Edith Rotch

Edith Rotch

Rotch in 1924 with radio equipment
Full name	Edith Eliot Rotch
Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1874-08-11)August 11, 1874
Died	December 11, 1969(1969-12-11) (aged 95)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	SF (1896)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	W (1909, 1910)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
US Open	W (1908)

Edith Eliot Rotch (August 11, 1874 ^[1] -December 11, 1969 ^[2] ) was an American tennis player of the start of the 20th century. Born and raised in greater Boston, she was a 1901 magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ^[2] During a successful tennis career, on three occasions, she won the US Women's National Championship  : in mixed doubles in 1908 (with Nathaniel Niles) and in women's doubles with Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in 1909 and 1910. In addition to tennis, she won local trophies in ice skating. By the late 1910s, she had become active in amateur radio. Her ham call letters were 1RO, and later 1ZR. She had her own ham station and administered the licensing exam to other amateurs. ^[3]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 titles)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1909	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Hazel Hotchkiss	Dorothy Green Lois Moyes	6–1, 6–1
Win	1910	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Hazel Hotchkiss	Adelaide Browning Edna Wildey	6–4, 6–4

Mixed doubles (1 title)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1908	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Nathaniel Niles	Louise Hammond Raymond Little	6–4, 4–6, 6–4

References

1. Bullard, John M. (John Morgan) (1947). The Rotches. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library. New Bedford : [s.l.] p. 419.
2. "Edith Eliot Rotch, Was Tennis Champion." Boston Globe, December 12, 1969, p. 45.
3. Harold B. Matson. "Woman Net Champ Leads in Radio." Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader, May 24, 1924, p. 17.