Virginia Hollinger (February 4, 1917 – March 17, 1946) of

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, was an amateur tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s.

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At the tournament in

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, Hollinger won singles titles in 1937 & 1938, and was a singles finalist in 1936 and 1939. She won numerous junior titles, including the National Girls Indoor Championship in 1934, 1935 and 1936. She also won the singles and doubles titles at the 1934 Western Girls Championships, and was a quarterfinalist in the 1934 National Girls' Championship. In 1938 she won the U.S. Indoor Championships singles title after defeating Katherine Winthrop in the final. A tennis club in her hometown of Dayton bears her name: The Virginia Hollinger Memorial Tennis Club. At the time of her death from

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, she and her husband Willis McCloud had one daughter, Holly.

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Hollinger Memorial Tennis Club
American female tennis players Tennis players from Ohio Sportspeople from Dayton, Ohio 1917 births 1946 deaths 20th-century American women Deaths from Hodgkin lymphoma {{Ohio-bio-stub

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