsen (Neth) d. Violette Rigollet (Swz) 4-6 6-3 6-3
QF Pat Harrison (GB) d. Joopy Roos (Neth) 6-3 6-3
QF Maria Weiss (Arg) d. Maud Galtier (Fr) 9-11 6-3 6-3

SF Mortimer d. Hermen 6-3 6-1
SF Harrison d. Weiss 4-6 6-4 6-4

FI Mortimer d. Harrison 6-3 6-4

DF Harrison/Mortimer d. Mercelis/Weiss 6-1 6-4

Note: Mort's amusing story of early round match.

ended June 8, Oslo, Norway

FI: Beryl Nicholas Bartlett (SA) d. Beryl Penrose (Aus) 2-6 6-1 6-0

MX: Gwendy Love (SA) /Eric Sturgess (SA) d. Penrose/Jean Claude Molinari (Fr) 5-7 6-1 6-0

June 8, New England Chmpionships, Hartford, Connecticut, US

FI Anne Gray d. Kay Hubbell 6-2 6-4

Jun 2-9 United States Hard Courts, Seattle, Washington, US (HD)

1R Virginia Rice Johnson d. Dean Folger 3-6 6-3 6-0

2R Mary Arnold Prentiss d. Susan Dempsey 6-0 6-0
2R Gladys Ross d. Claire Lovett 3-6 10-8 6-2
2R Patsy Heard d. Dorothy Wilkinson 6-3 5-7 6-2
2R Joan Ross-Dilley (GB) d. Joonson 6-0 6-1
2R Anita Kanter d. Kathleen Kralowee w.o.
2R Amy Yee d. June Lee 6-3 6-1
2R Julia Sampson d. Elizabeth Loeck 6-2 6-0
2R Andy Ross-Dilley (GB) d. Marilyn Kropft 6-0 6-0

QF Prentiss d. Ross 6-0 6-0
QF J. Ross-Dilley d. Heard 12-10 6-1
QF Kanter d. Yee 6-2 6-3
QF Sampson d. A. Ross-Dilley 0-6 7-5 13-11

SF Prentiss d. J. Ross-Dilley 6-1 6-2
SF Kanter d. Sampson 6-3 6-4

FI Prentiss d. Kanter 6-1 8-6

DF Prentiss/Sampson d. Kanter/Heard 7-5 6-2

June 9, Queensland Hard Court Championships, Warwick, Australia

FI: Edith Niemeyer Finney d. Gloria Blair 6-1 6-4

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Jun 9-14, Kent Championships, Beckenham UK (GR)

1R Hazel Reddick-Smith (SA) d. Pat Lewis 6-2 6-4
1R Bea Walter d. G. MacKay 6-0 0-6 6-0
1R Elena Lehmann (Arg) d. P. Knight 6-3 6-2
1R Peggy Starling d. ??
1R Peggy Dawson-Scott d. Shirley Bloomer 6-0 6-1
1R Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. Mrs. T. Wantoch 6-4 6-2
1R Angela Buxton d. Mary Harris 7-5 6-3
1R Dorothy Head (US) d. Anne Shilcock 6-1 6-0
1R Vera Dace Thomas d. Gem Gilbert 6-2 6-3
1R Margaret Carlisle d. ??
1R Elaine Watson d. Joy O'Donoghue 8-6 6-3
1R Jean Trower d. Baba Madden Lewis (US) 6-4 6-3
1R Lorna Cornell d. Jenny Middleton 6-3 7-5
1R Denise Collier d. Patsy Rodgers 6-4 6-1
1R Betty Wilford d. ???
1R Julia Wipplinger (SA) d. Gloria Butler (US) 6-0 6-0

2R Redick-Smith d. Walter 6-2 6-3
2R Lehmann d. Starling 6-2 9-7
2R Dawson-Scott d. Wedderburn 6-3 6-4
2R Head d. Buxton 6-0 6-3
2R Thomas d. Carlisle 3-6 6-2 8-6
2R Watson d. Trower 9-7 6-1
2R Cornell d. Collier 3-6 7-5 6-3
2R Wipplinger d. Wilford 6-3 12-10

QF Redick-Smith d. Lehmann 6-2 6-0
QF Head d. Dawson-Scott 6-2 3-6 6-3
QF Thomas d. Watson 10-8 6-3
QF Wipplinger d. Cornell 4-6 6-4 6-3

SF Redick-Smith d. Head 6-4 6-1
SF Thomas d. Wipplinger 6-3 2-6 6-4

FI Redick-Smith d. Thomas 6-2 6-2

Doubles
SF Dawson-Scott/Wilford d. Lewis/Head 7-5 6-2
SF Redick-Smith/Wipplinger d. Pat Harrison/Trower 6-3 6-4

FI SF Dawson-Scott/Wilford d. Redick-Smith/Wipplinger w.o.

Jun 9-14, West of England, Bristol UK (GR)

1R Pat Canning Todd (US) d. Edith Lawrenson 6-0 6-1

2R Todd d. Gladys Lines 6-2 6-0

QF Todd d. Enid? Kerr 6-0 6-0
QF Sheila Speight d. Evelyn Attwood (NZ) 7-5 6-0
QF Helena Matous (Cz) d. Glenda Love (SA) 6-3 2-6 15-13
QF Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Rosemary Walsh 6-1 6-1

SF Todd d. Speight 6-1 6-1
SF Bartlett d. Matous 8-6 6-1

FI Todd [1] d. Bartlett 7-5 6-2

DF Bartlett/Todd d. Attwood/Love 6-2 6-3

Mx Bartlett/Ian Ayre (Aus) d. Todd/Straight Clark (US) 13-11 6-2

Ends Jun 14 Utah State, Salt Lake City, UT, US

FI Anita Kanter d. Joan Merciades 6-2 6-3

Jun 13-14 Wightman Cup, Wimbledon, GB (GR) Us d. Great Britain 7-0
Day 1:
Mo Connolly d. Jean Walker-Smith 3-6 6-3 7-5,
Doris Hart d. Jean Rinkel-Quertier 6-3 6-3
Shirley Fry/Hart d. Helen Fletcher/Rinkel-Quertier 8-6 6-4

Day 2:
Hart d. Jean Walker-Smith 7-5 6-2
Connolly d. Rinkel-Quertier 9-7 6-2
Fry d. Susan Partridge 6-0 8-6
Louise Brough/Connolly d. Joy Mottram/Ward 6-0 6-3


7,000 on day one are "keenly dissapointed" when their stars fail to follow up leads with wins. several thousand excited girl scouts cheered on the Brits. Walker-Smith ahead of Connolly 4-2 in the third before Mo rallies. Two questionable calls went against the British girl down the stretch. Jean was "visibly upset when there were no calls on balls everyone thought Maureen had hit long. A net cord that dropped against her was the final straw. Walker-Smith's tactics: slow balls high and deep-will be copied by others when playing the hard hitting #1.

Day 2 is anticlimatic after Hart seals the win. 14,000 see the series.

Jun 16-21 London (Queens) Grass Courts, GB (GR)

1R Thelma Lister d. Johns 6-1 6-1
1R Betty Wilford d. Michele Bourbounnais (Fr) 6-4 4-6 6-2

2R Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Lister 6-1 6-3
2R Georgie Woodgate d. Nell Hopman (Aus) 6-1 1-6 6-4
2R Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Peggy Dawson-Scott 5-7 6-1 6-3
2R Gay Chandler d. B. Duthie 6-2 6-0
2R Rita Davar (Ind) d. P. Rees 6-2 6-1
2R Helen Fletcher d. Elaine Watson 6-0 6-0
2R Gem Hoahing d. Thelma Salo (Fin) 6-1 6-1
2R Jean Trower d. Gloria Butler (US) 60- 2-6 8-6
2R Baba Lewis (US) d. Gwendolyn Love (SA) 6-4 6-3
2R Dorothy Head d. Bea Walter 6-1 6-2

3R Redick-Smith d. Woodgate 6-2 6-1
3R Penrose d. Rosemaru Bulleid 6-1 6-0
3R Lorna Cornell d. Chandler 6-2 3-6 6-2
3R Fletcher d. Davar 6-2 6-1
3R Betty Wilford d. Pat Lewis 6-3 6-1
3R Hoahing d. Evelyn Attwood (NZ) 4-6 9-7 6-4
3R Trower d. 2-6 6-3 6-2
3R Head d. Jill Sole 6-3 6-3

QF Redick-Smith d Penrose 6-1 6-4
QF Fletcher d. Cornell 8-6 9-7
QF Wilford d. Hoahing 6-0 6-2
QF Trower d. Head 4-6 6-4 6-4

SF Redick-Smith d. Fletcher 6-4 7-5
SF Wilford d. Trower 6-3 6-1

FI Hazel Redick-Smith d. Betty Wilford 7-5 6-1

Doubles
SF Louise Brough/Maureen Connolly d. Fletcher/Walker-Smith 6-1 6-1
SF Love/Penrose d. Redick-Smith/Head 6-4 6-2

FI Brough/Connolly d. Love/Penrose 6-4 5-7 6-3

It has become customary for the big guns to enter the doubles only the week before Wimbledon.


June 16-21, Malvern, GB, (GR)

QF Rosemary Walsh d. Scott 7-5 5-7 6-1
QF Elena Lehmann (Arg) d. M. Carr 3-6 6-1 6-0
QF Billie Woodgate d. Phillips 1-6 8-6 6-3
QF Barbara Knapp d. S. Morris 6-1 6-0

SF Walsh d. Lehmann 6-4 6-3
SF Knapp d. Woodgate 6-3 6-2

FI Walsh d. Knapp 6-2 1-6 7-5

DF Walsh/Knapp d. P.M. Burrows/Pryse Rice? 6-1 6-0

June 22, Southern Chmpionships, Memphis, Tenn

FI Jean Clarke d. Rhoda Hopkins 6-3 6-1

June 23-July 5, Wimbledon UK, (GR)
Thanks to Brian Stewart for this draw.

