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American tennis player, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, who dominated women’s competition before World War I, known as the “Queen Mother of American Tennis.

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The winner of 45 US titles overpowered her opponents in the US championship from 1909-1911, winning every event she entered in each year: women’s singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

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The 1886-born Hazel, who won more national tennis titles than any other player in the history of the sport, died at her home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts on December 5, 1974.

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She won titles on grass, clay, and composition, indoors and outdoors, with all combinations of players, and in all age categories into which tennis players are divided.

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She also competed abroad, winning at Wimbledon in England and at the Olympic Games in France in 1924.

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She was one of the first three women to be enshrined in the Tennis Hall of Fame, and in 1973 she was made an honorary Commander of the British Empire.