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U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships
The U.S. Open Clay Courts, known formally as the U.S. Clay Court Championships, was a national tennis championship for women that was sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association. The first edition was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1912, two years after the first U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, men's championships, and was won by May Sutton. The final edition was held in 1986 and won by Steffi Graf. The tournament was not held in 1913, 1924–1939 and 1942. The doubles event was first held in 1914. Nancy Richey and Chris Evert won more singles titles (6) at this tournament than any other woman. Linda Tuero holds the record for runners-up in singles (3). Locations * 1912: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * 1913: Not held * 1914: Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Tennis Club) * 1915: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Athletic Association) * 1916: Cleveland, Ohio (Lakewood Tennis Club) * 1917: Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Tennis Club) * 1918–19: Chicago, Illinois (South Side ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. Season format 2024–present In 2024, the WTA made all WTA 1000 events mandatory. The WTA Elite Trophy did not return: * Grand Slam tournaments (4) *Year-ending WTA Finals (1) * WTA 1000 tournaments: Ten events with prize money ranging from US$2 million to US$10 million. * WTA 500 tournaments: 17 events with prize money from US$700,000 to US$900,000. *WTA 250 tournaments: 23 events, with prize money at US$250,000. 2021–2023 The WTA Tour underwent a slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were reorganized on with similar nomenclature to that used on ATP Tour: * Grand Slam tournaments (4) *Year-ending WTA Finals (1) *Penultimate event WTA Elite Trop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Ruth Sanders Cordes (August 20, 1890 — February 11, 1968) was a top-level American amateur tennis player. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sanders Cordes graduated from Hughes Center High School and from the University of Cincinnati in 1912. At the Cincinnati Open, she was 27-7 in 12 appearances in women's singles, winning five singles titles: 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922 and 1923. Her only loss in a singles final came in 1915, when he lost to Molla Bjurstedt. She also reached six singles quarterfinals, won a doubles title (1911) and reached two doubles finals (1915 & 1920). At the 1917 National Clay Court Championship, held in Cincinnati in July that year, Sanders won the singles title (defeating Winifred Swarts Ellis in the final), paired with Marie Gregg to take the women's doubles title (defeating Ellis and Adele Levy in the final), and paired with future husband Howard F. Cordes to take the mixed doubles title (over Leonora Hofer and Chuck Garland). Sanders married Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Arnold (tennis)
Mary Arnold Prentiss (née Arnold; October 26, 1916 – January 26, 1975)"Mary Prentiss, Former Tennis Champ, Dies" ''Los Angeles Times'', January 29, 1975 was an amateur American adult tennis player from September 1934 through May 1968. She also participated in United States National Seniors Championships through 1972. She was educated at the Los Angeles City College where she became a member of the Los Angeles Olympia L.T.C. She participated in the 1939 Wightman Cup, the women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. She won a doubles match partnering with Dorothy Bundy Cheney and helped the U.S. team to a 5–2 victory. She was coached by Eleanor Tennant from 1939 through 1941. Arnold was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 from 1939 through 1947. Her highest ranking was fifth in both 1942 and 1944. At the 1948 French Championships, she paired with future International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Shirley Fry to reach the women's doubles final. She als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Betz
Pauline May Betz Addie (née Betz, August 6, 1919 – May 31, 2011) was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, behind Helen Wills Moody. Early life Betz attended Los Angeles High School and learned her tennis from Dick Skeen. She continued her tennis and education at Rollins College (graduating in 1943), where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Betz earned an MA in economics from Columbia University. Career Amateur Betz won the Eastern Clay Court Championships in 1941 and also won the Eastern Grass Court Championships that same year with a close win in the final against Sarah Palfrey Cooke. She won the Dixie International Championships three times (1940–1942). Betz won the first of her four singles titles at the U.S. Championships in 1942, saving a match point in the semifinals against Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher
Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher (July 2, 1914 – October 11, 1980) was an American tennis player. She was active on ILTF World Circuit from 1930 to 1961 where she contested 85 career singles finals and won 48 titles. Her best season came in 1939 when she won 11 singles titles and finished that year as title leader on the ILTF World Circuit Wheeler also played for the U.S. Wightman Cup team and was ranked as high as No. 4 in the United States during her career. Career She played her first senior tournament in May 1930 at the Southern California Championships. In September that year she reached her first final at the Santa Monica Championships where she lost to Violet Doeg. In December 1931 she won her first singles title at the Los Angeles Midwinter Championships against Elizabeth Deike. Wheeler won the singles title at the Pacific Southwest Championships in September 1936 after a win in the final against Alice Marble who had become U.S. National champion earlier that month. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Marble
