Germaine Golding

A. Germaine Golding (* 1887 as Germaine Regnier, † unknown) was a French tennis player who celebrated their biggest success in the early 1920s.

Career

1914 Golding reached the final of the hard court world championships, but it lost to the fifteen- year-old Suzanne Lenglen. After the First World War, she was able to advance in the years 1921 to 1923 at the French national championships three times in a row to the final, where they failed at each Lenglen again. In 1922 she won the singles at the World Indoor Championships in St. Moritz, as well as in the Mixed alongside Jean Borotra. At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 she succumbed to him semifinals Helen Wills Moody. The subsequent match for the bronze medal she lost to Kathleen McKane Godfree -.

In 1924, she still reached the semifinals at the championships of France. With the opening of the championships for international participants from 1925 they could not repeat her previous performances. Most recently, she appeared in 1933 in Paris, where she was beaten in the second round of their country Sylvie Jung.