Birgit Gullbrandsson-Sandén
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Birgit "Bibbi" Gullbrandsson (married name Sandén, 22 August 1916 – 6 January 2006[1]), was a Swedish tennis player. She won the women's Swedish Open in 1954.
Tennis career[]
Beginning in 1938 when she was 22, Bibbi Gullbrandsson won 49 Swedish national championships, 16 in singles. She often partnered in doubles with .
Like many others, she lost several years of international competitive opportunities to World War II. After the war, she won the women's Swedish Open in 1954, defeating Milly Vagn-Nielsen in straight sets, and in 1955, when she was 39, she won the German Tennis Championship.
Personal life[]
Gullbrandsson was born in Kalmar.[2] She lived in Stockholm for most of her life, and worked in cartography. For most of her playing career she belonged to the ; at the end of her career she transferred to the .
References[]
- ^ "Register till dödannonser i Svenska Dagbladet 2006" Archived 2015-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, ABC.se, retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "Gullbrandsson, Birgit (Bibbi)", Vem är det?: Svensk biografisk handbok, Volume 20 (1950 ed.) p. 362, (in Swedish).
Sources[]
- Mats Hasselqvist, Salkbollen, 2006, no. 1. (in Swedish)
- Göran Tholerus, Ett sekel av svensk tennis, centennial celebration volume, Stockholm: Kungliga lawn tennis klubben, 1996, ISBN 9789163043086. (in Swedish)
External links[]
- "Bibbi Gullbrandsson (SWE)", Ladies' singles, Wimbledon.com (pdf)
- "Bibbi Gullbrandsson (SWE)", Ladies' doubles, Wimbledon.com (pdf)
- "Bibbi Gullbrandsson (SWE)", Mixed doubles, Wimbledon.com (pdf)
- Swedish female tennis players
- 1916 births
- 2006 deaths