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Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (née Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a Norwegian-American tennis player. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics.
Molla Mallory (born 1892, Oslo—died Nov. 22, 1959, United States) was a Norwegian-born U.S. tennis player who was the only woman to win the U.S. singles championship eight times. She defeated Suzanne Lenglen of France for the U.S. title in 1921, the only loss in Lenglen’s amateur career.
Mallory played on winning Wightman Cup teams in 1923 and 1927. Her remarkable career had her ranked in the world’s Top 10 three times (1925-27) and the U.S. No. 1 player seven times (1915-16, 1918, 1920-22, 1926, 1929).
Mar 22, 2022 · Molla Mallory [NOR/USA] Born: 6 Mar 1884. Died: 22 November 1959. Career: 1903-29. Plays: Right-handed (one-handed backhand) Peak rank: 2 (1921-22) Peak Elo rating: 2,178 (1st place, 1915-18) Major singles titles: 8. Total singles titles: 100 (not including pre-1915 Norwegian titles) * * *
Sep 11, 2021 · With teenagers Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu meeting for the 2021 US Open women's singles championship, we recall the US Open's oldest champion, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (pictured above at New York City's Seventh Regiment Armory in 1915), who has won the most singles titles in tournament history.
Mallory, along with her most renowned contemporary on the other side of the Atlantic, Suzanne Lenglen, entered a world of female competition where long skirts, long sleeves, and even boned corsets, were the order of the day. But to play the kind of tennis that these new heroines of the game brought to the court needed change.
Molla Mallory – the unsung record-breaker. Marianne Bevis looks back at the ground-breaking career of Molla Mallory. Marianne Bevis Monday 29 August 2011, 0:43 UK. Mallory's success was...
Molla Mallory: Mould Breaker and Mould Maker of Women's Tennis. Marianne Bevis October 5, 2009. When Anna Margarethe Bjurstedt was born in Oslo in March 1884, few could anticipate the mark she...
Molla Bjurstedt-Mallory was the greatest ever Norwegian female tennis player, winning an Olympic bronze medal in singles in 1912. She was Norwegian Champion multiple times, before moving to New York City in 1915 where she worked as a masseuse.
Anna 'Molla' Bjurstedt Mallory lived from March 6, 1884 – November 22, 1959 and was a Norwegian-born American tennis player. Although she had won a bronze medal in singles for Norway at the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, and was the many-time champion of her homeland, Mallory was relatively unknown when she arrived in New York City to begin ...
