Leela Row Dayal

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Leela Row Dayal
Full nameLeela Reghavendra Row
Country (sports)
Bombay, India
Height4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) [1]
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open2R (1935)
Wimbledon2R (1934)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open1R (1931, 1932)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open1R (1932)

Leela Row Dayal (19 December 1911 – 19 May 1964) was a female tennis player and author from India. She was the first female Indian tennis player to win a match at the Wimbledon Championships. She wrote several books on Indian classical dance in both English and Sanskrit.

Career

Tennis

At the 1934 Wimbledon Championships she became the first Indian female player to win a match, defeating Gladys Southwell in the first round of the singles event. In the second round she was defeated by Ida Adamoff in three sets.[2][3][4] The next year, 1935, she returned but lost in the first round in straight sets to Evelyn Dearman.[2]

She entered the singles competition of the French Championships five times (1931–32, 1934–36) but did not manage to win a match. Her second round result in 1935 was due to a bye in the first round.

Row won seven singles titles at the

Hampshire Lawn Tennis Championships at Bournemouth against Joan Ingram. In 1937 she won the Northern India Championships against Meher Dubash in Lahore
.

The straight backhand drive was her favorite shot.[5]

Author

Row was the author of several books on ancient and modern classical Indian dance.

Natya.[6][8] She also helped to translate many poems made by her mother and converted them into Sankskrit plays.[9]

Personal life

Row was the daughter of Raghavendra Row, a physician,

Ravi Dayal.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Tennis results in England". Daily News. 12 June 1934. p. 7 – via National Library of Australia.
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  3. ^ Soutik Biswas (19 August 2016). "Indian women make history in Rio". BBC News. In 1934, Leela Row, another Anglo-Indian, became the first Indian woman to win a match in Wimbledon.
  4. ISBN 978-0231164900
    . The honor of being the first Indian woman to win a match at Wimbledon went to Leela Row, another Anglo-Indian, who won in the first round in 1934.
  5. ^ a b c Lowe, Gordon (1935). Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annual. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 232.
  6. ^
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  7. ^ Ray Dhaliwal (21 February 1976). "Dancing builds stamina for mountain climbing". New Nation. p. 4 – via NewspapersSG.
  8. ^ "'Natya Chandrika': a study by Leela Row Dayal in English and Sanskrit, with..." The National Archives.
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  10. ^ a b "Leela Row Dayal: The first Indian woman to win a match at Wimbledon". BBC News. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  11. ^ "Harishwar Dayal is dead". The New York Times. 21 May 1964.
  12. ^ Birender Dhanoa [@bsdhanoa] (17 June 2023). "In the 1970s my dad was posted at the Kumaon Regt Centre as the Centre Adjutant. Mrs Dayal, after the passing of her husband, had settled at Ranikhet and was a regular at the Offrs Club and the tennis court there" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 June 2023 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ "Wasted monsoons". Hindustan Times. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
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