Bio on marion jones

American tennis player

For the American track and field athlete, see Marion Jones.

Marion Jones Farquhar (née Jones; November 2, 1879 – March 14, 1965) was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S.

Championships.^[1] She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.^[2]

Biography

Jones was the daughter of Nevada Senator John Percival Jones, co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California, and Georgina Frances Sullivan.^[3]

Marion Jones was the first Californian to reach the finals at the women's U.S.

Tennis Championships in 1898 where she had a championship point against Juliette Atkinson but lost in five sets.^[4] She won the U.S. women's tennis title in 1899 and 1902, and the U.S. mixed doubles title in 1901. At the 1900 Summer Olympics, she was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal.^[5] Her sister, Georgina also competed Marion Jones - Olympedia XIDY