Alice Marble

Alice Marble ( born September 28, 1913 in Palm Springs, California, † December 13, 1990 ibid ) was an American tennis player.

Career

She won four times in her career (1936, 1938-1940 ), American tennis championships at Forest Hills in the women's singles and Sarah Palfrey Cooke four times the women's doubles ( 1937 to 1940 ). They also won in 1939 in Wimbledon women's singles and doubles in 1938 and 1939. With Don Budge and Bobby Riggs won from 1937 to 1939 three times the Mixed with the English Championships.

In 1941, she joined the professional tennis players. In 1964, the induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

In recognition of her Wimbledon success Marble was first honored in 1939 with the Sportsman of the Year Award from the Associated Press.