Betty Nuthall
File:Betty Nuthall 1932.jpg | |
Full name | Elizabeth May Nuthall Shoemaker |
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Country (sports) | United Kingdom |
Born | Surbiton, England |
23 May 1911
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York, USA |
Plays | Right-handed |
Int. Tennis HoF | 1977 (member page) |
Singles | |
Career record | {{#property:P564}} |
Highest ranking | No. 4 (1929) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
French Open | F (1931) |
Wimbledon | 4R (1933, 1937, 1938, 1946) |
US Open | W (1930) |
Doubles | |
Career record | {{#property:P555}} |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
French Open | W (1931) |
US Open | W (1930, 1931, 1933) |
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
French Open | W (1931, 1932) |
US Open | W (1929, 1931) |
Team competitions | |
Wightman Cup | (1928) |
Betty May Nuthall Shoemaker (23 May 1911 – 8 November 1983) was an English tennis player. Known for her powerful forehand, according to Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Nuthall was ranked in the world top ten in 1927, 1929 through 1931, and 1933, reaching a career high in those rankings of World No. 4 in 1929.[1]
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Career
Nuthall was taught tennis by her father. She won the junior championships of Great Britain in 1924 (aged 13), 1925 and 1926.
In 1927 at the age of 16, Nuthall tied Elisabeth Moore as the then-youngest women's singles finalist ever at the U.S. Championships. Nuthall lost the final to Helen Wills in straight sets while serving under-handed.[2][3]
Also in 1927, Nuthall played on the British Wightman Cup team and defeated Helen Jacobs in her debut. She also represented Great Britain in the 1929 and 1931–34 Wightman Cup competitions.
In 1930, Nuthall became the first non-American since 1892 to win a women's singles title at the U.S. Championships, defeating Anna McCune Harper in straight sets.[4] She was the last British female player to win the title until Virginia Wade won in 1968. In 1931 she reached the singles final of the French Championships but lost in two sets to first-seeded Cilly Aussem.
At the U.S. Championships in 1933, Nuthall won a quarterfinal versus Alice Marble 6–8, 6–0, 7–5 after being down two breaks of serve at 1–5 in the final set. In the semifinal versus Moody, Nuthall won the first set 6–2 in just 12 minutes, which was the first set Wills had lost at this tournament since 1926. Moody, however, turned around the match and won the last two sets 6–3, 6–2 despite losing her serve twice in the second set. Nuthall never again reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament.
Nuthall won women's doubles titles at the 1930, 1931, and 1933 U.S. Championships and at the 1931 French Championships. She won mixed doubles championships at the 1929 and 1931 U.S. Championships and at the 1931 and 1932 French Championships.
Nuthall was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977.[2]
Personal life
In 1954 she married Franklin Shoemaker, who died in 1982. On 8 November 1983 Nuthall died in New York of a coronary arrest.[5]
Grand Slam finals
Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1927 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Helen Wills | 1–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 1930 | U.S. Championships | Grass | Anna McCune Harper | 6–1, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 1931 | French Championships | Clay | Cilly Aussem | 6–8, 1–6 |
Doubles (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1927 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | Joan Fry | Kitty McKane Ermyntrude Harvey |
1–6, 6–4, 3–6 |
Winner | 1930 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | Sarah Palfrey | Edith Cross Anna McCune Harper |
3–6, 6–3, 7–5 |
Winner | 1931 | French Championships | Clay | Eileen Bennett Whittingstall | Cilly Aussem Elizabeth Ryan |
9–7, 6–2 |
Winner | 1931 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | Eileen Bennett Whittingstall | Helen Jacobs Dorothy Round |
6–2, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 1932 | French Championships | Clay | Eileen Bennett Whittingstall | Elizabeth Ryan Helen Wills |
1–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 1933 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | Freda James | Elizabeth Ryan Helen Wills |
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Mixed doubles (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1929 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | George Lott | Phyllis Covell Bunny Austin |
6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 1931 | French Championships | Clay | Patrick Spence | Dorothy Shepherd Bunny Austin |
6–3, 5–7, 6–3 |
Winner | 1931 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | George Lott | Anna McCune Harper Wilmer Allison |
6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 1932 | French Championships | Clay | Fred Perry | Helen Wills Sidney Wood |
6–4, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1933 | French Championships | Grass | Fred Perry | Margaret Scriven Jack Crawford |
2–6, 3–6 |
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
Tournament | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 – 1944 | 1945 | 19461 | Career SR |
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Australian Championships | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | NH | NH | A | 0 / 0 |
French Championships | A | A | 2R | A | A | F | SF | SF | 3R | A | A | A | A | A | NH | R | A | A | 0 / 5 |
Wimbledon | 2R | QF | 1R | 3R | QF | QF | QF | 4R | 1R | A | 2R | 4R | 4R | 1R | NH | NH | NH | 4R | 0 / 14 |
U.S. Championships | A | F | A | QF | W | SF | A | SF | 2R | A | A | A | A | 3R | A | A | A | A | 1 / 7 |
SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 1 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 1 / 26 |
NH = tournament not held.
R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
1In 1946, the French Championships were held after Wimbledon.
See also
References
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External links
- Betty Nuthall at the International Tennis Hall of Fame
- British Pathé Reel – "Southampton. 'We're Glad She's Glad - She's Glad We're Glad!'
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