![]() ![]() 1925: Mary K.A post shared by Gigi Fernandez filming occurred earlier this year in February.1924: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman / Helen Wills Moody.1923: Kitty McKane Godfree / Phyllis Howkins Covell.1922: Marion Zinderstein Jessup / Helen Wills Moody.1920: Marion Zinderstein / Eleanor Goss.1919: Marion Zinderstein / Eleanor Goss.1918: Marion Zinderstein / Eleanor Goss.1915: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman / Eleonora Sears. ![]() 1911: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman / Eleonora Sears.1910: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman / Edith Rotch.1909: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman / Edith Rotch.1906: Ann Burdette Coe / Ethel Bliss Platt.1901: Juliette Atkinson / Myrtle McAteer.1898: Juliette Atkinson / Kathleen Atkinson.1897: Juliette Atkinson / Kathleen Atkinson.1896: Elisabeth Moore / Juliette Atkinson. ![]() 1895: Helen Hellwig / Juliette Atkinson.1894: Helen Hellwig / Juliette Atkinson.1891: Mabel Cahill / Emma Leavitt-Morgan.1890: Ellen Roosevelt / Grace Roosevelt.1889: Bertha Townsend / Margarette Ballard.1963: Ann Haydon-Jones / Renée Schuurman.1962: Sandra Reynolds Price / Renée Schuurman.1961: Sandra Reynolds / Renée Schuurman.1959: Sandra Reynolds / Renée Schuurman.1955: Beverly Baker Fleitz / Darlene Hard.1954: Maureen Connolly / Nell Hall Hopman.1949: Louise Brough / Margaret Osborne duPont.1948: Doris Hart / Patricia Canning Todd.1947: Louise Brough / Margaret Osborne duPont.1940–1945: No competition ( World War II).1939: Simonne Mathieu / Jadwiga Jędrzejowska.1932: Helen Wills Moody / Elizabeth Ryan.1931: Eileen Bennett Whittingstall / Betty Nuthall.1930: Helen Wills Moody / Elizabeth Ryan.1928: Phoebe Holcroft Watson / Eileen Bennett.1927: Irene Bowder Peacock / Bobbie Heine.Set of eight portraits by Bassano's studio "Eileen Vivian Bennett (later Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall) (1907–1979), Tennis player former wife of Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall".^ a b England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005.^ Christopher Breward Becky Conekin Caroline Cox, eds."Throwback Thursday: Daring fashionistas of 1930s Wimbledon". The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book. Eileen Fearnley Whittingstall: Whittingstall v. Grand Slam singles tournament timeline Key W Mixed doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up) Result Grand Slam finals īennett (r) and Phoebe Holcroft Watson at the 1928 French Championships Singles (2 runners-up) Resultĭoubles (3 titles, 2 runners-up) Result She married for a fourth and final time in June 1957 to Mr Carl Vyvyan Forslind who outlived her. She was divorced from Mr Marsh in early 1947 and married Mr Geoffrey Ackroyd in June 1947. She married Marcus Marsh, a racehorse trainer, on 28 September 1936 and gave birth to a daughter on 7 March 1937. She was married on 19 November 1929 to Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall, a painter, and divorced in 1936. īennett is credited with first wearing an above-the-knee form of divided skirt for competitive tennis. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Whittingstall was ranked in the world top 10 in 1928, 1929, 1931, and 1932, reaching a career high of World No. Whittingstall and Cochet won the mixed doubles title at the 1927 US Championships, defeating Hazel Wightman and René Lacoste in the final.Īccording to A. ![]() Whittingstall and Cochet lost the 1930 French final to the team of Bill Tilden and Cilly Aussem. In both 19, they defeated the team of Moody and Frank Hunter in the final. Whittingstall twice partnered with Henri Cochet to win the mixed doubles title at the French Championships. Championships, defeating Helen Jacobs and Dorothy Round Little in the final in two sets. She also teamed with Shoemaker to win the 1931 women's doubles title at the U.S. Whittingstall teamed with Ermyntrude Harvey to reach the 1928 women's doubles final at Wimbledon, losing to the team of Watson and Peggy Saunders 2–6, 3–6. Whittingstall and Nuthall lost the 1932 final to the team of Moody and Elizabeth Ryan. She twice won the women's doubles title at the French Championships: in 1928 with Phoebe Holcroft Watson and in 1931 with Betty Nuthall. She lost both of these finals in straight sets to Helen Wills Moody. 18 August 1979, full name Eileen Viviyen Bennett Fearnley-Whittingstall ) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931.Īlthough most of her success was in women's doubles or mixed doubles, Whittingstall reached the singles final of the 1928 French Championships and the 1931 US Championships. Eileen Viviyen Bennett Fearnley-WhittingstallĮileen Bennett Whittingstall (née Bennett 16 July 1907 – c. ![]()
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