First Round
Maureen Connolly (US) [2] bye
Evelyn Moeller bye
Rita Anderson (US) bye
Angela Mortimer bye

Barbara Knapp bye
Lorna Cornell bye
Jacqueline Kermina (Fr) bye
Sue Partridge bye

Thelma Long (Aus) [7] bye
Helen Proudfoot bye
Violette Rigollet (Swt) bye
Betty Wilford bye

M.E. Morgan bye
Maria Weiss (Arg) bye
Viola White bye
Charlotte Decker (US) bye

Shirley Fry (US) [3] d. Mary Halford 6-0 6-0
Evelyn Attwood (NZ) d. Jacqueline Beswick [Q] 6-2 6-2
Janet Morgan d. Shirley Bloomer 6-1 6-4
Betty Lombard (Ire) d. Janie de Ridder (Bel) 6-2 6-2

Jean Trower d. Pat Gotla 6-3 6-3
Elaine Watson [Q] d. Helga Strecker (Ost) 2-6 6-2 6-3
Norma Potts d. Jenny Wagstaff 1-6 7-5 7-5
Michelle Bourbonnais (Frn) d. Pearl Panton 6-4 6-3

Jean Walker-Smith [6] d. Suzanne Schmitt (Frn) 6-3 6-4
Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Laura Morgan 6-1 6-2
Pat Harrison d. Rosemary Bulleid 3-6 6-1 6-2
Betsy Abbas (Egypt)[Q] d. Doreen Wedderburn (SA) 6-3 6-4

Joopy van der Wal Roos (Neth) d. Edie Luxton 6-1 6-2
Pat Ward d. Helena Matous (Ity) 6-2 6-3
Georgie Woodgate d. Noelle Knight 6-4 6-0
Valerie Lewis d. Angela Buxton [LL] 3-6 6-3 6-3

Peggy Dawson Scott d. Inge Pohmann (Ger) 6-3 6-2
Elsie Phillips d. Margaret Knott 6-2 2-6 6-4
Billie Woodgate d. Elizabeth Broz (Ost) 6-3 4-6 6-1
Nell Hopman (Aus) d. Margaret Carlisle [Q] 6-0 6-0

Helen Fletcher d. Joan MacLeod [Q] 6-2 6-4
Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Wendy Morris 6-2 6-1
Mrs. Bobbie Wilson [Q] d. Gwen Scott 6-1 6-2
Jean Rinkel-Quertier [8] d. Dorothy Cooper 6-1 6-3

Vera Thomas d. Nel Hermsen (Neth) 6-3 6-1
Sheila Speight [Q] d. Effie Peters 2-6 7-5 6-3
Margot Parker d. A.G. Bates 4-6 6-3 6-1
Nelly Adamson (Frn) d. Gem Hoahing 6-3 6-2

Glenda Love (SA) d. Jean Petchell 7-5 6-3
Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Rosemary Walsh 6-4 6-2
Gay Chandler d. Thelma Lister 4-6 6-4 5-3 ret.
Louise Brough (US) [4] d. Pat Lewis 6-1 6-0

Frances Walthew [Q] bye
Enid Kerr [Q] bye
Dottie Head (US) bye
Thelma Salo (Finland) bye

Gladys Lines bye
Joan Curry bye
Arvilla McGuire (US) bye
Pat Todd (US) [5] bye

Mary Harris [Q] bye
Leonie Brighton bye
Julia Wipplinger (SA) bye
Christianne Mercelis (Bel) bye

Baba Lewis (US) bye
Elena Lehmann (Arg) bye
S.L. Odling [LL] bye
Doris Hart (US) [1] bye
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Second Round
Connolly [2] d. Moeller 6-2 6-0
Mortimer d. Anderson 6-2 6-2
Knapp d. Cornell 6-3 4-6 6-3
Partridge d. Kermina 8-6 6-2

Long [7] d. Proudfoot 6-1 6-0
Rigollet d. Wilford 6-3 6-4
Weiss d. M. Morgan 6-2 6-2
White d. Decker 6-2 6-4

Fry [3] d. Attwood 6-2 6-2
Lombard d. J. Morgan 6-2 6-2
Watson [Q] d. Trower 7-5 6-2
Bourbonnais d. Potts 6-2 6-1

Walker-Smith [6] d. Redick-Smith 6-1 6-4
Harrison d. Abbas [Q] 6-4 5-7 6-4
Ward d. van der Wal Roos 8-6 6-2
G. Woodgate d. V. Lewis 6-3 6-4

Dawson Scott d. Phillips 6-3 6-2
Hopman d. B. Woodgate 6-3 6-0
Fletcher d. Bartlett 4-6 6-3 6-0
Rinkel-Quertier [8] d. Wilson [Q] 6-1 6-3

Thomas d. Speight 4-6 8-6 6-2
Adamson d. Parker 6-4 6-1
Penrose d. Love 6-2 6-1
Brough [4] d. Chandler 6-0 6-0

Walthew [Q] d. Kerr [Q] 6-4 3-0 retired
Head d. Salo 6-3 6-2
Curry d. Lines 6-1 6-1
Todd [5] d. McGuire 6-0 6-2

Brighton d. Harris [Q] 7-5 6-3
Wipplinger d. Mercelis 4-6 6-4 7-5
B. Lewis d. Lehmann 6-3 6-1
Hart [1] d. Odling [LL] 6-1 6-0
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Third Round
Connolly [2] d. Mortimer 6-4 6-3
Partridge d. Knapp 6-4 9-7
Long [7] d. Rigollet 6-1 6-4
White d. Weiss 6-4 4-1 retired

Fry [3] d. Lombard 6-2 6-1
Bourbonnais d. Watson [Q] 6-3 6-4
Walker-Smith [6] d. Harrison 6-1 6-3
G. Woodgate d. Ward 7-5 4-6 6-1

Dawson Scott d. Hopman 6-2 3-6 6-2
Rinkel-Quertier [8] d. Fletcher 6-0 6-4
Adamson d. Thomas 8-6 6-3
Brough [4] d. Penrose 6-2 6-1

Head d. Walthew [Q] 6-0 6-0
Todd [5] d. Curry 6-3 6-3
Wipplinger d. Brighton 6-4 6-1
Hart [1] d. B. Lewis 6-1 2-6 6-1
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Fourth Round
Connolly [2] d. Partridge 6-3 5-7 7-5
Long [7] d. White 6-2 6-1
Fry [3] d. Bourbonnais 6-4 6-0
Walker-Smith [6] d. G. Woodgate 6-1 6-1

Rinkel-Quertier [8] d. Dawson Scott 6-1 6-2
Brough [4] d. Adamson 1-6 6-1 6-2
Todd [5] d. Head 6-4 6-3
Hart [1] d. Wipplinger 6-4 4-6 6-3
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Quarters
Connolly [2] d. Long [7] 5-7 6-2 6-0
Fry [3] d. Walker-Smith [6] 6-3 6-3
Brough [4] d. Rinkel-Quertier [8] 6-1 9-7
Todd [5] d. Hart [1] 6-8 7-5 6-4

Semis
Connolly [2] d. Fry [3] 6-4 6-3
Brough [4] d. Todd [5] 6-3 3-6 6-1

Final
Connolly [2] d. Brough [4] 7-5 6-3
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Mrs Enid Kerr perhaps =Enid Andrews

Rumors continue to swirl around Mo as Wimbledon opens. Will her shoulder injury keep her out of the championships despite her repeated statements she will play? Is it merely an excuse in case she loses. A packed audience comes out to see her dispose of her first round fo in under 30 minutes. In the press conference afterwards she asked journalists not to "embarrass" her by making it look like she had an alibi in case she lost.

The drama continues as Connolly's coach advises her to withdraw-in print no less. "Teach" Tennant's morning byline urged her pupil to pull out rather than risk a career ending injury. That afternoon Connolly made her centre court debut, downing Angela Mortimer in two sets. Whispers grew early on as the American fell behind 0-3, but the famous head bob and look of grim determination were soon evident.

Then came the match that is the most memorable of the fortnight. For the first time ever her coach is absent from the stands. "teach" is offically visiting a friend in Liverpool. In fact, Mo has had a huge fight that will end their partnership. In the 4th round Susan Partridge uses the "slow ball" to drive Mo into errors. With a capacity crowd "seething with excitement", the top seed fell behind 1-3 in the third.
Everyone was against her......

June 23-July 5, Wimbledon Doubles, GB (GR)

Thanks to Andrew Tas for results

Seeds
1. Fry/Hart
2. Brough/Connolly
3. Long/Todd
4. Partidge/Rinkel-Quertier

1st Round
T.D.Long/P.C.Todd[3] d. P.FGlover/Sh.Hammersley 6-0 6-0
B.M.Goodman/B.W.Knott d. G.Butler/M.Matous 6-4 5-7 6-1
F.J.Bartlett/H.Redick Smith d. H.Billington/M.E.Parker 8-6 6-2
D.W.Gotla/B.M.Knapp d. P.Rodgers/B.Wedderburn 6-0 1-6 6-3
P.L.B.Gardner/J.R.M.Morgan d. J.A.MacLeod/J.W.Mercer 6-4 6-4
B.Abbas/D.Spiers d. S.Speight/R.Walsh 4-6 6-2 6-4
M.Grace/J.M.E.Wallace d. J.Kermina/V.Rigollet 4-6 6-4 6-3
N.W.Blair/W.C.J.Halford d. P.A.Lewis/E.M.Watson 6-2 6-2
C.G.Hoahing/G.E.Woodgate d. P.F.Hermsen/J.F.van der Wal Roos 9-7 7-5
A.H.Thomas/R.F.Woodgate d. G.H.Dick/H.Macfarlene 6-3 6-4
H.M.Fletcher/J.J.Walker Smith d. E.Broz/H.Strecker 6-3 6-1
G.Love/B.Penrose d. A.M.Carlisle/J.A.White 6-1 6-2
J.A.Shilcock/J.Wipplinger d. E.C.Peters/G.Walter 6-3 6-1
CM Mackay/ HM Proudfoot d. P.G.Knight/E.Sutton 1-6 6-4 6-4
W.Bain/E.F.Lombard d. M.B.Lewis/R.L.Scott 10-8 6-3
J.S.V.Partridge/J.Rinkel Quertier[4] d. E.W.Dawson Scott/E.M.Wilford 6-2 3-6 6-3

2nd Round
L.Brough/M.Connolly[2] d. A.J.Mottram/P.E.Ward w/o
H.R.Phillips/R.W.Stone d. R.Anderson/P.J.Curry w/o
M.M.Eyre/V.S.White d. A.G.Bates/K.M.Ernest 6-1 7-5
M.Bourbonnais/A.Passet d. J.L.Coles/P.G.Wavish 10-8 6-2
Long/Todd[3] d. BM Goodman/Knott 6-0 6-3
Bartlett/Redick Smith d. Gotla/Knapp 6-4 6-2
Abbas/Spiers d. Gardner/Morgan 3-1 ret.
Blair/Halford d. Grace/Wallace 6-4 6-2

Hoahing/G.Woodgate d. Thomas/R.Woodgate 6-2 6-2
Fletcher/Walker Smith d. Love/Penrose 7-5 4-6 6-3
Mackay/Proudfoot d. Shilcock/Wipplinger 2-6 8-6 7-5
Partridge/Rinkel Quertier[4] d. Bain/Lombard 6-3 6-0
D.Head/A.McGuire d. F.Byrne/R.C.Panton 6-1 6-1
R.J.R.Bulleid/A.Mortimer d. R.F.Chandler/C.F.O.Lister w/o
N.Hopman/B.M.Lewis d. N.Adamson/H.Weiss w/o
S.Fry/D.Hart[1] d. M.P.Harrison/J.M.Trower 6-2 6-0

