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U.S. Open Champions (Mixed Doubles)
The following pairings won the US Open (tennis), U.S. Open tennis championship in Mixed doubles (tennis), mixed doubles. Finals U.S. National Championships US Open See also U.S. Open other competitions *List of US Open men's singles champions *List of US Open men's doubles champions *List of US Open women's singles champions *List of US Open women's doubles champions Grand Slam mixed doubles *List of Australian Open mixed doubles champions *List of French Open mixed doubles champions *List of Wimbledon mixed doubles champions *List of Grand Slam mixed doubles champions Notes References External links List of US Open Mixed Doubles Champions {{DEFAULTSORT:Us Open mixed doubles champions Lists of US Open (tennis) champions, Mix Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles, *US Open Mixed doubles tennis, US Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park or simply Flushing Meadows or Corona Park) is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by Interstate 678 (New York), I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike (New York), Union Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the List of New York City parks, fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of . Until the 19th century, the site consisted of wetlands straddling the Flushing River, which traverses the region from north to south. Starting in the first decade of the 20th century, it was used as a dumping ground for ashes, since at the time, the land was so far away from the developed parts of New York City as to be considered almost worthless. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City Parks commissioner Robert Moses firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molla Bjurstedt
Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory ( Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a former Norwegian-American world no 2 ranked tennis player. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics. Tennis career Although she had won a bronze medal in singles for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and was the many-time champion of her homeland, Mallory was relatively unknown when she arrived in New York City to begin work as a masseuse in 1915. She entered the U.S. Indoor Championships that year unheralded and beat Marie Wagner 6–4, 6–4, which was the first of her five singles titles at that tournament. She also won the singles title in Cincinnati in 1915. Mallory had less in the way of stroke equipment than most tennis champions, but she was a fierce competitor, running with great endurance. Robert Kelleher, a former president of the United States Tennis Association (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (August 20, 1868 – September 26, 1954) was an American tennis player. She was the daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Grace in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion. She won the women's singles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships defeating the 1888 and 1889 champion Bertha Townsend in the final in two sets. The same year, she won the doubles title with her sister. They were the first pair of sisters to win the U.S. Championships and remained the only pair to do so until the Williams sisters equalled their achievement in 1999. At the 1893 U.S. Championships, she won the mixed doubles title with Oliver Campbell. Her other career singles highlights include winning the Staten Island Ladies Club Open in 1890. She was a first cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and she was posthumously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Moore
Elisabeth 'Bessie' Holmes Moore (March 5, 1876 – January 22, 1959) was an American tennis champion who was active at the beginning of the 20th century. Moore won the singles title at the U.S. Championships on four occasions. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. Biography Elisabeth Moore was born on March 5, 1876, in Brooklyn, the daughter of George Edward Moore (1840–1911), an affluent cotton broker, and Sarah Z. Orr (1857–1942). She was raised and schooled in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She learned to play tennis at age 12. Moore reached her first U.S. National Championships singles final in 1892 at the age of 16 years and three months, losing to Mabel Cahill from Ireland in the first five-set match contested between two women. In the final years of the 19th century, she had a rivalry with Juliette Atkinson. She won the inaugural U.S. Indoor Women's Singles Championship in 1907, defeating Marie Wagner in the final in three sets. In 1908, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Hobart
Clarence Hobart (June 27, 1870 – August 2, 1930) was a tennis player from the United States. He was a six-time champion at the U.S. National Championships, winning three titles in men's doubles in 1890, 1893 and 1894 and three others in mixed doubles in 1892, 1893 and 1905. Hobart also reached the Challenge Round in the Gentlemen's Singles in 1891, finishing runner-up. In 1905 he won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. National Championship with Augusta Schultz whom he married in 1895. In 1899 he won the Championship of Germany, played in Homburg, by defeating A.W. Gore in the final in three straight sets and subsequently winning against Irishman Harold Mahony in the challenge round in five sets. At the same venue he reached the final of the Homburg Cup but lost in five sets to Wimbledon champion Reggie Doherty after leading 2–0 in sets. During a 1903 tour in Europe he reached the finals of the Kent Championships and the Ostend International tournament in Belgium b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships. Early life and family Mabel Cahill was born on 2 April 1863 in the family home of Ballyragget House, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, the twelfth child of thirteen. She had 5 sisters and 7 brothers. Being part of this society resulted in having social events held by the upper class. In this case, tennis parties. During this time, it was quite uncommon for women to obtain a secondary level school degree; however, it has been recorded that Mabel attended Roscrea School with two of her brothers, a fee paying school. There is strong evidence to suggest that Mabel and two of her sisters enrolled in Sacred Heart Convent Secondary School. After school, Mabel moved from her family town of Ballyraggett to the city of Dublin in the year of 1886. where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin (''née'' Townsend; March 7, 1869 – May 12, 1909) was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships (now U.S. Open) in 1888 and 1889. She developed the underhand technique. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It honors both players and other contributors to the sport of tennis. The complex, the former Newport Casino, includes a museum, 13 grass tennis courts, an ... in 1974. Grand Slam finals Singles (2 titles, 1 runner-up) Doubles (1 title, 1 runners-up) References External links * American female tennis players International Tennis Hall of Fame inductees Tennis players from Philadelphia United States National champions (tennis) 1869 births 1909 deaths 19th-century female tennis players 19th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Roosevelt
Grace Walton Roosevelt (married name Appleton Clark) (June 3, 1867 – November 29, 1945) was an American tennis player of the end of the 19th century, born in Hyde Park, New York. Early life She was the daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Ellen in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion. Career In 1889, she won the unofficial mixed doubles title at the U.S. National Championship with A.E. Wright. She won the doubles title in 1890 with her sister Ellen, defeating compatriots Margarette Ballard and Bertha Townsend in two sets. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) Mixed doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) Personal life In 1895, she married lawyer Appleton LeSure Clark and had two sons, Russell and Roosevelt. She returned to her parents' mansion after her husband's death in 1930. She was a first cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Robinson
Adeline King Robinson (March 22, 1865 – December 18, 1943) was an American female tennis player. She was active from 1883 to 1890 and contested 9 career singles finals, and won 8 titles. She was born on Staten Island in New York, the daughter of stockbroker Beverly Robinson and Eliza Gracie King. She was educated at private schools in New York City and in France. Robinson mainly played at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club and in New York tournaments. In 1885 she won the Ladies Club for Outdoor Sports Open and again in 1885. In September 1887 she won the doubles event at the New York Tennis Club Open tournament with Miss Clark. In October she won the singles title at the Hastings-on-Hudson tournament after defeating Ellen Roosevelt in the final. Robinson competed in the women's singles event at the 1888 National Championships, played in June at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. She defeated Augusta Roberts in the first round in straight sets and won her second roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Clark (tennis)
Joseph Sill Clark Sr. (November 30, 1861 – April 14, 1956) was an American tennis player. Clark won the 1885 U.S. National Championship in doubles with partner Dick Sears. He was also the inaugural singles and doubles national collegiate champion, in 1883. When he died in 1956, he was Philadelphia's oldest practicing attorney. Biography Clark was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 30, 1861, to a family of bankers and financiers. His father, Edward White Clark, was a partner in the family firm, E. W. Clark & Co. Clark's brother, Clarence Munroe Clark, would also become a tennis player of note. As a student at Harvard University, Joseph Clark won the U.S. intercollegiate singles and doubles titles in its inaugural staging, in the spring of 1883. In the singles, he defeated fellow Crimson player Dick Sears. Clark graduated Harvard in 1883 and later earned a law degree. He and his brother, Percy Hamilton Clark, opened a law practice at 321 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
