Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Virginia (born 20 December 1886 in Healdsburg, California, † December 5, 1974 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) was an American tennis player.

Biography

She won the 1909 U.S. Championships, both in single, double and mixed doubles. She repeated this success the next two years. Hotchkiss graduated from the University of Berkeley and won in 1919, after she had married in 1912, her fourth title at the U.S. Championships (now the U.S. Open). Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Total won 45 tennis tournaments. At the age of 37 years she was two-fold in 1924 with Helen Wills Moody in women's doubles and with Richard Williams in Mixed Olympic champion.

In 1923, she called the Wightman Cup in life, one international match in tennis between the women's teams from the U.S. and UK, and donated a silver cup, Dwight Filley Davis analogous to the Davis Cup. In 1957, the induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

She was also a U.S. Squash Champion, champion in table tennis in the state of Massachusetts and U.S. Vice Champion in Mixed Badminton.