The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held after the Australian Open and the French Open and before the US Open. It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.
Maria Esther Andion Bueno was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles, making her the most successful South American tennis player in history, and the only one to ever win Wimbledon. Bueno was the year-end No. 1 female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play.
Ann Shirley Jones, is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. As of 2023, she serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Mary Carter Reitano is a former tennis player from Australia.
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman, CBE was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams.
Patricia Ward Hales was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 U.S. Championships, losing to Doris Hart.
Christiane Mercelis was a Belgian tennis player. She was active from 1947 to 1969 and won 47 career singles titles. Mercelis died on 14 June 2024, at the age of 92.
Barbara Scofield was an American tennis player who was active from the late 1940s until the early 1960s.
Jacqueline Anne Shilcock was a British tennis player who was active in the 1950s.
Fay Muller is a former international tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Australian Championships nine times, from 1952 to 1963. At the 1956 Wimbledon Championships she partnered with Daphne Seeney to reach the final of the doubles event. In 1957 she won the mixed doubles title with Malcolm Anderson at the Australian Championships and reached the women's doubles final with Mary Bevis Hawton.
Janine Lieffrig is a French former tennis player.
Ilse Renate Buding was a Romanian-born German tennis player who was active from the mid-1950s until 1970.
Jean Barbara Walker-Smith was a female tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She reached two Grand Slam semifinals in the singles event and one in doubles, and she achieved a highest singles ranking of world no. 5 in 1951.
Gem Cynthia Hoahing was an English female tennis player of Chinese heritage who was active from the second half of the 1930s until the early 1960s.
Joy Mottram is a retired tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and the 1950s.
Betty Hilton was a British tennis player of the post-World War II era. She reached the women's doubles final at the 1949 French Open alongside Joy Gannon. Clements also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 1946 French Open and the quarterfinals at the 1949 and 1950 Wimbledon Championships.
Ip Koon Hung was a Hong Kong tennis player. He was described by the Leeds Intelligencer as a "fluent stylist" with an "inexhaustible supply of tricks".
Eskell Dundas (Buster) Andrews was a former New Zealand tennis player who later became a solicitor and a partner in a London stockbroking firm. He competed at the Wimbledon Championships thirteen times between 1928 and 1949. He was a two time quarter finalist in the men's doubles, and quarter finalist in the mixed doubles. He was active from 1921 to 1949 and won 19 career singles titles.
John W. Peter Cawthorn was an Australian amateur tennis player who later turned professional in 1953. As an amateur he competed at the 1950 Australian Championships and the 1951 Wimbledon Championships. As a professional he was a two time quarter finalist at the Wembley Professional Championships in 1957 and 1958, and a quarter finalist at the French Professional Championship in 1956. He was active from 1949 to 1968 and won 21 career amateur and pro singles titles. He later became a tennis coach.
Margaret R. O'Donnell is a retired British tennis player who competed at the Wimbledon Championships between 1959 and 1965. She was active from 1956 to 1967 and won 13 career singles titles..
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