Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Algernon Kingscote, Augustos Zerlendis, Brian Gilbert (tennis), Conrad Langaard (tennis), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Eleanor Goss, Evelyn Colyer, Francis Hunter, Germaine Golding, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Helen Wills, Hendrik Timmer (tennis), Henri Cochet, Jack Nielsen (tennis), Jacques Brugnon, Jan Kozeluh, Jean Borotra, Julie Vlasto, Kathleen McKane Godfree, Kea Bouman, Marion Jessup, Phyllis Covell, R. Norris Williams, René Lacoste, Umberto De Morpurgo, Vincent Richards. Excerpt: Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 - January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete." She was born Helen Newington Wills in Centerville, California and attended the University of California, Berkeley. She married Frederick Moody in December 1929. She won approximately one-half of her major championships as "Helen Wills" and one-half as "Helen Wills Moody". Wills divorced Moody in 1937 and married Aidan Roark in October 1939. She died on January 1, 1998, aged 92. Wills won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles) during her career, including seven singles titles at the U.S. Championships, eight singles titles at Wimbledon, and four singles titles at the French Championships. Excluding her defaults at the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1926, she reached at least the final of each Grand Slam singles event she played during her career. She never played at the Australian Championships. Wills also won two Olympic gold medals in Paris in 1924 (singles and doubles), the last year that tennis was an Olympic sport until 1988. Wills was the U.S. girls' singles champion in 1921 and 1922. She won her first women's national title at the age of 17 in 1923, making her the youngest champion at that time. From 1919 through 1938, she amassed a 398-35 (0.919) match record, including a winning streak of at least 158 matches, during which she did not lose a set. She was a member of the U.S. Wightman Cup team in 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1938. Wills was reported to be an introverted and detached woman. On court, she rarely showed emotion, ignored her opponents, and took no notice of the crowd. Kitty McKane Godfree, who inflicted the only defeat Wills suffered at Wimbledon during her career, said, "Helen was a very private person, and she didn't reall