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Helen Wills
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American tennis player (1905–1998)
OverviewAI-generated
Helen Newington Wills (1905–1998) was an American tennis player, writer, and poet. Born in Fremont, she represented the United States in tennis and competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Wills won the U.S. National Championships in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1927. Her accolades include the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the Associated Press Athlete of the Year. She was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and attended the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to her athletic career, Wills was an author with works including *Shady Way*, *First Ones*, *Memory Locker*, *Money, Madness & Murder*, and *Tennis*. She was right-handed and passed away in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Shady Way
- First Ones
- Memory Locker
- Money, Madness & Murder
- Tennis
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1941-10-20
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 13
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Helen+Wills">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,802x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
· 1985 · cited 15,272x
- Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
· 2017 · cited 12,208x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Full name
- Helen Newington Wills
- Country sports
- United States
- Born
- ( 1905-10-06 ) October 6, 1905, Centerville, California , US
- Died
- January 1, 1998 (1998-01-01) (aged 92), Carmel, California , US
- Height
- 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)
- Int tennis hof
- 1959 ( member page )
- Career record
- 398–35
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1927)
- French open
- W ( 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1932 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1932 , 1933 , 1935 , 1938 )
- Us open
- W ( 1923 , 1924 , 1925 , 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1931 )
- Wightman cup
- ( 1923 , 1927 , 1929 , 1931 , 1932 , 1938 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) during her career, including 19 singles titles.
Wills was the first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity, making friends with royalty and film stars despite her preference for staying out of the limelight. She was admired for her graceful physique and for her fluid motion. She was part of a new tennis fashion, playing in knee-length pleated skirts rather than the longer ones of her predecessors, and was known for wearing her hallmark white visor. Unusually, she practiced against men to hone her craft, and she played a relentless predominantly baseline game, wearing down her female opponents with power and accuracy. In February 1926 she played a high-profile and widely publicized match against Suzanne Lenglen which was called the Match of the Century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helen Wills” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.