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Betty Batt (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.

A London native, Batt won the British junior hard court title in 1934 and featured in her first Wimbledon main draw the following year.[1] In 1946 she appeared for Great Britain in the Wightman Cup, partnering Molly Lincoln in doubles, then two weeks later made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals with Lincoln.[2]

Batt's first marriage, in 1940, was to Noel Passingham, with whom she had one child.[3] She divorced Passingham in 1949 and soon after was married to Frank Martin-Davies, a colonial administrator in Nigeria.[4]

References

  1. ^ "New Threat For The Helen Wills Crown". The Kingston Whig-Standard. 23 February 1934.
  2. ^ "American's Wightman Cup Players Blank British Girls". Sioux City Journal. 15 June 1946.
  3. ^ "Decree for Tennis Player's Husband". The Gloucestershire Echo. 15 February 1949.
  4. ^ "18-Yr.-Old Beats Seeded Player". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 18 May 1950.
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