Joan Curry
Joan Curry | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patricia Joan Curry December 1918 |
| Died | 2020 (aged 101) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Squash and tennis player |
| Spouse | George E. Hughesman (m. 1958, died 2004) |
Patricia Joan Curry Hughesman (December 1918 – 2020) was a British squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row from 1947 to 1949. Her toughest victory was in 1948, when she beat the 10-time British Open winner Janet Morgan in five sets. She was also the runner-up at the championship three consecutive times from 1950 to 1952.[1][2]
Curry was born in Penzance, Cornwall in December 1918.[3][4] In tennis she won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships in 1949 after a two sets victory in the final against Jean Quertier, conceding just one game.[5] The following year, 1950, she lost her title to Quertier who beat her in a three-sets final.[6] At the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth she was a singles runner-up to Australian Nancye Bolton in 1947 and won the title in 1949 and 1950, against Quertier and Mary Terán de Weiss in the final respectively.[6] In 1946 and 1950 she was part of the British team that took part in the Wightman Cup, the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain.[6] Curry was interviewed about her career in 2004.[7] She died in Kingston upon Thames, London in 2020, at the age of 101.[8]
References
- ^ British Open Men's and Women's Champions Archived 2010-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ British Open Hall of Fame Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Curry, Patricia J." FreeBMD. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Lake, Robert J., ed. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Tennis. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 186–187. ISBN 978-1138691933.
- ^ G.P. Hughes, ed. (1950). Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack 1950. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. p. 157.
- ^ a b c G.P. Hughes, ed. (1951). Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack 1951. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. pp. 158, 293.
- ^ Women’s Sporting Lives: A biographical study of elite amateur tennis players at Wimbledon
- ^ "Hughesman, Patricia Joan GRO Reference: DOR Q3/2020 in KINGSTON UPON THAMES (240-1C) Entry Number 520978177". GRO Index. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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