Edith Sigourney (May 15, 1895 – December 2, 1982) was an American tennis player during the 1920s.

Biography

Edith Sigourney was born in

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in 1895. She and her five siblings grew up at the family's home on Beacon Street. She learned to play tennis at the Nahant tennis club where the family spent their summers.USTA New England Sigourney's best result at the U.S. Championships was the quarterfinals, which she reached twice, in 1920 and 1922. In doubles, she was a finalist alongside Molla Mallory in 1922, where they lost to Marion Zinderstein and

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in three sets. She was within the US national top ten in 1920 (no. 8), 1923 (no. 7) and 1925 (no. 10). Sigourney crossed the Atlantic three times to play at the

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in 1921, 1923 and 1924, but lost her initial match in each year. In 1921, she also played at the World Hard Court Championships at Paris. In 1928, she won the U.S. Indoor Championships. Along with Hazel Wightman, she won the National Senior Doubles Championships five times in between 1940 and 1947. She later moved to Nahant, and lived there until her death in 1982.''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.

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. Sigourney was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: (1 runner-up)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sigourney, Edith American female tennis players 1895 births 1982 deaths Tennis players from Boston 20th-century American sportswomen