Alice Irene Marble (September 28, 1913 – December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940: five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1939. Early life Born in the small town of Beckwourth, California, Marble moved with her family at the age of five to San Francisco. A tomboy, she played seven sports at San Francisco Polytechnic High School, including basketball and baseball, but her brother persuaded her to try tennis. She quickly mastered the game, playing in Golden Gate Park, and by age 15, won several California junior tournaments. Tennis career At the U.S. Championships, Marble won the singles title in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, the women's doubles title with Sarah Palfrey Cooke from 1937 to 1940, and the mixed doubles title with Gene Mako in 1936, Don Budge in 1938, Harry Hopman in 1939, and Bobby Riggs in 1940. At Wimbledon, Marble won the singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Scharman
Lilian Scharman Hester (''née'' Scharman; June 26, 1901 – March 1, 1982) was an American tennis player who was active in the first half of the 1920s. Career She lost to Helen Wills in the first round of Wimbledon in 1924 and competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Having beaten JF Park and Norah Middleton, Scharman and Francis Hunter reached the quarterfinal of the Wimbledon mixed doubles event which they lost to Dorothy Shepherd-Barron and Leslie Godfree. At the 1923 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships she lost the final of the singles event to Mayme McDonald in three sets. In June 1923 at the New Jersey State Championships, played on clay courts at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club, she won the singles title as well as the doubles title, partnering Ceres Baker. Scharman was a runner-up at the 1924 U.S. Indoor Championships, played at Longwood, Chestnut Hill, losing the final in straight sets to Marion Zinderstein Jessup. She had a highest national ranking of No.4 in 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayme McDonald
Mayme is a female given name. People with the name include: * Mayme Agnew Clayton (1923–2006), librarian and leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center * Mayme Cox, née Harding (fl. 1890s–1910s), first wife of politician James M. Cox * Mayme Gehrue (c. 1880–c. 1929), American actress and dancer * Mayme Gerhard (1876–1955), photographer * Mayme Hatcher Johnson (died 2009), wife of gangster Bumpy Johnson * Mayme Kelso (1867–1946), American actress of the silent era * Mayme Kratz (born 1958) is a fine artist and desert forager * Mayme Logsdon (1881–1967), American mathematician * Mayme Ousley (1887–1970), mayor of St. James, Missouri * Mayme Watts (fl. 1950s–1960s), American songwriter and R&B singer * Mayme, an orphan girl who works in a store in the 1929 film, '' The Saturday Night Kid'' See also * Mamie * Mame (other) MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Bancroft
Leslie Bancroft Aeschlimann (''née'' Bancroft) was a female tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1920s. Bancroft reached the semi-finals of the singles event at the 1922 U.S. Championships, which she lost in straight sets to eventual champion Molla Mallory. That same year she was runner-up to Mallory at the U.S. Women's Indoor Championships which was played on wooden courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In 1922, she lost to Canadian player Lois Moyes Bickle in the finals of the singles event at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in Buffalo, New York. The next year, 1923, she again reached the final of the U.S. Women's Indoor Championships but this time lost in two sets to Ann Sheafe Cole. She married Swiss tennis player Charles Aeschlimann on December 16, 1924. They had met at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Moyes Bickle
Lois Wilkie Moyes Bickle (''née'' Moyes; 28 July 1881 – 15 November 1952) was a female tennis player from Canada who was active in the first decades of the 20th century. She won a record ten singles titles (1906–1908, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1920–1922, 1924) at the Canadian Championships. In addition she won nine Canadian Championships doubles titles (1910, 1913, 1914, 1919–1924). Eight of these were won partnering Florence Best whom she defeated in the 1913, 1914 and 1920 singles final. In 1913 and 1921 Moyes Bickle also won the mixed doubles title. In 1910 and 1914 she won the singles title at the Niagara International Tennis Tournament. Moyes Bickle reached the semifinals of the singles event at the 1909 U.S. Championships, which she lost in straight sets to Louise Hammond. In 1922, she defeated Leslie Bancroft in the finals of the singles event at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships The U.S. Open Clay Courts, known formally as the U.S. Clay Court Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Godfrey
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (rapper) (born 2003) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) * C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Indian politician, known as Anna (elder brother) * Sunil Shetty (born 1961), Indian actor, known by his nickname Anna Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Sheafe Cole
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie and Ana. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). In Ireland the name is used as an anglicized version of Áine. Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (166 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |