Dorothy Cheney

Dorothy Cheney, known as Dodo and for much of her career as Dorothy Bundy, was an American tennis player born in Los Angeles on 1 September 1916 who competed from her youth into her nineties. In 1938 she became the first American to win the women's singles title at the Australian National Championships, beating Dorothy Stevenson in the final. She was ranked in the world top ten in 1937 and 1946, reaching sixth in 1946, and was a member of the winning United States Wightman Cup teams from 1937 to 1939. She was the daughter of the tennis Hall of Famer May Sutton Bundy. In senior age group tennis she amassed 394 USTA titles, a record, and she entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004. She died in Escondido, California, in 2014.