Kathleen McKane Godfree

Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896 to 1992), known as Kitty, was a British tennis and badminton player and the joint second most decorated female British Olympian, level with Katherine Grainger. She won five Olympic medals in tennis at the 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris games and took the Wimbledon singles title in 1924, when she came back to beat Helen Wills in the final, and again in 1926. She was ranked in the world top ten from 1921 to 1927 and reached world number two in 1923, 1924 and 1926. In 1926 she and her husband Leslie won the Wimbledon mixed doubles, the only married couple to do so. She also won eight All England badminton championships between 1920 and 1925. She entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1978 and died at the age of 96.