Key facts
- Full name
- Helen Hull Jacobs
- Country sports
- United States
- Born
- ( 1908-08-06 ) August 6, 1908, Globe, Arizona , U.S.
- Died
- June 2, 1997 (1997-06-02) (aged 88), East Hampton, New York , U.S.
- Int tennis hof
- 1962 ( member page )
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1936 , A. Wallis Myers )
- French open
- F ( 1930 , 1934 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1936 )
- Us open
- W ( 1932 , 1933 , 1934 , 1935 )
- Wightman cup
- ( 1927 , 1929 , 1931 , 1932 , 1933 , 1934 , 1935 , 1936 , 1937 , 1939 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Helen
- Family name
- Jacobs
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Globe
- Place of death
- East Hampton
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Helen Jacobs, c1928.jpg
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- Commons category
- Helen Jacobs
- competition won
- 1935 U.S. National Championships – women's singles
- date of birth
- 1908-08-06
- handedness
- right-handedness
- date of death
- 1997-06-02
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- cause of death
- heart failure
- end of work period
- 1947-00-00
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- unmarried partner
- Henrietta Bingham
- name in native language
- Helen Jacobs
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helen Jacobs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.