Eileen Bennett
Full name: Eileen Vivian Bennett
Alias: Mrs E.O.Fearnley-Whittingstall
Mrs M.M.Marsh
Mrs G.Akroyd
Mrs C.V.Forslind
Alias: Mrs E.O.Fearnley-Whittingstall
Mrs M.M.Marsh
Mrs G.Akroyd
Mrs C.V.Forslind
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| Bio | Eileen Bennett was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931. Although most of her success was in women's doubles or mixed doubles, Whittingstall reached the singles final of the 1928 French Championships and the 1931 US Championships. She lost both of those finals to Helen Wills Moody, 1–6, 2–6 in 1928 and 4–6, 1–6 in 1931. She twice won the women's doubles title at the French Championships, in 1928 with Phoebe Holcroft Watson and in 1931 with Betty Nuthall Shoemaker. Whittingstall and Shoemaker lost the 1932 final to the team of Moody and Elizabeth Ryan. Whittingstall teamed with Ermyntrude Harvey to reach the 1928 women's doubles final at Wimbledon, losing to the team of Watson and Peggy Saunders 2–6, 3–6. She also teamed with Shoemaker to win the 1931 women's doubles title at the US Championships, defeating Helen Jacobs and Dorothy Round Little in the final 6–2, 6–4. Whittingstall twice partnered with Henri Cochet to win the mixed doubles title at the French Championships. In both 1928 and 1929, they defeated the team of Moody and Frank Hunter in the final. Whittingstall and Cochet lost the 1930 French final to the team of Bill Tilden and Cilly Aussem. Whittingstall and Cochet won the mixed doubles title at the 1927 US Championships, defeating Hazel Wightman and René Lacoste in the final. According to A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Whittingstall was ranked in the world top ten in 1928, 1929, 1931, and 1932, reaching a career high of World No. 3 in those rankings in 1931. She was married in 1929 to Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall, a painter, and divorced in 1936. She married Marcus Marsh, a racehorse trainer, on September 28, 1936 and gave birth to a daughter on March 7 1937. She was divorced from Mr Marsh in early 1947 and married Mr Geoffrey Ackroyd in June 1947. She married for a fourth and final time in June 1957 to Mr Carl Vyvyan Forslind who outlived her. She is credited with first wearing an above-the-knee form of divided skirt for competitive tennis. |
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