Violet Pinckney

{{short description|British tennis player}}

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| full_name = Violet Millicent Pinckney

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1871|3|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Alderbury, Wiltshire, England |

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| death_place = New Forest, Hampshire, England

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Violet Millicent Pinckney (11 March 1871 – 13 March 1955) was an English tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/65 |title=Violet Pinckney |work=Olympedia |access-date=12 April 2021}} Pinckney was born at Alderbury, Wiltshire, in 1871 to Major William Pinckney and his wife Frances Charlotte Everett.{{cite web|url=http://www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/g0/p138.htm|title=The Pinckney Family Tree - Violet Millicent Pinckney|website=John-pinckney.co.uk|access-date=3 December 2018}} In 1903 she won the German Championships. She took part in the 1908 Summer Olympics, but lost in the initial round to Gladys Eastlake-Smith.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/violet-pinckney-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042102/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/violet-pinckney-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Violet Pinckney|access-date=2014-01-30}} In 1907 and 1908 she won the London Championships.Dorothea Chambers (1910): Lawn Tennis for Ladies. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London She competed in 12 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1903 and 1925. Her best result in the singles event was reaching the quarterfinal in 1906, 1908 and 1920 while in doubles she reached the semifinal in 1914 partnering Marguerite Broquedis.{{cite web |title=Players archive – Violet Pinckney |url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/66752ffc-8c50-48c1-bf1e-5f49c9fbad4f.html |website=Wimbledon |publisher=AELTC}}

Pinckney died at New Forest, Hampshire in March 1955.