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Althea Louise Brough Clapp (born March 11, 1923 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , † February 3, 2014 in Vista , California ) was an American tennis player .
biography
Brough grew up in California , got her first coaching lessons at age 13 and won the American junior championships at age 17.
Brough won the American tennis championships (now the US Open ) in Forest Hills once (1947) and was in the finals five times. At Wimbledon she won a total of four times in singles (1948, 1949, 1950 and 1955) and was in the final seven times. In 1950 she won the Australian Championships (now the Australian Open).
With her doubles partner Margaret Osborne duPont she won the doubles competition for women from 1942 to 1950 and from 1955 to 1957, at Wimbledon in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1954 and the French doubles championships in 1946, 1947 and 1949.
She was also very successful in mixed games with various partners at Grand Slam tournaments (including Eric Sturgess ) and won numerous titles.
She said goodbye to tennis in 1957 and married Alan Clapp a year later. In 1967 he was accepted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Louise Brough in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
- Richard Goldstein: Louise Brough Clapp, Tennis Champion at Midcentury, Dies at 90. Obituary in the New York Times on February 5, 2014 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tennis Hall of Famer Louise Brough Clapp Dies at 90
- ↑ PASSINGS: Louise Brough Clapp, Richard Bull, Michael Filerman. In: Los Angeles Times. February 5, 2014, accessed December 1, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brough, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brough Clapp, Althea Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oklahoma City , Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 2014 |
| Place of death | Vista , California |