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Gladys Smith

tennis player
Full name: Gwendoline Shirley Eastlake Smith
Nickname: Gladys
Alias: Mrs G.Lamplough
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Bio Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith also known as Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith and Gladys Lamplough (after her marriage), was a British tennis player. She won an Olympic gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

She won the All England covered mixed doubles in 1905 with Reginald Doherty. She won the Monte Carlo tournament in 1906, 1907 and 1908, won the London covered court ladies singles in October 1906 and April 1907, and reached the final in October 1907. She won the All England covered mixed doubles a second time in 1908 with Tony Wilding. The same year, she won the Women's indoor singles at the Olympic Games in London. She beat fellow Briton Violet Pinkney 7–5, 7–5 in the quarter-finals; Swede Elsa Wallenberg 6–4, 6–4 in the semi-finals; and fellow Briton Alice Greene 6–2, 4–6, 6–0 in the final.
Born as Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith in Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent on 14 August 1883, she was the daughter of Charles Eastlake Smith and Lizzie Smith (née Cooper). Her father had played football for England in 1876.

Two days after winning the Olympic final, she married Wharram Henry Lamplough a physician and surgeon. They had three children, Shirley (b. 1910), Diana (b. 1912) and Susan (b. 1916).
She reached the semi-finals in the ladies singles at Wimbledon, under her married name, in 1908 and 1910, and won the ladies singles at Queen's in 1910. She won the "Married Doubles" in 1913 with her husband. She last competed in the ladies singles at Wimbledon in 1921.

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