Dorothea Douglass

Dorothea Douglass medal table
Tennis player
United Kingdom
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1908 London	Single (lawn)

Dorothea Douglass 1903

Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers (born September 3, 1878 in Ealing , England as Dorothea Douglass , † January 7, 1960 in Kensington ) was an English tennis and badminton player .

Career

In 1900 Dorothea Douglass played for the first time on Church Road. She won the women's singles at Wimbledon seven times between 1903 and 1914 and was in a total of 11 individual finals. At the age of 41 she was the oldest player in a women's singles final up to that point. In addition, she won the gold medal in the individual lawn competition at the London Olympics in 1908 .

The era of Dorothea Douglass came to an end in 1919 when, at the age of 40, she lost in the final against the young Suzanne Lenglen with 10: 8, 4: 6 and 7: 9. When the score was 6: 5 in the third set, Douglass already had a match point , which she could not use. The 44 games Lenglen needed to win marked the longest women's final until the 1970s, when Margaret Smith Court beat Billie Jean King 14:12 and 11: 9. In 1920 Douglass returned once more to Wimbledon; but after she failed again in the final, she announced her resignation for the individual competition. She played in doubles until 1927. From 1924 to 1926 Douglass was the captain of the British team in the Wightman Cup . After 1928 she worked as a trainer.

She was also a successful badminton player, winning All England doubles in 1903 and mixed in 1904.

Dorothy Douglass died in Kensington, London in 1960.

In 1981 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of International Tennis.

Single track

No.	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
1.	1903	Wimbledon Championships	Ethel Thomson Larcombe	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
2.	1904	Wimbledon Championships	Charlotte Cooper-Sterry	6: 3, 6: 0
3.	1906	Wimbledon Championships	May Sutton	6: 3, 9: 7
4th	1910	Wimbledon Championships	Dora Boothby	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	1911	Wimbledon Championships	Dora Boothby	6-0, 6-0
6th	1913	Wimbledon Championships	Winifred McNair	6-0, 6-4
7th	1914	Wimbledon Championships	Ethel Thomson Larcombe	7: 5, 6: 4

Other successes at Wimbledon
Final doubles	1913, 1919, 1920
Final mixed	1919

Works

• Lawn tennis for ladies. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1910. ( online )

literature

• L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977, ISBN 0-900424-71-0 , p. 209

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Douglass  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mrs. Lambert Chambers. Badminton England, accessed October 26, 2012 . 
• Dorothea Douglass in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Dorothea Douglass in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
• All England Champions 1899-2007