Marguerite Broquedis

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| fullname = Marguerite Marie Broquedis-Billout-Bordes

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| birth_place = Pau, France

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| death_place = Orléans, France

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Marguerite Marie Broquedis ({{IPA|fr|maʁɡ(ə)ʁit bʁɔk(ə)di}}; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2445 |title=Marguerite Broquedis |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 June 2021}} In major tournaments she won the singles title at the 1912 World Hard Court Championships, and the mixed doubles at the 1927 French Championships.

Biography

Broquedis was born on 17 April 1893 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/marguerite-broquedis-billout-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201332/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/marguerite-broquedis-billout-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Marguerite Broquedis Olympic Results |access-date=2013-05-15 |work=sports-reference.com}} She moved with her family to Paris around the turn of the century and started playing tennis on two dusty courts that were part of the Galerie des machines. Later she joined the Racing Club de France.

Broquedis competed at the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm, where she won the gold medal in outdoor singles by beating German Dora Köring in a three-sets final. She won the bronze medal partnering Albert Canet in mixed doubles. In 1913 and 1914, she won the French championships,The French championships were only open to players from French clubs at the time. beating 15-year-old Suzanne Lenglen in the 1914 final. Broquedis, nicknamed "the goddess", is also known for being the only player ever to beat Lenglen in a fully played singles final.{{cite book|last1=Tinling|first1=Ted|author-link=Ted Tinling|title=Love and Faults : Personalities Who Have Changed the History of Tennis in My Lifetime|date=1979|publisher=Crown Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-0517533055|pages=15–16}} She also took part in the 1924 Olympics at Paris but could not win any medal there.

Her career singles highlights include winning the French Covered Court Championships on six occasions (1910, 1912–13, 1922, 1925, and 1927). In addition, she also won the Coupe de la Villa Primrose seven times (1907, 1911, 1923, 1925, and 1927–29), the Cabourg International three times (1920–22) and the Tournoi International d'Aix-Les-Bains two times (1924, 1927).

From 1925 to 1927, Broquedis had another successful time in her tennis career, reaching the singles semifinals at Wimbledon in 1925 and the quarterfinals twice at the (now fully international) French championships in 1925 and 1927. Moreover, she won the mixed doubles title partnering Jean Borotra at Paris in 1927. She was ranked world No. 9 by A. Wallis Myers in 1925.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Bud |author-link=Bud Collins |year=2010 |title=History of Tennis |edition=2nd |location=New York City |publisher=New Chapter press |isbn=978-0942257700 |page=721}}

Broquedis died in Orléans in 1983, aged 90.