Jenny Sandison
Full name: Jenny Janet Sandison
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| Bio | Her family was from Kharagpur in Bengal. The Sandison sisters belonged to an Anglo-Indian family coming from a small Railway colony of Kharagpur, West Bengal. Jenny won the All India singles title at Allahabad seven times and the Bengal title six times. She became the undisputed No.1 tennis player for a straight six years between 1930 to 1935 and in a tournament in Europe, she once beat Betty Nuthall at Surbiton in 1930. Months later Nuthall became the 1930 US champion. Jenny was the first player of Indian origin to play at Wimbledon in 1929 but lost in the first round. The 1929 and 1930 Wimbledon entries were her only chances to compete in a grand slam. She appears to have supported herself as a typist while in England from 1929 to 1930. On October 4, 1930 Jenny departed on the ship the Mulbera bound for Calcutta. The rest of her career was played strictly on the Indian subcontinent. Jenny was the winner of at least 20 singles titles from the 1927 All India Championship at Allahabad to Calcutta in 1938. The 1930 Beckenham (Kent Championships) was her most noteworthy. She married to Terence Boland. |
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