Biography:Alice Marble was an American tennis player, best known for winning 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940. She won five singles titles, six women's doubles titles, and seven mixed doubles titles; as a result she was ranked world number one in 1939.
Marble won her first title at the US Open in 1936, and she win would the singles titles there again from 1938 to 1940. She also won the women's doubles at the US Open from 1937 to 1940, with Sarah Palfrey Cooke as her partner.
1936-09-12 50th US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: #3 seed Alice Marble beats top seeded fellow American Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
1938-09-24 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3
1939-07-08 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her only Wimbledon singles title beating Kay Stammers of England 6-2, 6-0
1939-09-17 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Dual champion Alice Marble beats Helen Jacobs 6-0, 8-10, 6-4
1940-09-09 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Alice Marble beats Helen Jacobs 6-2, 6-3 for her third US singles title
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