.jpg) Yvonne Prévost (1900) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Paule Marie Yvonne Prévost Boppe | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | France | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1878-06-08)8 June 1878 Dinard, France | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 March 1942(1942-03-03) (aged 63) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paule Marie Yvonne[a] Prévost Boppe (8 June 1878 – 3 March 1942) was a Frenchtennis player at the end of the 19th century. She won theFrench Women's Singles Championship in 1900.[1]
At the1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, she won two silver medals. In thewomen's singles final she lost toCharlotte Cooper and in themixed doubles' event she andHarold Mahony were runners-up to Charlotte Cooper andReginald Doherty.[2][3]
Yvonne Prévost was the daughter of Ernest Prévost, son of Hippolyte Prévost, and Jeanne Koenigswarter, daughter of the lawyer Louis-Jean Koenigswarter, a member of an important banking family from Austria. She was the sister ofAndré Prévost, vice-champion of France in tennis in 1900.[4]
Ranked "-40" in 1897 and 1902, Yvonne Prévost was a member of the sports society of the island of Puteaux and the Tennis Club of Paris.[5]
In 1900, she became the French champion with no competitor to challenge for the title, which was quite common at that time. However, she is mainly known for having participated a few weeks later in the international tennis tournament organized by the S.S.I.P. during theUniversal Exhibition, a tournament that would be considered an Olympic event. She won the silver medal in women's singles, losing in the final to three-time English champion Charlotte Cooper-Sterry. She was also a finalist in the mixed doubles' tournament, partnered withHarold Mahony of Ireland.[6]
| Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay |  Charlotte Cooper | 1–6, 4–6 |
| Result | Year | Olympics | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Silver | 1900 | Paris, France | Clay | Harold Mahony | Charlotte CooperReginald Doherty | 2–6, 4–6 |
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