Mary Hardwick
Ruth Mary Hare (born: Hardwick ) (born September 8, 1913 - December 18, 2001 ) was a British tennis player in the 1930s.
She comes from a tennis-loving family and therefore started playing at an early age. Her successes include the Scandinavian championships (three times) and a French indoor title. She was in the semifinals of the American tennis championships in Forest Hills (forerunner of the US. Open). In 1936, 1937 and 1939 she was a member of the Wightman Cup team.
With the beginning of the Second World War , she became a consultant for Wilson Sporting Goods . As a result, she came to the USA, where she met the British Davis Cup player and US Open referee Charles Hare (* July 16, 1915, † November 18, 1996). The couple married in 1943 and lived in Chicago for a long time , but they always had a house in Wimbledon .
She also traveled extensively with other athletes in America to make tennis known. She first traveled with Alice Marble and later with Bill Tilden , Bobby Riggs , Don Budge and Jack Kramer .
Mary Hare has also written for various magazines, including Lawn Tennis and Badminton and World Tennis . In 1939 she published the book Lawn Tennis: How to Master the Strokes with tennis players Joan Fry and Stanley N. Doust .
Her brother Derek Hardwick was chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association and later president of the International Tennis Federation .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hardwick, Mary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hare, Ruth Mary (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2001 |