Mary Heeley
Full name: Gertrude Mary Cartwright Heeley
Alias: Mrs Cartwright
Mrs Bosomworth
Mary Cartwright Heeley
Alias: Mrs Cartwright
Mrs Bosomworth
Mary Cartwright Heeley
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| Bio | She was a British female player. Heeley was born in Birmingham and was educated at the Edgbaston High School. Critics first took serious note of her in 1928, when Mary won the British Junior Championships. In May 1929 she was a runner–up at the British Hard Court Championships losing the final in straight sets to Simonne Mathieu. In 1931 she defeated Jeanette Morfey in the final of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, with the loss of just one game. She did well on the Riviera in France, where she a RU at Beaulieu. At the penultimate round, she was destroyed 6-2 6-0 by world #1 Helen Wills Moody, who concentrated her fire on Heeley's weaker backhand side. In 1932, she won the Kent Championships after a three–sets victory in the final over Freda James. That year she was ranked No.1 in Britain, had earned a win over Simone Mathieu and given a world ranking of No. 6 by Wallis Myers. From November 1932 to January 1933 she was part of a British team touring South Africa. Mary and Norman Farquharson of South Africa lost a close final at Wimbledon in 1933 to the German pair of Gottfried Von Cramm and Hilde Krahwinkel. The score was 7-5 8-6. Her 1932 success at Wimbledon earned her a place on the 1933 Wightman Cup team. This meant a sea voyage across the Atlantic to play in the United States at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, where she lost in the quarters of the singles and the doubles match with Dorothy Round in straight sets to Helen Jacobs and Sarah Palfrey. The Brits then took the train to California to play on the Pacific Coast (where Mary won the Pacific Southwest doubles with Dorothy Round), the finally taking ship for home. By 1934 here salad days of 1931-1933 over. Mary played on without any additional glory until late 1939 when war descended on Europe and ended her tennis days. One of her most successful tournaments was the North of England Championships which she won five times (1930–31, 1935–37). She was still alive when widowed in Cape Town (1992) and passed away 2002. |
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