Helen Wills
Sign in to saveAmerican tennis player (1905–1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905-10-06
- Died
- 1998-01-01
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Shady Way
- First Ones
- Memory Locker
- Money, Madness & Murder
- Tennis
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,782x
- 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 15,235x
- Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
· 1985 · cited 14,784x
- Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
· 2017 · cited 11,634x
- 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 10,771x
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 6 October 1905
- Died
- 1 January 1998
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Helen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fremont
- Place of death
- Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Occupation
- artist
- Participant in
- 1924 Summer Olympics
- Field of work
- poetry
Article
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.
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