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Joan Cowell O'Meara Ridley (11 July 1903 – 1983) was a female British tennis player who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. Ridley was a semifinalist at the 1931 Wimbledon Championships where she lost in straight sets to Helen Jacobs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/1929/LS/rSs1.html )〕 In 1932 she also reached the semifinal at the U.S. Championships which she lost in three sets to Carolin Babcock. Her best Grand Slam result was reaching the final of the mixed doubles event at the 1929 Wimbledon Championships with compatriot Ian Collins. They lost the final in three sets to Anna Harper and George Lott. In 1930 she won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played at the Queen's Club in London, after defeating Joan Fry in the final in straight sets. The previous year, 1929, she was runner-up at the same event to Peggy Saunders Michell. With Stanley Doust she won the mixed doubles covered court title in 1926. In October 1932 and 1933 she won the tennis tournament in White Sulphur Springs.〔 Her forehand drive was her favorite stroke. In 1935 she married Daniel Joseph Patrick O'Meara, a gyneacologist at the West Suffolk Hospital. == Grand Slam finals == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Ridley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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