British tennis player who won the women's doubles title at the French Open and Wimbledon with her US partner Althea Gibson The British tennis player Angela Buxton, who has died aged 85, had the sort of feisty disposition that might be expected of a grand slam doubles champion. But with Jewish parents from families that had fled Russia at the end of the 19th century, she needed it, being denied membership of clubs where she trained as a teenager through racial discrimination. Thus she was instinc...
British tennis player who won the women's doubles title at the French Open and Wimbledon with her US partner Althea Gibson The British tennis player Angela Buxton, who has died aged 85, had the sort of feisty disposition that might be expected of a grand slam doubles champion. But with Jewish parents from families that had fled Russia at the end of the 19th century, she needed it, being denied membership of clubs where she trained as a teenager through racial discrimination. Thus she was instinc...
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