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1 day ago · Alice Marble : 1939 ♦: Emily Hood Westacott : Simonne Passemard Mathieu : Alice Marble : Alice Marble : 1940: Nancye Wynne Bolton : cancelled (World War II) World War II: Alice Marble : 1941: World War II: Alice Weiwers † Sarah Palfrey Cooke : 1942: Alice Weiwers † Pauline Betz : 1943: Simone Iribarne Lafargue † Pauline Betz : 1944
4 days ago · After she had been denied access to the draw several years in a row, it took the intense lobbying of former champion Alice Marble to force the organization to let Althea Gibson compete. In a letter to the USLTA Magazine, Marble wrote : “If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it’s also time we acted a little more like gentle-people ...
1 day ago · Wimbledon Championships, internationally known tennis championships played annually in London at Wimbledon. The tournament, held in late June and early July, is one of the four annual “Grand Slam” tennis events—along with the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens—and is the only one still played on.
4 days ago · Biography: Best known as tennis champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Alice Marble won eighteen tennis Grand Slam championships. These included: United States Open Singles title, 1936, 1938 to 1940; The Championship, Wimbledon Singles title, 1939; The Championship, Wimbledon Doubles title, 1938 to 1939; United States ...
5 days ago · Alice Marble (1913-1990) was born on September 28 in Beckwourth, California, USA. In a playing career from 1933-1940 she won 18 Grand Slam titles ( five in singles, six in women's doubles and seven in mixed doubles).
1 day ago · Also the 1941 triple championship of Alice Weiwers isn't listed due to its disputed official status: French major championships held in Vichy France from 1941 to 1945 aren't currently recognized by the Fédération Française de Tennis.
5 days ago · Wimbledon has historically been played in the last week of June and the first week of July (though changed to the first two weeks of July in 2017), and has been chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987. [4]
