Capturing her first national title in 1941, Dorothy ‘Dodo’ Bundy Cheney (b.1916) won nearly 300 USTA championships over the next six decades. The daughter of tennis pioneer May Sutton, Cheney learned the game from her Aunt Florence, adopting her mother’s famous Western forehand. She broke into the USTA Top 10 in 1936 and two years later became the first American woman to win the Australian singles title.

Cheney entered Rollins College while continuing to compete nationally, taking the U.S. Clay Court singles title in 1944. She rejoined the international circuit after World War II, reaching the mixed doubles finals at Wimbledon and French Open in 1946 – the same year she married pilot Art Cheney. After a nine-year hiatus, she broke back into the USTA Top 10 in 1955. In 1957, she started competing at the senior level, launching a record-setting winning streak that may never be equalled.