- She was denied membership and practice time at tennis clubs in the UK and USA because she was Jewish.
- To escape bombings during WWII, she and her mother and brother moved to South Africa, where she learned tennis and became friends with Black children.
- She was a tennis player who teamed up with Althea Gibson to win the women's doubles titles at the French and Wimbledon tennis championships in 1956. They had met in 1955 while on tour in India. In 1957, a serious wrist injury forced Buxton to retire from competition. Gibson went on to win both the Wimbledon and US singles championships, the first Black person to win either title; she did it again in 1958.
- After retiring from competition, she opened a tennis school in London and became a journalist and the author of several books on tennis.
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