Juliette Atkinson: Difference between revisions

|image = Juliette Atkinson.jpg{{!}}frameless

|caption =Atkinson in 1900

|death_place = [[Lawrenceville, Illinois|Lawrenceville]], [[Illinois|IL]], United States

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|USOpenresult = '''W''' ([[1895 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singlessingles|1895]], 1897, 1898)

'''Juliette Paxton Atkinson Buxton''' (''née'' {{nee|'''Atkinson'''}}; April 15, 1873 – January 12, 1944) was an American female tennis player. She was born in [[Rahway, New Jersey]], United States.

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 [[Maplewood, New Jersey]], she and her sister [[Kathleen Atkinson]] partnered to win the last two titles.<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DN&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI|DN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5CE879C38F00C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "WINS HAVE BEEN SERVED FAMILY STYLE \ SERENA, VENUS STILL ALIVE IN SEMIS OF SINGLES, DOUBLES"], ''[[Philadelphia Daily News]]'', September 10, 1999. Accessed November 9, 2012. "Juliette and Kathleen Atkinson, of Maplewood, NJ, reached the semis at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, with Juliette winning both titles."</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Misses Atkinson of New York Win the Ladies' Doubles|url=httphttps://querytimesmachine.nytimes.com/memtimesmachine/archive-free1898/06/19/102073906.pdf?res=F50F1FFD3A5D11738DDDA00994DE405B8885F0D3|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 19, 1898|format=PDF}}</ref> Also the sisters twice faced each other in the semi finalssemifinals of the singles competition, the first sisters to do so before the Williams sisters' final in 2001. She won three mixed doubles titles with [[Edwin P. Fischer]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Atkinson the Winner|url=httphttps://querytimesmachine.nytimes.com/memtimesmachine/archive-free1895/06/30/105980460.pdf?res=F30912FE355416738DDDA90B94DE405B8585F0D3|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 30, 1895|format=PDF}}</ref>

In 1918, she married [[George Buxton|George B. Buxton]] and had no children.<ref name=grasso/>

She was posthumously inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in 1974.

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| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1895 || U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Helen Hellwig]] || 6–4, 6–2, 6–1

| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-upLoss || 1896 || U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || 4–6, 6–4, 2–6, 2–6

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1897 || U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || 6–3, 6–3, 4–6, 3–6, 6–3

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1898 || U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Marion Jones Farquhar|Marion Jones]] || 6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 7–5

!style="width:65px40px"|Result

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| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1894 || [[1894 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Helen Hellwig]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Annabella C. Wistar]] <br> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Amy Williams (tennis)|Amy Williams]] || 6–4, 8–6, 6–2

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1895 || [[1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Helen Hellwig]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Amy Williams (tennis)|Amy Williams]] || 6–2, 6–2, 12–10

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1896 ||[[1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Annabella C. Wistar]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Amy Williams (tennis)|Amy Williams]] || 6–4, 7–5

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1897 ||[[1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Kathleen Atkinson]] || [[Mrs. F. Edwards]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Elizabeth Rastall]] || 6–2, 6–1, 6–1

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1898 ||[[1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Kathleen Atkinson]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Marie Wimer]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Carrie Neely]] || 6–1, 2–6, 4–6, 6–1, 6–2

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1901 ||[[1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Myrtle McAteer]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Marion Jones (tennis)|Marion Jones]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Elisabeth Moore]] || default

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin || 1902 ||[[1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Marion Jones (tennis)|Marion Jones]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Maud Banks]] <br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Winona Closterman|Nona Closterman]] || 6–2, 7–5

!style="width:65px40px"|Result

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| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin ||1894||[[1894 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Edwin P. Fischer]] || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Mrs. McFadden]]<br>{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Gustav Remak Jr.]] || 6–3, 6–2, 6–1

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin ||1895||[[1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Edwin P. Fischer]] || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Amy Williams (tennis)|Amy Williams]]<br>{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Mantle Fielding]] || 4–6, 8–6, 6–2

| style="background:#98fb98;"|WinnerWin ||1896||[[1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|U.S. Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Edwin P. Fischer]] || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Amy Williams (tennis)|Amy Williams]]<br>{{flagicon|USA|1896}} [[Mantle Fielding]] || 6–2, 6–3, 6–3

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