MRS. MOODY WINS FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9

MRS. MOODY WINS FINAL

WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

NEW YORK, 23rd August. At Forest Hills, Mrs. Helen WillsMoody won the United States tennis championship,**defenting Mrs. Fearn'ey Whitting-stall (England), 6-4, 6-1.

Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody bas been in the lirst flight of players since she won the American singles championship at the age of 17, and she has been ranked as world's first player for the past live years. She succeeded to the throne of Suzanne Lenglen naturally enough, and I has won many tournaments, among which were the U.S.A. singles in 1923, 1924, 1925 (which gave her (he cup outright), 1927, 1925, and 1D29. In 1926 she had to retire from the French championships because of an attack of appendicitis, and last year she did not defend her American title. She has also won the Wimbledon singles in 1927, 102S, 1929, and 1930, and the French singles championship in 1925, 1929, and 1930. In 1928 she won the three principal singles championships in the world without losing a set, and in 192S and 1929 was unbeaten in singles matches. In 1924 she won the Olympic singles, and she has won the Wimbledon doubles in 1924, 1927, and 1930, and the U.S.A. doubles in 1922, 1924, and 1925.