Leela Row Dayal

Leela Row Dayal (19 December 1911 – unknown) was a female tennis player and author from India. She was the first female Indian tennis player to win a match at the Wimbledon Championships. She wrote several books on Indian classical dance in both English and Sanskrit.

Quotes

 * I want to bring out in drawings what my ancestors did in sculpture in the temples of Southeast Asia.
 * Quoted in "Dances of India Illustrated In Five Books", The Windsor Daily Star, 7 January 1959. Also in "Leela Row Dayal: The first Indian woman to win a match at Wimbledon", BBC

Quotes about Leela Row Dayal

 * She lived the kind of elite Indian life that could have only taken place in the years between the two World Wars, when the highest echelons of Indian society could simultaneously keep one foot firmly planted in the country of their birth, but another just as firmly, in the broader international networks of the British empire.
 * "The remarkable life of Leela Row Dayal", Mint, 30 June 2018. Quoted in "Leela Row Dayal: The first Indian woman to win a match at Wimbledon", BBC