Dorothy
Bundy Cheney
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 in 1944. She rejoined the international circuit after
World War II, reaching the mixed doubles finals at Wimbledon
and paris 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.
 Dodo (left) and Pauline Betz head for USO Tour |
 At Wimbledon 1946 |
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 Rollins Tennis Team - New York Times.Feb.1, 1942
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Pauline Betz (far
left), Nancy Corbett, Peggy Welch, Jane Metcalf, Dorothy Bundy
(far right) |
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 Match where Dodo won her 300th gold ball-At La
Jolla |
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Playing in
the 80's at the la Jolla Beach and Tennis Club - 2001 |
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 Dodo abandoned her net profession for the present
(1942) to join the all-out war effort |
 Playing for the Coast Guard |
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| Miss Dorothy
May Bundy - 1940 Lady Champion and winner of 'La Nacion' Cup |
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Mixed doubles exhibition
- Signal Corps of the the US Army (Dodo on right)
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 Dodo Cheney with Millie West at the US Open 2002 |
Career Highlights
Ranked in the USTA Top 10 1936-1941,
1943-1946, 1955
U.S. Wightman Cup Team Member
1937-1939
Australian Singles Champion 1938
(first American woman)
U.S. Indoor Doubles Champion
1941
U.S. Clay Court Singles Champion
1944
U.S. Doubles Finalist 1940, 1941;
Mixed Doubles Finalist 1940, 1944
Wimbledon, French Mixed Doubles
Finalist 1946
U.S. Hard Court Doubles Champion
1954
U.S. Women's 40/45 Singles and
Doubles: 31 titles 1957-1976
U.S. Women's 50 Singles and Doubles:
14 titles 1976-1983
U.S. Women's 55 Singles and Doubles:
23 titles 1977-1984
U.S. Women's 60 Singles and Doubles:
43 titles 1979-1987
U.S. Women's 65 Singles and Doubles:
43 titles 1979-1987
U.S. Women's 70 Singles and Doubles:
42 titles 1986-1995
U.S. Women's 75 Singles and Doubles:
49 titles 1991-1997
U.S. Women's 80 Singles and Doubles:
12 titles 1996-1997
U.S. Indoor Champion Senior Mixed
Doubles 1971, 1977-1978
U.S. Hard Court Champion Senior
Mixed Doubles 1968-1969, 1971, 1975, 1978
U.S. Grass Court Champion Mother
& Daughter (with Chris Putnam) 1976
Inducted into the Rollins College
Sports Hall of Fame 1983
Winner of the USTA Sarah Palfrey
Danzig Award 1988
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