Margarette Ballard
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Margarette Ballard is an American tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from the end of the 19th century.

In 1889, she won the first ever women's doubles at the US Women's National Championship with Bertha Townsend
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

.

Doubles Titles

|Date Name and place of tournament Cat. ($) Surf. Partner Finalists Score
1 11/06/1889 US National Champ’s
Philadelphia
G. Slam Grass (ext.)   Bertha Townsend
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

  Marian Wright
  Laura Knight
Laura Knight
Dame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...

6-0, 6-2 1889 US Open (tennis)

Doubles finals lost

|Date Name and place of tournament Cat. ($) Surf. Winners Partner Score
1 10/06/1890 US National Champ’s
Philadelphia
G. Slam Grass (ext.)   Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player.She won the women's singles title and the women's doubles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships and the mixed doubles title at the 1893 U.S. Championships.A first cousin of Franklin D...


  Grace Roosevelt
Grace Roosevelt
Grace Walton Roosevelt was a right-handed American tennis player of the end of the 19th century, born in Hyde Park, New York....

  Bertha Townsend
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

6-1, 6-2 1890 US Open (tennis)

Performance at Grand Slams (partial)

Although the term "Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

" refers to the four most important tennis tournaments, it was only used for the first time in 1933, and did not become widely used until the 1950s.

Singles

Year - - Wimbledon US National
1890
1890 in sports
-American football:College championship* College football national championship – Harvard Crimson-Association football:England* The Football League – Preston North End 33 points, Everton 31, Blackburn Rovers 27, Wolves 25, West Bromwich Albion 25, Accrington FC 24* FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers...

- - - 1/2 final   Lida Voorhees

Result, final opponent

Doubles

Year - - Wimbledon US National
1889
1889 in sports
-American football:College championship* College football national championship – Princeton Tigers-Association football:England* The Football League – Preston North End 40 points, Aston Villa 29, Wolves 28, Blackburn Rovers 26, Bolton Wanderers 22, West Bromwich Albion 22* FA Cup final – Preston...

- - - Winner
  B. Townsend
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

  M. Wright
  Laura Knight
Laura Knight
Dame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...

1890
1890 in sports
-American football:College championship* College football national championship – Harvard Crimson-Association football:England* The Football League – Preston North End 33 points, Everton 31, Blackburn Rovers 27, Wolves 25, West Bromwich Albion 25, Accrington FC 24* FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers...

- - - Final
  B. Townsend
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

  E. Roosevelt
Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player.She won the women's singles title and the women's doubles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships and the mixed doubles title at the 1893 U.S. Championships.A first cousin of Franklin D...


  G. Roosevelt
Grace Roosevelt
Grace Walton Roosevelt was a right-handed American tennis player of the end of the 19th century, born in Hyde Park, New York....


Result, partner, final opponent
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