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Billie Yorke

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Adeline 'Billie' Yorke (19 December 1910 – 9 December 2000) was a British tennis player of the 1930s who achieved her best results as a doubles specialist. [1]

22 relations: Alice Marble, Dorothy Andrus, Elizabeth Ryan, Elsie Goldsack Pittman, Freda James, French Open, Great Britain, Helen Jacobs, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Marcel Bernard, Nelly Landry, Phyllis Mudford King, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Rawalpindi, Sarah Palfrey Cooke, Simonne Mathieu, Susan Noel, Sylvie Jung Henrotin, Tennis, The Championships, Wimbledon, 1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, 1935 French Championships – Women's Singles.

Alice Marble

Alice Marble (September 28, 1913 – December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships (1936–40): five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles.

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Dorothy Andrus

Dorothy Bonnie Andrus Voorhees (June 14, 1908 – September 28, 1989) was an American female tennis player who ranked No.

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Elizabeth Ryan

Elizabeth Montague Ryan (February 5, 1892 – July 6, 1979) was an American tennis player who was born in Anaheim, California but lived most of her life in the United Kingdom.

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Elsie Goldsack Pittman

Elsie Goldsack Pittman (née Goldsack; 21 January 1904 – 28 March 1975) was an English tennis player who competed during the second half of the 1920s and the 1930s.

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Freda James

Winifred Alice "Freda" James (married name Hammersley) (11 January 1911 – 27 December 1988) was a British female tennis player of the 1930s.

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French Open

The French Open (Championnats Internationaux de France de Tennis), officially called Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Helen Jacobs

Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles.

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Jadwiga Jędrzejowska

Jadwiga ("Jed") Jędrzejowska (15 October 1912 – 28 February 1980) was a Polish tennis player who had her main achievements during the second half of the 1930s.

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Marcel Bernard

Marcel Bernard (18 May 1914 – 29 April 1994) was a French tennis player.

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Nelly Landry

Nelly Adamson Landry (28 December 1916 – 22 February 2010) was a female tennis player from Belgium (became French citizen after marriage).

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Phyllis Mudford King

Phyllis Mudford King (née Mudford; 23 August 1905 – 27 January 2006) was an English female tennis player and the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi (Punjabi, راولپِنڈى), commonly known as Pindi (پِنڈی), is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Sarah Palfrey Cooke

Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig (née Palfrey; September 18, 1912 – February 27, 1996) was an American tennis player whose career spanned two decades from the late 1920s until the late 1940s.

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Simonne Mathieu

Simonne Mathieu (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine who was active in the 1930s.

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Susan Noel

Susan Diana Barham Noel-Powell (8 June 1912 – October 1991) was an English squash and tennis player.

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Sylvie Jung Henrotin

Sylvie Jung Henrotin (née Jung;;10 July 1904 – 15 December 1970) was a French female tennis player who was active during the late 1920 and the 1930s.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.

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1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

Helen Moody was the defending champion, but did not compete.

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1935 French Championships – Women's Singles

Hilde Sperling defeated Simonne Mathieu 6–2, 6–1 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1935 French Championships.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Yorke

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