Madzy Rollin Couquerque

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Madzy Rollin Couquerque
Full nameMagdalena Ferdinanda Maria Rollin Couquerque
Country (sports) Netherlands
Born(1903-04-14)14 April 1903
The Hague, Netherlands
Died16 July 1994(1994-07-16) (aged 91)
The Hague, Netherlands
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (1956)
French OpenSF (1938)
Wimbledon4R (1937)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQF (1929)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon4R (1932, 1933, 1936)

Madzy Rollin Couquerque (14 April 1903 – 16 July 1994) was a Dutch female hockey- and tennis player who was active from the 1920s until the late 1950s. She won 40 national tennis titles and made 37 appearances in the Dutch national hockey team.

Early life and sports career

Madzy Rollin Couquerque was born on 14 April 1903 in The Hague, Netherlands. Her father Louis Marie Rollin Couquerque was a jurist. Her mother died in 1918.[1] After she returned from a boarding school in Bloemendaal in 1921 she started a bookkeeping job at an insurance company which provided her with the income that allowed her to pursue her sports career.[2]

Tennis

Rollin Couquerque became Dutch singles tennis champion 14 times between 1927 and 1947.[3] In 1959, aged 56, she reached her last singles final at the Dutch Championships which she lost to Mientje Vletter-Tettelaar who was half her age. In addition she won 14 doubles titles and 12 mixed doubles titles, making a total of 40 national championship titles during her career.[4][5]

Her best singles results in a

Nelly Adamson.[8]

Between 1928 and 1951 she participated in 15

Henk Timmer
in 1933 and 1936.

In 1929 she won the singles title at the Spanish International Championships, played at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, after a three-sets victory in the final against Ida Adamoff.[10]

She took part in the 1956 Australian Championships, losing in the first round to eventual champion Mary Carter.[11]

Hockey

In the winter months she played field hockey for HOC (HHV-ODIS Combinatie) in The Hague.[a] She made the first team in 1921 which became national champion that year. HOC, with Rollin Couquerque, remained the undefeated national champion until 1935. Rollin Couquerque made her first appearance in the Dutch national team in 1926, playing against Belgium in Brussels as a leftback. She would make 37 national appearances and captained the team in the 1930s until the outbreak of the World War II interrupted her hockey activities.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ In 1951 HOC merged with GHC de Gazellen to form HGC (HOC-Gazellen Combinatie).

References

  1. ^ Jurryt van de Vooren (6 September 2007). "Vergeten sportheld: Madzy Rollin Couquerque" (in Dutch). Sportgeschiedenis.nl.
  2. ^
    KNAW
    .
  3. KNLTB
    .
  4. ^ "Madzy Rollin Couquerque" (in Dutch). Tennismuseum.nl. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  5. .
  6. (pdf) on 2015-04-02.
  7. Fédération Française de Tennis
    (FFT).
  8. Fédération Française de Tennis
    (FFT).
  9. AELTC
    .
  10. Blanco y Negro (in Spanish). 39 (2008). Madrid, Spain
    : Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez Ossorio: 71. 10 November 1929.
  11. ^ "Madzy is still 'tops'". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 23 January 1956. p. 16. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

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