Marie Wagner

Wagner was born on February 2, 1883, in Freeport, New York. An outstanding tennis player, she won the United States Indoor Championships a record number of times. In the singles event, she won the title six times (1908, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, and 1917) while in doubles, she was successful in 1910, 1913 (with Clara Kutross), 1916 (with Molla Mallory) and in 1917 (with Margaret Taylor).^[1]

At the U.S. National Championships, her best showing was reaching the final in 1914 which she lost in three sets to reigning champion Mary Browne.

Wagner was ranked in the Top 10 in the U.S. between 1913 (the first year women were ranked) and 1920. She achieved her highest national ranking of No.3 in 1914.^[1]

Wagner is mentioned in Chapter 3 of Harpo Speaks!, the 1961 autobiography of Harpo Marx. When Harpo was a child, the Marx family lived in a tenement building at 179 93rd Street, New York, New York, across the street from Wagner's brownstone.

She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1969.^[2] Wagner died in 1975.