NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—Tennis Hall of Famer Pauline Betz Addie, the top women’s player in the United States in the 1940s, died Tuesday. She was 91. Addie, who had Parkinson’s disease ...

Her closest friends called her “The Champ” and it wasn’t just because Pauline Betz Addie won five Grand Slam women’s singles tennis titles from 1941-46. She was good at everything she did ...

Noted for her athleticism around the court and her powerful backhand, Pauline Betz also possessed that vital ingredient for a top-class tennis player: an intense desire to win. Meanwhile ...

The rulers of amateur tennis wanted to know whether Pauline Betz had turned pro. She ignored their cable, went back on court and proceeded to lose unexpectedly to Rumania’s Magda Rurak.

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A quick bicycle ride to the library filled in the details. Pauline Betz was one of the greatest midcentury women tennis players. In her victory at Wimbledon, the only time she competed in the ...

Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space ...

Pauline Betz Addie, one of the pre-eminent tennis players of the 1940s, whose career came to an abrupt halt after she won four U.S. Open titles and the 1946 women’s singles championship at ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Tennis Hall of Famer Pauline Betz Addie has died at 91. She was the top women's player in the United States in the 1940s. The International Tennis Hall of Fame said Thursday ...