Winifred McNair

Playing career

Winifred Margaret Slocock was born at Donnington, near Newbury, on 9 August 1877, the youngest of six children of Charles Slocock, a banker, and his wife Mary. Before her tennis career took off she was a member of the Society of Women Journalists, from 1903 to 1907. In April 1908 she married Roderick McNair, a stockbroker and amateur player who later became the first President of the International Lawn Tennis Federation, and she played thereafter as Mrs R. J. McNair.

She played Wimbledon fifteen times between 1906 and 1925. Her best years were 1912 and 1913: she won the Kent Championships at Beckenham in 1912, beating Dora Boothby in the final, and in 1913 she reached the All-Comers singles final at Wimbledon and, with Boothby, won the first ladies' doubles championship held there. She reached the semi-finals of the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1921 and 1922.

At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, a few days after her 43rd birthday, she won the women's doubles with Kitty McKane. As her tennis wound down she took up golf seriously, playing for Middlesex and for England. She died in Kensington on 28 March 1954.

On grass

Every grass title: 2

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
1913	Women's doubles	with Dora Boothby
Kent Championships (Beckenham)
1912	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