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Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was a former English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships. ==Biography== Boothby was born in Finchley and, together with her older sister Gertrude, lived there with her step-parents, Harry and Gertrude Penn. Harry was a civil engineer, and by 1901, they had moved to South Norwood, where she played at Beulah Hill Club, and during the winter months, she played badminton. In 1908 she won a silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dora Boothby Olympic Results )〕 In 1909 when she won the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon, the runner-up of the Men's Singles, Josiah Ritchie, was also living in Norwood. Additionally that year she won the singles title of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, after defeating Madeline O’Neill in the final in straight sets. In 1911 she became the first female player to lose a Wimbledon final without winning a game, losing to Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–0, 6–0. In 1914 she married Arthur C.Geen.〔 She died in Hammersmith〔 or Hampstead,〔 London in 1970. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dora Boothby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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