{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Wendy Slaughter | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{flagcountry|GBR}} | birth_date = | birth_place = Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | Wimbledonresult = Q3 (1972) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = 2R (1973) }} '''Wendy Slaughter''' is a British former professional tennis player.
Slaughter, Scottish by birth, was a Scotland junior international but lived in Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scottish juniors are beaten but gap is narrowing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259792813 |work=The Guardian |date=22 August 1967}}</ref>
After graduating from London University in 1972 she began to take up tennis more competitively and at the Wimbledon Championships that year fell in the final qualifying round to Tam O'Shaughnessy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gorman |first1=Ken |title=Sue fails to stop a Slaughter |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19720805/268/0022 |work=Newcastle Journal |date=5 August 1972}}</ref> She featured twice in the women's double main draw at Wimbledon during her career, including the second round in 1973.<ref>{{cite news |title=Second Round |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19730630/297/0031 |work=Daily Mirror |date=30 June 1973}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{ITF profile|wendy-slaughter/800175320/gbr}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slaughter, Wendy}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Scottish female tennis players Category:British female tennis players Category:Tennis players from West Yorkshire Category:Alumni of the University of London