Edith Rotch


Edith Eliot Rotch was an American tennis player of the start of the 20th century. Born and raised in greater Boston, she was a 1901 magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During a successful tennis career, on three occasions, she won the US Women's National Championship : in mixed doubles in 1908 and in women's doubles with Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in 1909 and 1910. In addition to tennis, she won local trophies in ice skating. By the late 1910s, she had become active in amateur radio. Her ham call letters were 1RO, and later 1ZR. She had her own ham station and administered the licensing exam to other amateurs.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 titles)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1909US National ChampionshipsGrass Hazel Hotchkiss Dorothy Green
Lois Moyes
6–1, 6–1
Win1910US National ChampionshipsGrass Hazel Hotchkiss Adelaide Browning
Edna Wildey
6–4, 6–4

Mixed doubles (1 title)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1908U.S. National ChampionshipsGrass Nathaniel Niles Louise Hammond
Raymond Little
6–4, 4–6, 6–4