Winnie Shaw

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Winnie Shaw tennis player
Nation: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Birthday: January 16, 1947
Date of death: March 30, 1992
playing hand: right
singles
Grand Slam record
double
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP/WTA (see web links )

Winifred "Winnie" Mason Shaw ( January 18, 1947 in GlasgowMarch 30, 1992 in Woking ) was a Scottish tennis player . In 2002 she was posthumously inducted into the newly established Scottish Sports Hall of Fame .

Career

From the early 1960s, Winnie Shaw began playing tennis successfully at youth level and was able to win a number of youth championships. She won the Scottish Singles Turf Championships three times in 1965, 1966 and 1970. She has also reached the final of the Scottish Hard Court Championships three times and the final of the British Hard Court Championships twice.

Between 1965 and 1978 she played 14 consecutive Wimbledon Championships tournaments in singles . She had her best results in 1970 and 1971 by reaching the quarterfinals, losing first to Rosie Casals and a year later to Margaret Smith . She had her best individual results in Grand Slam tournaments at the Australian Open . Although she appeared only twice in this competition, but was able to play both times to the semifinals, but lost there in 1970 Kerry Melville and 1971 Evonne Goolagong .

In doubles, Shaw lost four times in the Wimbledon quarter-finals with her doubles partner Joyce Barclay , in 1972 they played their only semi-final, losing to Betty Stöve and Billie Jean King . At the US Open , she reached the semifinals with two different partners, Virginia Wade and Joyce Barclay. In her only two appearances at the Australian Open, she reached the semifinals in doubles as well as in singles, in 1970 with Kerry Harris and in 1971 with Patricia Coleman . Shaw's greatest success came in 1972 alongside compatriot Nell Truman , when she reached her only Grand Slam final in doubles at the French Open. In the final they had to admit defeat to the pairing of Billie Jean King and Betty Stöve. In 1971 she also won the doubles tournament in Christchurch , New Zealand , with Kathleen Harter .

In mixed she played in 1967 at the US Open with Jaroslav Drobný to the quarterfinals, where they lost to Karen Krantzcke and Ray Ruffels . At the French Open in 1971 she reached the final with her doubles partner Toomas Leius , which they lost to the French Françoise Dürr and Jean-Claude Barclay .

Between 1966 and 1972 Shaw represented Great Britain in the Wightman Cup . She has also featured in 19 matches for the British Fed Cup team . She won 15 of 24 matches. In the Federation Cup , she and her team reached the World Group finals in 1971 and 1972 , which they lost both times.

golf

She also became a good golfer after her marriage in 1972 . She played various amateur tournaments and represented Scotland at the Women's Home Internationals, a clash between the different parts of the British Isles . In 1980 and 1982 she reached the semi-finals of the Scottish Amateur Championships. In 1981, she teamed with Belle Robertson to win the Avia Foursomes tournament by one stroke over their final opponents.

personal

Winnie Shaw was born in Glasgow in 1947, the second and youngest child of Winifred Mason and Angus Shaw. Her mother Winifred Mason was also a tennis player and won the Scottish Championships in 1930 and 1933. Her father, Angus Shaw, was a journalist and died in 2010 at the age of 103.

Shaw saw herself as a Scot competing in tournaments for the United Kingdom. When a match referee repeated that Shaw was playing for England, she replied politely but firmly:

"I'm Scottish and I'm representing Great Britain, not England."

"I'm Scottish, I represent Britain, not England."

Winnie Shaw : May 1969 at the Federation Cup in Athens

In October 1972 she married English tennis player Keith Wooldridge , who also played in all Grand Slam tournaments. After playing Wimbledon in 1978, she retired from professional tennis.

On March 30, 1992, she died at the age of 45 from a brain tumor .

Participation in the finals of Grand Slam tournaments

double

No. date competition topping partner final opponents Result
1. June 4, 1972 France French Open sand United Kingdom Nell Truman United States Billie Jean King Betty Stöve
Netherlands 
1:6, 2:6

Mixed

No. date competition topping partner final opponent Result
1. June 6, 1971 France French Open sand Soviet Union 1955 Toomas Leius France Françoise Dürr Jean Claude Barclay
France 
2:6, 4:6

web links

itemizations

  1. a b c Winnie Shaw reaches Wimbledon semis 1972. In: bbc.co.uk. BBC 17 October 2014, retrieved 5 January 2022 .
  2. Miss Wright is foiled at last hole . In: The Glasgow Herald . Glasgow 25 September 1982 p. 16 ( google.com ).
  3. Belle and Fiona are Scottish finalists . In: The Glasgow Herald . Glasgow 24 May 1980 p. 14 ( google.com ).
  4. Raymond Jacobs: Mrs Robertson done wrong by another Wright . In: The Glasgow Herald . Glasgow 22 May 1982 p. 17 ( google.com ).
  5. Russell Leadbetter: Winnie Shaw, Scottish tennis great. In: heraldscotland.com. The Herald, 30 June 2018, accessed 5 January 2022 .
  6. a b John Barrett (ed.): The International Tennis Federation: World of Tennis 1993 . Collins Willow, London 1993, ISBN 978-0-00-218508-0 , pp. 359 .
  7. Scots pair win nerve war . In: The Glasgow Herald . Glasgow March 20, 1981 p. 23 ( google.com ).
  8. Bill Edwards: Obituary: Winnie Shaw. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent, February 16, 1994, accessed January 5, 2022 .
  9. John Barrett (ed.): World of Tennis '73 : a BP and Commercial Union yearbook . Queen Anne Press, London 1973, ISBN 978-0-671-21623-8 , pp. 269 .
  10. Obituary: Angus Shaw, journalist. In: scotsman.com. October 22, 2010, retrieved January 5, 2022 .
  11. Rob Robertson: Coach links three Wimbledon Scots Keith Wooldridge, who married Winnie Shaw, has played a part in the development of two of her successors. In: heraldscotland.com. The Herald (Glasgow), 25 June 2001, accessed 5 January 2022 .