Phyllis Mudford King

Playing career

Phyllis Evelyn Mudford was born in Wallington, Surrey, on 23 August 1905 and captained tennis at Sutton High School. She first played Wimbledon in 1928, reached the singles quarter-finals in 1930, and in 1931 won the ladies' doubles with Dorothy Shepherd Barron, an unseeded pair. She played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1935.

In April 1932 she married Maurice Richard King at Reigate and played on as Mrs King. She won the South of England singles at Eastbourne in 1930, 1933 and 1938 and the Kent title at Beckenham in 1931 and 1934, reached the 1935 US Championships singles semi-finals, and lost a second Wimbledon doubles final in 1937 with Elsie Pittman. She kept entering Wimbledon until 1953, with 107 matches in all: 27 wins in singles, 28 in doubles and 13 in mixed.

She remained a guest of the All England Club for decades, at the 75th Championships lunch in 1961 and as one of the Chair's guests in 1987, and left a legacy to the club for a trophy to be played for every year. She died on 27 January 2006, aged 100, then the oldest living Wimbledon champion.

On grass

Every grass title: 6

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
1931	Women's doubles	with Dorothy Shepherd-Barron
Eastbourne
1930	Women's singles† South of England Championships
1933	Women's singles† South of England Championships
1938	Women's singles† South of England Championships
Kent Championships (Beckenham)
1931	Women's singles†
1934	Women's singles†

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions