Agnes Tuckey

Agnes Tuckey
Full name Agnes Katherine Raymond Tuckey
Country (sports)  United Kingdom
Born (1877-07-08)8 July 1877
Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Died 13 May 1972(1972-05-13) (aged 94)
Winchester, Hampshire, England
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon QF (1908, 1914)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon QF (1913, 1920, 1921, 1922)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon W (1913)

Agnes Katherine Raymond Tuckey (née Daniell, 8 July 1877 – 13 May 1972) was an English tennis player. With Hope Crisp, she was the winner of the first Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913.

In 1906 she married Charles Orpen Tuckey who taught Mathematics at Charterhouse School. They played mixed doubles together. Among their children were Raymond and Kay who played in the Wightman Cup between 1949 and 1951. Agnes, when in her fifties, partnered Raymond in the mixed doubles in 1931 and 1932, the only instance of a parent and child teaming up at the championships.[1][2]

In the 1913 Wimbledon Championships, she won with Crisp the first mixed doubles final at Wimbledon in an unusual fashion - Ethel Thomson Larcombe was struck by a ball in the eye and unable to continue the match. The incident occurred when the second set was 5-3 for Crisp and Tuckey, the first having been won by the opposing pair of James Cecil Parke and Mrs Larcombe. In the 1914 Wimbledon Championships Crisp and Tuckey were the losing semi-finallists.

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles

Titles (1)

Year Tournament Partner Opponents Score
1913 Wimbledon United Kingdom Hope Crisp United Kingdom James Parke
United Kingdom Ethel Thomson Larcombe
6–3, 3–5 abandoned

References

  1. John Henderson (27 June 2004). "'It was a sport in my day'". The Guardian.
  2. "Raymond Tuckey". The Telegraph. 29 October 2005.


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