Dora Boothby

Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby was an English tennis and badminton player, born in Finchley, Middlesex on 2 August 1881 and dead on 22 February 1970. She is best remembered for winning the ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships, where the all-comers final winner took the title by walkover because the 1908 champion Charlotte Cooper Sterry did not defend. In badminton she won the 1909 All England Championships in the mixed doubles. She took a silver medal in the women's singles at the 1908 Summer Olympics, and in 1909 she also won the British Covered Court Championships singles on wooden courts at Queen's Club. In 1911 she became the first woman to lose a Wimbledon final without winning a game, falling 6-0, 6-0 to Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers. She married the architect Arthur C. Geen in 1914.