Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman (born December 20, 1886 in Healdsburg , California , † December 5, 1974 in Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts ) was an American tennis player .

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In 1909 she won the American championships in singles, doubles and mixed. She repeated this success for the next two years. Hotchkiss graduated from Berkeley University and won her fourth title at the American Championships (now the US Open ) in 1919, after she was married in 1912 . In total, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won 45 tennis tournaments. At the age of 37, she became two-time Olympic champion in 1924 with Helen Wills Moody in women's doubles and with Richard Williams in mixed.

In 1923 she founded the Wightman Cup , an international match in tennis between the women's teams of the USA and Great Britain , and donated a silver cup, just like Dwight Filley Davis did the Davis Cup . In 1957 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

She also became a table tennis champion in the state of Massachusetts and US runner-up in mixed badminton . In 1930, she won the US championships in squash .

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SURNAME Hotchkiss Wightman, Hazel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hotchkiss Wightman, Hazel Virginia; Hotchkiss, Hazel; Hotchkiss, Hazel Virginia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis and badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Healdsburg , California
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1974
Place of death Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts