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Full name
  
Lois Moyes Bickle

US Open
  
F (1909)

Country (sports)
  
Canada

Name
  
Lois Bickle


Plays
  
Right-handed

Role
  
Tennis Player

US Open
  
SF (1909)

Handed
  
Right-handed

Lois Moyes Bickle

Born
  
28 July 1881 Bedford Park, Toronto Canada (
1881-07-28
)

Lois Wilkie Moyes Bickle (née Moyes; 28 July 1881 – 15 November 1952) was a female tennis player from Canada who was active in the first decades of the 20th century.

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She won a record ten singles titles (1906–1908, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1920–1922, 1924) at the Canadian Championships. In addition she won nine Canadian Championships doubles titles (1910, 1913, 1914, 1919-1924). Eight of these were won partnering Florence Best whom she defeated in the 1913, 1914 and 1920 singles final. In 1913 and 1921 Moyes Bickle also won the mixed doubles title.

In 1910 and 1914 she won the singles title at the Niagara International Tennis Tournament.

Moyes Bickle reached the semifinal of the singles event at the 1909 U.S. Championships which she lost in straight sets to Louise Hammond. In 1922 she defeated Leslie Bancroft in the final of the singles event at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in Buffalo.

She married Harold "Harry" Bickle on 28 September 1912 in Deer Park, Toronto.

In 1991 she was inducted into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame.

References

Lois Moyes Bickle Wikipedia