TENNIS PLAYER

Ellen Roosevelt

1868 - 1954

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Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (August 20, 1868 – September 26, 1954) was an American tennis player. Roosevelt was a daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Grace in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion. She won the women's singles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships defeating the 1888 and 1889 champion Bertha Townsend in the final in two sets. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ellen Roosevelt is the 450th most popular tennis player (up from 477th in 2019), the 11,021st most popular biography from United States (up from 11,505th in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Ellen Roosevelt ranks 450 out of 1,569Before her are Daria Kasatkina, Alphonzo Bell, Emily Hood Westacott, Iva Majoli, Mike Bryan, and Jordi Arrese. After her are Simon Aspelin, Zheng Qinwen, Ellen Hansell, Patty Schnyder, James Cecil Parke, and Herbert Roper Barrett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ellen Roosevelt ranks 192Before her are Hermann Lietz, Johannes van Dijk, Spottiswoode Aitken, Anna Missuna, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Lida Heymann. After her are Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Horace Elgin Dodge, Willis R. Whitney, Robert Edeson, Emily Murphy, and Maude Abbott. Among people deceased in 1954, Ellen Roosevelt ranks 165Before her are William Dod, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Maud Barger-Wallach, Irving Pichel, Cayetano Saporiti, and Eugene Pallette. After her are Frederick Humphreys, Angeliki Panagiotatou, Bobby Ball, Moroni Olsen, Johnny Ace, and Alain LeRoy Locke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Roosevelt ranks 11,023 out of 20,380Before her are Lynn-Holly Johnson (1958), Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), Patty Smyth (1957), Lisa Joy (1972), Lyman Abbott (1835), and Bruce Hornsby (1954). After her are Zachary Levi (1980), Frank Albertson (1909), Shelley Berman (1925), James Shaffer (1970), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (1961), and Mike Vogel (1979).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Ellen Roosevelt ranks 100Before her are Maud Barger-Wallach (1870), Bob Bryan (1978), Tim Mayotte (1960), CoCo Vandeweghe (1991), Alphonzo Bell (1875), and Mike Bryan (1978). After her are Ellen Hansell (1869), Charles Sands (1865), Patricia Canning Todd (1922), Pauline Betz (1919), Robert Wrenn (1873), and Joe Hunt (1919).