U.S. Women's Indoor Championships

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The U.S. Women's Indoor Championships, was a national tennis championship for women that was sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association and held 79 times from 1907 through 2001 at various locations and on various surfaces. The event was affiliated with the WTA Tour from 1971 through 2001 (excluding 1977).

U.S. Women's Indoor Tennis Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1907
Abolished2001
Editions78
Locationvarious
United States
SurfaceWood / indoor
Hard / indoor

Marie Wagner won more singles titles (6) and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won more doubles titles (10) at this tournament than any other woman. Lois Felix holds the record for runners-up in singles (4) while Wightman and Norma Taubele Barber hold the record for runners-up in doubles (5).

The women's tournament started in 1907 when they joined the men at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York to form a combined tournament. Elisabeth Moore won the first title. The women's doubles event was added in 1908.[1] The women played periods in New York (1907–1920, 1934–1940, and 1947–1953) and Longwood Courts at Chestnut Hill in Massachusetts (1921–1933, 1941–1946, 1954–1966). From 1967 to 1972 the women played in Winchester. In 1969 and 1970 the tournament remained an amateur event, meaning that players who had turned professional during these years were not allowed to compete.[2] In 2002 the women rejoined the men in Memphis and in 2012 Memphis announced that it was renaming (restoring) the tournament to U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships.[3][4]

In 2002, a women's WTA Tour event in Oklahoma City was purchased and moved to Memphis; this event was renamed The Cellular South Cup. As Cellular South ended sponsoring the tournament after 2011, the event was renamed Memphis International.[5]

Locations

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Finals

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Molla Bjurstedt at the 1915 National Indoor Tennis Tournament at the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City.

Singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
1907   Elisabeth Moore   Marie Wagner 6–2, 4–6, 6–2
1908   Marie Wagner 1/6   Nora Meyer Schmitz 6–3, 6–2
1909   Marie Wagner 2/6   Elisabeth Moore 6–0, 12–14, 6–0
1910   Nora Meyer Schmitz   Erna Marcus 3–6, 8–6, 6–3
1911   Marie Wagner 3/6   Nora Meyer Schmitz 6–4, 7–9, 6–4
1912 Not held
1913   Marie Wagner 4/6   Alice Day Beard 6–1, 6–1
1914   Marie Wagner 5/6   Alice Day Beard 6–1, 2–6, 6–2
1915   Molla Bjurstedt 1/5   Marie Wagner 6–4, 6–4
1916   Molla Bjurstedt2/5   Nora Meyer Schmitz 6–2, 6–1
1917   Marie Wagner 6/6   Eleanor Goss 6–3, 6–1
1918   Molla Bjurstedt 3/5   Eleanor Goss 3–6, 6–1, 6–4
1919   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1/2   Marion Zinderstein 2–6, 6–1, 6–4
1920   Helene Pollak Falk   Edith Sigourney 8–6, 6–2
1921   Molla Mallory 4/5   Ann Sheafe Cole 6–0, 6–2
1922   Molla Mallory 5/5   Leslie Bancroft 7–5, 6–1
1923   Ann Sheafe Cole   Leslie Bancroft 8–6, 6–2
1924   Marion Zinderstein Jessup 1/2   Lillian Scharman Hester 6–2, 6–3
1925   Marion Zinderstein Jessup 2/2   Anna Fuller Hubbard 6–3, 7–5
1926   Elizabeth Ryan   Marion Zinderstein Jessup 1–6, 6–2, 6–3
1927   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 2/2   Margaret Blake 6–0, 2–6, 6–3
1928   Edith Sigourney   Anna Fuller Hubbard 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1929   Margaret Blake   Anna Fuller Hubbard 6–3, 6–3
1930   Mianne Palfrey   Marion Zinderstein Jessup 7–5, 6–2
1931   Marjorie Sachs Pickhardt   Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6–3, 9–7
1932   Marjorie Morrill   Marjorie Sachs Pickhardt 3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1933   Dorrance Chase Deston   Helen Germaine 6–3, 6–2
1934   Norma Taubele Barber   Helen Pedersen Rihbany 6–4, 6–1
1935   Jane Sharp   Helen Pedersen Rihbany 11–9, 6–1
1936   Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn   Norma Taubele Barber 6–4, 6–3
1937   Sylvie Jung Henrotin   Millicent Hirsch Lang 10–8, 0–6, 6–2
1938   Virginia Hollinger   Katherine Winthrop 6–1, 2–6, 6–3
1939   Pauline Betz 1/4   Helen Bernhard 7–5, 4–6, 6–1
1940   Sarah Palfrey Cooke   Pauline Betz 6–4, 1–6, 7–5
1941   Pauline Betz 2/4   Dorothy Bundy Cheney 6–1, 10–12, 6–2
1942   Patricia Canning Todd 1/2   Hope Knowles Rawls 8–6, 1–6, 6–2
1943   Pauline Betz 3/4   Katherine Winthrop 6–4, 6–1
1944   Katherine Winthrop McKean   Helen Pedersen Rihbany 6–0, 7–5
1945   Helen Pedersen Rihbany 1/2   Katherine Winthrop 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
1946   Helen Pedersen Rihbany 2/2   Katharine Hubbell 7–5, 6–4
1947   Pauline Betz 4/4   Doris Hart 6–2, 7–5
1948   Patricia Canning Todd 2/2   Doris Hart 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1949   Gussie Moran   Nancy Chaffee 6–2, 6–3
1950   Nancy Chaffee 1/3   Althea Gibson 6–0, 6–2
1951   Nancy Chaffee Kiner 2/3   Beverly Baker Fleitz 6–4, 6–4
1952   Nancy Chaffee Kiner 3/3   Patricia Canning Todd 6–1, 6–0
1953   Thelma Coyne Long   Barbara Scofield Davidson 5–7, 6–0, 9–7
1954   Dorothy Watman Levine 1/2   Lois Felix 6–1, 6–1
1955   Katharine Hubbell   Mildred Thornton 8–6, 9–7
1956   Lois Felix 1/2   June Stack 9–7, 9–7
1957   Dorothy Watman Levine 2/2   Lois Felix 6–1, 6–1
1958   Nancy O'Connell   Bonnie Mencher 6–8, 6–3, 6–1
1959   Lois Felix 2/2   Carole Wright 6–2, 8–6
1960   Carole Wright 1/2   Lois Felix 6–1, 6–2
1961   Janet Hopps   Katharine Hubbell 6–0, 7–5
1962   Carole Wright 2/2   Lois Felix 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1963   Carol Hanks Aucamp   Mary-Ann Eisel 6–2, 6–2
1964   Mary-Ann Eisel 1/3   Carole Wright 6–3, 6–4
1965   Nancy Richey   Carol Hanks Aucamp 6–3, 6–2
1966   Billie Jean King 1/5   Mary-Ann Eisel 6–0, 6–2
1967   Billie Jean King 2/5   Trudy Groenman 6–1, 6–0
1968   Billie Jean King 3/5   Rosemary Casals 6–3, 9–7
1969   Mary-Ann Eisel 2/3   Stephanie DeFina 6–3, 4–6, 6–2
1970   Mary-Ann Eisel Curtis 3/3   Patti Hogan 0–6, 6–3, 6–4
1971   Billie Jean King 4/5   Rosemary Casals 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
1972 Not held
1973   Evonne Goolagong 1/2   Virginia Wade 6–4, 6–4
1974   Billie Jean King 5/5   Chris Evert 6–3, 3–6, 6–2
1975   Martina Navratilova 1/4   Evonne Goolagong 6–2, 4-6, 6-3
1976   Virginia Wade   Betty Stöve 5–7, 7–5, 7–5
1977 Not held
1978   Chris Evert   Virginia Wade 6–7, 6–2, 6–4
1979   Evonne Goolagong Cawley 2/2   Dianne Fromholtz 6–3, 6–4
1980   Tracy Austin   Dianne Fromholtz 6–1, 2–6, 6–2
1981   Martina Navratilova 2/4   Tracy Austin 6–0, 6–2
1982   Barbara Potter   Pam Shriver 6–4, 6–2
1983   Kim Shaefer   Sylvia Hanika 6–4, 6–3
1984   Martina Navratilova 3/4   Chris Evert 6–2, 7–6(7–4)
1985   Hana Mandlíková   Catarina Lindqvist 6–3, 7–5
1986   Martina Navratilova 4/4   Helena Suková 3–6, 6–0, 7–6(7–5)
1987   Helena Suková   Lori McNeil 6–0, 6–3
1988–2000 Not held
2001   Monica Seles   Jennifer Capriati 6–3, 5–7, 6–2

