Doris (Doë) Metaxa | |
Fullname: | Doris Metaxa Howard |
Birth Date: | 1911 6, df=y |
Frenchopenresult: | 3R (1931, 1932) |
Wimbledonresult: | 4R (1932) |
Frenchopendoublesresult: | QF (1931, 1934) |
Wimbledondoublesresult: | W (1932) |
Frenchopenmixedresult: | 1R (1929, 1930) |
Wimbledonmixedresult: | QF (1934) |
Doris Metaxa Howard (née Metaxa; 12 June 1911 – 7 September 2007) was a French tennis player of the 1930s.
In 1932, she won Wimbledon title in the women's doubles with Belgian Josane Sigart against Elizabeth Ryan and Helen Jacobs, one year after a finals defeat with the same partner.[1]
Two weeks after this success, she married the British rugby player Peter Dunsmore Howard.
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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Loss | 1931 | Wimbledon Championships | Grass | Josane Sigart | Phyllis King Dorothy Shepherd | 6–3, 3–6, 4–6 | |
Winr | 1932 | Wimbledon Championships | Grass | Josane Sigart | Elizabeth Ryan Helen Jacobs | 6–4, 6–3 |