Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling

Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling was a German-Danish tennis player who won three consecutive singles titles at the French Championships from 1935 to 1937, one of only five women to do so. She became a dual citizen after marrying a Dane, Svend Sperling, in December 1933. Ranked in the world top ten from 1930 through 1939 and as high as number two in 1936, she twice reached the Wimbledon singles final, losing to Cilly Aussem in 1931 and Helen Jacobs in 1936, and she won the 1936 Wimbledon mixed doubles with Gottfried von Cramm. She also won the German Championships six consecutive times and the Italian Championships in 1935, and is regarded as the second-greatest German female player behind Steffi Graf.