Maud Galtier

Maud Galtier was a French tennis player, born in Toulon on 21 April 1913 and died on 7 April 2014, aged 100. She began competing in the 1940s and was originally known by her maiden name, Maud Mottez. She won France's national singles championship title in 1954 and was a two-time winner of the French Covered Court Championships. Partnering Suzanne Schmitt, she made the women's doubles final of the 1954 French Championships, which they lost in three sets to Maureen Connolly and Nell Hall Hopman, with her vision limited after she had sat on her glasses at a changeover. She used an underarm serve and continued to play at the French Championships into the 1960s after she had become a grandmother.