- Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wing Kwan is an American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U.S. championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time despite having never won an Olympic gold medal. - Peter Oppegard
Peter Oppegard (born 1959) is an American figure skater and coach. With his partner Jill Watson, he won three U.S. championships and a bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Oppegard initially paired with Vicki Heasley. He began competing with Watson in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a world bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. Oppegard later skated with Cindy Landry for a short time. - Maureen Connolly
Maureen Catherine ("Little Mo") Connolly (September 17, 1934 - June 21, 1969) was an American tennis player who was the first woman to win the Grand Slam. Connolly was born in San Diego, California, United States. As a child, she loved horseback riding, but her mother was unable to pay the cost of riding lessons. So, she took up the game of tennis. A natural, with tremendous power and accuracy from the baseline, … - Maria Bueno
Maria Ester Audion Bueno, born October 11, 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a female tennis player who won nineteen Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 11 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) during her career. Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship. - Naomi Lang
Naomi Lang (born December 18, 1978 in Arcata, California, U.S.) is an American ice dancer. Lang is the first Native American female athlete to participate in the Olympic Winter Games. She is a member of the Karuk tribe by her father's heritage. Her mother is Leslie Dixon. Lang represents the American Academy Figure Skating Club. Lang was a ballet dancer in Eureka. She started to dance with the age of 3 and continued with ballet dancing to the age of 15. - Alice Marble
Alice Marble (September 28, 1913 - December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships from 1936 through 1940. Five of those championships were in singles, six were in women's doubles, and seven were in mixed doubles. Born in the small town of Beckwourth, California, Marble moved with her family at the age of five to San Francisco. A tomboy, she excelled in many sports such as baseball, … - Ellsworth Vines
Ellsworth Vines was an American tennis champion of the 1930s, the World No. 1 player or the co-No. 1 for 4 years in 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937. In the amateur ranks he won 3 Grand Slam tournaments, the Wimbledon Championships in 1932 and the U.S. Championships in 1931 and 1932 and he reached the final of Wimbledon in 1933. He played his first professional tennis match on January 10, … - Tenley Albright
Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts) became the first American female skater to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She also won the U.S. Championships 5 times, from 1952 to 1956; was World Champion in 1953 and 1955; and had been the silver medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Albright retired from competitive skating after the 1956 season. - Doris Hart
Doris Hart (born on June 2, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American tennis champion in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg. She started playing tennis when she was 10 years old, greatly encouraged by her brother Bud. Hart's first Grand Slam title was in women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1947, when she was still a student at the University of Miami (Florida). - Shirley Fry
Shirley June Fry Irvin (June 30, 1927) was an American female tennis player who was born in Akron, Ohio, United States. Irvin is one of a dozen persons to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during the person's career. She also is one of only five persons to have won each Grand Slam tournament in same-sex doubles as well. The others are Doris Hart, Margaret Smith Court, Martina Navratilova, and Roy Emerson. - Darlene Hard
Darlene Hard (born January 6, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a tennis player known for her volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Championships in 1960 and 1961. With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 U.S. Open, … - Margaret Osborne Dupont
Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont (born on March 4, 1918, in Joseph, Oregon, United States) is a former American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Championships. DuPont teamed with Louise Brough Clapp to win 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles. - Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942 in San Angelo, Texas, United States) is a former tennis player from the U.S. During her career, she won two Grand Slam singles titles (1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles (1965 U.S. Championships and 1966 Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. Championships). She was ranked the World No. 2 in 1969. - Christine Truman
Christine Truman Janes, MBE, (born on January 16, 1941 in Woodford Green, England), is a female former tennis player from the United Kingdom. The British junior champion in 1956 and 1957, Janes made her Wimbledon debut in 1957 at age 16 and reached the semifinals, where she lost to Althea Gibson. In 1958, Janes caused a sensation by defeating Gibson, the Wimbledon champion, … - Owen Davidson