Doubles

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
1908   Helen Pouch
  Elisabeth Moore 1/2
  Mrs. A.H. McCarty
  M. Johnson
13–11, 6–3
1909   Erna Marcus
  Elisabeth Moore 2/2
  Marie Wagner
  Louise Hammond Raymond
3–6, 6–4, 12–10
1910   Marie Wagner 1/4
  Clara Kutroff Cassebeer 1/2
  Erna Marcus
  Elisabeth Moore
6–2, 5–7, 6–3
1911   Elizabeth Bunce
  Barbara Fleming
  Nora Meyer Schmitz
  Erna Marcus
6–4, 8–6
1912 Not held
1913   Marie Wagner 2/4
  Clara Kutroff Cassebeer 2/2
  May Fish
  Alice Fish
10–8, 6–2
1914   Emily Stokes Weaver 1/3
  Clare Cassel
  Nora Meyer Schmitz
  Helen Homans McLean
4–6, 6–2, 6–4
1915   Emily Stokes Weaver 2/3
  Helen Homans McLean
  Molla Bjurstedt
  Florence Ballin
3–6, 8–6, 6–2
1916   Marie Wagner 3/4
  Molla Bjurstedt
  Nora Meyer Schmitz
  Emily Stokes Weaver
6–2, 6–3
1917   Marie Wagner 4/4
  Margaret Taylor
  Mrs. John Anderson
  Edith Howe
6–4, 6–4
1918   Emily Stokes Weaver 3/3
  Eleanor Goss Lanning
  Mrs. Homer Stuart Green
  Caroma Winn
6–3, 11–9
1919   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 1/10
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup 1/5
  Mrs. Albert Humphreys
  Bessie Holden
6–1, 6–1
1920   Mrs. Louis G. Morris
  Helene Pollak Falk
  Gertrude Della Torre
  Caroma Winn
6–3, 6–4
1921   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (2)
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup 2/5
  Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
  Mrs. Louis G. Morris
6–2, 7–5
1922   Mrs. Frank Godfrey
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup 3/5
  Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
  Mrs. Louis G. Morris
6–4, 6–3
1923   Mrs. Frank Godfrey (2)
  Ann Sheafe Cole
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Leslie Bancroft
6–4, 6–2
1924   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (3)
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup 4/5
  Lilian Scharman Hester
  Mrs. Louis G. Morris
6–1, 6–1
1925   Mrs. Ellis Endicott
  Betty Corbiere
  Katherine Gardner
  Martha Bayard
8–6, 6–4
1926   Elizabeth Ryan
  Mary Browne
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup
6–1, 6–3
1927   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (4)
  Marion Zinderstein Jessup 5/5
  Margaret Blake
  Edith Sigourney
8–6, 1–6, 6–3
1928   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (5)
  Sarah Palfrey
  Mrs. J.L. Bremer
  Ruth Shedden
6–2, 6–0
1929   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (6)
  Sarah Palfrey
  Margaret Blake
  Anna Fuller Hubbard
6–2, 6–2
1930   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (7)
  Sarah Palfrey
  Edith Sigourney
  Marjorie Morrill
6–3, 6–2
1931   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (8)
  Sarah Palfrey
  Margaret Blake
  Anna Fuller Hubbard
9–7, 6–0
1932   Marjorie Morrill
  Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Sarah Palfrey
6–3, 6–0
1933   Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (9)
  Sarah Palfrey (5)
  Mianne Palfrey Hill