3rd Round
Brough/Connolly[2] d. Phillips/Stone 6-2 6-1
Eyre/White d. Bourbonnais/Passet 6-2 6-0
Long/Todd[3] d. Bartlett/Redick Smith 4-6 6-2 6-4
Blair/Halford d. Abbas/Spiers 7-5 6-3

Fletcher/Walker Smith d. Hoahing/G.Woodgate 6-0 6-3
Partridge/Rinkel Quertier[4] d. Mackay/Proudfoot 6-1 6-2
Bulleid/Mortimer d. Head/McGuire 6-4 7-5
Fry/Hart[1] d. Hopman/Lewis 6-0 6-2

Quarters
Brough/Connolly[2] d. Eyre/White 6-1 6-3
Long/Todd[3] d. Blair/Halford 6-2 8-6
Partridge/Rinkel Quertier[4] d. Fletcher/Walker Smith 7-5 4-6 6-3
Fry/Hart[1] d. Bulleid/Mortimer 6-3 6-1

Semis
Fry/Hart[1] d. Partridge/Rinkel-Quertier[4] 7-5 6-3
Brough/Connolly[2] d. Long/Todd[3] 5-7 6-1 6-4

Final
Fry/Hart[1] d. Brough/Connolly[2] 8-6 6-3

Ends Jul 6 Dortmund, Germany (CL)

FI Dottie Head (US) d. Erika Vollmer 6-0 6-2

ends Jul 6 Tri-State, Cincinnati, OH, US (CL)

3R Doris Popple d. Louise Kiely 6-2 6-4

QF Anita Kanter (1) d. Bonnie McKay (5) 6-0 6-0
QF Sara Mae Turber (4) d. Martha Logan 2-6 6-4 6-2
QF Pat Stewart (3) d. Shirley Fry 7-5 6-4
QF Doris Popple d. Rhoda Hopkins (2) 6-2 6-4

SF Kanter d. Turber 6-0 6-2
SF Popple d. Stewart 7-5 4-6 6-2

FI Kanter d. Doris Popple 6-0 6-1

Jul ?? Natal Championships, Durban, South Africa

FI Ruth Stevens d. Thea Hale 7-5 6-0

Jul ?? Swedish International Hard Court Baastad (CL)

FI Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Julia Wipplinger (SA) 6-2 8-6

Jul 7-12 Irish Lawn Tennis Chmpionships (GR)

1R Maureen Connolly (US) d. Miriam Menan 6-0 6-0

2R Connolly d. Mrs. Pam O'Brien 6-0 6-4

QF Connolly d. Mary (Mrs. J.J.) Fitzgibbon 6-2 6-2
QF Betty Lombard d. Joy O'Donoghue 6-3 6-3
QF Jean Trower (GB) d. H. Cole 3-6 6-0 6-2
QF Jean Walker-Smith (GB) d. Maeve Downey 6-0 6-0

SF Connolly d. Lombard 6-2 6-1
SF Walker-Smith d. Trower 6-4 6-0

FI Mo Connolly d. Jean Walker-Smith 6-1 6-1

DF Connolly/Walker-Smith d. Fitzgibbon/Lombard 6-3 8-6

Mx Connolly/Ian Ayre (Aus) d. Walker-Smith/Brian Woodruff (Aus) 6-3 2-6 6-4

"Miss Connolly drew frequent applause with her fine placements and fast serve." Of Irish heritage, Mo sports a special Ted Tinling dress with embroidered shamrocks, Ireland's national symbol.

Jul 7-12 Midland Counties Championships, Edgbaston UK (GR)

2R Doris Hart (US) d. Val Pitt 6-0 6-2
2R B. Goodman d. Doveton 6-3 6-2
2R S. Morris d. A. Belcher 6-2 6-1
2R Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. L. Bishop 7-5 6-2
2R Pat Canning Todd (US) d. J. Green 6-1 6-0
2R Sheila Colebrook d. Valerie Moore 6-4 6-2
2R Glenda Love (SA) d. D. Hill 6-3 8-6
2R Shirley Fry (US) d. E. Lawrenson 6-0 6-0

QF Hart d. Goodman 6-2 6-0
QF Barltett d. Morris 6-1 6-2
QF Todd d. Colbrook 6-1 6-3
QF Fry d. G. Love 6-1 6-2

SF Hart d. Bartlett 6-2 6-3
SF Fry d. Todd 9-11 6-3 6-3

FI Doris Hart d. Shirley Fry 7-5 3-6 9-7

Doubles
SF Fry/Hart d. Freda James Hammersley/Love 6-1 6-2
SF Bartlett/Todd d. Hazel Cheadle/Colebrook 6-0 6-1

FI Fry/Hart d. Bartlett/Todd 7-5 4-6 7-5

In the final Hart came back from 1-4 in the third set, which lasted 80 minutes.

Jul 7-12 Nottingham UK (GR)

QF Helen Fletcher d. Edith Middleton 6-0 6-3
QF R.M. Bennett d. Pat Gotla 6-2 6-2
QF Audrey Housely d. Pat Lewis 6-2 6-3
QF Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Jean Petchell 6-2 7-5

SF Fletcher d. Bennett 6-36 -2
SF Penrose d. Housely 6-1 6-2

FI Beryl Penrose d. Helen Fletcher 7-9 6-4 7-5

July 7-12, East of England, Felixstowe (GR)

SF Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. D. Gaskell 6-2 6-0
SF Baba Madden Lewis (US) d. Pat Harrison 13-11 7-5

FI Rinkel-Quertier d. Lewis 6-1 4-6 6-2

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Harrison d. Gaskell/Underwood 6-2 6-2

Jul 7-14 US Clay Court Championships, River Forest, ILL (CL)

1R Anita Kanter [1] bye
1R Martha Goebel d. Betty Barkeley 7-5 6-1
1R Sara Mae Turber d. Mary Alice Fike 6-1 6-1
1R Dorothy Watman Levine d. Shelley Wessel w.o.
1R Patsy Heard [3] d. Nancy Gerlach 6-1 7-5
1R Lorraine Williams d. Doris Henderson 6-4 6-2
1R Doris Popple d. Mitzi Alex 6-2 6-0
1R Joan Merciadis d. Helen Shockley 5-7 6-4 6-4
1R Margaret Manset d. Rhoda Hopkins w.o.
1R Conny Wang d. Ann Reynolds 6-1 6-2
1R Nancy Peterson d. Nancy Pearse 6-2 ret.
1R Mary Lou Vash d. Pat Eisendrath 6-2 6-1
1R Lucille Davidson [2] d. Jerry Flood 6-0 6-3
1R Karol Fageros d. Barbara Stagg 6-1 6-3
1R Pat Stewart d. Toby Greenberg 6-4 6-3
1R Jean Small (Can) [1F] d. Mitzie Golden 6-3 6-4

2R Kanter (1) d. Goebel 7-5 6-1
2R Levine d. Turber 4-6 7-5 6-3
2R Williams d. Heard [3] 6-2 6-3
2R Merciadis d. Popple 6-0 6-1
2R Wang d. Manset w.o.
2R Vash d. Peterson 6-3 6-1
2R Davidson [2] d. Fageros 6-4 8-6
2R Stewart d. Small [1F] 6-2 6-0

QF Kanter [1] d. Levine 6-4 6-1
QF Mericadis d. Williams 6-2 6-0
QF Wang d. Vash 6-0 6-2
QF Davidson [2] d. Stewart 7-5 6-2

SF Kanter (1) d. Merciadis 6-0 6-1
SF Davidson (2) d. Wang 6-2 6-2

FI Anita Kanter [1] d. Lucille Davidson [2] 6-4 6-3

DF Davidson/Doris Popple d. Kanter/Merciadis7-5 6-4

The early timing for this event weakens the field. 13 year old Lorraine Williams gains early attention the upsetting the #3 seed. 1,800 watch the finals in a sweltering heat of 94 degree F.


Jul 7-14 Gstaad, Switzerland (CL)

QF Dorothy Head (US) d. Violette Rigollet 6-2 6-0
QF Susan Partridge (GB) d. Elena Lehmann (Arg) 6-1 6-0

SF Head d. Raymonde Jones-Veber (Fr) 6-3 6-3
SF Erika Vollmer (Ger) d. Partridge 6-4 6-3

FI Head d. Vollmer 6-2 0-6 6-2

DF Partridge/Rigollet d. Head/Migliori 4-6 6-4 6-0

MX Head/Ham Richardson (US) d. Rigollet/Gene Garett (US) 6-4 7-5

Jul 7-14 Velbert International, Velbert, Germany (CL)

SF Thelma Long (Aus) d. Gem Hoahing (GB) 8-6 6-1
SF Maria Weiss (Arg) d. Inge Pohmann 6-3 8-6

FI Thelma Long d. Maria Weiss 6-3 6-4

Mx Long/Enrique Morea (Arg) d. Weiss/Frank Sedgeman (Asu) 6-1 8-6

Jul 14-19 Essex Chmpionships Frinton on the Sea,UK (GR)

QF Jean Walker-Smith d. Lorna Byrne 6-2 6-3
QF Angela Buxton d. Jean Trower 6-2 6-2
QF Baba Madden Lewis (US) d. Elaine Watson 6-4 6-2
QF Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Anne Shilcock 7-5 4-6 6-2

SF Walker-Smith d. Buxton 6-1 6-2
SF Rinkel-Quertier d. Lewis 7-5 3-6 6-1

FI Walker-Smith d. Rinkel-Quertier 7-5 6-3

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Lewis d. Shilcock/Trower 1-6 6-3 6-3

Jul 14-19 Scottish Grass Court Championships, Edinburgh

QF Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. P. Hancock 6-0 6-0
QF Shirley MacKay d. Heather MacFarlane 6-0 8-6
QF Chloe Rhodes d. Alison 6-4 6-1
QF Glenda Love (SA) d. G.H. Dick 6-2 6-1

SF Bartlett d. MacKay 6-4 8-6
SF Love d. Rhodes 6-3 6-2

FI Bartlett (SA) d. Love (SA) 3-6 6-2 6-2

DF Bartlett/Love d. MacFarlene/Dick 6-3 6-1

July 14-19, Hoylake and West Kirby, GB (GR)

SF Rosemary Walsh d. Joyce MacLeod 6-3 6-3
SF Georgie Woodgate d. (Elsie?) Phillips 6-1 6-3

FI Walsh d. Woodgate 2-6 6-2 6-3

DF Woodgate/MacLeod d. Walsh/Phillips 6-2 2-6 6-2

July 14-19, Welsh Championships, Newport (GR)

QF Bery Penrose (Aus) d. Mrs. K.M. Ernest 6-1 6-0
QF Jean Petchell d. A. Bates 6-4 6-2
QF Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. Doreen Spiers 6-0 6-2
QF Rosemary Bulleid d. Billie Woodgate 2-6 6-2 6-1

SF Penrose d. Petchell 6-4 6-2
SF Wedderburn d. Bullied 6-2 4-6 6-4

FI Penrose d. Wedderburn 6-2 4-6 6-4

DF Penrose/Woodgate d. Bulleid/Wedderburn 6-1 6-3

Jul 14-20 Eastern Grass and Penn State Chmpionshipss, Haverford, Penn, US (GR)

1R Maureen Connolly d. Connie Cross 6-0 6-1

2R Connolly d. Mrs. Frederick Draton 6-0 6-1
2R Mrs. Thayer d. Margaret Edmundson 6-2 6-2

3R Connolly d. Jean French Fallott w.o.
3R Mary Slaughter d. Jerrill Thomas 6- 6-0
3R Marta Barnett d. Frances McBride 6-2 6-4
3R Sylvia Knowles Simonin d. Kay Hubbell 6-2 6-3
3R Frances Schneidewind d. Thayer 6-4 6-1
3R Madge Vosters d. Suzanne Herr 6-1 7-5

QF Connolly d. Slaughter 6-3 6-3
QF Lois Felix d. Connie Bowan 6-4 6-4
QF Barnett d. Simonin ???
QF Vosters d. Schneidewind 6-1 6-2

SF Connolly d. Felix 6-1 6-0
SF Vosters d. Barnett 6-0 6-4

FI Connolly d. Vosters [5] 6-2 6-0

DF Hope Knowles Rawls/Vosters d. Felix/Hubbell [1] 6-3 6-2

Mx Connolly/Perry d. Vosters/Seixas ????

