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| | Wimbledon Legend Dorothea Gets Plaque At Number Seven (from Ealing Times) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | EALING'S very own record-breaking seven-time Wimbledon champ Dorothea Lambert Chambers has been immortalised in the house where she picked up her very first tennis racket by English Heritage. |
 | | The English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled by David Sills, president of Ealing Lawn Tennis Club, last Wednesday, at number seven, North Common Road, in Ealing the tennis player's childhood home from 1887 until 1907 where she first learned to play tennis. |
 | | Born Dorothea Katherine Douglass, the champion joined the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club as a child and, after making her Wimbledon debut in 1900, won the Wimbledon championships seven times in 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1913 and 1914. |
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