Helen Jacobs

Helen Hull Jacobs ( born August 6, 1908 in Globe, Arizona; † 2 June 1997 in New York) was an American tennis player.

Career

She was one of the best tennis players of the thirties. During this time she won four times from 1932 to 1935 the American Tennis Championships (now the U.S. Open ) in singles and doubles and also was four times in a single in the final. They also won the 1936 women's singles at Wimbledon, where she defeated the German Hilde Sperling and also got five more times in the final.

She had the misfortune to play at the same time as Helen Wills Moody. Of the eleven meeting Helen Jacobs was only able to win a game. Helen Jacobs lived with her ​​partner Virginia Gurnee. In 1962, the induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

1933 Jacobs was awarded the Sportsman of the Year Award from the Associated Press.