# Kay Tuckey

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**Katherine "Kay" Tuckey**, also known by her married name **Kay Maule**, (1921/1922 – 14 May 2016) was an English female [tennis](/source/Tennis) player who was active from the second half of the 1940s until the early 1950s.

## Early life

Tuckey was born in [Godalming](/source/Godalming), Surrey. She attended St Catherine's School at Bramley. When the family moved to Bournemouth she went to the local [Talbot Heath School](/source/Talbot_Heath_School). She joined [West Hants Lawn Tennis Club](/source/The_West_Hants_Club), venue of the [British Hard Court Championships](/source/British_Hard_Court_Championships), when she was 12.

## Career

Tuckey won the Rhine Army Championships, held in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), Germany, in 1946.[2]

Between 1947 and 1951 she competed in five [Wimbledon Championships](/source/Wimbledon_Championships).[3] Her best singles result was reaching the quarterfinal in [1951](/source/1951_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_singles) where she was defeated by top-seeded [Louise Brough](/source/Louise_Brough) in three sets after winning the first set.[4] In doubles she reached the quarterfinals in 1950 and 1951 with compatriots Betty Harrison and [Jean Quertier](/source/Jean_Quertier) respectively.[3] In 1950 she won the [All England Plate](/source/All_England_Plate), a competition held at the Wimbledon Championships for players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles event. In the final she defeated [Betty Rosenquest](/source/Betty_Rosenquest) in straight sets.

At the [1951 U.S. Championships](/source/1951_U.S._National_Championships) she was the third-seeded foreign player and reached the quarterfinal after a victory in the third round against sixth-seeded [Beverly Baker](/source/Beverly_Baker). She lost the quarterfinal in three sets to second-seeded [Shirley Fry](/source/Shirley_Fry).

With Betty Hilton she won the doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships in May 1950 against [Jean Quertier](/source/Jean_Quertier) and [Jean Walker-Smith](/source/Jean_Walker-Smith). The level of play in the three-sets final, watched by Wightman Cup selectors, was described as poor.[5][1] She played for the British team in the [Wightman Cup](/source/Wightman_Cup), an annual team tennis competition for women contested between teams from the United States and Great Britain, from 1949 until 1951.

According to [John Olliff](/source/John_Olliff) of *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)*, Tuckey achieved a highest career ranking of world No. 10 in 1951. [6]

## Personal life

In 1951 she met her future husband John Maule and they married later that year in Bournemouth. The couple had four children.[1]

Her mother, [Agnes Tuckey](/source/Agnes_Tuckey), and brother, [Raymond Tuckey](/source/Raymond_Tuckey), were also tennis players.[7]

## References

1. Caitlin Marsh (1 July 2016). ["Former Wimbledon tennis star Kay Maule"](https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14592254.Former_Wimbledon_tennis_star_Kay_Maule/). *[Daily Echo](/source/Bournemouth_Daily_Echo)*

1. [G.P. Hughes](/source/Pat_Hughes_(tennis)) (ed.) (1950). *Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack 1950*. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. p. 306.

1. ["Wimbledon players archive – Kay Tuckey"](http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/d0fb8c6b-4b69-4c26-a51f-0797e22392d5.html). [AELTC](/source/AELTC)

1. ["Wimbledon players archive – Kay Tuckey – Singles"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220803055102/https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/static/pdfs/archive/players/d0fb8c6b-4b69-4c26-a51f-0797e22392d5_LS.pdf). [AELTC](/source/AELTC). Archived from [the original](http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/static/pdfs/archive/players/d0fb8c6b-4b69-4c26-a51f-0797e22392d5_LS.pdf) on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2019.

1. [G.P. Hughes](/source/Pat_Hughes_(tennis)) (ed.) (1951). *Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual and Almanack 1951*. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. p. 97, 101.

1. Collins, Bud (2016). *The Bud Collins History of Tennis*. 3rd ed. New York: New Chapter Press. p. 763. ISBN 978-1-937559-38-0.

1. Jon Henderson (27 June 2004). ["'It was a sport in my day'"](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/jun/27/wimbledon2004.wimbledon4). *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*

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