May Sutton

May Godfrey Sutton Bundy ( born September 25, 1886 in Plymouth, England; † 4 October 1975, in Santa Monica, California ) was an American tennis player. She was the first American woman who was victorious in the women's singles at Wimbledon.

Biography

As May Sutton was six years old, her family moved to a ranch in the vicinity of Pasadena (California), where she and her sisters could play on a tennis court built by her father. As young women, the Sutton sisters May, Violet, Floerence and Ethel dominated the California tennis scene. In 1904, when May Sutton was 18 years old, she won the American Championships (now the U.S. Open ) in singles. By Miriam Hall she also won the women's doubles.

A year later she became the first American woman who won at Wimbledon in women's singles, as they defeated the defending champion Dorothea Douglass. Your clothing also caused a stir: so her elbows and her ankles were visible, for its time, this was very generous. In the next two years there were repetitions of this Finals: 1906 won Dorothea Douglass, Again in 1907 May Sutton. After Sutton never again played in England Tennis.

In 1912, she married tennis player and three-time U.S. Open champion Tom Bundy in a double. In 1925, she launched a comeback at age 39 and was the fourth-placed player on the American rankings. In the same year she reached the final of the U.S. Open in women's doubles. With nearly forty years she was still strong enough to compete for the U.S. in Wightman Cup as a player. 1928 and 1929 she played with her daughter Dorothy Bundy at the U.S. Open in women's doubles and made her the only mother / daughter double that was ever set at the U.S. Open. Your nephew John Doeg won the 1930 U.S. Open and 1938 won her daughter Dorothy in the Australian Open.

In 1956, May Sutton was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame Sports. They never stopped playing tennis and was active up to the nineteen years of her life.