TENNIS PLAYER

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

1886 - 1974

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Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE (née Hotchkiss; December 20, 1886 – December 5, 1974) was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American women's tennis before World War I and won 45 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman has received more than 71,840 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman is the 187th most popular tennis player (down from 117th in 2019), the 6,482nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,678th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ranks 187 out of 1,569. Before her are Wilfred Baddeley, Joe Hunt, Henri Leconte, Mervyn Rose, Marcelo Ríos, and Slobodan Živojinović. After her are David Nalbandian, Simonne Mathieu, Bob Falkenburg, Luis Ayala, Henry Slocum, and Juan Martín del Potro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ranks 227. Before her are Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Manuel Bandeira, Bogoljub Jevtić, Eugene Burton Ely, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, and Philip K. Hitti. After her are Angela Piskernik, Barbara Karinska, Edward Lindberg, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Francis Biddle, and Kōsaku Yamada. Among people deceased in 1974, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ranks 174. Before her are Fred Kelly, Lily Kronberger, Francis Blanche, Franz Wagner, Jacqueline Susann, and Mikhail Tikhonravov. After her are Edward Platt, George Van Biesbroeck, Fernand de Montigny, Théodore Nouwens, Eduardo Santos, and María Martínez Sierra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ranks 6,482 out of 20,380. Before her are James Salter (1925), Robert Ettinger (1918), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Mike Kelley (1954), Bill Frisell (1951), and Abigail Fillmore (1798). After her are Gayle Rubin (1949), Ron Leibman (1937), Pete Ricketts (1964), Steve Allen (1921), Iwao Takamoto (1925), and Estelle Parsons (1927).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ranks 38. Before her are Fred Alexander (1880), Jennifer Capriati (1976), Mary Browne (1891), Bill Johnston (1894), Ted Schroeder (1921), and Joe Hunt (1919). After her are Bob Falkenburg (1926), Henry Slocum (1862), Maurice McLoughlin (1890), Wilmer Allison (1904), John Van Ryn (1905), and Darlene Hard (1936).

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