"'"' (born October 4, 1943 in Melbourne) was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Partnering Billie Jean King, he managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967. - Jill Watson
Jill Watson (born 1963) is an American figure skater and coach. With her partner Peter Oppegard, she won three U.S. championships and a bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Watson was initially paired with Burt Lancon, with whom she won two national bronze medals in 1983 and 1984. She began competing with Oppegard in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a world bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. - Ann Haydon-Jones
Ann Haydon-Jones (born Adrianne Shirley Haydon on October 7, 1938 in Birmingham, England, UK), was a table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won a total of eight Grand Slam championships during her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. Her parents were prominent table tennis players, and, as a young girl, she also took up the game. But she soon developed into a powerful lawn tennis player, … - Karen Hantze Susman
Karen Hantze Susman was a female tennis player from the United States. Susman is best remembered for winning the 1962 women's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Věra Pužejová Suková in the final 6-4, 6-4. But Susman also won three Grand Slam women's doubles titles, all with Billie Jean King. Susman and King, as an unseeded team, won the 1961 women's doubles title at Wimbledon, … - Kathleen McKane Godfree
Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree (May 7, 1896 - June 19, 1992) was a British female tennis and badminton player. She was born in Bayswater, London, England and died in London. Godfree finished in the world top 10 in 1925, 1926, and 1927. She ranked second in the world in 1926. Godfree won a total of five Olympic medals at the 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris games. Godfree won the Wimbledon singles title twice. - Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth Montague Ryan (February 8 1892 - July 8 1979) was an American tennis player who lived most of her life in the United Kingdom. Ryan won 30 Grand Slam titles. Nineteen of those titles were in women's doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, an all-time record for those two events. Twelve of her Wimbledon titles were in women's doubles and seven were in mixed doubles. Ryan also won six women's doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles at the French Championships, … - Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig (born September 18, 1912 in Sharon, Massachusetts, USA - died February 27, 1996 in New York) was a female tennis player from the United States. Cooke twice won the singles title at the U.S. Championships, the second time in 1945 at the age of 32. She was only the second mother to have won the title. (Hazel Wightman was the first.) Cooke won the 1945 title after being down 4-3 in the third set to Pauline Betz, with Betz serving. - Richard Sears
Richard Dudley "Dick" Sears (born on October 26, 1861 in Boston - died on April 8, 1943) was an American male tennis player. Undefeated in the U.S. Championships, he won the first of his seven titles there in 1881 while still a student at Harvard. Starting in the 1881 first round, he went on an 18-match unbeaten streak that would take him through the 1887 championships, after which he retired from the game. - Carole Caldwell Graebner
Carole Caldwell Graebner (born June 24, 1943) was an American tennis player. She was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 in singles from 1961 through 1965 and again in 1967. She was ranked U.S. No. 1 in doubles in 1963. - Maurice McLoughlin
Maurice McLoughlin (January 7, 1890 in Carson City, NV, - December 10, 1957 in Hermosa Beach, CA) was an American tennis player known for his powerful serve and overhead volley. He was the first male tennis champion from the western United States. At the U.S. Championships, he won the singles twice, 1912 and 1913, and the doubles three times with Thomas Bundy,1912-14. In 1913 he also became the first American to be a finalist in the singles at Wimbledon. - Eileen Bennett Whittingstall
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (born July 16, 1907 - died 1979) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 through 1931. Although most of her success was in women's doubles or mixed doubles, Whittingstall reached the singles final of the 1928 French Championships and the 1931 U.S. Championships. She lost both of those finals to Helen Wills Moody, 6-1, 6-2 in 1928 and 6-4, 6-1 in 1931. - Kerry Reid
Kerry Melville Reid, MBE, (born August 7,1947, in Mosman, New South Wales) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Reid is best remembered for winning the women's singles title at the January 1977 edition of the Australian Open, although she won 26 additional singles titles during her 17-year career and reached an additional 40 singles finals. Reid was included in the year-end world top ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968-1979). - Art Larsen
Arthur David ("Art" or "Tappy") Larsen (born on April 17, 1925 in Hayward, California, United States) was an American male tennis player best remembered for his victory at the U.S. Championships in 1950 and for his eccentricities. Jack Kramer, the great tennis player and long-time promoter, writes in his 1979 autobiography that "Larsen was fascinating to watch. - John Doeg
