Helen Newington Wills, also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including 19 singles titles.
Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American women's tennis before World War I and won 45 U.S. titles during her life.
Shirley June Fry Irvin was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 doubles titles, and was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1956.
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Dorothy Edith Round, was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major successes in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, and the singles at the Australian Championships in 1935. She also had success as a mixed doubles player at Wimbledon, winning a total of three titles. After her wedding in 1937, she played under her married name, Mrs D.L. Little. During the Second World War, she played in North America and became a professional coach in Canada and the United States. Post-war, she played in British regional tournaments, coached, and wrote on tennis for newspapers.
Christine Clara Truman Janes is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. She won a singles Grand Slam title at the French Championships in 1959 and was a finalist at Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships. She helped Great Britain win the Wightman Cup in 1958, 1960 and 1968.
The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 between teams from the United States and Great Britain.
Mary Arnold Prentiss was an amateur American adult tennis player from September 1934 through May 1968. She also participated in United States National Seniors Championships through 1972.
Phyllis Mudford King was an English female tennis player and the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.
Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom.
Margaret Croft Scriven-Vivian was a British tennis player and the first woman from that country to win the singles title at the French Championships in 1933. She also won the singles title at the 1934 French Championships, defeating Helen Jacobs in the final. She was ranked No. 5 in the world in 1933 and 1934.
Agnes Katherine Raymond Tuckey was an English tennis player. With Hope Crisp, she was the winner of the first Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1913.
Frances Ellen 'Nell' Truman Robinson, was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s and early 1970s and was mainly known for her performance as a doubles player.
Nancy Lyle was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1930s. She was also known by her married name Nancy Lyle Glover.
Jean Addie Bissett Bostock, was a female international table tennis and tennis player from England.
Katherine "Kay" Tuckey, also known by her married name Kay Maule, was an English female tennis player who was active from the second half of the 1940s until the early 1950s.
Joy Mottram is a retired tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and the 1950s.
Winifred "Molly" Lincoln Blair was a British tennis player.
Patricia Ann Hird is a British former tennis player.
Mary Eileen Halford, was a British tennis player and coach. In the 1940s she married Peter Halford, who played for the Great Britain national field hockey team.
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