| Pearl Panton | |
| Birth Date: | 1921 9, df=y[1] [2] |
| Birth Place: | Edmonton, London, England |
| Death Date: | 2014 (aged 92) |
| Death Place: | Merton, London, England |
| Wimbledonresult: | 3R (1946) |
| Wimbledondoublesresult: | 3R (1946, 1955, 1957) |
| Wimbledonmixedresult: | 4R (1955) |
Pearl Iris Panton (Gannon; 6 September 1921 – 2014) was a British tennis player.
Panton, a Surrey county representative, was the elder sister of tennis player Joy Mottram.[3]
On her Wimbledon debut in 1946, Panton made the third round of the singles, losing to Doris Hart. She continued to feature at Wimbledon until 1960 without again reaching that stage.[4]
In 1956 she beat Christine Truman in the final of the Surrey Hard Court Championships in Roehampton.[5]
By the end of the war she had married Robert Panton, a Lieutenant who served in the Pacific.[6] The couple had a baby born in 1949, which they named Joy.[7]
Panton died in Merton, London in 2014, at the age of 92.[8]