Betty Batt
Betty Batt (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.
Country (sports) | Great Britain |
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Born | 7 February 1916 |
Died | 26 March 2003 87) | (aged
Plays | Right-handed |
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (1948) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1946) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 4R (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]
References
- "New Threat For The Helen Wills Crown". The Kingston Whig-Standard. 23 February 1934.
- "American's Wightman Cup Players Blank British Girls". Sioux City Journal. 15 June 1946.
- "Decree for Tennis Player's Husband". The Gloucestershire Echo. 15 February 1949.
- "18-Yr.-Old Beats Seeded Player". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 18 May 1950.
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