{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Betty Batt | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{flagu|Great Britain}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|02|07|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|03|26|1916|02|07|df=yes}} | death_place = | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | Wimbledonresult = 3R (1948) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1946) | WimbledonMixedresult = 4R (1939, 1946) }} '''Betty Batt''' (7 February 1916 – 26 March 2003) was a British tennis player of the 1930s and 1940s.
A London native, Batt won the British junior hard court title in 1934 and featured in her first Wimbledon main draw the following year.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Threat For The Helen Wills Crown |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/728763370 |work=The Kingston Whig-Standard |date=23 February 1934}}</ref> In 1946 she appeared for Great Britain in the Wightman Cup, partnering Molly Lincoln in doubles, then two weeks later made the Wimbledon doubles quarter-finals with Lincoln.<ref>{{cite news |title=American's Wightman Cup Players Blank British Girls |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510228988 |work=Sioux City Journal |date=15 June 1946}}</ref>
Batt's first marriage, in 1940, was to Noel Passingham, with whom she had one child.<ref>{{cite news |title=Decree for Tennis Player's Husband |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/798949311 |work=The Gloucestershire Echo |date=15 February 1949}}</ref> She divorced Passingham in 1949 and soon after was married to Frank Martin-Davies, a colonial administrator in Nigeria.<ref>{{cite news |title=18-Yr.-Old Beats Seeded Player |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19500518/167/0007 |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=18 May 1950}}</ref>
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