Sarah Palfrey Cooke
| Full name | Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) |
 United States
|
| Born |
September 18, 1912 Sharon, MA, United States |
| Died | February 27, 1996 (aged 83) New York, NY, United States |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Turned pro | 1947 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1963 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 4 (1934) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | QF (1939) |
| Wimbledon | SF (1939) |
| US Open | W (1941, 1945) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | F (1934) |
| Wimbledon | W (1938, 1939) |
| US Open | W (1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1939) |
| Wimbledon | F (1936, 1938) |
| US Open | W (1932, 1935, 1937, 1941) |
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig (née Palfrey; September 18, 1912 – February 27, 1996) was a female tennis player from the United States whose career spanned two decades from the late 1920s until the late 1940s. She won the singles title at the U.S. Championships in 1941 and 1945.
Palfrey twice won the singles title at the U.S. Championships, the second time in 1945 at the age of 32. She was only the second mother to have won the title, with Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman being the first. Palfrey won the 1945 title after being down 4–3 in the third set to Pauline Betz, with Betz serving. Betz was the three-time defending champion, and Palfrey had defeated her in the 1941 and 1945 finals.
Palfrey is one of the few women, if not the sole woman, to appear on a top-level male championship honor roll. Because of the manpower crisis during World War II, she and second husband Elwood Cooke were permitted in 1945 to enter the men's doubles of the Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati. They reached the final, losing to Hal Surface and Bill Talbert.
Palfrey won 16 Grand Slam championships in women's doubles (11) and mixed doubles (5). She teamed with Betty Nuthall to win the 1930 U.S. Championships and with Helen Jacobs to win the 1932, 1934, and 1935 championships. Palfrey and Alice Marble won the U.S. Championships from 1937 to 1940. At Wimbledon, Palfrey and Marble won the 1938 and 1939 women's doubles championship. Palfrey's final U.S. women's doubles championship was in 1941 with Margaret Osborne. In mixed doubles, Palfrey teamed with four different partners to win the U.S. Championships: Fred Perry (1932), Enrique Maier (1935), Don Budge (1937), and Jack Kramer (1941). Palfrey also won the mixed doubles title at the 1939 French Championships, teaming with her future husband Elwood Cooke. Palfrey and Marble were undefeated in doubles for four years (1937–40).
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