11 Facts About Blanche Bingley

Blanche Bingley Hillyard was an English tennis player.

Blanche Bingley won six singles Wimbledon championships and was runner up seven times, having competed in the first ever Wimbledon championships for women in 1884.

Blanche Bingley won the Irish Championships three times ; the German International Championships twice ; and the South of England Championships at Eastbourne, 11 times between 1885 and 1905.

Blanche Bingley won the Irish Championships on three occasions and the German International Championships, played in Hamburg twice; in 1897, defeating Charlotte Cooper Sterry in the final in three sets, and in 1900 against Muriel Robb, in three sets.

Blanche Bingley won the Sussex Championships at Brighton five times.

Blanche Bingley won the London Championships at Stamford Bridge three times, the Derbyshire Championships at Buxton six times, the Exmouth LTC Tournament two times at Exmouth, the British Covered Court Championships, the Bournemouth Open Tournament at Bournemouth,.

Blanche Bingley's husband was one of the foremost men's players on the international tennis circuit between 1886 and 1914.

Blanche Bingley played first class cricket for Middlesex and Leicestershire.

Blanche Bingley died in Bramfold, Pulborough, on 24 March 1943.

Blanche Bingley Hillyard died at her home in Pulborough, West Sussex, in 1946.

Blanche Bingley was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.