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helen wills

 

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Noun helen wills has 1 sense
  1. Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills - United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
    --1 is a kind of tennis player

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Helen Wills

Part of speech: Proper noun

Definition: Helen Wills Moody, commonly known as Helen Wills, was an American tennis player and one of the most successful female tennis players of all time. She won 31 Grand Slam titles, including eight singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and seven singles titles at the U.S. Championships, which is now known as the US Open.

Sense 1: Famous tennis player

Sample sentence 1: Helen Wills dominated the tennis courts in the 1920s and 1930s, earning her the nickname "Little Miss Poker Face".

Sense 2: Grand Slam titles

Sample sentence 2: Helen Wills holds the record for the most Wimbledon singles titles won by a player in history, with eight championships to her name.

Sense 3: US Championships (now US Open) titles

Sample sentence 3: The fierce rivalry between Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs during the late 1920s and early 1930s created a lot of excitement during the US Championships.

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