Edith Rotch
Rotch in 1924 with radio equipment
Full nameEdith Eliot Rotch
Country (sports) United States
Born(1874-08-11)August 11, 1874
DiedDecember 11, 1969(1969-12-11) (aged 95)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
US OpenSF (1896)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
US OpenW (1909, 1910)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
US OpenW (1908)

Edith Eliot Rotch (August 11, 1874[1]-December 11, 1969[2]) was an American tennis player of the start of the 20th century. Born and raised in greater Boston, she was a 1901 magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2] During a successful tennis career, on three occasions, she won the US Women's National Championship : in mixed doubles in 1908 (with Nathaniel Niles) and in women's doubles with Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in 1909 and 1910. In addition to tennis, she won local trophies in ice skating. By the late 1910s, she had become active in amateur radio. Her ham call letters were 1RO, and later 1ZR. She had her own ham station and administered the licensing exam to other amateurs.[3]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 titles)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1909 US National Championships Grass United States Hazel Hotchkiss United States Dorothy Green
Canada Lois Moyes 		6–1, 6–1
Win 1910 US National Championships Grass United States Hazel Hotchkiss United States Adelaide Browning
United States Edna Wildey 		6–4, 6–4

Mixed doubles (1 title)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1908 U.S. National Championships Grass United States Nathaniel Niles United States Louise Hammond
United States Raymond Little 		6–4, 4–6, 6–4

References

  1. ^ Bullard, John M. (John Morgan) (1947). The Rotches. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library. New Bedford : [s.l.] p. 419.
  2. ^ a b "Edith Eliot Rotch, Was Tennis Champion." Boston Globe, December 12, 1969, p. 45.
  3. ^ Harold B. Matson. "Woman Net Champ Leads in Radio." Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader, May 24, 1924, p. 17.
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