Background
Thelma was born in 1924 in Columbus, Ohio.
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Thelma Thall
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She graduated 1st in a class of 550 students.
Career
Tybie reports that she excelled "because of her natural athleticism and her ability to analyze and remain objective."
A tomboy as a little girl, she played lots of football and softball. At the age of 15, she was the Captain of the Varsity Boy"s Tennis Team at East High School, the only girl ever to play on the boy"s team, let alone be Captain. Thelma "Tybie" Thall Sommer was inducted into the United States Table Tennis Association Hall of Fame in 1980.
In 1962, she was on the founding board that created the North Shore Women's Tennis League on Long Island, New New York In 2003, she was honored by that league at the Babe Zaharias Luncheon in New York, for creating the flourishing league, which now has over 2,000 participants.
Achievements
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In 1947, Thelma "Tybie" Thall won her first United States. Open Women's Doubles Championship with her sister Leah. They also won the Canadian Nationals that year. In 1948, Thelma and Richard Miles were the first Americans to win the World’s Mixed Doubles Title, in Wembley, London, England. In 1949, Thelma, as a member of the United States of America Team, won her Singles and Doubles to win the Corbillon Cup, a World Championship Event, in Stockholm, Sweden. That year, Thall and Miles won the English Open Mixed Doubles and Thelma, with Peggy McLean, won the English Open Women's Doubles. Thelma and her sister Leah won 3 United States. National Women's Doubles, in 1947, 1948 and 1949. The Thall Sisters also won the Canadian National Doubles in 1947 and 1948.
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