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Finally the eagerly awaited US Open 2023 is about to start. Many women’s tennis stars will compete for the final victory in Flushing Meadows: Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka, Onsa Jabeur and Coco Gauff are the favorites for the final victory.
But here are the tennis players who wrote the history of the tournamentEllen Hansell was the first winner of the women’s tournament, in 1887.
In the first years of life the tournament experienced many winners, including Juliette Atkinson (3 titles) and Elizabeth Moore (4 titles), but the golden period came first, during and after the First World War, when Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (4 titles), Mary Browne (3 titles), Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (8 titles, record) and Helen Wills Moody (7 titles) dominated the tournament for a period of 21 years.In the 1930s Helen Hull Jacobs (4 titles) preceded the victory of Anita Lizana; the Chilean was the first Latin-American player to win a Grand Slam in women’s singles.
between the late ’30s and the end of the’ 50s, other great women’s tennis stars emerged, who wrote pages of important history at the US Open: Alice Marble (4 titles), Pauline Betz (4 titles), Margaret Osborne duPont (3 titles, but…
