Evelyn Colyer

Evelyn Lucy Colyer (later Munro, 16 August 1902 – 4 November 1930) was a female tennis player from Great Britain.With Joan Austin, sister of Bunny Austin, Evvie Colyer, a teenager in pig-tails, played doubles in the 1923 Wimbledon final against Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. Colyer and Austin were known in the British press as "The Babes." At the 1924 Paris Olympics she teamed up with Dorothy Shepherd-Barron to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event.

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