Since the 1880s, London has hosted a grass court tournament on the eve of Wimbledon, with many of the globe's greatest racquet handlers making tracks for the capital to test themselves.
Though lacking much of Wimbledon's lustre, and a sizable portion of the purse, to work one's way through the bracket to become the queen of the Queen's court is no mean feat.
Yet, since 1973, Queen's Club has not hosted a women's tournament, and thus, there has not been a women's champion crowned in the past 50 years
So, despite this half-century hiatus, which women's tennis players toasted multiple championships at Queen's in decades gone by?
From a string of homegrown pioneers to an Aussie Assassin, here is the full list of women's tennis players to have won multiple Queen's Club Championships.
Player | Nationality | Titles won | Years won |
Maud Watson | British | 2 | 1884, 1885 |
Blanche Bingley | British | 3 | 1886, 1887, 1888 |
May Jacks | British | 2 | 1889, 1890 |
Maud Shackle | British | 4 | 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895 |
Edith Austin | British | 3 | 1894, 1899, 1901 |
Charlotte Cooper | British | 4 | 1896, 1897, 1898, 1902 |
Agnes Morton | British | 2 | 1903, 1904 |
Ethel Thomson | British | 2 | 1905, 1906 |
Violet Pinckney | British | 2 | 1907, 1908 |
Ethel Larcombe | British | 4 | 1912, 1913, 1914, 1919 |
Mabel Clayton | British | 2 | 1921, 1922 |
Elizabeth Ryan | American | 3 | 1923, 1924, 1925 |
Dorothy Kemmis-Betty | British | 2 | 1926, 1927 |
Elsie Goldsack Pittman | American | 2 | 1931, 1933 |
Jadwiga Jedrzejowska | Polish | 4 | 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 |
Doris Hart | American | 4 | 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950 |
Louise Brough | American | 3 | 1949, 1954, 1955 |
Margaret Court | Australian | 4 | 1961, 1964, 1970, 1971 |
Nancy Richey | American | 2 | 1967, 1968 |
Ann Haydon-Jones | British | 2 | 1968, 1969 |