Helen Jacobs
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Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Jacobs c. 1928
Jacobs at the 1928 Davis Cup
Sarah Palfrey Cooke
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Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig was an American tennis player whose adult amateur career spanned 19 years, from June 1926 until September 1945. She won two singles, nine women's doubles, and four mixed d
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…Championships Clay Margaret Scriven 5–7, 6–4, 1–6 Loss 1934 Wimbledon Grass Dorothy Round 2–6, 7–5, 3–6 Win 1934 U.S. National Championships (3) Grass Sarah Palfrey 6–1, 6–4 Loss 1935 Wimbledon Grass Helen Wills Moody 3–6, 6–3, 5–7 Win 1935 U.S. National Championships (4) Grass Sarah Palfrey Fabyan 6–2, 6–4 Win…
Palfrey (then Fabyan) at Wimbledon in 1939
"Five Sisters in Boston Who Know Their Tennis" The Messenger (April 6, 1927); a newspaper feature about the Palfrey sisters
Sarah Palfrey on the cover of the Argentine magazine El Gráfico in 1940