Dorothy Round Little

Dorothy Round Little

Full name	Dorothy Edith Round Little
Country	United Kingdom
Born	(1908-07-13)13 July 1908 Dudley, Worcestershire, England
Died	12 November 1982(1982-11-12) (aged 74) Kidderminster, Hereford and Worcester, England
Int. Tennis HOF	1986 (member page)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (1935)
Wimbledon	W (1934, 1937)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	W (1934, 1935, 1936)

Dorothy Edith Round Little (13 July 1908 – 12 November 1982) was a World No. 1 British female tennis player. She was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, where she attended the Dudley Girls High School.

Little was a rival of Helen Wills Moody and won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, when Moody was absent, and the Australian Championships in 1935, which Moody never played.

According to Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Little was ranked in the world top ten from 1933 through 1937, reaching a career high of World No1 in 1934.,

Grand Slam record

• Australian Championships
  • Singles champion: 1935

• Wimbledon
  • Singles champion: 1934, 1937
  • Singles runner-up: 1933
  • Mixed Doubles champion: 1934, 1935, 1936

• U.S. Championships
  • Women's Doubles runner-up: 1931

Major finals

Grand Slam tournaments

Singles: 4 (3 wins, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1933	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Helen Wills Moody	6–4, 6–8, 6–3
Winner	1934	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Helen Hull Jacobs	6–2, 5–7, 6–3
Winner	1935	Australian Championships	Grass	Nancy Lyle Glover	1–6, 6–1, 6–3
Winner	1937	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Jadwiga Jędrzejowska	6–2, 2–6, 7–5

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Tournament	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	Career SR
Australian Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	A	A	A	A	1 / 1
French Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0
Wimbledon	1R	2R	3R	QF	QF	F	W	QF	QF	W	A	4R	2 / 11
U.S. Championships	A	A	A	3R	A	SF	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2
SR	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 1	0 / 2	1 / 1	1 / 2	0 / 1	1 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 1	3 / 14

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

Legacy

A portrait in oils on canvas by Dudley artist Philip Guest BSA now permanently hangs in Dudley Museum and Art Gallery.^{[citation needed]} The exhibition of Local Sporting Heroes currently hosts the exhibion of Dorothy Round.

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

External links

• International Tennis Hall of Fame