AUGUST 23, 1926: Molla Mallory became oldest player ever to win a tennis singles grand slam after earning a record eighth U.S. Open title on this day in 1926. She beat 34-year-old Elizabeth ‘Bunny’ ...
The American Women’s Tennis Team contending at Wimbleton, London suburb, for the Wightman Cup, was decisively beaten by its British sisters. On the first day Mrs. B. C. Covell (British) defeated Helen ...
Women from the East, women from the West, women from England, one from Holland gathered at Forest Hills, Long Island, with tennis rackets under their tanned trained arms. They gathered to determine ...