Nancye Wynne

Nancye Wynne Bolton 1938

Nancye Hazel Meredith Wynne Bolton (born June 10, 1916 in Melbourne , † November 9, 2001 ibid) was an Australian tennis player .

Life

At the age of 19 Bolton reached the final of the Australian tennis championships for the first time in 1936 , but lost to Joan Hartigan . Between 1937 and 1951 she then won the individual title six times, a success that later only Margaret Smith was able to surpass with a total of eleven wins in Melbourne. Wynne also won ten doubles and four mixed titles there. At Wimbledon she reached the quarter-finals in 1947.

On July 6, 1940, she married George Bolton in Melbourne .

During the Second World War, her husband, Sergeant George Bolton, fell in service with the Royal Australian Air Force in an air raid on Cologne in 1942 , so that from then on she had to raise her then four-month-old daughter Pam alone.

In 1949 she was led in the tennis rankings of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail in position 4; American Lawn Tennis Magazine ranked her 2nd.

After finishing her tennis career in 1952, she switched to golf , where she was able to achieve more victories.

In 2006 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame . She died in Melbourne in 2001 at the age of 85.

title

singles

No.	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
1.	1937	Australian championships	Australia Emily Hood Westacott	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 4
2.	1940	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 0
3.	1946	Australian championships	Australia Joyce Fitch	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	1947	Australian championships	Australia Nell Hall Hopman	6: 3, 6: 2
5.	1948	Australian championships	Australia Marie Toomey	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	1951	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	6: 1, 7: 5

Double

No.	year	competition	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	1936	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia May look Katherine Le Mesurier Australia	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	1937	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Nell Hall Hopman Emily Hood Westacott Australia	6: 2, 6: 2
3.	1938	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	United States Dorothy Bundy Dorothy Workman Australia	9: 7, 6: 4
4th	1939	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia May Hardcastle Emily Hood Westacott Australia	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	1940	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Joan Hartigan Emily Niemeyer Australia	7: 5, 6: 2
6th	1947	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Mary Bevis Hawton Joyce Fitch Australia	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	1948	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Mary Bevis Hawton Pat Jones Australia	6: 3, 6: 3
8th.	1949	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	United States Doris Hart Marie Toomey Australia	6-0, 6-1
9.	1951	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Joyce Fitch Mary Bevis Hawton Australia	6: 2, 6: 1
10.	1952	Australian championships	Australia Thelma Coyne Long	Australia Alison Burton Baker Mary Bevis Hawton Australia	6: 1, 6: 1

literature

Bud Collins: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 . P. 549

Web links

Commons : Nancye Wynne Bolton - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Nancye Wynne in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
Profile of Nancye Wynne on "tennis.com.au" (English)

Individual evidence

^ Married in Melbourne. In: National Library of Australia. July 8, 1940, accessed November 30, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wynne, Nancye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bolton, Nancye; Bolton, Nancye Hazel Meredith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 2001
Place of death	Melbourne

[1] Married in Melbourne. In: National Library of Australia. July 8, 1940, accessed November 30, 2017 .