Sarah Palfrey Cooke
See also: Cooke
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig (born the September 18th 1912 with Sharon (Massachusetts) – died the February 27th 1996 with New York) is an American player of Tennis of the Entre-deux-guerres.
She was essential twice into simple on the Internationaux of the United States, the second in 1945 at the thirty-two years age and mother.
She is one of the only women, if not only, who taken part forever in a high level male test. Sides of joint sound Elwood Cooke, it indeed played the double Sirs in 1945 in a tournament of Cincinnati, for lack of a sufficient number of competitors to leaving the Second world war (demolished against Hal Surfaces and Bill Talbert finally).
In Large Slam, Sarah Palfrey Cooke moreover gained eleven titles into double ladies (majority with Alice Marble) and five others in mixed double.
Become Professional in 1947, it then played of the matches of exhibition with Pauline Betz.
Just as Marble, it rejected the Racial segregation and defended Althea Gibson near USTA so that it can take part in 1950 in the Internationaux of the United States.
She is member of the International Tennis Hall off Famed since 1963.
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Prize list (partial) Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Course in Large Slam
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