Dorothy Round Little

Dorothy Round Little

Personal information
Date of birth	13 July 1908
Country	United Kingdom
Grand Slam singles championships (3)
Australian Championships	1935
Wimbledon	1934, 1937

Dorothy Edith Round Little (13 July 1908 – 12 November 1982 in Kidderminster, England) 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 No. 1 in those rankings 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

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (3)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1934	Wimbledon	Helen Hull Jacobs	6–2, 5–7, 6–3
1935	Australian Championships	Nancy Lyle Glover	1–6, 6–1, 6–3
1937	Wimbledon	Jadwiga Jędrzejowska	6–2, 2–6, 7–5

Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1933	Wimbledon	Helen Wills Moody	6–4, 6–8, 6–3

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.

See also

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

External links

• International Tennis Hall of Fame