Helen Wills Moody



Helen Wills Moody (officially Helen Newington Wills Roark ) ( Fremont , October 61905 - CarmelJanuary 11998 ) is a tennis player from the United States. At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, she won two gold medals in singles and doubles. In addition, she won 31 grand slam titles, including the U.S. Open and French Open. She was included in the prestigious 1959 Tennis Hall of Fame .



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[ hide ]  *1 Personal life  ==Personal life [ edit] == Wills was the Head = Royce School, a high school in Oakland. She then studied at the University of California, but here they took no degree. In 1998, she donated $ 10 million to the university, thus, the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute founded that neuroscience student guides.
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Wills wrote a manual for tennis coaches, and in 1937 she wrote an autobiography. She also made paintings and etchings, which were featured in galleries. ==Names [ Edit] == Born as Helen Newington Wills, she played initially under the name Helen Wills - after her marriage to Frederick Moody (in December 1929) as Helen Wills Moody . In 1937 she divorced Moody - she married Aidan Roark in October 1939.