Lilí Álvarez

See also: Álvarez

Elia “Lili” María González-Álvarez there López-Chicheri (May 9th 1905, Rome – July 8th 1998, Madrid) is a Spanish Sport ive of the Entre-deux-guerres. Remained famous like player of Tennis, it was also Journaliste and writer E.


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Biography

Lilí Álvarez is born in 1905 in a Hôtel from Rome. Raised in Swiss within a family without money worries, it is initiated very early with various sports. At eleven years, it gains its first competition of Patinage, and with sixteen the championships of Saint-Moritz. She also excels with the Billard, the ski and in horsemanship.

In 1923, with his/her parents, it moves on the Riviera where it attends the high society and improves its tennis with the king Gustave V of Sweden.

Impassioned automobile race, it leaves victorious, at nineteen years, of the Campeonato de Cataluña de Automovilismo (1924).

First high level Spanish tennis player, it reaches three consecutive finales into simple with the Tournoi of Wimbledon (1926 - 1928). Nickname mée “Señorita de Alvarez” by the press, it loses the first against Kathleen McKane Godfree and the two following ones vis-a-vis Helen Wills - which will say play of its adversary which it is “unusually daring (Sic)”.

In 1929, associated with Kornelia Bouman, it gains double the ladies with Roland Garros. The following year, it is essential into simple on the Internationaux of Italy, sixty-three years before its compatriot Conchita Martínez.

In 1931, it shocks the public of Wimbledon while being shown in a kind of Short drawn by the designer Italy Elsa Schiaparelli.

During the Second Spanish Republic, it becomes corresponding to Madrid for the British newspaper the Daily Mail and is not long in covering the events of the civil war.

In the interval, she marries in 1934 a diplomatic aristocrat and French. After a miscarriage in 1939, it leaves it and goes back food to Madrid.

In 1941, it gains the championship of Spain of ski with Candanchú but, to have openly reproached its Machisme a referee, is seen withdrawing its title. Later, its pro-Franco positions anti and in favor of the individual freedoms are worth to him to be prohibited of any competition by the Spanish Federation of tennis.

Militant active for the cause of the women, it makes a speech at the time of the fifth feminist congress américano-Hispanic (1951): “the batalla of the feminidad” .

Lilí Álvarez writes then quantity of autobiographical works , with for central themes the Religion and its relation with God.

At the time of one of its last public appearances, she declared in connection with the athletic performances of Conchita Martínez and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario: “Conchita has the talent to become the best, but it misses the will; Arantxa with the will, but it misses the talent. ('' El Mundo, July 9th, 1998) ”

Lilí Álvarez died at the eighty thirteen years age.

Prize list (partial) Lilí Álvarez

Titles into simple

Lost finales of simple

Titles in double

Lost finales of double

Nonknown

Titles in mixed double

No

Finales in mixed double

Course in Large Slam

Into simple

On the right of the result, the ultimate adversary

In double

Under the result, the partner; on the right, the ultimate opposing team

Bibliography (partial) of Lilí Álvarez

  • 1927 : Modern lawn tennis
  • 1946: Plenitud
  • 1956 : will tierra of It extraña
  • 1959: El seglarismo known there integridad
  • 1964: Feminismo there spiritualidad
  • 1968: El mito LED amateurismo
  • 1977: sober Diagnosis el amor there el sexo
  • 1985: Testamento espiritual: ideario of una beata atípica
  • 1993: Revivencia: the religiosidad masculina known there desdicha
  • 1998: the gran explicación

External bonds

  • Article of the newspaper '' El Mundo '' appeared on May 11th, 1998
  • Article of the newspaper '' El Mundo '' appeared on July 9th, 1998

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