Betty Batt

Betty Batt (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.

Betty Batt
Country (sports) Great Britain
Born(1916-02-07)7 February 1916
Died26 March 2003(2003-03-26) (aged 87)
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon3R (1948)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQF (1946)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon4R (1939, 1946)

A London native, Batt won the British junior hard court title in 1934 and featured in her first Wimbledon main draw the following year.[1] In 1946 she appeared for Great Britain in the Wightman Cup, partnering Molly Lincoln in doubles, then two weeks later made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals with Lincoln.[2]

Batt's first marriage, in 1940, was to Noel Passingham, with whom she had one child.[3] She divorced Passingham in 1949 and soon after was married to Frank Martin-Davies, a colonial administrator in Nigeria.[4]

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