  Virginia Rice Johnson
6–0, 6–3
1934   Norma Taubele Barber
  Jane Sharp
  Anna Fuller Hubbard Brunie
  Lilian Scharman Hester
6–3, 6–2
1935   Dorothy Andrus
  Sylvie Jung Henrotin
  Norma Taubele Barber
  Jane Sharp
7–5, 6–4
1936   Dorothy Andrus (2)
  Sylvie Jung Henrotin (2)
  Norma Taubele Barber
  Florence Leboutillier
6–4, 9–7
1937   Dorothy Andrus (3)
  Sylvie Jung Henrotin (3)
  Norma Taubele Barber
  Florence Leboutillier
6–4, 7–5
1938   Virginia Rice Johnson
  Katherine Winthrop McKean
  Norma Taubele Barber 4/5
  Grace Surber
4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1939   Norma Taubele Barber (2)
  Grace Surber
  Jean Wright
  Josephine Sanfilippo
6–1, 6–2
1940   Norma Taubele Barber (3)
  Gracyn Wheeler
  Louise Raymond
  Patricia Cumming Stuhler
7–5, 6–4
1941   Pauline Betz
  Dorothy Bundy Cheney
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Katherine Winthrop McKean
6–4, 6–3
1942   Virginia Rice Johnson 2/4
  Katherine Winthrop McKean
  Mrs. Philip Theopold
  Virginia Ellis
6–2, 6–0
1943   Pauline Betz 2/2
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 10/10
  Judy Atterbury
  Lillian Lopaus
7–5, 6–1
1944   Virginia Rice Johnson 3/4
  Katherine Winthrop McKean 3/4
  Norma Taubele Barber
  Mary Jane Donnalley
3–6, 8–6, 6–0
1945   Virginia Rice Johnson 4/4
  Katherine Winthrop McKean 4/4
  Helen Pedersen Rihbany
  Betty Grimes Stokum
6–4, 7–5
1946   Ruth Carter
  Helen Pedersen Rihbany
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Edith Sigourney
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1947   Doris Hart 1/2
  Barbara Scofield Davidson 1/3
  Helen Pedersen Rihbany
  Katherine Winthrop McKean
6–1, 6–1
1948   Doris Hart 2/2
  Barbara Scofield Davidson 2/3
  Patricia Canning Todd
  Helen Pedersen Rihbany
9–7, 6–4
1949   Gussie Moran
  Marjorie Buck 1/4
  Nancy Chaffee
  Barbara Wilkins
6–4, 7–5
1950   Nancy Chaffee 1/3
  Marjorie Buck 2/4
  Helen Pedersen Rihbany
  Betty Rosenquest
6–0, 6–1
1951   Nancy Chaffee 2/3
  Marjorie Buck 3/4
  Betty Rosenquest
  Barbara Scofield Davidson
6–4, 6–2
1952   Nancy Chaffee Kiner 3/3
  Patricia Canning Todd
  Helen Fletcher Barker
  Patricia Ward Hales
6–4, 6–4
1953   Thelma Coyne Long
  Barbara Scofield Davidson 3/3
  Betty Coumbe
  Joan Piken
6–0, 6–1
1954   Dorothy Watman Levine 1/2
  Barbara Ward
  Lois Felix
  Katharine Hubbell
6–2, 6–0
1955   Katharine Hubbell 1/5
  Ruth Jeffery Ryder 1/3
  Millicent Hirsch Lang
  Louise Raymond Ganzenmuller
6–2, 4–6, 6–4
1956   Katharine Hubbell 2/5
  Lois Felix 1/2
  Ruth Jeffery Ryder
  Marjorie Buck
3–6, 6–1, 6–3
1957   Dorothy Watman Levine 2/2
  Nancy O'Connell 1/2
  Katharine Hubbell
  Lois Felix
6–3, 6–4
1958   Carol Hanks Aucamp 1/4
  Nancy O'Connell 2/2
  Mildred Thornton
  Katharine Hubbell
9–7, 4–6, 6–4
1959   Katharine Hubbell 3/5
  Lois Felix 2/2
  Mrs. Arklay Richards
  Mrs. Pepper Frey
6–2, 6–2
1960   Marjorie Buck 4/4
  Ruth Jeffery Ryder 2/3
  Katharine Hubbell
  Lois Felix
9–7, 4–6, 6–2
1961   Katharine Hubbell 4/5
