Dorothea Douglass

Dorothea Lambert Chambers

Full name	Dorothea Katherine Douglass Lambert Chambers
Country (sports)	United Kingdom
Born	(1878-09-03)3 September 1878 Ealing, London, England
Died	7 January 1960(1960-01-07) (aged 81) Kensington, London, England
Int. Tennis HoF	1981 (member page)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	W (1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914)
US Open	QF (1925)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	F (1913, 1919, 1920)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	F (1919)
Team competitions
Wightman Cup	W (1925)
Medal record Olympic Games – Tennis 1908 London Singles

Dorothea Lambert Chambers (née Dorothea Katherine Douglass, 3 September 1878 – 7 January 1960) was a British tennis player. She won seven Wimbledon Women's Singles titles and a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

In 1900 Douglass made her singles debut at Wimbledon and, after a bye in the first round, lost her second round match to Louisa Martin. Three years later, she won her first of seven ladies singles titles. On 6 April 1907 she married Robert Lambert Chambers and was thereafter known by her married surname Lambert Chambers.

In 1908 she won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1908 Summer Olympics after a straight-sets victory in the final against compatriot Dora Boothby.

She wrote Tennis for Ladies, which was published in 1910. The book contained photographs of tennis techniques and contained advice on attire and equipment.

In 1911 Lambert Chambers won the women's final at Wimbledon against Dora Boothby 6–0, 6–0. The only other female player who won a Grand Slam singles final without losing a game was Steffi Graf when she defeated Natalia Zvereva in the 1988 French Open final.

In 1919 Lambert Chambers played the longest Wimbledon final up to that time: 44 games against Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen. Lambert Chambers held two match points at 6–5 in the third set but eventually lost to Lenglen 8–10, 6–4, 7–9.

Lambert Chambers only played sporadic singles after 1921 but continued to compete in doubles until 1927. She made the singles quarter-finals of the US Open in 1925 and, from 1924 to 1926, she captained Britain's Wightman Cup team. In the 1925 Wightman Cup edition she played, at the age of 46, a singles (against Eleanor Goss) and doubles match and won both. In 1928 she turned to professional coaching.

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