US Open Champions 1910-1940
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Bill Tilden – USA (1893 –1953). He is often Fred Perry - UK (1909 – 1995) was a Donald Budge – USA (1915 – 2000) was a considered one of the greatest tennis players championship-winning tennis and table World No. 1 player for five years. He is of all time. Tilden was the World No. 1 player tennis player who won 10 MaJors including most famous as the first player, male or for six years from 1920 through 1925. He won eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. female, and only American male to win the 14 Major singles titles including 10 Grand Grand Slam of tennis (4 Slams in 1 year). Slams, 1 World Hard Court Championships and Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon He won 10 maJors, of which six were Grand 3 Pro Slams. He also won a record seven US Championships from 1934 to 1936 and three Slams (consecutively, male record) Championships titles (shared with Richard US Championship titles. Prior to Andy Murray including two US Championships. Budge Sears and Bill Larned). He dominated the in 2013, Perry was the last British player to was considered to have the best backhand world of international tennis in the first half of win the men's Wimbledon championship, in in the history of tennis, at least until Ken the 1920s. 1936 . Rosewall. Ricardo González – USA (1928 –1995), also "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory - Norway (née Helen Wills - USA (1905 –1998), also known as Pancho Gonzales, was the World No. Anna Margrethe Bjurstedt, 1884 –1959) was known as Helen Wills Moody, won 31 1 tennis player for an all time record eight a Norwegian tennis player, naturalized Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, years from 1952 to 1960. He won 17 MaJor American. She won a record eight singles women's doubles, and mixed doubles) singles titles including 15 Pro Slams and 2 titles at the U.S. Championships. during her career, including seven singles Grand Slams (US Championships). A 1999 According to A. Wallis Myers of The Daily titles at the U.S. Championships, eight Sports Illustrated article about the magazine's Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Mallory was singles titles at Wimbledon, and four 20 "favorite athletes" of the 20th century said ranked in the world top ten from 1921 (when singles titles at the French Championships. "If earth was on the line in a tennis match, the the rankings began) through 1927, reaching a Excluding her defaults at the French man you want serving to save humankind career high of World No. 2 in those rankings Championships and Wimbledon in 1926, would be Ricardo Alonso Gonzalez." in 1921 and 1922.] she reached at least the final of each Grand Slam singles event she played during her career. US OPEN TENNIS Helen Hull Jacobs - USA (1908 –1997) was a Pauline Betz Addie – USA (1919 – 2011) World No. 1 player who won ten Grand Slam LEGENDS won five Grand Slam singles titles and was titles. Jacobs won five Grand Slam singles titles the runner-up on three other occasions. and was an eleven-time Grand Slam singles Jack Kramer has called her the second best runner-up. Six of those losses were to Helen 1910 - 1940 female tennis player he ever saw, behind Wills Moody. Jacobs's only victory over Moody Helen Wills Moody. She won the was in the final of the 1933 U.S. Wimbledon singles title in 1946, the only Championships. Moody retired from the time she entered the tournament, without match with a back inJury while trailing 3–0 in losing a set. She was ranked World No. 1 in the third set to a chorus of boos. 1946 (no rankings issued 1940 to 1945). .