Joan Curry

Patricia Joan Curry was an English squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row from 1947-49. Her toughest victory was in 1948, when she beat the 10-time British Open winner Janet Morgan in five sets. She was also the runner-up at the championship three consecutive times from 1950-52.[1][2]

In tennis she won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships in 1949 after a two sets victory in the final against Jean Quertier, conceding just one game.[3] The following year, 1950, she lost her title to Quertier who beat her in the final in three sets.[4] At the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth she was a singles runner-up to Australian Nancye Bolton in 1947 and won the title in 1949 and 1950, against Quertier and Mary Terán de Weiss in the final respectively.[4] In 1946 and 1950 she was part of the British team that took part in the Wightman Cup, the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain.[4]

References

  1. ↑ British Open Men's and Women's Champions Archived 2010-01-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ British Open Hall of Fame Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ G.P. Hughes, ed. (1950). Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack 1950. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. p. 157.
  4. 1 2 3 G.P. Hughes, ed. (1951). Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack 1951. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. pp. 158, 293.


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