Wimbledon Championships 1931

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Wimbledon Championships 1931
Date: June 22 - July 3, 1931
Edition: 51st  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Church Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : United StatesUnited States Bill Tilden
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Helen Wills Moody
Men's double : United StatesUnited States Wilmer Allison John van Ryn
United StatesUnited States 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Helen Wills Moody Elizabeth Ryan
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Elizabeth Ryan Jack Crawford
AustraliaAustralia 
winner
Men's singles : United StatesUnited States Sidney Wood
Ladies singles : German EmpireGerman Empire Cilly Aussem
Men's double : United StatesUnited States George Lott John van Ryn
United StatesUnited States 
Ladies doubles : United KingdomUnited Kingdom Phyllis Mudford Dorothy Shepherd-Barron
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Anna Harper George Lott
United StatesUnited States 
Grand Slams 1931

The 51st edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1931 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road.

Men's singles

Sidney Wood , seeded in seventh place , surprisingly won the men's singles. His final opponent Frank Shields could not compete due to an injury.

Ladies singles

In the absence of multiple winner Helen Wills Moody , Cilly Aussem won the title. She is the first of three German girls to date to win an individual Wimbledon title. In the only purely German Wimbledon final in the women's singles so far, she defeated Hilde Krahwinkel 6: 2 and 7: 5.

Men's doubles

George Lott and John van Ryn won the men's doubles .

Ladies doubles

Phyllis Mudford and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron were successful in women's doubles .

Mixed

The mixed title went to Anna Harper and George Lott .

source

  • J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 .