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charlotte `` lottie '' dod 1983 sway , england bebington , merseyside , england '' , 1891 , 1892 , 1893 -rrb- ` w '' ' -lrb- 1887 , 1888 1.69 right-handed 24 september 1871 1960 6 27 1871 9 24 y lottie_dod_age20 . jpg lottie dod
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charlotte `` lottie '' dod -lrb- 24 september 1871 -- 27 june 1960 -rrb- was an english sportswoman best known as a tennis player .
she won the wimbledon ladies ' singles championship five times , the first one when she was only fifteen in the summer of 1887 .
she remains the youngest ladies ' singles champion , though martina hingis was three days younger when she won the women 's doubles title in 1996 .
in addition to tennis , dod competed in many other sports , including golf , field hockey , and archery .
she also won the british ladies amateur golf championship , played twice for the england women 's national field hockey team -lrb- which she helped to found -rrb- , and won a silver medal at the 1908 summer olympics in archery .
the `` guinness book of records '' has named her as the most versatile female athlete of all time , together with track and field athlete and fellow golf player babe zaharias .
