Yvonne Prévost
 Yvonne Prévost (1900) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Paule Marie Yvonne Prévost Boppe | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | France | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1878 Dinard, France | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 March 1942 (aged 63) Paris, Vichy France | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paule Marie Yvonne[a] Prévost Boppe (8 June 1878 – 3 March 1942) was a French tennis player at the end of the 19th century. She won the French Women's Singles Championship in 1900.[1]
At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, she won two silver medals. In the women's singles final she lost to Charlotte Cooper and in the mixed doubles' event she and Harold Mahony were runners-up to Charlotte Cooper and Reginald Doherty.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Yvonne Prévost was the daughter of Ernest Prévost, son of Hippolyte Prévost, and Jeanne Koenigswarter, daughter of the lawyer Louis-Jean Koenigswarter, a member of an important banking family from Austria. She was the sister of André Prévost, vice-champion of France in tennis in 1900.[4]
Ranked "-40" in 1897 and 1902, Yvonne Prévost was a member of the sports society of the island of Puteaux and the Tennis Club of Paris.[5]
In 1900, she became the French champion with no competitor to challenge for the title, which was quite common at that time. However, she is mainly known for having participated a few weeks later in the international tennis tournament organized by the S.S.I.P. during the Universal Exhibition, a tournament that would be considered an Olympic event. She won the silver medal in women's singles, losing in the final to three-time English champion Charlotte Cooper-Sterry. She was also a finalist in the mixed doubles' tournament, partnered with Harold Mahony of Ireland.[6]
Olympic finals
[edit]Singles (1 silver medal)
[edit]| Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay |  Charlotte Cooper
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1–6, 4–6 |
Mixed Doubles (1 silver medal)
[edit]| Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay | Harold Mahony |
Charlotte Cooper Reginald Doherty |
2–6, 4–6 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ In some sources also known as Hélène Prévost.
References
[edit]- ^ French Open winners. Retrieved on 13 September 2009.
- ^ "Hélène Prévost Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "Yvonne Prévost". Olympedia. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ^ Prévost, Monique (2016). Retour à Koenigswart. Paris. ISBN 979-10-92733-09-9. OCLC 968157943.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Grange, Cyril (2016). Une élite parisienne : les familles de la grande bourgeoisie juive (1870-1939). Paris. ISBN 978-2-271-08794-2. OCLC 936427455.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Liste des illustrations", Organiser des résidences artistiques et littéraires en bibliothèque, Presses de l’enssib, p. 141, 2019, doi:10.4000/books.pressesenssib.7260, ISBN 9791091281867, S2CID 199301368, retrieved 24 October 2022
External links
[edit]- Yvonne Prévost at the International Tennis Federation
- Yvonne Prévost at Olympics.com
- Yvonne Prévost at Olympedia
- French Open – Past Women's Singles Champions
- Olympics profile
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