1. Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom.
12 Facts About Kay Stammers
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Left-handed and with a good forehand, Kay Stammers played an attacking style of tennis and was trained by Dan Maskell.
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Kay Stammers played when Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble, and Pauline Betz dominated.
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At the 1935 Kent Championships in Beckenham, England, Kay Stammers became the first British player to beat Wills Moody in 11 years.
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Kay Stammers won the women's doubles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1935 and 1936 with partner Freda James.
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Kay Stammers won the women's doubles title at the 1935 French International Championships with partner Peggy Scriven.
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Kay Stammers designed her own shorts in uncrushable linen cut full to four inches above the knee and wore them with an open-necked shirt.
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Kay Stammers dated John F Kennedy and was photographed with him at the Kennedy family's Hyannis Port compound.
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Kay Stammers laid out and maintained an English garden and indulged her passion for racehorses.
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Kay Stammers helped run the annual steeplechases on the estate course in aid of a children's charity and, under the Oxmoor Charities Corporation, helped to plan schooling for event riders and summer concerts.
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Kay Stammers continued to be interested in tennis throughout her life and attended Wimbledon annually until her age made it impossible to travel.
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Kay Stammers died at her home in Louisville, Kentucky on 23 December 2005 and was buried in the family cemetery on 28 December 2005.