Women's field a wreck as #2 (Pat todd) and #3 (Baba Lewis) seeds default. all 3 had entered Wimbledon and wern't yet back. Mo Connolly arrives two dayts late but is willing to play-she goes through 4 rounds in one day by winning 3 matches and getting a default! Mo demolishes her foe in the 28 minute final. In fact she drops onlu 11 games over 5 matches.

Jul 14-20 Western Chmpionships, Indianapolis, IN, US (CL)

1R Anita Kanter [1] d. Barbara Smith

QF Kanter d. Louise Kiely 6-1 6-2
QF Joan Merciadis [2] d. Sara Mae Turber 6-1 6-3

SF Kanter [1] d. Pat Stewart 6-1 6-3
SF Karol Fageros [3] d. Merciadis [2] 6-3 6-4

FI Anita Kanter [1] d. Karol Fageros [3] 7-5 6-4

MX Kanter/Hugh Stewart d. Turber/Chuck Devoe 10-8 6-2

Final is played in rain.


Jul 14-20 Dusseldorf, GER (CL)

QF Thelma Long (Aus) d. Susan Partridge (GB) 4-6 6-4 6-1
QF Erika Vollmer d. Julia Wipplinger (SA) w.o.
QF Joan Curry (GB) d. Inge Pohmann 6-2 6-3
QF Hazel Redick-Smith (SA) d. Gem Hoahing (GB) 6-1 6-0

SF Long d. Vollmer 6-3 6-1
SF Curry d. Redick-Smith 6-3 8-6

FI Long d. Curry 6-0 6-1

DF Partridge/Joy Mottram (GB) d. A. Hammann/Scott 6-2 6-3

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July 20, South Queensland Championships, Ipswich, Australia

FI: Daphne Seeney d. Greta Schultz 4-6 6-3 9-7

Jul 26, Eastern States Clay Courts , Philadelphia ,PA,US (CL)

FI Joan Merciadis d. Connie Bowan 6-0 6-1

ends Jul 26, New York State Women's Chmpionships, New Rochelle, NY, US

FI Louise Ganzenmuller [1] d. Betty Coumbe 6-3 6-3

DF Laidlow/Isabel Troccole d. Nellie? Kagan/Olga Kallos Elliessen 6-4 3-6 6-4

July 21-28, Ohio State, Middletown, US

FI Karol Fageros d. Elaine Lewicki 6-2 6-4

Jul 28- August 2, Northumberland Championships, Newcastle, GB

2R Rosemary Bulleid d. Pat Harrison 6-2 6-3

QF Georgie Woodgate d. Doreen Wedderburn (SA) 6-4 6-3
QF Rosemary Bullied d. Doris Heppenstall 9-11 6-1 6-1
QF Mary Halford d. Fenwick 6-2 6-2
Qf Jean Trower d. Perpoli 6-2 6-2

SF Woodgate d. Bullied 3-6 6-4 6-0
SF Trower d. Halford 6-3 2-6 6-3

FI Woodgate d. Trower 6-0 6-0

DF G.Woodgate/Billie Woodgate d. Bulleid/Wedderburn 6-3 6-1

July 28-August 2, Worthing Hard Court, GB

QF Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Mary Harris 6-2 6-2
QF Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. M. Hunisett 6-2 7-9 7-5
QF Glenda Love (SA) d. Denise Collier 5-7 6-2 6-4
QF R.J. Harper d. J. Mitchell 7-5 6-1

SF Penrose d. Bartlett 6-1 6-3
SF Love d. Harper 6-3 6-1

FI Penrose d. Love 6-3 6-1

DF Bartlett/Love d. Penrose/Harper 6-1 6-3

Aug 4-9, Hampshire, Bournemouth, GB

QF Angela Buxton d. Langrick 7-5 6-1
QF Patience Chapman d. B. Cox 6-0 6-0
QF Joyce Starling d. Sheila Griffin 2-6 7-5 6-2
QF Anne Shilcock d. R. Leonard 6-1 6-1

SF Buxton d. Chapman 9-7 6-3
SF Shilcock d. Starling 6-0 6-1

FI Shilcock d. Buxton 6-8 6-1 6-2

DF Buxton/Pat Lewis d. Shilcock/Starling 6-3 6-1

Aug 4-9, Camarrthenshire, Llanelly, GB

SF Jean Walker-Smith d. Laura Morgan 6-3 6-4
SF Nell Hall Hopman (Aus) d. Elaine Watson 6-2 6-8 6-1

FI Walker-Smith d. Hopman 7-5 6-2

DF Walker-Smith/Watson d. Hopman/A. Jones 8-6 6-4

Aug 4-11 Eastern Grass Court Chmpionships , Orange NJ (GR) Draw=32

1R Maureen Connolly d. Lucille Davidson 6-0 6-2
1R Andy Ross-Dilley (GB) d. Karol Fageros 6-1 7-5
1R Melita Ramirez d. Betty Coumbe 6-4 6-0
1R Frances Schneidewind d. Connie Bowan 6-1 7-5
1R Doris Hart d. Joan Carol Piken 6-0 6-2
1R Frances McBride d. Mitzi Golden 6-1 6-0
1R Louise Ganzenmuller d. Helen Fletcher (GB) 6-3 6-2
1R Gladys Heldman d. Carmen Lampe 6-1 4-6 8-6
1R Shirley Fry d. Rhoda Hopkins 6-3 6-0
1R Anita Kanter d. Althea Gibson 6-4 6-1
1R Jean French Fallot d. Sachiko Kamo (Jap), def.
1R Doris Popple d. Mildred Thornton, def.
1R Joan Merciadis d. Patsy Heard 7-5 6-2
1R Nancy Chaffee Kiner d. Angela Mortimer (GB), def.
1R Joan Ross-Dilley (GB) d. Susan Herr 7-5 4-6 6-2
1R Louise Brough d. Patricia Stewart 6-1 6-0

2R Connolly d. A. Ross-Dilley 6-0 6-3,
2R Ramirez d. Schneidewind 6-2 6-3
2R Hart d. McBride 6-1 6-3
2R Ganzenmuller d. Heldman 6-3 4-6 6-0
2R Fry d. Kanter 7-5 6-2
2R Fallott d. Popple 6-3 4-6 6-3
2R Brough d. J. Ross-Dilley 6-2 6-4
2R Kiner d. Merciadis 6-1 6-0

QF Connolly [1] d. Ramirez 6-4 7-5
QF Hart [3] d. Ganzenmuller, default
QF Fry [4] d. Fallott 6-0 6-1
QF Brough [2] d. Kiner 6-4 0-6 6-1

SF Hart [3] d. Connolly [1] 6-4 2-6 6-3
SF Fry [4] d. Brough [2] 6-3 6-4

FI Doris Hart [3] d. Shirley Fry [4] 6-1 6-3

Doubles
SF Fry/Hart d. Kanter/Rameriez 6-4 6-1
SF Brough/Connolly d. Davidson/Popple 6-0 6-0

FI Fry/Hart d. Brough/Connolly 6-3 1-6 6-3

Semifinals shockers as top seeds Connolly and Brough lose on a soggy court. "In the last set, Miss Hart kept the ball From Connolly's forehand."

Aug 2-10, German International Championships, Hamburg (CL)

R16 Dorothy Head (US) d. Lucia Manfredi (IT) 6-1 6-0

SF Head d. Joy Mottram (GB) 6-0 6-4
SF Erika Vollmer d. Joan Curry (GB) 6-1 6-4

FI Dottie Head [1] d. Erika Vollmer 6-1 6-3

DF Head/Mottram d.Margarete von Gerlach/Marie Luise Horn Jencquel 6-3 6-0

Mx Head/Eric Sturgess (SA) d. Beryl Penrose/Ian Ayre (Aus) 6-2 6-2

Dottie takes the final in 50 minutes.

Aug 11-6, West Worthing, GB

QF Angela Buxton d. S. Roylance 6-1 6-4
QF Shirley Bloomer d. Sheila Griffin 4-6 6-4 6-2
QF Mary Harris d. M. Hunnisett 6-1 6-2
QF Lorna Cornell d. K. Steele 6-3 6-3

SF Buxton d. Bloomer 9-7 3-6 6-0
SF Cornell d. Harris 6-2 4-6 6-4

FI Cornell d. Buxton 8-6 6-8 6-2

DF Buxton/Cornell d. Bloomer/Harris 4-6 7-5 6-2

Aug 11-16, Scottish Hard Courts, St. Andrews

QF Anita Lizana Ellis d. Sheila Kay 6-0 6-1
QF Heather MacFarlane d. K. Gillespie 6-2 6-2
QF Shirley MacKay d. Joyce Reid 6-4 4-6 6-4
QF Doreen Wedderburn (SA) d. E.A. Walker 6-1 6-2

SF Ellis d. MacFarlane 6-4 6-0
SF Wedderburn d. MacKay 6-1 6-4

FI Ellis d. Wedderburn 6-3 6-3

DF Ellis/Wedderburn d. MacFarlane/MacKay 6-1 6-3

Aug 13-19 Essex Country Club Invitational, Manchester, Mass, US (GR)

