Country (sports) | Canada |
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Born | 1903 Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
Died | June 10, 1987 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 83–84)
Retired | Post-1932 |
College | University of British Columbia |
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
US Open | 1930 (QF) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
US Open | 1932 (SF) |
Marjorie Leeming (1903 – June 10, 1987) was a Canadian tennis player, badminton player and teacher. She won the Canadian Open ladies' singles title twice and was runner-up on four occasions. Leeming took the Canadian doubles championship three times and the mixed doubles twice. She won seven titles in British Columbia and was the Oregon State Tennis Championship singles winner in 1926. After her tennis ended due to injury, Leeming moved into education, co-authoring a 1935 school textbook on modern composition for use in schools in British Columbia. She taught badminton, golf and tennis to female students at the University of British Columbia before becoming assistant dean to its dean of women. Leeming is an inductee of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Tennis Canada Hall of Fame and the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.