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Helen Wills

Awards And Accomplishments



1921-22 U.S. girls' singles
1922 U.S. girls' doubles
1922, 1924-25, 1928 U.S. doubles
1923-25, 1927-29, 1931 U.S. singles
1923-25, 1927-32, 1938 Wightman Cup
1924 Olympic singles
1924 Olympic doubles
1924, 1927, 1930 Wimbledon doubles
1924, 1928 U.S. mixed
1927-30, 1932-33, 1935, 1938 Wimbledon singles
1928 French singles
1929 Wimbledon mixed
1929-30, 1932 French singles
1930, 1932 French doubles
1935 Named Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press
1959 Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
1980 1926 match against Suzanne Lenglen named one of the top twenty tennis matches of all time by Tennis magazine
1996 Inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Women's Hall of Fame

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