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Betsy Abbas

{{Short description|Egyptian tennis player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox tennis biography

| name = Betsy Abbas

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| country_represented = {{Flagu|South Africa|1928}}
{{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Egypt

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| highestsinglesranking =

| FrenchOpenresult = QF (1960)

| Wimbledonresult = 3R (1954)

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| highestdoublesranking =

| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 2R (1954, 1959, 1961)

| WimbledonDoublesresult = 3R (1952)

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| AustralianOpenMixedresult =

| FrenchOpenMixedresult = 3R (1954)

| WimbledonMixedresult = 4R (1952)

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Beatrice "Betsy" Abbas (née Venter born 1930s) is a South African-born Egyptian former tennis player.

She played in singles in the 1960 French Championships. She lost to Mexican player Yola Ramírez in the quarterfinals.{{cite web |url= http://www.fft.fr/rolandgarros/pdfpalmares/femmes1960_en.pdf |title= Official 1960 Women's Draw |access-date= 2007-04-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930212001/http://www.fft.fr/rolandgarros/pdfpalmares/femmes1960_en.pdf |archive-date= 2007-09-30 |url-status= dead }} {{small|(69.6 KiB)}} on the French Open website.

She played in singles at the Wimbledon in 1952. She lost to the British Pat Harrison in the second round.{{cite web|title=1952 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Draws|url=https://assets.wimbledon.com/archive/draws/pdfs/draws/1952_LS_A4.pdf|publisher=wtafiles}} Her partner in women's doubles, British Doreen Spiers, lost in the third round to British players Molly Blair and Mary Halford.{{cite web|title=1952 Wimbledon Ladies Doubles Draws|url=https://assets.wimbledon.com/archive/draws/pdfs/draws/1952_LD_A4.pdf|publisher=wtafiles}} Her partner in mixed doubles, Władysław Skonecki, lost in the fourth round to Australian player Lew Hoad and American Dorothy Head Knode.{{cite web|title=1952 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Draws|url=https://assets.wimbledon.com/archive/draws/pdfs/draws/1952_MX_A4.pdf|publisher=wtafiles}}

In 1954 Wimbledon she lost to American Margaret Osborne duPont in the third round.{{cite web|title=1954 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Draws|url=https://assets.wimbledon.com/archive/draws/pdfs/draws/1954_LS_A4.pdf|publisher=wtafiles}}

Career finals

= Singles (7–3) =

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!Result

!No.

!Year

!Location

!Surface

!Opponent

!Score

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|1

|March 1947

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Billie Yorke

|6–1, 2–6, 3–6

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|1.

|March 1952

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Simonne Mathieu

|6–1, 6–4

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|2.

|November 1953

|Maadi, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul

|6–1, 6–1

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|3.

|December 1953

|Heliopolis, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul

|6–2, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|4.

|February 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul

|6–0, 6–2

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|2

|March 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRG}} Totte Zehden

|3–6, 3–6

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|5.

|March 1954

|Alexandria, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRG}} Totte Zehden

|4–6, 6–2, 6–3

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|3.

|June 1954

|Torquay, United Kingdom

|Hard

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Patricia Ward Hales

|0–6, 3–6

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|6.

|November 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GRE|old}} Xantippe Vassiliadou

|6–2, 6–1

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|7.

|March 1956

|Heliopolis, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Esther Saul

|2–6, 6–4, 6–1

= Doubles (11–7) =

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!Result

!No.

!Year

!location

!Surface

!Partner

!Opponents

!Score

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|1.

|March 1947

|Alexandria, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Annalisa Bossi

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Suzanne Pannetier
{{flagicon|GBR}} Billie Yorke

|1–6, 4–6

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|2.

|September 1949

|Athens, Greece

|Clay

|{{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Georgina Greiss

|{{flagicon|GBR}} John Curry
{{flagicon|GBR}} Peggy Dawson-Scott

|0–6, 3–6

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|3.

|March 1952

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Georgina Greiss

|{{flagicon|USA}} Shirley Fry
{{flagicon|USA}} Doris Hart

|6–8, 4–6

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|4.

|February 1953

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Georgina Greiss

|{{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy Head Knode
{{flagicon|FRA}} Maud Galtier

|4–6, 7–9

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|5.

|March 1953

|Alexandria, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Patricia Ward Hales

|{{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy Head Knode
{{flagicon|FRA}} Maud Galtier

|7–9, 3–6

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

| 1.

| November 1953

| Maadi, Egypt

| Clay

| {{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Georgina Greiss

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul
{{flagicon|GBR}} Ingrid Smith

| 6–0, 2–6, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

| 2.

| December 1953

|Heliopolis, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Georgina Greiss

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul
{{flagicon|GBR}} Ingrid Smith

| 6–4, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|3.

|February 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Andree Eid

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Esther Saul
{{flagicon|GRE|old}} Xenia Vassiliadis

|6–4, 6–3

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|4.

| March 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Patricia Ward Hales

| {{flagicon|FRG}} Totte Zehden
{{flagicon|USA}} Mary Kay Morris

|6–0, 6–3

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|5.

| March 1954

|Alexandria, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Patricia Ward Hales

| {{flagicon|FRG}} Totte Zehden
{{flagicon|USA}} Mary Kay Morris

|6–2, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|6.

|June 1954

|Torquay, United Kingdom

|Hard

|{{flagicon|GBR}} Patricia Ward Hales

|{{flagicon|USA}} Barbara Bradley
{{flagicon|USA}} Barbara Kimbrell

|2–6, 6–2, 7–5

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|7.

|November 1954

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Andree Eid

| {{flagicon|EGY|1922}} Rona Hamdy
{{flagicon|USA}} Evelyn Houseman

|6–3, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|8.

|March 1956

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|USA}} Althea Gibson

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Angela Mortimer
{{flagicon|AUS}} Jenny Staley Hoad

|6–3, 7–5

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|9.

|March 1956

|Alexandria, Egypt

|Clay

| {{flagicon|USA}} Althea Gibson

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Angela Mortimer
{{flagicon|AUS}} Jenny Staley Hoad

|6–3, 6–1

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|6.

|September 1959

|Paris, France

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Ginette Bucaille

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Monique Coste
{{flagicon|FRA}} Maud Galtier

|1–6, 2–6

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|10.

|September 1961

|Paris, France

|Clay

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Maud Galtier

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Florence de la Courtie-Billat
{{flagicon|FRA}} Anne-Marie Seghers

|5–7, 6–3, 0–6

style="background:#ffa07a;" |Loss

|7.

|October 1961

|Cannes, France

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Maud Galtier

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Florence de la Courtie-Billat
{{flagicon|FRA}} Françoise Dürr

|2–6, 1–6

style="background:#98fb98;" |Win

|11.

|July 1962

|Paris, France

|Clay

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Irene de Lanslut

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Henriette Siarry
{{flagicon|FRA}} Claudine Pierval

|4–6, 6–2, 6–4

References

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Category:1930s births

Category:South African people of British descent

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