Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman


Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American womens tennis before World War I, and won 45 U.S. titles during her life.

Wightman was born Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss in Healdsburg, California to William Joseph and Emma Lucretia Hotchkiss. In February 1912, at the age of 25, she married George William Wightman of Boston. Her fatherinlaw, George Henry Wightman, was a leader in the steel industry, as an associate of Andrew Carnegie, and one of the countrys foremost pioneers of amateur tennis.

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