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Full name | Violet Chamberlain Owen |
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Born | Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England | 15 February 1902
Died | 22 October 1998 96) | (aged
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Wimbledon | 4R (1927, 1929) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (1928, 1930) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (1930) |
Violet Owen (15 February 1902 – 22 October 1998) was a British tennis and hockey player. She captained the British hockey team, and played at the Wimbledon tennis championships every year from 1926 to 1933, reaching eighth in the British rankings. [1] She won the women's doubles at the British Hard Court Championships in 1927 partnering Agnes Tuckey. [2] She was a runner-up in singles and doubles at the 1929 German Championships in Hamburg. [3]
She was born Violet Chamberlain in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on 15 February 1902. In 1930, she married Llewellyn Gordon Owen, also a notable sportsman, having played tennis at Wimbledon and football for Aston Villa and Wales. [4]
They had three children, John, Geoffrey and Ann. Ann and Geoffrey both played at Wimbledon, and Geoffrey became editor of the Financial Times , was knighted in 1989, and later married literary editor Miriam Gross. [2] [5]
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