Doris Metaxa

{{Short description|French tennis player (1911–2007)}}

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|name = Doris (Doë) Metaxa

|image = File:Doris Metaxa (1928).jpg

|caption = Doris Metaxa (1928)

|fullname = Doris Metaxa Howard

|country = {{FRA}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1911|6|12}}

|birth_place = Marseille, France{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Gordon|author-link=Gordon Lowe|title=Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annual|year=1933|publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode|location=London|page=233}}

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2007|9|7|1911|6|12}}

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|FrenchOpenresult = 3R (1931, 1932)

|Wimbledonresult = 4R (1932)

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|FrenchOpenDoublesresult = QF (1931, 1934)

|WimbledonDoublesresult = W (1932)

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|FrenchOpenMixedresult = 1R (1929, 1930)

|WimbledonMixedresult = QF (1934)

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Doris Metaxa Howard ({{née|Metaxa}}; 12 June 1911 – 7 September 2007) was a French tennis player of the 1930s.

Metaxa won the junior championships of France in 1927 and 1928. She was a member of Racing Club de France.

In 1932, she won Wimbledon title in the women's doubles with Belgian Josane Sigart against Elizabeth Ryan and Helen Jacobs, one year after a finals defeat with the same partner.{{cite web|title=Wimbledon players archive – Doris Howard (Metaxa)|url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/f129fd30-43d8-4e4b-b404-c81496973318/index.html|publisher=AELTC}}

Two weeks after this victory, she married the British rugby player Peter Dunsmore Howard. They had three children, including Philip Howard, a journalist who worked for The Times.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/15/philip-howard-obituary |title=Philip Howard obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 October 2014|author=Anthony Howard}}

Grand Slam finals

=Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)=

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style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss1931

| style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon

| Grass

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Josane Sigart

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Phyllis King
{{flagicon|GBR}} Dorothy Shepherd

| 6–3, 3–6, 4–6

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win1932

| style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon

| Grass

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Josane Sigart

| {{flagicon|USA}} Elizabeth Ryan
{{flagicon|USA}} Helen Jacobs

| 6–4, 6–3

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