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There was a thread on this forum several years ago there was a thread about Blue Plaques in Ealing...and very interesting it was too.In particular, it lists the Ealing Tennis Club player and the Wimbledon Ladies Tennis Champion as shown in Wikipedia. She played often in Chiswick at the Middlesex Lawn Tennis championships...in the early 1900's and before. The old fabulous Chiswick Park Sports Ground is now buried under a Council estate. WIKIPEDIA: has a picture too.Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers (3 September 1878 – 7 January 1960) was an English female tennis player who was born in Guayamas, Ealing in the United Kingdom.She was born in 1878 as Dorothea Katherine Douglass. In 1900, Douglass made her debut at Wimbledon. Three years later, she won her first of seven ladies singles titles. In 1907, she married Robert Lambert Chambers and was thereafter known by her married surname Lambert Chambers.[1]She wrote Tennis for Ladies, which was published in 1910. The book contained photographs of tennis techniques. It also contained advice on attire and equipment.In 1911, Lambert Chambers won the women's final at Wimbledon 6–0, 6–0. The only other female player who won a Grand Slam singles final without losing a game was Steffi Graf when she defeated Natalia Zvereva in the 1988 French Open final.In 1919, Lambert Chambers played the longest Wimbledon final up to that time: 44 games against Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen. Lambert Chambers held two match points at 6–5 in the third set but eventually lost to Lenglen 8–10, 6–4, 9–7.Lambert Chambers retired from singles play in 1921 but continued to compete in doubles until 1927. From 1924 to 1926, she captained Britain's Wightman Cup team and in 1928 turned to professional coaching.Lambert Chambers was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1981. She died in Kensington, London.There is a blue plague for her nect to that Church..opposite Ealing Common. I recall taking a picture of it.

Jim Lawes ● 5721d

Re  tennis supremo Fred Perry       xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    I have made reference elsewhere re a psychic person I knew closely for 10 yrs + before he passed and who had had the most interesting life. At the time of my knowing him he had a large detatched house near me but had moved several  times within Ealing before this last address. He told me he was in Freiburg I think in the 1960's and walking along a street when he was " accosted " by a local lady who recognised him as a psychic and told him further down the road was a pharmacy wherein  they speak English, to which he replied I don't want to speak English but here to brush up on my German. You must call in there this also gifted person said. So reluctantly he did enter the shop where behind the counter was a tall typical Prussian to whom my friend addressed and said what he had just been instructed to do and why. The Prussian said you want my wife, called her and out came this lady. She and my friend started to speak, she asking him where he came from. London he replied, so do I she said, where in London, Ealing he replied, so do I she said. Where in Ealing she asked, XXXXXXXX Ave he replied, so do I she said, what number, 100 he said, so do I she said, I was born there !!. So now it became clear why the gifted woman in the street was prompted to tell him he must go into that pharmacy.She had also told him he would also meet a very " interesting person " while in Germany, who was not the lady in the shop, who insisted he check out of his hotel and move in with her and her husband. She told him she had been engaged to Fred Perry but in 1936 decided to move to Germany, which struck me as strange, for a young English lady, well connected to upsticks and move to Germany , of all places. It transpires that during the War, she hid and helped downed British airmen to get back to Blighty ( whether with the knowledge of her husband, to whom by then she was married, I have always speculated ). My friend told her what the lady in the street had told him re his meeting a special person but who by the time of leaving for the journey back to England, he had not met. Anyway Dorothy went to the railway station to see him off and the journey began. Two stops down the track, a lady got into his carriage and sat opposite him and my friend  soon found he was experiencing trouble with his neck. The lady had a high collar to her blouse, well up  her neck. My friend made comment re what he was experiencing, ie " picking up " since her arrival, to which she said she had cancer of the throat, which was in remission but was told she had less than a year to live. They talked ( he was a great womaniser ), found out she was married to the largest chocolate manufacturer in Germany. He then started " to hear a pattering sound " and felt  obliged to tell  this lady she must make sure never to get wet. He got off at the next stop to phone Dorothy he had met the special person and Dorothy and the lady kept thereafter in touch. My friend and Dorothy also kept in touch and I think 2 years later Dorothy told him the lady had died. Apparently in a summer month she went for a walk in a forest, when it suddenly rained heavily ( pattering sound, rain on leaves ) and she caught pneumonia from which she died. . He eventually lost touch with Dorothy but asked if I could find her number, and having a German neighbour with access to directories in Germany, I was able to get it, so he was able to call her. For her services during the War, she was given the MBE ? by the Queen. So whether she had " been sent " to Germany in 1936 is a possibility, and she had been born in the  very bedroom in which my friend  at the time of meeting her owned and was himself sleeping.

Tony Price ● 5723d