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Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 - June 2, 1997) was an American female tennis player who was born in Globe, Arizona, United States.

She was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1962.

Career

Jacobs was ranked in the world's top 10 in professional tennis from 1928 to 1940, and was also a member of the U.S. Wightman Cup team (1927-39). In 1933 she became the first woman to break with tradition by wearing man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon. During her career in tennis she became a writer, her first books being Modern Tennis (1933) and Improve Your Tennis (1936). She also wrote fictional works, as Storm Against the Wind (1944). Her autobiography Beyond the Game appeared in 1936.

World War II and Personal Life

Jacobs served as a commander in the U.S. Navy intelligence during World War II, one of only five women to achieve that rank in the Navy. Long known to have been lesbian, her lifelong companion was Virginia Gurnee. Jacobs died in East Hampton, New York in 1997, of heart failure.

Grand Slam record

French championships

Singles champion: -
* Singles finalist: 1930, 1934
* Doubles finalist: 1934

Wimbledon championships

Singles champion: 1936
* Singles finalist: 1929, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1938
* Doubles finalist: 1932, 1936, 1939

U.S. championships

Singles champion: 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935
*Singles finalist: 1928, 1936, 1939, 1940
Doubles champion: 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935
*Doubles finalist: 1931, 1936
Mixed champion: 1934
*Mixed finalist: 1932

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