Yvonne Prévost
Country (sports) | France | ||||||||||||||||
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Born | 8 June 1878 | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 March 1942 | (aged 63)||||||||||||||||
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Yvonne[a] Prévost (8 June 1878 – 3 March 1942) was a French tennis player at the end of the 19th century. She won the French Women's Singles Championship in 1900.[1]
At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris she won two silver medals. In the women's singles final she lost to Charlotte Cooper and in the mixed doubles event she and Harold Mahony were runners-up to Charlotte Cooper and Reginald Doherty.[2][3]
Olympic finals[]
Singles (1 silver medal)[]
Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay | Charlotte Cooper | 1–6, 4–6 |
Mixed Doubles (1 silver medal)[]
Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay | Harold Mahony | Charlotte Cooper Reginald Doherty |
2–6, 4–6 |
Notes[]
- ^ In some sources also known as Hélène Prévost.
References[]
- ^ French Open winners. Retrieved on 13 September 2009.
- ^ "Hélène Prévost Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "Yvonne Prévost". Olympedia. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
External links[]
- Yvonne Prévost at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Yvonne Prévost at the International Tennis Federation
- French Open – Past Women's Singles Champions
- Olympics profile
Categories:
- 1878 births
- 1942 deaths
- French female tennis players
- French Championships (tennis) champions
- Olympic tennis players of France
- Tennis players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- French tennis biography stubs
- French Olympic medalist stubs