Nancye Wynne
Alias: Nancye Bolton
Mrs George Bolton
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| Bio | Nancye Wynne Bolton was a female tennis player from Australia. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Championships, second only to Margaret Court who won 11 titles. Bolton won 20 titles at the Australian Championships, second only to Court's 21 titles. Despite having her career disrupted by the Second World War, Nancy Wynne Bolton earned the right to be classified as one of the greatest Australian women ever to play the game. An enduring figure in her nation, she was a force from the middle of the 1930s until the early 1950s. According to Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Bolton was ranked in the world top ten in 1938, 1947, and 1948 (no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945), reaching a career high of World No. 4 in those rankings in 1947 and 1948. According to Ned Potter of American Lawn Tennis magazine, Bolton was the second ranked player in 1947, just behind Louise Brough Clapp. Tall and powerful, determined and reliable, she fashioned victories through the force of her will, the assertiveness of her playing style, and unfailingly sound match-playing instincts. She married George Bolton on 6 July 1940. He was a RAAF pilot and was killed in May 1942 during a raid on Germany. Bolton was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. |
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