Charlotte Hosmer Chapin (née Hosmer) was an American female

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player who was ranked No. 3 in the United States in 1927. She reached the final of the women's doubles competition at the 1926 U.S. National Championships (now US Open). With partner Mary K. Browne she lost the final in three sets against

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and

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. Her best singles performance at a

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tournament came in 1927 when she reached the semifinals at the U.S. National Championships which she lost in three sets to Betty Nuthall after having defeated eight-time singles champion

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in the quarterfinal. Hosmer Chapin participated in the

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, the team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. Partnering Eleanor Goss she lost her doubles match against Gwendolyn Sterry and Betty Hill in three sets. She won the singles title at the

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in June 1923, defeating Avery Follett in a three-sets final. In 1923 and 1925 she was the singles runner-up to

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. She was also runner-up to Wills in the 1923 California State Championships. Hosmer Chapin won the singles title at the Illinois State Championships in July 1925 after a win in three sets in the final against 16-year old Helen Jacobs. At the

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she was the finalist at the first two editions, in 1927 and 1928, losing the final to Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and May Sutton Bundy respectively. On January 18, 1926, she married tennis player Alfred H. Chapin Jr. in San Francisco.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 runner-up)

References

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