Pearl Panton

Pearl Panton
Country (sports) United Kingdom
Born(1921-09-06)6 September 1921[1][2]
Edmonton, London, England
Died2014 (aged 92)
Merton, London, England
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon3R (1946)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon3R (1946, 1955, 1957)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon4R (1955)

Pearl Iris Panton (née Gannon; 6 September 1921 – 2014) was a British tennis player.

Panton, a Surrey county representative, was the elder sister of tennis player Joy Mottram.[3]

On her Wimbledon debut in 1946, Panton made the third round of the singles, losing to Doris Hart. She continued to feature at Wimbledon until 1960 without again reaching that stage.[4]

In 1956 she beat Christine Truman in the final of the Surrey Hard Court Championships in Roehampton.[5]

By the end of the war she had married Robert Panton, a Lieutenant who served in the Pacific.[6] The couple had a baby born in 1949, which they named Joy.[7]

Panton died in Merton, London in 2014, at the age of 92.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Birth registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Pearl Iris Panton". UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Gem Recovers Lead After Poor Start". Daily News. 7 April 1953.
  4. ^ "Pearl Panton". wimbledon.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Christine Truman Beaten In FInal". The Sports Argus. 7 April 1956.
  6. ^ "Oxford's Ex-Captain After Title". Manchester Evening News. 28 August 1945.
  7. ^ "Joy the second". Evening Standard. 20 October 1949.
  8. ^ "Pearl Iris Panton". GRO Index. Retrieved 1 February 2023.