May Sutton
May Godfrey Sutton Bundy (born September 25, 1886 in Plymouth , England , † October 4, 1975 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American tennis player . She was the first American to win the women's singles at Wimbledon .
biography
As May Sutton was six years old, her family moved to a ranch in the near Pasadena ( California ), where she and her sisters could play on a built by her father tennis court. As young women, the Sutton siblings May, Violet, Floerence and Ethel dominated the California tennis scene. In 1904, when May Sutton was 18 years old, she won the American Championships (now the US Open ) in singles. She also won the women's doubles with Miriam Hall.
A year later she became the first American woman to win the women's singles at Wimbledon when she defeated last year's winner Dorothea Douglass . Her clothing also caused a stir: her elbows and ankles could be seen, which was very revealing for the time. This final was repeated over the next two years: Dorothea Douglass won in 1906 and May Sutton again in 1907. After that, Sutton never played tennis in England again .
In 1912 she married tennis player and three-time US Open doubles winner Tom Bundy. In 1925, at the age of 39, she made a comeback and became fourth on the American rankings. In the same year she was in the final of the US Open in women's doubles. At almost forty, she was still strong enough as a player to play for the USA in the Wightman Cup . In 1928 and 1929 she played with her daughter Dorothy Bundy at the US Open in women's doubles and formed with her the only mother / daughter doubles that was ever set at the US Open. Her nephew John Doeg won the US Open in 1930 and her daughter Dorothy won the Australian Open in 1938 .
In 1956, May Sutton was inducted into the Hall of Fame for International Tennis. She never stopped playing tennis and was active until the eighties of her life.
Web links
- May Sutton in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
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| SURNAME | Sutton, May |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutton, May Godfrey; Sutton Bundy, May Godfrey; Sutton Bundy, May |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1975 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California, United States |