Ethel Thomson Larcombe

Ethel Larcombe, born Ethel Warneford Thomson, was a British tennis and badminton player who won the ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships and eleven badminton titles at the All England Badminton Championships. She reached the 1903 All-Comers final, losing to Dorothea Douglass, and returned to the game in 1911 after four years away. In 1912 she beat Charlotte Cooper Sterry in the All-Comers final and received a walkover in the Challenge Round. In 1913 an eye injury suffered in the mixed doubles final forced her to default her title defence. She also won the Scottish singles title three times, and died in 1965.