Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Alice Marble on 7th June 1938 asking for her autograph.
Alice Marble (September 28, 1913 - December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships (1936-40): five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles.
At the U.S. Championships, Marble won the singles title in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, the women's doubles title with Sarah Palfrey Cooke from 1937 to 1940, and the mixed doubles title with Gene Mako in 1936, Don Budge in 1938, Harry Hopman in 1939, and Bobby Riggs in 1940.
At Wimbledon, Marble won the singles title in 1939; the women's doubles title with Cooke in 1938 and 1939, and the mixed doubles title with Budge in 1937 and 1938 as well as the mixed doubles title with Riggs in 1939.
In Wightman Cup team competition, Marble lost only one singles and one doubles match in the years she competed (1933, 193739).
According to A. Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Marble was ranked in the world top ten from 1936 to 1939 (no rankings issued 194045), reaching a career high in those rankings of world No. 1 in 1939.[2] Marble was included in the year-end top ten rankings issued by the United States Lawn Tennis Association in 193233 and 193640. She was the top-ranked U.S. player from 1936 to 1940.[3]
Marble was the Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 1939 and 1940.
After capping a stellar amateur career in 1940, Marble turned professional and earned more than $100,000, travelling around playing exhibition tournaments
