Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Blais Madeleine
Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Blais Madeleine In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt.…
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Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Blais Madeleine
In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt. Open, an unprecedented feat, then and now. She was a worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S.
Queen of the Court, by Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Madeleine Blais, places her back on center stage.Born in 1913, Marble grew up in San Francisco; her favorite sport, baseball. Today, one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Given a tennis racket at age 13, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serveandvolley style unseen in women's tennis.
A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she designed a clothing line in the offseason and also sang love songs in the Sert Room of