Women Tennis Stars

Dennis J. Phillips is a member of the library faculty at Pennsylvania State University and the library director at Penn State Lehigh Valley. He is the author of other books about tennis and golf.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Bud Collins     

Preface     



I—Profiles of Champions

Charlotte Dod     

Dorothea Katherine Douglass Lambert Chambers     

Anna Margarethe Bjurstedt Mallory     

May Godfray Sutton Bundy     

Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman     

Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen     

Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark     

Helen Hull Jacobs     

Alice Marble     

Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont     

Pauline May Betz Addie     

Althea Louise Brough Clapp     

Doris Jane Hart     

Shirley June Fry Irvin     

Althea Gibson     

Maureen Catherine Connolly Brinker     

Darlene Ruth Hard     

Maria Ester Andion Bueno     

Margaret Smith Court     

Billie Jean Moffitt King     

Sarah Virginia Wade     

Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley     

Christine Marie Evert     

Martina Navratilova     

Hana Mandlikova     

Tracy Austin     

Jana Novotna     

Steffi Graf     

Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario     

Monica Seles     

Lindsay Davenport     

Venus Williams     

Martina Hingis     

Serena Williams     

Justine Henin     



II—Records

The Grand Slams

The Australian Championships     

The French Championships     

The Wimbledon Championships     

The United States Championships     

The Fed Cup     

The Olympic Games     

The Wightman Cup     

The Hopman Cup     



III—Rankings

USTA Top 10 Women’s Singles Rankings     

WTA Season-Ending Top 10 Singles Rankings     

World Rankings     



Appendices:

A. Career Earnings of Women Tennis Stars     

B. Open Era Player Records of Women Tennis Stars     

C. Chronolog y of Women Tennis Stars by Year of Birth     

D. ITF World Champions     

E. Women Tennis Stars Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame by Year     

F. A Brief History of Women’s Tennis Fashion     



Index