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Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree (7 May 1896 – 19 June 1992) was a British tennis and badminton player. According to Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail'', Godfree was ranked in the world top ten from 1921 (when the rankings began) through 1927, reaching a career high of World No. 2 in those rankings in 1923, 1924, and 1926.〔(Kitty and King George V. at Wimbledon 1926 in The Illustrated London News )〕 Godfree won five Olympic medals in tennis at the 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris games, the most Olympic medals ever won by a tennis player.〔(Blue Plaque for Kathleen "Kitty" Godfree, Wimbledon Champion )〕 In 1923 she captured the title at the World Covered Court Championships. Godfree won the Wimbledon singles title twice. In the 1924 final, Godfree recovered from a set and 4–1 (40–15) down against Helen Wills Moody to win the title. This was the only defeat at Wimbledon for Moody who would go on to win eight titles. In the 1926 final, Godfree recovered from a 3–1 and game-point-against deficit in the third set to defeat Lili de Alvarez. The 1924 Wimbledon final was not Godfree's only victory over Moody. Godfree also defeated Moody during the 1924 Wightman Cup 6–2, 6–2.〔Collins, Bud (2008) p.565〕 On at least two other occasions, Godfree pushed Moody to the limit. Moody won their quarterfinal in the 1923 U.S. Championships 2–6, 6–2, 7–5 after Godfree recovered to 5–5 in the third set after trailing 5–2.〔 And in the final of the 1925 U.S. Championships, Moody won in three sets. In 1925, Godfree became the first person to have reached the singles finals of the French Championships, Wimbledon, and U.S. Championships during her career. In 1922, Kitty and her sister Margaret McKane Stocks were the only sisters to contest a Wimbledon doubles final (until Serena and Venus Williams reached the final in 2000), losing to Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan 6–0, 6–4.〔 Godfree's lifetime record at Wimbledon was 38–11 in singles, 33–12 in women's doubles, and 40–12 in mixed doubles.〔 Godfree received a Centenary medallion on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 1977.〔 She presented the winner's trophy to Martina Navratilova in 1986, in honor of the centenary year of play at Wimbledon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6070862.stm )〕 Godfree was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1978. In badminton, Godfree won eight All England Open Badminton Championships from 1920 through 1925, considered the unofficial World Badminton Championships〔(The History of All England Championships )〕 until 1977. == 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「Kathleen McKane Godfree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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