Joan Fry

{{Short description|British tennis player (1906–1985)}}

{{for multi|the advocate of early childhood education in Australia|Joan Fry (educator)|the English Quaker campaigner for peace and social reform|Joan Mary Fry}}

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Joan Craddock Fry (6 May 1906 – 29 September 1985)[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp65940/joan-fry-mrs-ta-lakeman National Portrait Gallery, London, Joan Fry (Mrs T.A. Lakeman) (1906-1985), Tennis player] was a British tennis player. Fry was a finalist at the 1925 Wimbledon Championships where she lost in straight sets to Suzanne Lenglen.{{cite web|title=Ladies' Singles Finals 1884-2016|url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/roll_of_honour/ladiessingles.html|website=www.wimbledon.com|publisher=AELTC}}

She was part of the British team that won the 1930 Wightman Cup against the United States. She lost her singles matches to Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs but together with Ermyntrude Harvey won the doubles match against Sarah Palfrey and Edith Cross.

In 1930 she was a finalist at the British Covered Court Championships, played at the Queen's Club in London.

On 12 November 1930 she married Thomas Ashley Lakeman, a lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps.{{cite news|title=Joan Fry to Wed Nov. 12|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XL0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S4wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6697%2C3233529|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=21 October 1930|page=8|via=Google News Archive}}