• The 1930 Wightman Cup was the 8th edition of the annual competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the All England Lawn Tennis...
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  • The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United...
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  • England. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886–1974), American tennis player Jake Wightman (born 1994), British athlete John Wightman (1930–2017), American lawyer...
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    to Suzanne Lenglen. She was part of the British team that won the 1930 Wightman Cup against the United States. She lost her singles matches to Helen Wills...
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  • Italy vs. Japan United States vs. Italy France vs. United States 1930 Wightman Cup Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New...
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  • The 1929 Wightman Cup was the seventh edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held on...
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  • The 1931 Wightman Cup was the ninth edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the...
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    Challenge) and the Mitre Cup (South American version of the Davis Cup) for men. The 1930 Wightman Cup was its eighth edition and was organized by the United States...
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    Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE (née Hotchkiss; December 20, 1886 – December 5, 1974) was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual...
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    Evelyn Colyer (category 1930 deaths)
    part of the winning British Wightman Cup team in 1924 and 1925 as well as the team that lost in 1926. On 13 February 1930 she married Hamish Munro, a...
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    Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup. After retiring from tennis, she turned to television presenting...
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    a team member of the U.S. Wightman Cup in 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1938, winning the cup in 1923, 1927, 1929, 1931,...
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  • In August 1935, she was a member of the United States team for the Wightman Cup contest against Great Britain, held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest...
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  • beating Joan Hartigan in the final. She played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1935. In a codicil to her will, dated 14 February...
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  • they lacked the authority to organise such a competition. In 1923, the Wightman Cup was created as a national women's tennis competition between the United...
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  • traditional home of Jenner Park, Barry, which holds 3,500 spectators. Steel Wightman Molyneux White Thomas Bates Woolridge Greenaway McNaught Sheldon Isherwood...
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  • in the United States in 1930 and 1932 and No. 6 in 1933. In 1934, she was a member of the United States team on the Wightman Cup against Great Britain,...
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    States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the U.S. captain in the Federation Cup. King is an advocate of gender...
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  • defeating Gibson, the reigning Wimbledon champion, in the Wightman Cup and helped bring the cup back to Great Britain after 21 consecutive defeats by the...
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  • Ivan Lendl 2004–2008 Roger Federer (5-peat) 1909–1911 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1912–1914 Mary Browne 1915–1918 Molla Mallory 1920–1922 Molla Mallory 1923–1925...
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    she continued to play the occasional UK event and was part of the 1975 Wightman Cup team for Great Britain. In 1977, Jones teamed with Winnie Wooldridge...
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    instead co-wrote a letter, urging its re­con­sid­er­a­tion. President Wightman appointed a special com­mit­tee to resolve the matter. It consisted of...
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    the British Wightman Cup team and defeated Helen Jacobs in her debut. She also represented Great Britain in the 1929 and 1931–34 Wightman Cup competitions...
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  • Maud Barger-Wallach 1909: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1910: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1911: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1912: Mary Browne 1913: Mary Browne 1914:...
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    and 1990 League Cups and were losing finalists in the 1991 FA Cup final and 1992 League Cup final, before relegation from the Premier League in 1993. Upon...
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    and some coaching from, Bill Tilden. Like both her Wightman Cup coach Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and her archrival Helen Wills Moody, she grew up in Berkeley...
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    and quarterfinal victories came in three sets. In the Fed Cup (eventually Billie Jean King Cup) in 2019, she was a hitting partner for the British team...
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    Surrey Championships. Sterry was part of the British team that lost the Wightman Cup in 1927 to the United States but won her doubles match partnering Betty...
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    2017 when, together with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, they led the Belarus Fed Cup team to a runner-up finish despite both of them being ranked outside the...
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    Wright & Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guides Helen Wills: Tennis, Art, Life Wightman Cup reference During her career Wills defeated opponents 50 times without...
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