Betty Batt Explained

Betty Batt
Birth Date:7 February 1916
Plays:Right-handed
Wimbledonresult:3R (1948)
Wimbledondoublesresult:QF (1946)
Wimbledonmixedresult:4R (1939, 1946)

Betty Batt (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.

A London native, Batt won the British junior hard court title in 1934 and featured in her first Wimbledon main draw the following year.[1] In 1946 she appeared for Great Britain in the Wightman Cup, partnering Molly Lincoln in doubles, then two weeks later made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals with Lincoln.[2]

Batt's first marriage, in 1940, was to Noel Passingham, with whom she had one child.[3] She divorced Passingham in 1949 and soon after was married to Frank Martin-Davies, a colonial administrator in Nigeria.[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: New Threat For The Helen Wills Crown . . 23 February 1934.
  2. News: American's Wightman Cup Players Blank British Girls . . 15 June 1946.
  3. News: Decree for Tennis Player's Husband . . 15 February 1949.
  4. News: 18-Yr.-Old Beats Seeded Player . . 18 May 1950.