1R Maureen Connolly [1] d. Helen Pederson Rihbany 6-3 6-0
1R Frances Schneidewind d. Edith Ann Sullivan 6-2 3-6 8-6
1R Melita Ramirez (Mex)[4F] d. Bonnie McKay 6-4 6-4
1R Nancy Chaffee Kiner d. Baba Lewis 6-6 6-3
1R Helen Fletcher (GB) d. Lois Felix 7-5 6-4
1R Kay Winthrop McKean d. Katherine Hubbell 6-1 6-3
1R Rhoda Hopkins d. Mrs. Leighton Wood 6-0 6-3
1R Shirley Fry d. Elaine Lewicki 6-1 6-0
1R Louise Brough [3] d. Helen Homans 6-2 6-0
1R Midge Buck d. Joan Merciadis 3-6 6-3 6-1
1R Thelma Long (Aus) [1F] d. Karol Fageros 6-1 6-3
1R Andy Ross-Dilley (GB) d. Nancy Norton 6-3 6-2
1R Angela Mortimer (GB) d. Susan Herr 6-2 6-1
1R Doris Popple d. Connie Bowan 7-5 5-7 9-7
1R Anita Kanter d. Lucille Davidson 6-2 6-1
1R Doris Hart [2]d. Joan Ross-Dilley (GB) 3-6 6-3 6-1

2R Connolly d. Schneidewind 6-0 6-1
2R Kiner d. Ramirez 6-4 5-7 6-1
2R Fletcher d. Mckean 13-11 3-6 6-2
2R Fry d. Hopkins 6-2 10-8
2R Long d. A. Ross-Dilley 6-0 6-0
2R Brough d. Buck 6-1 6-1
2R Mortimer d. Popple 6-3 9-7
2R Kanter d. Hart 6-0 3-6 10-8

QF Connolly d. Kiner 6-1 6-1
QF Fry d. Helen Fletcher 6-4 6-3
QF Brough d. Long 6-2 6-3
QF Kanter d. Mortimer 6-3 6-1

SF Connolly d. Fry 6-3 4-6 6-1
SF Brough d. Kanter 8-6 6-2

Final: Mo Connolly [1] d. Louise Brough [3] 4-6 6-0 6-3

Doubles
SF Fry/Hart d. Lewis/McKean 6-3 6-3
SF Brough/Connolly d. Kanter/Buck 6-1 6-2

FI Brough/Connolly d. Fry/Hart 7-5 2-6 6-4

A women only event first held in 1928. Mo becomes the youngest winner in Essex history.

August, Knokke Le Zoute, Belgium

FI Dorothy Head (US) d. Susan Partridge (GB) 6-2 6-2

DF Beryl Bartlett(SA/Glenda Love (SA) d. Partirdge/Jean Trower (GB) 6-1 6-2

August, Ostend, Belgium

FI Susan Partridge (GB) d. Christiane Mercelis 6-2 6-4

DF Partridge/Jean Trower (GB) d. Beryl Barltett(SA)/Glenda Love (SA) 6-4 6-4

August, Spa, Belgium

FI Susan Partridge (GB) d. N. De Ridder 6-1 6-8 6-1

DF Partridge/Jean Trower (GB) d. Simone Mathieu(Fr)/Arvilla McGuire (US) 6-4 6-1

August? Bad Neuenahr, Germany (CL)

FI Joy Mottram (GB) d. Beryl Penrose (Aus) 6-1 6-2

Aug 18-24 Canadian Tennis Championships, Toronto, CAN

SF Melita Ramirez (Mex) d. Louise Brown 7-5 6-0
SF Lucille Davidson (US) d. Hanna Sladek 7-5 6-3

FI Ramirez d. Davidson 6-4 6-3

DF Doris Ell/M. Ramirez d. Davidson/Doris Popple (US) 6-4 6-4

Sladek is a self-exiled Czexh who obtained Canadian citizenship.


ends Aug 23, American Tennis Association Chmpionships, Xenia, OH, US

FI Althea Gibson d. Mary Etta Fine 6-3 6-1

Mx Gibson/Johnson d. Doris Harrison/Edgar Lee 6-4 6-2

Popularly known as the American Negro Chmps.

Aug 18-23 Exmouth GB (GR)

QF Dorothy Head (US) d. M. Glanville 6-1 6-1
QF Stebbings d. B. Vears 6-1 6-2
QF Elaine Watson d. Rice Pryse 6-2 6-2
QF Rosemary Walsh d. I. Rawlings 6-3 6-2

SF Head d. Stebbings 6-3 6-4
SF Watson d. Walsh 3-6 8-6 6-3

FI Head d. Watson 6-2 6-0

DF Head/Stebbings d. Walsh/Watson 6-2 7-5

Aug 18-23 North of England Championships, Scarborough

1R Pat Harrison d. Laura Morgan 6-1 6-1
1R Beryl Bartlett (SA) d. Audrey Houseley 6-1 4-6 6-3
1R Val Lewis d. Freda James Hammersley 6-1 5-7 6-0

2R Jean Walker-Smith d. Anne Shilcock 6-3 6-3
2R Shirley Bloomer d. Sheila Blackburn 6-3 2-6 6-3
2R Barbara Knapp d. Jean Petchell 9-7 6-8 6-4
2R Harrison d. Georgie Woodgate 6-3 7-5
2R Bartlett d. Lewis 5-7 6-3 6-2
2R Rosemary Bulleid d. Enid Sutton 6-1 6-3
2R Billie Woodgate d R. Longley 6-0 6-4
2R Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Rita Bentley 6-3 6-2

QF Walker-Smith d. Bloomer 6-2 6-0
QF Knapp d. Harrison 6-4 4-6 6-4
QF Bartlett d. Bulleid 6-3 6-0
QF Penrose d. B. Woodgate 6-1 6-1

SF Walker-Smith d. Knapp 6-2 6-0
SF Penrose d. Bartlett 6-3 6-2

FI Jean Walker-Smith d. Beryl Penrose (Aus) 7-5 6-2

DF Barltett/Penrose d. Walker-Smith/Shilcock 6-2 2-6 6-0

Ends Aug 25 Riccione, Italy (CL)

SF Joy Mottram (GB) d. Nicla Migliori
SF Joan Curry d. Pat Ward 7-5 6-2

FI Mottram d. Curry 4-6 6-1 6-2

MX Joy and Tony Mottram (GB)d. Erika Vollmer (Ger)/Mirko Branovic (Yug) 6-2 6-2

Aug 18-24 US National Doubles, Longwood, Mass, US (GR)

At Longwood from August 18-24

Domestic Seeds:
[1] Fry/Hart [2] Brough/Connolly

Foreign Seeds:
[1] Kiner/Long [2] Fletcher/Mortimer

Draw of 18
First Round
Kiner/Long d. Nancy Norton/Mrs. Hills 6-1 6-1
Fry/Hart d. Elizabeth Lewis/Eleanor Williams 6-0 6-0

Second Round
Brough/Connolly d. Bowan/Heldman 6-2 6-2
Hopps/Merciadis d. Jean Davis/Rockwell 6-0 2-6 6-1
Rihbany/Sullivan d. Lewicki/Mckay 6-4 6-3
Kiner/Long d. Andy Ross-Dilley/Joan Ross-Dilley 6-2 6-3

Fry/Hart d. Juliana Copeland/Peggy Howe 6-3 6-0
Katherine McKean/B. Lewis d. Mary Salvid/Yolanda Salvid 6-0 6-0
Kamo/McIlvaine d. Felix/Hubbell 6-4 6-4
Fletcher/Mortimer d. Mary Richards/Barbara Woods 6-1 6-1
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Quarters
Brough/Connolly d. Hopps/Merciadis 6-1 6-2
Kiner/Long d. Rihbany/Sullivan 6-1 6-1
Fry/Hart d. Lewis/McKean 8-6 6-2
Fletcher/Mortimer d. Kamo/McIlvaine 6-4 6-1

Semis
Brough/Connolly d. Kiner/Long 6-2 3-6 9-7
Fry/Hart d. Fletcher/Mortimer 6-3 6-1

Final
Fry/Hart d Brough/Connolly 10-8 6-4

*Louise Brough won the US doubles with Margaret Osborne duPont every year from 1942 to 1950 and was absent in 1951 with an arm injury. Her 1952 defeat in the finals thus breaks an amazing unbeaten streak ending at __ wins. The Fry/Hart vs Brough/Connolly has been a keen one in 1952, with the pairs head to head standing at 2-2 coming into Longwood. In the final Doris Hart is the standout, with Fry's teamwork they edge out the newly formed team of Brough/Connolly.

5,000 attended on semi and finals days.

It took Brough/Connolly 11 match points to put away Kiner/Long in the semis.

Brough/Connolly needed 11 match points to subdue Kiner and Long. Fry/Hart end the year winning 3 out of 5 doubles encounters vs. Louise and Mo. 5,500 see finals. Brough's loss snaps a winning streak going back all the way back to 1942. She and Margaret Dupont were National champs from 1942-1950.

Aug 25- 30, Maidstone Chmps, East Hampton, N.Y , US (GR) (Draw 16?)

1R Sachiko Kamo d. Joan Merciadis 2-6 7-5 6-3

QF Shirley Fry d. Kamo 6-0 7-5
QF Angela Mortimer (GB) d. Baba Lewis 6-4 9-7
QF Nancy Chaffee Kiner d. Nelly Adamson (Fr) 6-2 6-3
QF Anita Kanter d. Helen Fletcher (GB) 6-2 10-8

SF Fry d. Mortimer ???
SF Kiner d. Kanter ???

FI Shirley Fry d. Nancy Kiner 2-6 7-5 6-4

Doubles

SF Buck/Kiner d. Mo Connolly/Kanter 6-3 6-4
SF Fry/Hart d. Fletcher/Mortimer 6-1 3-6 6-2

FI Fry/Hart d. Midge Buck/Nancy Kiner 6-0 0-6 6-4

Connolly and Hart enter only the doubles.

August 25-30, Folkenstone, GB

QF Lorna Cornell d. Shirley Bloomer 6-4 6-2
QF Mary Harris d. Marion Boundy 6-4 6-4
QF Margaret Grace d. Denise Collier 6-3 7-5
QF Barbara Knapp d. Angela Buxton 5-7 6-3 6-2

SF Cornell d. Harris 6-3 6-4
SF Knapp d. Grace 7-5 11-9

FI Cornell d. Knapp 6-2 6-2

DF Cornell/Buxton d. Kanpp/Sue Waters 6-4 6-4

Aug 22-Sep 1 International Championships of Turkey, Istanbul (CL)

QF Dorothy Head (US) d. Jacqueline Kermina (Fr) 6-4 6-1
QF Totta Zehden (Ger) d. Pat Ward (GB) 6-0 3-6 6-2

SF Head d. Zehden 2-6 6-0 6-3

FI Head d. Bahtiva (Baba) Musluoglu 61 6-3

Dottie advanced to the net at every chance.

