Ethel Thomson Larcombe

Ethel Larcombe (born Ethel Warneford Thomson on 8 June 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England; died 11 August 1965 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England) was a former British female tennis player. She is best remembered for winning the ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships.

Grand Slam record

Wimbledon

Singles champion: 1912
Singles runner-up: 1914.^[1]

Grand Slam singles finals

Win (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1912¹	Wimbledon	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	6–3, 6–1

¹This was actually the all-comers final as Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers did not defend her 1911 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and, thus, Wimbledon in 1912 by walkover.

Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1914	Wimbledon	Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers	7–5, 6–4

Badminton

As a badminton player, she is the third most successful player ever in the All England Badminton Championships, with 17 titles, 10 of them in women's singles, 5 in women's doubles and 2 in mixed doubles.

Family

She was married to Major Dudley Larcombe, secretary of the All England Club from 1925 to 1939.^[2]

References

^ Hedges, Martin (1978) The Concise Dictionary of Tennis. London: Bison Books; p. 146
^ Hedges, Martin (1978) The Concise Dictionary of Tennis. London: Bison Books; p. 146

[1] Hedges, Martin (1978) The Concise Dictionary of Tennis. London: Bison Books; p. 146

[2] Hedges, Martin (1978) The Concise Dictionary of Tennis. London: Bison Books; p. 146

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