1. Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles.
14 Facts About Helen Jacobs
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Helen Jacobs was the best-known Jewish female player of the interwar period.
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Helen Jacobs won five Grand Slam singles titles and was an eleven-time Grand Slam singles runner-up.
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Helen Jacobs won three Grand Slam women's doubles titles and one in mixed doubles.
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Helen Jacobs was the runner-up at six Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments and one Grand Slam mixed doubles tournament.
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Helen Jacobs won the singles and women's doubles titles at the Italian Championships in 1934.
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Helen Jacobs was the top-ranked US player from 1932 through 1935.
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Helen Jacobs was a member of the US Wightman Cup team from 1927 through 1937 and again in 1939.
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In 1933, Helen Jacobs became the first woman to break with tradition by wearing man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon.
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Helen Jacobs wrote fictional works, such as Storm Against the Wind.
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Helen Jacobs was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 1933.
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Helen Jacobs was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1962.
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Helen Jacobs served as a commander in the US Navy intelligence during World War II, one of only five women to achieve that rank in the Navy.
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Helen Jacobs died of heart failure in East Hampton, New York on June 2,1997, where she had been living.