May Sutton

May Sutton, later May Sutton Bundy, was an American tennis player of the early twentieth century. Born in Plymouth, England, in 1886 and raised on a ranch near Pasadena, California, where she and her sisters learned the game on a court their father built, she won the U.S. National Championships singles title at 17 on her first attempt, the youngest champion in its history. In 1905 she crossed to England and became the first American and the first non-British woman to win Wimbledon, beating the reigning two-time champion Dorothea Douglass Chambers, and so the first woman to hold two different Grand Slam singles titles. She shocked the crowd by rolling up her sleeves and wearing a skirt that showed her ankles. Chambers regained the title in 1906 and Sutton won it back in 1907. She returned to competition after marriage and was selected for the Wightman Cup team.