John Thomas Godfray Hope Doeg (born December 7, 1908 in Sonora, Mexico - died April 27, 1978) was a male tennis player from the United States. He has won one major tournament: the U.S. Championships in 1930. In 1962, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. - Anita Lizana
Anita Lizana de Ellis (November 19 1915 in Santiago - August 21 1994) was a tennis player from Chile and the first Latin American female to win a Grand Slam singles championship. She won the U.S. Championships in 1937, defeating Jadwiga Jedrzejowska of Poland in the final 6-4, 6-2. - Nell Hall Hopman
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman (born March 19, 1909 in Sydney, Australia - died January 10, 1968 in Hawthorn, Australia) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams. Hopman teamed with her husband to win four mixed doubles titles at the Australian Championships (1930, 1936, 1937, and 1939). - Kay Stammers
Katharine "Kay" Esther Stammers (April 3, 1914 - December 23, 2005) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom. Stammers was born in St Albans, United Kingdom where her parents taught her to play tennis on the grass court at their family home. Left-handed and with a good forehand, Stammers played an attacking style of tennis and was trained by Dan Maskell. Stammers played in an era when the women's game was dominated by Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, and Alice Marble. - Rhode Lee Michelson
Rhode Lee Michelson was an American figure skater. She placed third at the 1961 U.S. Championships, earning her the right to compete a month later at the World Championships. She died on February 15, 1961 when Sabena Flight 548 crashed on its way to the World Championships in Prague. She was 17 at the time of her death. - Carolin Babcock
Carolin Babcock Stark (born circa 1912, died March 25, 1987) was a female tennis player from the United States. She won the women's doubles title with Marjorie Van Ryn at the 1936 U.S. Championships. Stark was the runner-up in singles at the 1932 U.S. Championships, losing to Helen Hull Jacobs 6-2, 6-2. Stark also was the runner-up in women's doubles at the 1934, 1935, and 1937 editions of that tournament. She was married to Richard Salisbury Stark. - Yola Ramírez
Yola Ramírez Ochoa was an internationally renowned tennis player in the 1950s and 1960s. Ochoa was a singles finalist at the French Championships in 1960 and 1961. She lost the 1960 final to Darlene Hard and the 1961 final to Ann Haydon Jones, both International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinees. She also was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1959 and 1961, a quarterfinalist at the 1961 and 1963 U.S. Championships, a semifinalist at the 1962 Australian Championships, … - Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (born April 2, 1863, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland - died "unknown") was a female tennis player from Ireland (at the time of her victory, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom). She was the first foreign woman to win a major tournament: the U.S. Championships in 1891. She repeated as a women's singles champion in 1892. She is a member of the tennis hall of fame. - Julie Sampson Haywood
Julie Ann Sampson Haywood (born February 2, 1934) was a female tennis player from the United States who won two Grand Slam titles. As the second seeded foreign player, Haywood reached the singles final of the 1953 Australian Championships, losing to Maureen Connolly 6-3, 6-2. Haywood and Rex Hartwig teamed to win the mixed doubles title at the 1953 Australian Championships, defeating Connolly and Hamilton Richardson in the final 6-4, 6-3. - Dorothy Cheney
Dorothy “Dodo” Bundy Cheney is the daughter of tennis Hall of Famer May Sutton Bundy and U.S. doubles champion Tom Bundy (1912-1914). She has been an outstanding American tennis player from her youth into her 90s. In 1938, Cheney became the first American to win the women's singles title at the Australian Championships, defeating Dorothy Stevenson in the final 6-3, 6-2. Cheney was a three time finalist in Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments. - R. Norris Williams
Richard ("Dick") Norris Williams II (born on January 29, 1891 in Geneva, Switzerland - June 2, 1968), generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American male tennis player. Williams is best known for his two victories at the U.S. Championships in 1914 and 1916. He was also on the victorious American Davis Cup team twice: in 1925 and 1926 and was considered a fine doubles player. - Patricia Ward Hales
Patricia Ward Hales (born February 27, 1929) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who reached the singles final of the 1955 U.S. Championships, losing to Doris Hart 6-4, 6-2. She also partnered Shirley Bloomer to reach the women's doubles finals in 1955 at Wimbledon, where they lost to the team of Angela Mortimer Barrett and Anne Shilcock 7-5, 6-1, and at the French Championships, where they lost to the team of Darlene Hard and Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 6-8, 13-11. - Anna McCune Harper
Anna McCune Harper (born July 2, 1902 - died June 14, 1999 in Moraga, California) was a female tennis player from the United States. She won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1931. She was the runner-up in singles at the 1930 U.S. Championships, losing to Betty Nuthall Shoemaker. She also was the runner-up in women's doubles at the 1928, 1930, and 1932 U.S. Championships and in mixed doubles at the 1931 edition of those championships.
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