Colette Rosambert

Colette Rosambert, also known as Colette Rosambert-Boegner and born Colette Rosenberg, was a French tennis player, born on 10 December 1910 and died on 17 April 1987. She was the daughter of the Polish Jewish emigrant Willy Rosenberg from Gdańsk and the American Madeleine Sinauer, and she learned tennis from the professional Albert Burke in Deauville. She reached the final of the women's doubles at the French Open in 1933 with her compatriot Sylvie Jung Henrotin, and in 1934 she won the mixed doubles there with Jean Borotra. In 1933 she won the All England Plate, the competition held at the Wimbledon Championships for players beaten in the first or second round of the singles, and in 1934 she won the singles title at the French Covered Court Championships. She married the journalist Philippe Boegner.