Evelyn Colyer

Lucy Evelyn Colyer ( later Evelyn Munro, born August 16, 1902 in Wandsworth, † November 4, 1930 in Bishnath, India) was a British tennis player.

In 1924 Colyer won jointly with Dorothy Shepherd - Barron, the bronze medal in doubles at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. The two also reached the final in the women's doubles at the Wimbledon Championships and at the French Championships: 1923 defeated at the side of Joan Austin the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen and the US-American Elizabeth Ryan with 3:6, 1:6. With Kathleen McKane Godfree she repeated the success in 1926, this time the defeat was against Ryan and Mary Browne with 1:6, 1:6 even more pronounced. At the French Championships, she stood with Kathleen McKane 1925 and 1926 in the finals, but they lost both times Suzanne Lenglen and Julie Vlasto ( 1:6, 11:9, 2:6 in 1925, 1:6, 1:6 in 1926).

On February 13, 1930, she married Hamish Munro in London. On October 22, gave birth Colyer in the Indian state of Assam, a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, but both died within a month. She herself died shortly afterwards at the age of only 28 years.