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{{short description|American tennis player}}
{{Infobox tennis biography
|name = Juliette Atkinson
|image = Juliette Atkinson.jpg
|caption =Atkinson in 1900
|fullname = Juliette Paxton Atkinson
|country = {{flagicon|USA}}
|birth_date = {{birth date |1873|04|15}}
|birth_place = [[Rahway, New Jersey]], United States
|death_date = {{death date and age|1944|01|12|1873|04|15}}
|death_place = [[Lawrenceville, Illinois|Lawrenceville]],
|height = {{height|ft=5
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|USOpenresult = '''W''' ([[1895 U.S. National Championships – Women's singles|1895]], 1897, 1898)
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'''Juliette Paxton Atkinson Buxton''' ({{nee|'''Atkinson'''}}; April 15, 1873 – January 12, 1944) was an American
==Biography==
Atkinson was the daughter of a Brooklyn, New York physician.<ref name=grasso>{{cite book|last=Grasso|first=John|title=Historical Dictionary of Tennis|year=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=978-0810872370|page=29}}</ref> She won five U.S. Championships doubles titles in a row with three different partners. Both natives of
In 1896 and 1898, she won the [[Niagara International Tennis Tournament]].<ref>{{cite news |date=August 30, 1898 |title=Miss Atkinson's Tennis Cup |url=
In both 1899 and 1901, Atkinson won the doubles title and reached the singles final at the tournament now known as the [[Cincinnati Masters]]. She won the 1899 doubles title with [[Myrtle McAteer]] (falling to McAteer that year in the singles final) and the 1901 doubles title with [[Marion Jones Farquhar]] (falling in the singles final to [[Winona Closterman]]).
In 1918, she married [[George Buxton|George B. Buxton]] and had no children.<ref name=grasso/>▼
▲In 1896 and 1898 she won the [[Niagara International Tennis Tournament]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Atkinson's Tennis Cup|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00A1EF83B5811738DDDA90B94D0405B8885F0D3|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 30, 1898|format=PDF}}</ref> She won the [[Canadian Open (tennis)|Canadian Championships]] three times in a row, 1896, 1897 and 1898.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Juliette Atkinson of Brooklyn Retains her Championships|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00A13FD3B5416738DDDAE0994DF405B8885F0D3|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1898|format=PDF}}</ref>
She was posthumously inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in 1974.▼
▲In 1918 she married [[George Buxton|George B. Buxton]] and had no children.<ref name=grasso/>
▲She was inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in 1974.
==Grand Slam finals==
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=== Singles (3 titles, 1 runner-up) ===
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1895 || U.S. Championships || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Helen Hellwig]] || 6–4, 6–2, 6–1
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▲|bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up|| 1896 || U.S. Championships || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || 4–6, 6–4, 2–6, 2–6
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1897 || U.S. Championships || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || 6–3, 6–3, 4–6, 3–6, 6–3
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1898 || U.S. Championships || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Marion Jones Farquhar|Marion Jones]] || 6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 7–5
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=== Doubles (7 titles) ===
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1897 ||[[1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]]||{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Kathleen Atkinson]] || [[Mrs. F. Edwards]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Elizabeth Rastall]] || 6–2, 6–1, 6–1
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1898 ||[[1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]]||{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Kathleen Atkinson]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Marie Wimer]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Carrie Neely]] || 6–1, 2–6, 4–6, 6–1, 6–2
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1901 ||[[1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]]||{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Myrtle McAteer]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Marion Jones (tennis)|Marion Jones]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || default
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▲|bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner|| 1902 ||[[1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]]||{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Marion Jones (tennis)|Marion Jones]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Maud Banks]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Winona Closterman|Nona Closterman]] || 6–2, 7–5
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=== Mixed doubles (3 titles) ===
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