  Janet Hopps Adkisson
  Marjorie Buck
  Ruth Jeffery Ryder
4–6, 6–1, 7–5
1962   Belmar Gunderson
  Ruth Jeffery Ryder 3/3
  Carole Wright
  Mary Louise Christian
6–8, 6–4, 6–2
1963   Mary-Ann Eisel 1/5
  Carol Hanks Aucamp 2/4
  Carole Wright
  Lena Greene
6–2, 6–2
1964   Mary Ann Eisel 2/5
  Katharine Hubbell 5/5
  Belmar Gunderson
  Betty Swanson
6–3, 6–3
1965   Mary Ann Eisel 3/5
  Carol Hanks Aucamp 3/4
  Karen Hantze Susman
  Nancy Richey
9–7, 4–6, 6–2
1966   Billie Jean King 1/6
  Rosemary Casals 1/6
  Carol Hanks Aucamp
  Justina Bricka Horwitz
3–6, 6–4, 6–2
1967   Mary Ann Eisel 4/5
  Carol Hanks Aucamp 4/4
  Billie Jean King
  Judy Dixon
6–4, 1–6, 6–2
1968   Billie Jean King 2/6
  Rosemary Casals 2/6
  Mary Ann Eisel
  Kathy Harter
6–2, 6–2
1969   Mary Ann Eisel 5/5
  Valerie Ziegenfuss
  Patti Hogan
  Peggy Michel
6–1, 6–3
1970   Jane Bartkowicz
  Nancy Richey
  Mary Ann Eisel Curtis
  Valerie Ziegenfuss
8–6, 6–4
1971   Billie Jean King 3/6
  Rosemary Casals 3/6
  Françoise Dürr
  Ann Haydon-Jones
6–3, 7–5
1972 Not held
1973   Marina Kroschina
  Olga Morozova
  Evonne Goolagong
  Janet Young-Langford
6–2, 6–4
1974 Not held
1975   Billie Jean King 4/6
  Rosemary Casals 4/6
  Martina Navratilova
  Chris Evert
6–3, 6–4
1976   Rosemary Casals 5/6
  Françoise Dürr
  Betty Stöve
  Virginia Wade
6–0, 6–4
1977 Not held
1978   Kerry Melville Reid
  Wendy Turnbull 1/2
  Ilana Kloss
  Lesley Hunt
6–3, 6–3
1979   Billie Jean King 5/6
  Martina Navratilova 1/4
  Betty Stöve
  Wendy Turnbull
6–4, 7–6
1980   Ann Kiyomura
  Candy Reynolds
  Anne Smith
  Paula Smith
6–3, 4–6, 6–1
1981   Martina Navratilova 2/4
  Pam Shriver 1/3
  Rosemary Casals
  Wendy Turnbull
6–4, 7–5
1982   Rosemary Casals 6/6
  Wendy Turnbull 2/2
  Barbara Potter
  Sharon Walsh
3–6, 7–6, 6–4
1983   Billie Jean King 6/6
  Sharon Walsh
  Kathy Jordan
  Barbara Potter
3–6, 6–3, 6–4
1984   Martina Navratilova 3/4
  Pam Shriver 2/3
  Jo Durie
  Ann Kiyomura
6–4, 6–3
1985   Martina Navratilova 4/4
  Pam Shriver 3/3
  Marcella Mesker
  Elizabeth Smylie
7–5, 6–2
1986   Kathy Jordan
  Elizabeth Smylie
  Hana Mandlíková
  Helena Suková
6–3, 7–5
1987   Gigi Fernández
  Lori McNeil 1/2
  Betsy Nagelsen
  Elizabeth Smylie
6–1, 6–4
1988–2000 Not held
2001   Amanda Coetzer
  Lori McNeil 2/2
  Janet Lee
  Wynne Prakusya
6–3, 2–6, 6–0

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Robertson, Max (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. pp. 338, 339. ISBN 9780047960420.
  2. ^ Ellen Knight (2021). "Champions on Winchester courts made tennis history" (pdf).
  3. ^ "The U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships Return to Memphis". Racquet Club of Memphis.
  4. ^ Kyle Veazey (November 21, 2012). "Memphis' pro tennis events getting new name, in 'active discussions' with sponsors". The Commercial Appeal. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014.
  5. ^ Memphis Tennis preview: Future of women's tournament uncertain Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine