Edith Eliot Rotch (August 11, 1874-December 11, 1969
) was an American
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player of the start of the 20th century. Born and raised in greater Boston, she was a 1901 magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
["Edith Eliot Rotch, Was Tennis Champion." ''Boston Globe'', December 12, 1969, p. 45.] During a successful tennis career, on three occasions, she won the
US Women's National Championship : in mixed doubles in 1908 (with
Nathaniel Niles) and in women's doubles with
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE (née Hotchkiss; December 20, 1886 – December 5, 1974) was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American wome ...
in 1909 and 1910. In addition to tennis, she won local trophies in ice skating. By the late 1910s, she had become active in amateur radio. Her ham call letters were 1RO, and later 1ZR. She had her own ham station and administered the licensing exam to other amateurs.
[Harold B. Matson. "Woman Net Champ Leads in Radio." ''Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader'', May 24, 1924, p. 17.]
Grand Slam finals
Doubles (2 titles)
Mixed doubles (1 title)
References
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1874 births
American female tennis players
1969 deaths
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Radcliffe College alumni
United States National champions (tennis)
Tennis players from Boston