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.
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.
Betty Rosenquest Pratt was an American amateur tennis player who competed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Shirley Brasher is a former tennis player from England who won three Grand Slam titles during her career and who was the top-ranked singles player in her country in 1957.
Clare Jacqueline Wood is a former British number 1 tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1984 and retired in 1998. Over the course of her career, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 77 in singles and No. 59 in doubles. Wood won one ITF singles title and six in doubles as well as won a WTA doubles title at the 1992 Wellington Classic, having been the runner-up the previous year. At the time of her retirement, she had a 212–223 singles win–loss record with notable wins over Jo Durie and Mary Pierce.
Winifred Mason Shaw was a professional tennis player from Scotland whose career ran from the mid-1960s until the early 70s. In 2002, she was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. She was active from 1963 to 1978 and contested 56 career singles finals winning 28 titles.
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.
Deidre Catt is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s.
Mimi Arnold, also known by her married name Mary Arnold-Wheeler, is an American former tennis player who was active in the late 1950s and the 1960s.
Joy Mottram is a retired tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and the 1950s.
Elizabeth Starkie is a British former tennis player. She became Elizabeth Wagstaff after marriage. Active during the 1960s, Starkie represented Great Britain in both Federation Cup and Wightman Cup tennis.
Winifred "Molly" Lincoln Blair was a British tennis player.
Sheila Armstrong (1939–1979) was a British tennis player. She became Sheila Brown after marriage.
Helen Margaret Fletcher was a British tennis player.
Georgiana Elizabeth Cox was a British tennis player active from the 1940s to 1960s. Her younger sister Billie was also a tennis player.
Violette Alvensleben-Rigollet was a Swiss tennis player. She was a countess, married to Count Londolf Alvensleben, a nobleman of Polish origin.
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.
Nina Brown Hamilton was a British–American tennis player.
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