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Charlotte "Lottie" Dod (24 September 1871–27 June
1960) was a British athlete best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon
Championships five times, the first when she was only fifteen, in the summer
of 1887. She remains the youngest player to win the women's singles tournament,
though Martina Hingis was three days younger when she won the women's doubles
title in 1997.
In addition to tennis, Dodd competed in many other sports,
including golf, field hockey, and archery. In addition to other successes,
she won the British amateur golf championships, played for the British national
field hockey team, and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in
archery. The Guinness Book of Records has named her as the most versatile
female athlete of all time, together with track and field athlete and fellow
golf player Babe Zaharias
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