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Also known as Helen Hull Jacobs

American tennis player (1908–1997)

Person · Open Library

Works
13

Top works

  • Follow Your Heart
  • Roots and Wings
  • Nursery Rhyme Classics
  • Land Where Tales Are Told - Illustrated by Helen Jacobs, A. H. Watson, Linden Miller and Ernest Aris
  • Dried Figs

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
BE
Active from
1946-10-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
6

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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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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.