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Sarah Palfrey Cooke Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig ( née Palfrey ; September 18 , 1912 – February 27 , 1996 ) was an American tennis player whose career spanned two decades from the late 1920s until the late 1940s . She won two singles , nine womens doubles , and four mixed doubles titles at the U.S . National Championships . Career . She was 32 years old , married to Elwood Cooke , and a mother when she won her second singles title at the 1945 U.S . National Championships . Pauline Betz was her opponent in the final . Since she lost to Cooke in the 1941 final , Betz had won three consecutive titles and 19 consecutive matches at these championships . In 1945 , Cooke lost the first set and squandered her 5–2 lead in the second set before recovering to win it 8–6 . In the third set , Betz got close to winning yet another title when she served for a 5–3 lead . Cooke , however , broke her serve and then won the next two games to win the tournament . She became only the second mother to win this title , with Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman being the first . Cooke is one of the few women , if not the sole woman , to appear on a top-level male championship honor roll . Because of the manpower crisis during World War II , she and husband Elwood were permitted to enter the mens doubles at the 1945 Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati . They lost in the final to Hal Surface and Bill Talbert . Palfrey won 16 Grand Slam championships in womens doubles ( 11 ) and mixed doubles ( 5 ) . She teamed with Betty Nuthall to win the 1930 U.S . National Championships and with Helen Jacobs to win the 1932 , 1934 , and 1935 championships . Palfrey and Alice Marble won the U.S . National Championships from 1937 through 1940 . At the Wimbledon Championships , Palfrey and Marble won the 1938 and 1939 womens doubles titles . Palfreys last U.S . womens doubles championship was in 1941 with Margaret Osborne . In mixed doubles , Palfrey teamed with four different partners to win the U.S . National Championships : Fred Perry ( 1932 ) , Enrique Maier ( 1935 ) , Don Budge ( 1937 ) , and Jack Kramer ( 1941 ) . Palfrey also won the mixed doubles title at the 1939 French International Championships , teaming with future husband Elwood Cooke . Palfrey and Marble were undefeated in doubles from 1937 until Marble turned professional at the end of 1940 . In 1947 , Cooke and Betz went on a barnstorming tour of mostly one-night stands in the U.S . and Europe , with each earning about US$10,000 . They had been stripped of their amateur status by the United States Lawn Tennis Association ( USLTA ) in early 1947 because Elwood Cooke had written letters to several tournament organizers about creating a professional tour . According to A . Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail , Palfrey was one of the 10 highest ranked women in the world from 1933 through 1936 and in 1938 and 1939 . Her career high was fourth in 1934 . ( No world rankings were issued from 1940 through 1945. ) Palfrey was included in the year-end top 10 rankings issued by the USLTA 1929–1931 , 1933–1941 , and 1945 . She was the top-ranked U.S . player in 1941 and 1945 . Palfrey and Marble lobbied the USLTA to remove the color bar and allow Althea Gibson to play at heretofore whites-only tournaments beginning in 1950 . She [ Palfrey ] was calmly persuasive , had clout as an ex-champ , and got Althea into the U.S . [ National ] Championships in 1950 , said Gladys Heldman , founder of the womens professional tennis tour in 1970 . Palfrey once said , Tennis is the best game there is . It combines mental and physical qualities and is the sport for a lifetime . And there are many living examples at the age of 80 to prove it . So it is enough for us to know that tennis will remain , under whatever conditions , whether amateur or pro , the finest game there is for us , for our children , and our childrens children . Palfrey was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1963 . Palfrey and Marty Glickman covered the home games of the 1946-47 New York Knicks on WHN radio . Glickman handled play-by-play duties while Palfrey provided the color commentary . The New York Times stated in what is said to be the first time that an outstanding woman sports figure has been assigned to such a chore , Sarah Palfrey Cooke , tennis champion , will provide the color accounts of the games . Personal life . She had two children and was married three times : to Marshal Fabyan , Elwood Cooke , and Jerome Alan Danzig . She married Fabyan on October 6 , 1934 , but divorced him in Reno , Nevada on July 20 , 1940 . She married Cooke on October 2 , 1940 , and their daughter was born in December 1942 . She divorced him on April 29 , 1949 , on grounds of cruelty . She married Danzig on April 27 , 1951 , and remained married to him until her death of lung cancer in 1996 . Their son was born in December 1952 . Her brother John Palfrey , also an excellent tennis player and an expert on atomic energy , married Belle Clochette Roosevelt Palfrey , a granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt and a daughter of Kermit Roosevelt . She also had four sisters , who were all fine tennis players . Grand Slam singles tournament timeline . R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation .