May Sutton Bundy
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| Full name | May Godfrey Sutton Bundy |
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| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Born |
September 25, 1886 Plymouth, England |
| Died | October 4, 1975 (aged 89) Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| Height | 5 ft 4.5 in (1.64 m) |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1956 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 2R (1929) |
| Wimbledon | W (1905, 1907) |
| US Open | W (1904) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| US Open | W (1904) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| US Open | F (1904) |
May Godfrey Sutton (September 25, 1886 – October 4, 1975) was a female American tennis champion who was active during the first decades of the 20th century. At age 17 she won the singles title at the U.S. National Championships and in 1905 she became the first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon.
May Sutton was born on September 25, 1886 in Plymouth, England, the youngest daughter of Adolphus DeGrouchy Sutton, a Captain in the Royal Navy and Adeline Esther Godfray. When she was six years old, Sutton's family moved to a ranch near Pasadena, California. It was there that she and her sisters played tennis on a court built by her father. As young ladies, May and her sisters, Violet Sutton, Florence Sutton, and Ethel Sutton, dominated the California tennis circuit. In addition to being accomplished tennis players, the girls were excellent basketball players. May, Florence and Violet were all on the Pasadena High School basketball team, which went undefeated in 1900. In 1904 at age 17, May Sutton won the singles title at the U.S. Championships. She also teamed with Miriam Hall to win the women's doubles title and came close to making it a clean sweep by advancing to the mixed doubles final.
She was unable to defend her U.S. title as she traveled to England in May 1905 to compete in the Wimbledon Championships. In June she won the grass court Northern Tournament in Manchester, defeating Hilda Lane in the final. Sutton became the first American and first non-British woman to win the Wimbledon singles title when she beat British star and reigning two-time Wimbledon champion Dorothea Douglass Chambers in the challenge round. She did it while shocking the British audience by rolling up her sleeves to bare her elbows and wearing a skirt that showed her ankles. For the next two years, she and Chambers met in the final, with Chambers recapturing the title in 1906 and Sutton winning it back in 1907.
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