Lolette Payot

Lolette Payot-Dodille (French pronunciation: ​[lɔlɛt pajo]; 17 April 1910 – February 1988) was a Swiss-French tennis player.

Lolette Payot

Full name	Lolette Payot-Dodille
Country (sports)	Switzerland  France (since 1937)
Born	(1910-04-17)17 April 1910 Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	February 1988 (aged 77)
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 4 (1932, A. Wallis Myers)[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open	QF (1932, 1934, 1935)
Wimbledon	QF (1931, 1933, 1934)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	SF (1933)
Wimbledon	SF (1932, 1934)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	W (1935)
Wimbledon	3R (1930, 1933)

Biography

Payot was born on 17 April 1910 at Lausanne.[2] She learned to play tennis age 8 on the courts of the Montchoisi tennis club.[3] At the age of 13, she won the Swiss national championships for the first time.[2]

Payot competed at the Wimbledon Championships from 1929 to 1935, reaching the singles quarterfinals in 1931, 1933 and 1934. At the French Championships, she reached the quarterfinals in 1932, 1934 and 1935. In 1935, she won the mixed doubles title partnering Marcel Bernard at Paris. She was ranked world number 4 by A. Wallis Myers in 1932.[1]

In August 1932 she won the singles title at the German Championships in Hamburg after a three-sets victory in the final against Hilde Krahwinkel.[4]

Payot won the Swiss national championships seven times in a row from 1929 to 1935.[5] During the Swiss championships in July 1935, Payot fell seriously ill. It took her a year to recover, and she decided to retire from the amateur tennis circuit.[3] She then opened a tennis school and worked as a coach at Montchoisi. In January 1937, she married French Robert Dodille at Lausanne and took French citizenship.[6][7]

By 1943, Payot had begun to play tournaments again.[8] In August 1945, she won the singles title at the French championships.[7] The title, however, isn't recognized by the Fédération Française de Tennis and the International Tennis Federation.

Payot continued to work as a coach and as a secretary at Montchoisi tennis club until 1982.[2] She died at an age of 77 in February 1988.[9]

Tournament titles

Doubles

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1932	Italian Championships	Clay	Colette Rosambert	Dorothy Andrus Lucia Valerio	7–5, 6–3

Mixed doubles

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1935	French Open	Clay	Marcel Bernard	Sylvie Jung Henrotin André Martin-Legeay	4–6, 6–2, 6–4

References

1. Collins, Bud (2010). History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter press. p. 722. ISBN 978-0942257700.
2. "La championette de tennis Lolette Payot toujours dynamique". http://2014.ball71.com/. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014. External link in |website= (help)
3. "Lolette Payot". Gazette de Lausanne. Lausanne. 11 May 1935. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
4. "Abschluss der Deutschen Tennis-Meisterschaften". Hamburger Nachrichten (in German). 15 August 1932 – via European Library.
5. "Historique". montchoisitc.ch. Montchoisi TC. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
6. "Courtes Nouvelles" (PDF). Le Rhôhne. 15 January 1937. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
7. "Lolette Payot championette de France". Gazette de Lausanne. Lausanne. 7 August 1945. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
8. "Le bilan d'une saison". Gazette de Lausanne. Lausanne. 12 July 1943. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
9. "Lolette Payot n'est plus". Gazette de Lausanne. Lausanne. 27 February 1988. Retrieved 3 February 2014.