DF Ward/Joan Curry (GB) d. Kermina/Beryl Penrose (Aus) 6-2 6-4

ends Sept 1 Dolomites Tournament Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy(CL)

FI Manuela Bologna d. Joy Mottram (GB) 6-4 6-3

Mx Joy and Tony Mottram(GB) d. Dragutin Mitic (YUG)/Erika Vollmer (GER) 6-2 6-3

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August 31, Metropolitan Hard Court Championships of Sydney, NSW, Australia

FI: Mary Bevis Hawton d. Esme Ashford 6-2 6-2

August 29-September 8 US National Championships

First Round
Doris Hart [2] d. Helen Rihbany 6-3 6-1
Dorit Herbst (GB) d. Mary Slaughter default
Anne Gray d. Diana McIlvaine 3-6 6-4 6-2
Althea Gibson d. Bonnie McKay 6-0 6-4

Anita Kanter [6] d. Gertrude Beall 6-1 6-1
Bunny Vosters d. Jeanne Arth 6-4 6-1
Karol Fageros d. Sibylla Garbrecht 6-1 6-1
Angela Mortimer (GB)[*3] d. Mary Margaret Schmitz 6-0 6-1

Louise Brough [4] d. Louise Brown (Can) 6-4 6-1
Louise Ganzenmuller d. Jean French Fallot 6-3 6-2
Suzanne Herr d. Carmen Lampe 4-6 6-3 6-3
Julie Sampson d. Sachiko Kamo(Jpn)[*6] 12-10 6-4

Nellie Sherr Kagen d. Andy Ross-Dilley 6-2 6-2
Edna Salichs d. Gweneth Johnson 6-1 6-3
Lois Felix d. Patricia Stewert 6-4 6-2
Thelma Long (Aus)[*1] d. Joan Ross-Dilley 6-3 6-0

Maureen Connolly [1] d. Gladys Heldman 6-0 6-1
Elfi Carroll d. Elaine Lewicki 6-2 6-1
Marjorie Buck d. Edith Ann Sulivan 6-2 8-6
Connie Bowan d. Nancy Norton 6-2 6-2

Nancy Kiner [5] d. Jacqueline Johannes 6-2 6-2
Katherine Hubbell d. Dorothy Hurst 6-3 6-1
Kay McKean d. Susan Braylower 6-1 6-4
Helen Fletcher (GB) [*4] d. Juliana Copeland 6-2 6-1

Shirley Fry [3] d. Linda Mitchell 6-1 6-3
Janet Hopps d. Patsy Heard 6-1 6-2
Charlotte Decker d. Judy Devlin default
Lucile Davidson d. Melita Rameriez(Mex)[*5] default

Frances Schneidewind d. Betty Coumbe 6-2 6-2
Rhoda Joan Hopkins d. Joan Merciadis 7-5 8-6
Baba Lewis d. Carolyn Liguori 6-0 6-0
Mary Ann Ellenburger d. Nelly Adamsom(Fr)[*2] 6-1 2-6 retired.
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Second Round
Hart [2] d. Herbst 6-0 6-1
Gibson d. Gray 6-0 6-2
Kanter [6] d. Vosters 2-6 6-2 6-2
Mortimer [*3] d. Fageros 6-4 6-3

Brough [4] d. Ganzenmuller 6-1 6-3
Sampson d. Herr 6-1 6-1
Kagen d. Salichs 6-1 6-3
Long [*1] d. Felix 6-3 6-1

Connolly [1] d. Carroll 6-1 6-0
Buck d. Bowan 6-3 6-2
Kiner [5] d. Hubbell 6-0 6-1
Fletcher [*4] d. McKean 4-6 6-3 6-1

S. Fry [3] d. Hopps 6-0 6-2
Davidson d. Decker 6-3 6-3
Hopkins d. Schneidewind 6-4 6-4
Lewis d. Eilenberger 6-3 6-0
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Third Round
Hart [2] d. Gibson 7-5 6-1
Mortimer [*3] d. Kanter [6] 7-5 2-6 6-4
Brough [4] d. Sampson 6-3 6-4
Long [*1] d. Kagen 6-1 6-2

Connolly [1] d. M. Buck default
Kiner [5] d. Fletcher [*4] 6-2 6-4
S. Fry [3] d. Davidson 6-0 6-3
Lewis d. Hopkins 6-1 6-2
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Quarters
Hart [2] d. Mortimer [*3] 6-3 6-2
Brough [4] d. Long [*1] 6-4 6-2
Connolly [1] d. Kiner [5] 6-3 6-0
S. Fry [3] d. Lewis 6-3 6-2

Semis
Hart [2] d. Brough [4] 9-7 8-6
Connolly [1] d. S. Fry [3] 4-6 6-4 6-1

Final
Connolly [1] d. Hart [2] 6-3 7-5
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Draw notes:
Kiner=married name of Nancy Chaffee.
McKean=married name of Winthrop

[Semis Televised by WNBT-channel 4]
Fry gave Connolly all she could handle in the semis. Trailing 3-4 in the first, she went on a tear " the gallery roared in amazement". The Veteran American led the teen 4-2 in the second set, using soft deep balls down the middle to break up Connolly's powerf game. Shirley kept Mo guessing by venturing to the net when it was wise.

With her back to the wall Little Mo "refused to make the errors she had been guilty of" and won 4 straight games as Fry tired. After the intermisssion Mo "Came back to let loose a bombardment of forehand and backhand drives."

In the final Doris fell behind early, her hard hitting not enough to dent the Mo's armor. All the drama came at the end as Hart pulled up from 2-5 to 5-5-the crowd cheering her every shot. At Orange Hart had upset Mo by concentrating on the backhand, so she repeated the tactic here. In the blink of an eye though Connolly hit a succession of backhand winners (5 in all), finishing with a backhand shot that clipped the line.

Total attendance:63,400

Sept 1-6, Lee On Solent, GB

QF Rosemary Walsh d. J. Biles 6-1 6-1
QF Shirley Bloomer d. Mary Harris 4-6 6-1 6-3
QF Elaine Watson d. Phillips 6-1 4-6 6-3
QF Margot Parker d. Sue Waters 6-0 6-0

SF Walsh d. Bloomer 6-4 6-3
SF Parker d. Watson 6-4 6-3

FI Walsh d. Parker 6-1 6-2

DF Walsh/Phillips d. Parker/Billington 7-5 7-5

Sept 1-6, Roehampton Hard Courts, GB

QF Beryl Penrose (Aus) d. Joy O'Donoghue 6-1 6-0
QF Billie Woodgate d. Angela Buxton 6-2 5-7 6-4
QF Jenny Middleton d. H. Doyle 6-2 6-1
QF Georgie Woodgate d. Sheila Griffin 6-2 6-2

SF Penrose d. B. Woodgate 6-1 6-1
SF G. Woodgate d. Middleton 6-2 6-1

FI Penrose d. G. Woodgate 9-7 2-6 6-1

DF Gem Hoahing/G. Woodgate d. Penrose/B. Woodgate 7-5 6-4

Sept 1-7, Salzburg Austrian International

FI Hella Strecker d. Liezl Broz 6-3 6-0

Sept 6-14, Eastern Mediterranean Championships , Athens(CL)

FI Dottie Head (US) d. Totta Zehden (Ger) 6-0 8-6

DF Pat Ward/Joan Curry (GB) d. Zehden/Jacqueline Kermina (Fr)

Sept 8-16 South of England, Eastbourne (GR)

1R Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. V. Bishop 6-0 6-1
1R Barbara Knapp d. Angela Buxton 6-0 2-6 6-3
1R Anne Shilcock d. J. Bascombe 6-1 6-3
1R Margaret Grace d. B. Aylward 6-1 6-1
1R Shirley Bloomer d. Katherine Keith-Steele 6-3 6-1
1R Pat Harrison d. Shirley MacKay 6-1 6-3
1R Viola White d. M. Hunisett 6-1 6-2
1R Billie Woodgate d. I.V. Hutchings 6-4 6-4
1R Mary Harris d. Sue Waters 6-2 3-6 6-3
1R Rosemary Bulleid d. A. Mitson 6-3 6-0
1R Beryl Penrose d. E.M. Jay 6-0 6-4
1R Lorna Cornell d. M.M. Eyre 6-1 6-4
1R Jenny Middleton d. Gladys Lines 7-5 6-1
1R Jean Walker-Smith d. H. Doyle 6-1 6-3

2R Rinkel-Quertier d. Knapp 6-3 6-4
2R Shilcock d. Grace 8-6 6-4
2R Bloomer d. Bobbie Wilson 7-5 6-3
2R Harrison d. White 6-4 7-9 6-4
2R Penrose d. Bulleid 6-2 6-8 6-1
2R Harris d. Woodgate 4-6 7-5 1-0 ret.
2R Cornell d. M. Greville 6-1 6-2
2R Walker-Smith d. Middleton 6-3 6-2

QF Rinkel-Quertier d. Shilcock 3-6 9-7 6-2
QF Harrison d. Bloomer 6-2 8-6
QF Pnerose d. Harris 6-1 6-2
QF Walker-Smith d. Cornell 6-1 6-1

SF Rinkel-Quertier d. Harrison 4-6 6-4 6-1
SF Walker-Smith d. Penrose 6-2 6-1

FI Jean Walker-Smith d. Jean Rinkel-Quertier 6-3 6-4

DF Rinkel-Quertier/Walker-Smith d. Penrose/B. Woodgate 6-1 6-4

Sept 15-20, Southdean, GB

SF Shirley Bloomer d. Anne Shilcock 6-3 9-7
SF Mary Harris d. Thea? Hale (SA) 6-1 6-2

FI Bloomer d. Harris 6-1 6-2

DF Bloomer/Harris d. Shilcock/Jill Sole 6-2 6-3

Sept 13-21, Pacific Southwest, Los Angeles, CA (HD)

1R Sachiko Kamo (Jpn) d. Thelma Long (Aus)

2R Maureen Connolly d. Evelyn Conrad 6-3 6-1

QF Connolly d. Dodo Cheney 6-1 8-6
QF Shirley Fry d. Kamo 6-3 4-6 6-1
QF Doris Hart d. Helen Pastall Perez 2-6 6-4 6-1
QF Louise Brough d. Anita Kanter 6-1 6-1

SF Connolly d. Fry 4-6 10-8 6-2
SF Hart d. Brough 4-6 7-5 6-1

FI Connolly d. Hart 6-4 3-6 6-1

Doubles
SF Brough/Long d. Connolly/Julia Sampson 8-6 6-3
SF Fry/Hart d. Kanter/Barbara Kimbrell 6-2 6-3

FI Fry/Hart d. Brough/Long 6-4 6-3

Mx Connolly/Ham Richardson d. Sampson/Hugh Stewart 6-3 6-2

Drama galore as Fry has 3 match points on Connolly's serve in the semis at 8-7 40-0. In her typical go for broke style Connolly blasts winners and sweeps to victory.

