Dora Boothby

Full name

Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby

Country (sports)

United Kingdom

Born

2 August 1881
Finchley, England

Died

22 February 1970 (aged 88)
Hammersmith, England

Singles

Grand Slam Singles results

Wimbledon

W (1909)

Doubles

Grand Slam Doubles results

Wimbledon

W (1913)

Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results

Wimbledon

3R (1913)

Medal record

Olympic Games – Tennis
	1908 London	Singles

Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was an English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships.

Boothby was born in Finchley and, together with her older sister Gertrude, lived there with her step-parents, Harry and Gertrude Penn. Harry was a civil engineer, and by 1901, they had moved to South Norwood, where she played at Beulah Hill Club, and during the winter months, she played badminton.

In 1908 she won a silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

In 1909 when she won the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon, the runner-up of the Men's Singles, Josiah Ritchie, was also living in Norwood. Additionally that year she won the singles title of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wood courts at the Queen's Club in London, after defeating Madeline O’Neill in the final in straight sets.

In 1911 she became the first female player to lose a Wimbledon final without winning a game, losing to Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–0, 6–0.

In 1914 she married Arthur C.Geen.

She died in Hammersmith or Hampstead, London in 1970.

¹This was actually the all-comers final as Charlotte Cooper Sterry did not defend her 1908 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and, thus, Wimbledon in 1909 by walkover.

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