Charlotte Cooper

Charlotte Cooper

Charlotte Reinagle Cooper, England, a very young lady was a member of the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club. In 1895, she won her first of five Wimbledon championships singles and continued to success. Also known as "Chattie" was a tall, slender and elegant woman but a powerful athlete who became the first women to win the Olympic Gold Medal. At her time when she was 30 she was called as "spinster" got married, during the same year when she could win her fourth Wimbledon championship. After living a family life she returned to active tennis and won her fifth Wimbledon championship (1908) at the age of 37, an age record that still stands. Till the age of 41, 1912, she was still tone of the best players. She died at the age of 96.