Mid-Sept, International Tournament of Venice

SF Dorothy Head (US) d. Sylvana Lazzarino (It) 4-6 7-5 6-2
SF Joan Curry (GB) d. Manuela Bologna (It) 6-1 7-5

FI Head d. Curry 6-1 6-0

DF Head/Raymonde Jones (Fr) d. Curry/Pat Ward (GB) 7-5 6-4

Sept 20-28 Pacific Coast Championships, Berkeley, CA, US (HD)

1R Shirley Fry [1]-bye

2R Shirley Fry [1] d. Marlene Nordstrom 6-0 6-1
2R Nell Hopman (Aus) [3F] d. Nancy Wolfenden 5-7 6-2 6-3
2R Anita Kanter [2] d. Diana McIlvaine 6-2 6-0

3R Fry d. Jean Laird 6-0 6-1
3R Gwen Greenlee d. Marjoie McCord 9-7 6-3
3R Sachiko Kamo (Jpn) [2F] d. Joan Merciadis 6-1 4-6 6-2

QF Fry [1] d. Greenlee 6-2 6-1,
QF Wilma Smith d. Kamo [2F] 7-5 6-2
QF Kanter [2] d. Hopman [3F] 6-1 6-2
QF Thelma Long (Aus) [1F]

SF Fry [1] d. Smith 6-0 6-3
SF Long [1F] d. Kanter [2] 8-6 6-4

FI Fry [1] d. Long [1F] 7-9 6-2 6-4

DF Fry/Long d. Janet Hopps/Kanter 3-6 6-2 6-2

Mx Kanter/Jerry De Witts [1] d. Margaret Warren/Cliff Mayne 3-6 6-1 6-0

Foreign Seeds: [1] Thelma Long [2] Sachiko Kamo [3] Nell Hopman
Domestic Seeds [1] Fry [2] Kanter [3[ Louise Isaacs [4] Wilma Smith

Long led 4-3 40-15 in the third set, but wilted as Fry kept the ball in play until she made errors.

September Baden Baden, Ger

FI Joy Mottram (GB) d. Joan Curry (GB)

DF Mottram/Curry d. Hanna? Kramer/Bibi Gulbrandsson Sanden (Swd) 6-0 8-6

Sept 22-27, Cirencester, GB

QF Shirley Bloomer d. Rosemary Walsh 13-11 2-6 6-3
QF Angela Buxton d. Joyce Reid 6-8 6-2 6-3
QF Elsie? Phillips d. Mary Harris 6-2 6-1
QF Val Pitt d. Sheila Speight 6-4 2-6 11-9

SF Bloomer d. Buxton 7-5 6-3
SF Phillips d. Pitt 6-2 7-5

FI Bloomer d. Phillips 4-6 7-5 6-1

Ends Sept 29, Marcel Poree Cup, Paris

SF Dorothy Head (US) d. Susan Partridge (GB) 6-2 6-4
SF Jacqueline Boutin Saladin d. Nelly Adamson Landry 6-4 6-2

FI Head d. Saladin 6-0 6-3

DF Head/Partridge d. Monique Coste/Maud Galtier 6-4 7-5

Week ending October 5

Oct 6-11 British National Covered Court , Queens Club GB (IN), Draw 24

1R Angela Mortimer d. Marion Boundy 6-1 6-2
1R Margaret Carlisle d. Joyce MacLeod 6-4 10-8
1R Rosemary Bulleid d. Val Pitt 8-6 6-3
1R Jenny Middleton d. Billie Woodgate 6-3 3-6 6-4
1R Georgie Woodgate d. Elaine Watson 6-1 6-2
1R Doreen Spiers d. Fanny ten Bosch (Neth) 6-4 6-2
1R Angela Buxton d. Gertie Preston 6-0 6-3
1R Helen Fletcher d. Mary Harris 6-2 3-6 11-9

2R Mortimer d. Carlisle 6-1 6-2
2R Bulleid d. Middleton 6-3 6-3
2R Jean Rinkel-Quertier d. Audrey Houseley 6-1 6-0
2R Anne Shilcock d. Lorna Cornell 6-1 6-8 6-2
2R Susan Partridge d. Pat Hird 6-0 6-0
2R Betty Wilford d. Shirley Bloomer 6-4 6-3
2R G. Woodgate d. Spiers 6-3 6-2
2R Fletcher d. Buxton 2-6 7-5 6-3

QF Mortimer d. Bulleid 6-3 6-0
QF Shilcock d. Rinkel-Quertier 6-4 6-4
QF Partridge d. Wilford 6-3 6-1
QF Fletcher d. G. Woodgate 2-6 6-3 6-3

SF Mortimer d. Shilcock 6-3 6-3
SF Partridge d. Fletcher 6-3 6-4

FI Angela Mortimer d. Susan Partridge 6-3 3-6 6-3

DF Fletcher/Rinkel-Quertier d. Bulleid/Mortimer 6-0 6-0

MX Rinkel-Quertier/Geoffrey Paish d. Partridge/Henry Billington 2-6 6-4 6-3


Oct 3-12 11th Pan American International, Mexico City, MEX (CL)

1R Shirley Fry (US) d. Hortensia Hermandez 6-0 6-2
1R Thelma Long (Aus) d. Consuelo Agudo 6-0 6-1
1R Sachiko Kamo (Jpn) d. Elia Salido 6-0 6-0

2R Long d. Martha Hernandez 6-1 6-1
2R Fry d. Maria Teresa Tapia de Roldan 6-2 6-8 6-3

QF Fry d. Yola Ramirez 8-6 6-0
QF Baba Madden Lewis (US) d. Kamo 6-1 6-0
QF Melita Ramirez d. Nell Hopman (Aus) 6-2 6-3
QF Long d. Rosa Maria Reyes 6-2 6-0

SF Fry d. Lewis 6-1 6-2
SF Long d. M. Ramirez 6-4 6-3

FI Fry d. Long 6-4 6-4

DF Melita Ramirez/Roldan d. Fry/Long 6-4 6-1

Mx Long/Gar Mulloy (US) d. Lewis/Felisimo Ampon (Phi) 4-6 6-4 6-4

Mexicans celebrate a native upset win the in the women's doubles-with Roldan lobbing and Rameriez hitting the winners. Fry has a hard time with balls flying in the high altitude, but overpowers Long as 4,000 watch.

Week ending October 19

Week ending October 26

Week ending November 2

Oct 29-Nov 8 Queensland Championships ,Brisbane (GR)
FI Mills d. Daphne Seeney

#1 Aussie Nancye Bolton announces she is turning pro to teach only weeks before the arrival of Mo Connolly. "I am getting a bit old in the tooth. You can't go on playing forever. the women's standard in Australia is so low at the moment I may be able to do it a little bit of good. Connolly arrives by air on Nov 2

Nov 3-8 Palace Hotel Covered Courts , Torquay, GB

2R Joan Curry d. Shearing 6-1 6-1
2R Heywood d. R. Higham 2-6 6-3 9-7
2R Joan MacLeod d. Stebbings 6-3 8-6
2R Pat Gotla d. Miles Callow 6-0 6-3
2R Georgie Woodgate d. Annette Ford 6-0 6-1
2R Rita Anderson (US) d. Dowling 6-2 6-1
2R Rosemary Bulleid d. Louise Grundy 6-2 6-2
2R Elaine Watson d. Rice Pryse 6-4 7-5
2R Anne Shilcock d. M. Donald 6-0 6-0
2R Rosemary Walsh d. Diane Midgley 6-0 2-6 6-1
2R Mrs. Roberts d. J. Reynolds 6-1 6-2
2R Audrey Housely d. Heather MacFarlane 8-6 6-2
2R Elsie Phillips d. H. Tingley 6-1 6-2
2R B. Allsop d. Rendle 6-0 6-1
2R Angela Mortimer d. Nancy Liebert 6-1 6-2

3R Curry d. Heywood 6-1 6-2
3R MacLeod d. Gotla 4-6 6-1 9-7
3R Woodgate d. Anderson 6-1 6-2
3R Watson d. Bulleid 6-4 6-1
3R Shilcock d. Walsh 6-4 6-2
3R Ward d. Roberts 6-1 6-2
3R Houseley d. Phillips 6-0 6-1
3R Mortimer d. Allsop 6-0 6-0

QF Curry d. MacLeod 6-0 6-1
QF Woodgate d. Watson 6-1 6-2
QF Shilcock d. Ward 6-3 7-9 6-4
QF Mortimer d. Houseley 6-1 6-1

SF Curry d. Woodgate 6-4 6-3
SF Mortimer d. Shilcock 6-3 6-0

FI Mortimer d. Curry 6-3 6-1

DF Ward/Woodgate d. Shilcock/Joan Walker-Smith 3-6 6-4 6-4

Week of November 16

Nov 11-19, 6th Chmps of South America, Buenos Aires, ARG (CL)

SF Susan Partridge (GB) d. Helen Fletcher (GB) 6-2 6-2

FI Susan Partridge d. Nelly Adamson [1] 6-3 2-6 6-4

DF Fletcher/Partridge d. Sofia Abreu (Brz)/Adamson 6-0 6-1

Many matches played under lights because of the heat.


Nov 13-22, New South Wales Open, Sydney, Aus (GR)

1R Maureen Connolly d. Jane Edmonson 9-7 6-0
1R Helen Taylor d. Nancy Cooper 6-4 7-5
1R Loris Nichols d. Margaret Hellyer 7-5 6-3
1R M. Murphy d. A. Trigg 6-0 2-6 6-3
1R Beryl Penrose d. B. Cox 6-0 6-0
1R M. Wilson d. V. Solomon 6-2 6-1
1R Jenny Staley d. H. Holstein 6-2 6-3
1R Barbara Warby d. Nell Hall Hopman 3-6 6-1 6-1
1R Mary Hawton d. Gay Sim 6-2 6-1
1R Joyce Martin d. P. Petitt 7-5 6-1
1R Dawn Fogarty d. Alice Hattersley 6-2 ret.
1R Mary Carter d. Dawn Thomas 6-2 6-1
1R Gwen Bryant d. E. Roy 6-0 6-0
1R Pam Southcombe d. Dawn McCamley
1R Norma Ellis d. (B. Hobbs?) Rocavert 6-4 6-3
1R Julia Sampson d. P. Franklin 7-5 6-0

2R Connolly d. Taylor 6-1 6-1
2R Nichols d. Murphy 6-1 6-1
2R Staley d. Warby 6-1 8-6
2R Penrose d. Wilson 6-1 6-0
2R Hawton d. Martin 6-0 6-0
2R Fogarty d. Carter 5-7 6-3 6-4
2R Bryant d. Southcombe 1-6 14-12 8-6
2R Sampson d. Ellis 6-4 1-6 7-5

QF Connolly d. Nichols 6-1 6-1
QF Penrose d. Staley 6-2 6-3
QF Hawton d. Fogarty 6-4 6-2
QF Sampson d. Bryant 6-2 6-4

SF Connolly d. Penrose 6-4 6-4
SF Sampson d. Hawton 6-2 6-2

FI Connolly d. Sampson 6-2 6-3

DF Connolly/Sampson d. Hawton/Penrose 4-6 6-2 6-1

Mx Sampson/Rex Hartwig d. Connolly/Lew Hoad 0-6 6-3 9-7

The Aussie debut of star Mo Connolly gets off to a rocky start and stayed contentious.When she is deluged by photographers before her first round match,"obviously annoyed", she had them removed from the court. "It marked the first time that photographer's had ever been banned from centre court."

