Wimbledon Championships 1932

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Wimbledon Championships 1932
Date: June 20 - July 2, 1932
Edition: 52nd  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Church Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
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 
winner
Men's singles : United StatesUnited States Ellsworth Vines
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Helen Wills Moody
Men's double : FranceFrance Jean Borotra Jacques Brugnon
FranceFrance 
Ladies doubles : FranceFrance Doris Metaxa Josane Sigart
BelgiumBelgium 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Elizabeth Ryan Enrique Maier
Spain Second RepublicSecond Spanish Republic 
Grand Slams 1932

The 52nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1932 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road.

For the first time, over 200,000 spectators attended the tournament.

Men's singles

The American Ellsworth Vines , who had won the US championships the year before , won his only title at Wimbledon.

Ladies singles

Helen Wills Moody won her fifth Wimbledon title in singles.

Men's doubles

In the men's doubles, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon won .

Ladies doubles

Doris Metaxa and Josane Sigart were successful in women's doubles .

Mixed

The mixed title went to Elizabeth Ryan and Enrique Maier .

source

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

Individual evidence

  1. Barrett (2001), p. 3