# Mildred Brooksmith

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{{Short description|English tennis player (1866–1944)}}
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|fullname                          =Ethel Mildred Brooksmith
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'''Ethel Mildred Brooksmith''' (c. 1866 – 13 or 14 April 1944) was an English tennis player. She was a quarter-finalist at the [1913 Wimbledon Championships](/source/1913_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_doubles) in the women's doubles event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Draw Archive: Wimbledon 1913 MX |url=https://assets.wimbledon.com/archive/draws/pdfs/players/cbcdb29e-49aa-409b-a510-9c4c1045d792_LD.pdf |website=Wimbledon |publisher=AELTC |access-date=13 May 2023}}</ref> She was active from 1892 to 1924 and won 19 career singles titles.

==Career==
Brooksmith was born circa 1866. She competed in three events at the [Wimbledon Championships](/source/Wimbledon_Championships) in 1909 and 1913.<ref>{{cite web |title=Player Profile: M.Brooksmith |url=https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/cbcdb29e-49aa-409b-a510-9c4c1045d792.html |website=www.wimbledon.com |publisher=AELTC |access-date=13 May 2023}}</ref> Most of her singles successes came when she played on the [French Riviera circuit](/source/French_Riviera_circuit) between 1897 and 1903, and at tournaments in Switzerland between 1892 and 1910.

She played and won her first tournament at the [Lake Geneva Championships](/source/Lake_Geneva_Championships) at the Montreux Lawn Tennis Club, [Montreux](/source/Montreux), Switzerland in April 1895. Her biggest international singles title wins came at the [Nice LTC Championships](/source/Nice_LTC_Championships) four times (1897–1899, 1901),<ref>{{cite news |title=Riviera News: Lawn Tennis. Nice Championships, Countess Clara von der Schulenburg who easily defeated the four time Nice champion Miss Mildred Brooksmith. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002515/19020319/006/0006 |access-date=13 May 2023 |work=Folkestone Express, Sandgate, Shorncliffe & Hythe Advertiser |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=19 March 1902 |location=Kent, England |page=6|url-access=subscription}}</ref> the [Swiss International Championships](/source/Swiss_International_Championships) which she won three times consecutivley (1899–1901), she won the inaugural [South of France Championships](/source/South_of_France_Championships) for women in Cannes in 1899 against France's Marguerite Chalier, and the [Championships of Pays-d'Enhaut](/source/Championships_of_Pays-d'Enhaut) (1899), the [Maloja International](/source/Maloja%2C_Switzerland) (1901), She also won the [Riviera Championships](/source/Riviera_Championships) (1903) and the [Ceylon Championships](/source/Ceylon_Championships) (1909).  

In addition she was a three time losing finalist at the [Monte Carlo Championships](/source/Monte_Carlo_Championships) (1901–1903),<ref>{{cite news |title=Riviera News: Lawn Tennis: Monte Carlo International tournament |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/19020310/196/0011 |access-date=13 May 2023 |work=Daily News (London) |publisher=British Newspaper Archive|date=10 March 1902 |location=London, England |page=11|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Lawn Tennis at Monte Carlo: Miss T. Lowther has won the Ladies' Championship, beating Miss. M. Brooksmith, 6–3, 6–1, and playing in her best form. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000250/19030309/118/0011 |access-date=13 May 2023 |work=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=9 March 1903 |location=Yorkshire, England |page=11|url-access=subscription}}</ref> the [French Switzerland Championships](/source/French_Switzerland_Championships) (1908), [Les Avants Championship](/source/Les_Avants_Championship) (1908–1910), the [Geneva Championships](/source/Geneva_Championships) (1910).

Her main British career singles highlights included winning the [Rochester Open](/source/Rochester_Open) three times in (1909, 1911, 1912), the [East Grinstead Open](/source/East_Grinstead_Open) in (1910), the [Bungay Open](/source/Bungay) (1911). She was also a losing finalist at the [Essex Championships](/source/Essex_Championships) in 1909 to [Agnes Morton](/source/Agnes_Morton). She played and won her final singles tournament at the [Aldeburgh Open](/source/Aldeburgh_Open) in late August 1911. Mildred continued to play doubles and mixed doubles until 1924 well into her 50s at this point. 

She died in [Kensington](/source/Kensington), London, England in April 1944, she was a spinster and never married.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.wimbledon.com/en%20GB/draws%20archive/player%20profile/cbcdb29e-49aa-409b-a510-9c4c1045d792.html Wimbledon Official Player Profile]

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