Kay Stammers
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| Full name | Katherine Esther Stammers |
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| Country (sports) |
 United Kingdom
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| Born |
3 April 1914 St Albans, England |
| Died | 23 December 2005 (aged 91) Louisville, USA |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | QF (1934) |
| Wimbledon | F (1939) |
| US Open | SF (1935, 1936, 1939) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1935) |
| Wimbledon | W (1935, 1936) |
| US Open | F (1939) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| US Open | F (1935) |
Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers (3 April 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom.
Stammers was born in St Albans, United Kingdom where her parents taught her to play tennis on the grass court at their family home. Left-handed and with a good forehand, Stammers played an attacking style of tennis and was trained by Dan Maskell.
Stammers played in an era when the women's game was dominated by Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, and Alice Marble. But Stammers defeated Jacobs in a 1939 Wimbledon semifinal and in singles matches at the 1935 and 1936 Wightman Cup. At the 1935 Kent championships in Beckenham, England, Stammers became the first British player to beat Moody in 11 years.
According to A. Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Stammers was ranked in the world top ten in 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, and 1946, reaching a career high of World No. 2 in those rankings in 1939.
Stammers won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1935 and 1936 with partner Freda James Hammersley. She also won the women's doubles title at the 1935 French Championships with partner Peggy Scriven. Her best performances in women's doubles at the US Championships were in 1936, 1937, and 1938 when she reached the semifinals and in 1939 when she reached the final. In the 1936 semifinal, she and partner Marble were defeated by Jacobs and Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6–2, 21–19. In the 1939 final, she and partner Hammersley lost to Marble and Cooke 6–1, 6–2.
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