Betty Nuthall

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Betty May Nuthall Shoemaker (born May 23, 1911, Surbiton, Surrey – died November 8, 1983, New York City, New York) was an English tennis player who was known for her powerful forehand. She was ranked in the world top 10 five times: 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, and 1933.

In 1927 at the age of 16, Shoemaker tied Elisabeth Moore as the then-youngest women's singles finalist ever at the U.S. Championships. Shoemaker lost the final to Helen Wills Moody.

Also in 1927, Shoemaker played on the British Wightman Cup team and defeated Helen Jacobs in her debut.

In 1930, Shoemaker became the first non-American to win a women's singles title at the U.S. Championships since 1892. She was the last British female player to win the title until Virginia Wade won in 1968.

At the U.S. Championships in 1933, Shoemaker won a quarterfinal versus Alice Marble 6–8, 6–0, 7–5 after being down two breaks of serve at 1–5 in the final set. In the semifinal versus Moody, Shoemaker won the first set 6–2 in just 12 minutes, which was the first set Moody had lost at this tournament since 1926. Moody, however, turned around the match and won the last two sets 6–3, 6–2 despite losing her serve twice in the second set. Shoemaker never again reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament.

Shoemaker won women's doubles titles at the 1930, 1931, and 1933 U.S. Championships and at the 1931 French Championships. She won mixed doubles championships at the 1929 and 1931 U.S. Championships and at the 1931 and 1932 French Championships.

Shoemaker was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977.

Contents 1 Grand Slam singles finals 1.1 Win (1) 1.2 Runners-up (2) 2 Grand Slam singles tournament timeline 2.1 See also

[edit] Grand Slam singles finals

[edit] Win (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1930	U.S. Championships	Anna McCune Harper	6–1, 6–4

[edit] Runners-up (2)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1927	U.S. Championships	Helen Wills Moody	6–1, 6–4
1931	French Championships	Cilly Aussem	8–6, 6–1

[edit] Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Tournament	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941 - 1944	1945	1946	Career SR
Australian Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	NH	NH	A	0 / 0
French Championships	A	A	2R	A	A	F	SF	SF	3R	A	A	A	A	A	NH	R	A	A	0 / 5
Wimbledon	2R	QF	1R	3R	QF	QF	QF	4R	1R	A	2R	4R	4R	1R	NH	NH	NH	4R	0 / 14
U.S. Championships	A	F	A	QF	W	SF	A	SF	2R	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	1 / 7
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 2	1 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	1 / 26

NH = tournament not held.

R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

[edit] See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final