The next controversy came when the Aussie LTA is up in arms over Mo writing tennis articles. LTA members objected to giving her $13.50 a day in expense money when she would also get $22 a day for writing on tennis. Mo defuses the storm by promising to write only about events where she is not playing.

Finally Mo is criticized for not practicing with Aussie women. Connolly's reply: "They're idea of practice is hitting for twenty minutes". Connolly works with the famous Harry Hopman instead, getting in tip-top physical condition. In 1953 she'll travel the world with Hopman's wife Nell as her chaperone. One Aussie woman proclaimed, "I wonder if our Davis Cup captain has ever considered spending a bit of time with our own girls."

Attendance at the event is 40,000. 11 show for the finals.

November 20-23, Sao Paulo, Brazil

SF Helen Fletcher (GB) d. Nelly Adamson (Fr) 6-3 2-6 6-2
SF Susan Partridge (GB) d. Ilse Ribeiro 6-1 6-0

FI Partridge d. Fletcher 1-6 6-2 6-3

25/26 November - Melbourne - NSW v VIC

Day One
Mary Hawton NSW d Loris Nicholls 62 63
Beryl Penrose NSW d Pam Southcombe 61 64
D Fogarty NSW d Jennifer Staley 64 57 62
Mary Carter NSW d Carmen Borelli 64 36 75

Hawton/Penrose d Nichols/Staley 63 61
Southcombe/Borelli d Fogarty/Carter 61 36 64


Nov 24-30 Florida State, Orlando, FL, US (CL)

1R Susan Bralower d. Mildred Thornton [2] ????

SF Pat Stewart [3] d. Bralower

FI Karol Fageros [1] d. Stewart [3] 6-3 2-6 6-4 6-4

Nov 27-Dec 9, Victorian Open, Melbourne, Aus (GR)

Seeds
Foreign
1 Connolly
2 Sampson

Domestic
1 Angwin
2 Hawton
3 Penrose
4 Southcombe
5 Nichols
6 Thiele
7 Fogarty
8 Carter

R1 Helen Angwin - bye
R1 R. Strachan d Mary Midgley 6-2 8-6
R1 Jenny Staley d Mrs E Robertson 6-1 6-0
R1 Mary Carter d Nell Hopman 5-7 8-6 6-1
R1 Beryl Penrose d Anne Goldsworthy 6-1 6-1
R1 Margaret Wallis d Rosemary Thomas 6-3 5-7 7-5
R1 Gwen Thiele d M Nicholas wo
R1 Julia Sampson d Rosemary Rosman 6-1 6-3
R1 Dawn Fogarty d Carmen Borelli 6-2 3-6 6-3
R1 Mrs Madie Moss d Joy Donoghue 6-2 6-1
R1 Pam Southcombe d Fay Occleshaw 6-4 6-1
R1 Barbara Rich d PJ Radford 6-8 6-4 7-5
R1 Alison Baker d Kay Neville-Smith 6-2 6-4
R1 Loris Nichols d Mrs J Diggle 6-8 6-1 6-2
R1 Maureen Connolly d Val Finlayson 6-1 6-2

R2 Angwin d R Strachan 6-2 6-3
R2 Staley d Carter 6-0 5-7 6-3
R2 Penrose d M Wallis 6-1 6-4
R2 Sampson d Thiele 8-6 6-1
R2 Nichols d Rich 6-1 6-2
R2 Hawton d Baker 6-3 6-3
R2 Connolly d Fogarty 6-2 6-2
R2 Southcombe d Moss 6-2 9-7

QF Angwin d Staley 6-3 6-3
QF Sampson d Penrose 6-4 6-2
QF Hawton d Nichols 6-3 6-4
QF Connolly d Southcombe 6-0 6-2

SF Sampson d. Angwin 4-6 6-3 6-4
SF Connolly d. Hawton 6-4 6-1

FI Connolly d. Sampson

Doubles
SF Connolly/Sampson d. Angwin/Thiele 6-2 6-4
SF Hawton/Penrose d. Borelli/Southcombe 6-3 6-3

FI Connolly/Sampson d. Hawton/Penrose 6-2 6-4

MX Sampson/Rex Hartwig d. Hawton/Don Candy 8-6 7-5

5,000 turn out on a Monday to see the rain delayed finals. Hawton and Candy advanced to the mixed final in an odd fashion when Mo connolly and Ham Richardson retired to them up a match point. The Americans were leading 6-4 6-5 40-30 on Mo's serve when they quit. The reason: Richardson had a plane to catch......


On arrival in Melbourne, Maureen Connolly talked about the huge amount of fan mail she had received in Sydney. 'It is a lot bigger than I get at home' she said, 'but of course tennis is your major sport in Australia'

Pressmen looked startled and she quickly covered up.

'Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to say lacrosse.'

Before anyone could say anything else, Julie Sampson entered the fray 'What she is trying to get out is the word 'cricket'

ends Dec 8 Columbian International, Barranquila, COL (CL?)

1R Baba Madden Lewis (US) d. R. Emiliano 6-0 6-1
1R Marta Barnett (US) d. G. Garbrecht 6-0 6-1

SF Betty Rosenquest Pratt (US) d. Alicia Wright (Ecu) 6-4 6-1
SF Melita Ramirez (Mex) d. Lewis 6-4 4-6 6-4

FI Ramirez d. Pratt ???

Mx Pratt/Hal Burrows d. Lewis/Grant Golden 6-2 6-1

December 13, Hobart Exhibition

Maureen Connolly d. Julia Sampson 6-1 6-1

Connolly/Sampson d. Alison Baker/Nell Hopman 6-3 6-2

December 15, Launceston Exhibition

Maureen Connolly d. Julia Sampson 6-2 6-2

End of year news: Pat Todd is expecting her second child ....Margaret and Will DuPont are spending their time with racehorses in Texas.

National Rankings

Australia (issued in June of 1952)
01 Thelma Long NSW
02 Nancye Bolton VIC
03 Helen Angwin SA
04 Mary Hawton NSW
05 Beryl Penrose NSW
06 Esme Ashford NSW
07 Clare Proctor VIC
08 Pam Southcombe VIC
09 Beverley Rae VIC
10 Gwen Thiele SA

Insufficient Performancs:
Alison Baker TAS

#60

Apr 19-27,
ends Apr 27, Sicily International, Palermo, It (CL)

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Thelma Long (Aus)7-5 6-4



ends April 27, Internazionali di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy (clay)
Venue: Circolo Tennis

FI Joan Curry (GB) d. Thelma Long (Aus)7-5 6-4

DF: Curry/Rita Anderson Jarvis d. Silvana Lazzarino/Josepha de Riba 6-4 6-3

MX: Rita Anderson Jarvis/Drobny d. ??

ended June 8, Oslo, Norway

FI: Beryl Nicholas Bartlett d. Beryl Penrose 2-6 6-1 6-0

MX: Gwendy Love/Eric Sturgess d. Penrose/S.Molinari 5-7 6-1 6-0

Palermo additions and Oslo are now edited in. Molinari is almost certainly Jean Claude. Thanks Jimbo

Feb 18-25 San Remo, San Remo Italy (CL)

SF Abbalissa Bellani d. Josette Amouretti (Fr) 6-3 6-3

FI Curry d. Bellani 9-7 6-3



She was Annalies Ullstein Bellani

Ullstein corrected, thanks Jimbo

Iniital compiling of these results was by Rollo starting in 2003. Major additions supplied by Ugarte and additional results and comments from Andrew Tas and GeeTee.

(Check) Connolly won 11 events between January and the PSW. Her only 2 defeats were to Brough in May and Hart at Essex.



Check here the post #38, where is written that Connolly won the tournament at Essex County Club.
Hart defeated her in the Eastern Grass Court Chmpionships, at Orange (See here the post #37)

in this thread Ramirez is written 5 times Rameriez. It's need correct them.

April, Tasmanian Championships, Launceston

FI: Alison Burton Baker d. H.Williams 6-3 6-0

June 9, Queensland Hard Court Championships, Warwick, Australia

FI: Edith Niemeyer Finney d. Gloria Blair 6-1 6-4

July 20, South Queensland Championships, Ipswich, Australia

FI: Daphne Seeney d. Greta Schultz 4-6 6-3 9-7

Apr 14, Darling Downs Championships, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

FI: Edith Niemeyer Finney d. Mary Schultz 6-2 6-3

January 29, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

FI: Loris Nichols d. Wilma Boyd 5-6 6-5 6-2

February 9, Northern Suburbs Championships, Sydney (or Killara?), NSW, Australia

FI: Esme Ashford d. Alison Hattersley 6-1 9-7

August 31, Metropolitan Hard Court Championships of Sydney, NSW, Australia

FI: Mary Bevis Hawton d. Esme Ashford 6-2 6-2

April 6, Eastern Suburbs Hard Court Championships, Kensington East, NSW, Australia

FI: Esme Ashford d. Joyce Martin 6-2 6-0

March 10, South-West Districts, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

FI: Margaret Wallis d. R. Strachan 6-2 6-3

January 1, City of Perth Championships, Australia

FI: Joan Ryan d. Mary Blacklock 6-1 7-5

May 26-31 Surrey Championships, Surbiton (GR)

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1R Pat Canning Todd (SU) d. Anne Shilcock 6-2 6-0

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Pat Canning Todd should be (US), not (SU)
(in message #26)

Pat Canning Todd should be (US), not (SU)
(in message #26

Tis fixed

Thank you Vinkje83:)

I've added Jimbo's information as well-thanks Jimbo :)

Note to self and Davidk: I was unable to access one post. It may be only a glitch. If the trouble persists (it is the post ending on June 9) we might try reposting the thread when time permits.

??, Danish Indoor Championships

FI: Lisa Granholm Gram-Andersen d. ??

DF: Vera Nielsen Johansen/Lisa Granholm Gram-Andersen d.??

MX: Vera Nielsen Johansen/Kurt Nielsen d. ??

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??, Danish Outdoor Championships

FI: Milly Svanberg Vagn-Nielsen d. ??

DF: Agnete Friis/Milly Svanberg Vagn-Nielsen d.??

MX: Agnete Friis/Torben Ulrich d. ??

Danish Champions added

Info provided by Newmark401:

??, Cheltenham, England

FI: (Lorna?) Cornell d. Sheila Speight 1-6 13-11 6-2

August 25-30, Folkenstone, GB



Folkestone

May 11-17 Harrowgate, GB



Harrogate

??, Ojai Valley, California, US

FI: Mary Arnold Prentiss d. Anita Kanter ??