{{short description|American tennis player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Edith Sigourney | image = Edith sigourney, molla mallory.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Sigourney (l.) with Molla Mallory at the 1921 World Hard Court Championships | fullname = Edith P. Sigourney | itf_name = <!-- official name as registered by the ITF, only fill if different from article name --> | country_represented = United States | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|5|15}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref>''U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925''</ref>}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|12|2|1895|5|15}}<ref>''Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003''</ref> | death_place = Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. | height = | college = | Wimbledonresult = 1R (1921, 1922, 1924) | USOpenresult = QF (1920, 1922) | WimbledonDoublesresult = 2R (1921, 1924) | USOpenDoublesresult = F (1922) | Mixed = yes | WimbledonMixedresult = 2R (1921, 1924) | USOpenMixedresult = QF (1923) }} '''Edith Sigourney''' (May 15, 1895 – December 2, 1982) was an American tennis player during the 1920s.
== Biography == Edith Sigourney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1895. She and her five siblings grew up at the family's home on Beacon Street. She learned to play tennis at the Nahant tennis club where the family spent their summers.<ref name="ustaNewEngland">USTA New England</ref>
Sigourney's best result at the U.S. Championships was the quarterfinals, which she reached twice, in 1920 and 1922.<ref name="collins468">{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|pages=468|edition=2nd}}</ref> In doubles, she was a finalist alongside Molla Mallory in 1922, where they lost to Marion Zinderstein and Helen Wills in three sets.<ref name="collins479">{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|pages=479|edition=2nd}}</ref> She was within the US national top ten in 1920 (no. 8), 1923 (no. 7) and 1925 (no. 10).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usta.com/About-USTA/Organization/Yearbook/23261_2008_USTA_Yearbook__Top_10_US_Womens_Rankings__page_2/ |title=USTA Yearbook - Top 10 U.S. Women's Rankings |website=usta.com |publisher=United States Tennis Association |accessdate=2014-08-27 |archive-date=2014-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517192459/http://www.usta.com/About-USTA/Organization/Yearbook/23261_2008_USTA_Yearbook__Top_10_US_Womens_Rankings__page_2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Sigourney crossed the Atlantic three times to play at the Wimbledon Championships in 1921, 1923 and 1924, but lost her initial match in each year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/9e4a6ab0-ef51-4254-bf75-10cdf7f9a793/index.html |title=Wimbledon - Archive Draws |website=wimbledon.com |accessdate=2014-08-27}}</ref> In 1921, she also played at the World Hard Court Championships at Paris.
In 1928, she won the U.S. Indoor Championships.
Along with Hazel Wightman, she won the National Senior Doubles Championships five times in between 1940 and 1947.<ref name="ustaNewEngland" />
She later moved to Nahant, and lived there until her death in 1982.<ref name="ssdi">''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration.</ref>
Sigourney was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://assets.usta.com/assets/643/15/Year-by-Year_Inductees.pdf |title=USTA New England Hall of Fame Inductees |website=usta.com |accessdate=2014-08-27}}</ref>
==Grand Slam finals==
===Doubles: (1 runner-up)=== {|class="sortable wikitable" !Result !Year !style="width:140px"|Championship !style="width:50px"|Surface !style="width:140px"|Partner !style="width:140px"|Opponents !style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#FFA07A"|Loss ||1922 || style="background:#ccccff"|U.S. Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA}} Molla Mallory || {{flagicon|USA}} Helen Wills <br /> {{flagicon|USA}} Marion Zinderstein || 4–6, 9–7, 3–6 |}
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