Alice Marble (28 September 1913 - 13 December 1990) is an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam Championships (1936-40): five in singles, six in doubles and seven in doubles.
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Born in the small town of Beckwourth, Plumas County, California, Marble moved with his family at the age of five to San Francisco. A tomboy, he excelled in many sports, including baseball; but her sister persuaded her to try tennis. He quickly mastered the game, played at Golden Gate Park, and at the age of 15 won several California junior tournaments.
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Tennis career
In the US Championship, Marble won the singles title in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, a women's doubles title with Sarah Palfrey Cooke from 1937 to 1940, and a mixed doubles title with Gene Mako in 1936, Don Budge in 1938, Harry Hopman in 1939, and Bobby Riggs in 1940.
At Wimbledon, Marble won a single title in 1939; a women's doubles title with Cooke in 1938 and 1939, and a mixed doubles title with Budge in 1937 and 1938 as well as a mixed doubles title with Riggs in 1939.
In the Wightman Cup team competition Marble lost only one single and one double game in the years he competed (1933, 1937-39).
According to A. Wallis Myers and John Olliff from The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Marble was ranked the top ten of the world from 1936 to 1939 (no rankings issued 1940-45), achieving a career high in the world ranking No. 1. 1 in 1939. Marble is included in the top ten year-end ranking issued by the United States Grass Tennis Association in 1932-33 and 1936-40. He was the top-ranked US player from 1936 to 1940.
Marble was the Associated Press of the Year in 1939 and 1940.
After ending the star amateur career in 1940, Marble became professional and earned over $ 100,000, traveling around the exhibition tournament play.
Retirement
For a short time after his retirement, he worked on the DC Comics editorial advisory board and was credited as an Associate Editor on Wonder Woman. He created the "Wonder Woman of History" feature for comics, which tells the stories of prominent women in history in comic form.
During World War II, Marble married Joe Crowley, a pilot, who was killed in action over Germany. Just days before his death, he suffered a miscarriage due to a car accident. After attempts to commit suicide, he recovered and, in 1945, agreed to spy on US intelligence. His mission involved renewing contacts with ex-lover, a Swiss banker, and obtaining Nazi financial data. The operation ended when the Nazi agent shot him in the back, but he recovered. Several details of the operation have appeared.
Marble contributed greatly to the desegregation of American tennis by writing an editorial to support Althea Gibson for the July 1, 1950 edition, American Lawn Tennis Magazine . The article was read, in part, "Miss Gibson is on a very cunning barrel, and I can only hope to loosen some of her wands with one opinion.If tennis is a game for women and men, it's also time we act, people who are gentle and less like pure hypocrites.If Althea Gibson represents a challenge for the women players today, it's only fair that they have to meet that challenge in court. "Marmer said that, if Gibson is not given a chance to compete, "then there is an irresistible sign against the game that I have devoted most of my life, and I will be very ashamed." Gibson, age 23, was granted access to the 1950 US Championship, becoming the first African-American player, male or female, to compete in Grand Slam events.
In 1964, Marmer was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He then settled in Palm Desert, California, where he taught tennis until his death.
Reinforced by pernicious anemia, Marble died at a hospital in Palm Springs, California.
Legacy
Alice Marble Tennis Courts, provides a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate bridge from the top of the Russian Hill in San Francisco, named in his honor.
Grand Slam final
Singles (5 titles)
Doubles (6 titles)
Grand Slam singles tournament single
SR = ratio of number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won by the number played.
See also
- Timetable for all female tennis players reaching at least one Grand Slam final
References
Source
- Leary, Kevin. (December 14, 1990). "Former-Tennis Champ Alice Marble". San Francisco Chronicle , p. B7.
- Marble, Alice with Dale Leatherman. Dangers of Arguments . New York: St. Martin's Press. 1991.
- Rogers, Thomas. (December 14, 1990). "Alice Marble, 77, Tennis Star of the U.S. 1930s". New York Times , p. D23.
- Yardley, Jonathan. (June 12, 1991). "Sizzling Works" Washington Post , p. F2.
External links
- International Tennis Hall of Fame
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