Wills was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959 together with the late Bill Tilden who had died in 1953.

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During the winter months Wills worked on her game and according to her trainer Pop Fuller she had improved her overhead, service and footwork. g] [71] Partnering Elizabeth Ryan she won her second Wimbledon doubles title against the South African pair of Bobbie Heine and Irene Peacock. Her first tournament was in July at the Essex Country Club Invitation in Massachusetts where she defeated McCune Harper in the final, losing just one game.On February 16, 1926, the 20-year-old Wills met 26-year-old Suzanne Lenglen, six-time Wimbledon champion, in the final of a tournament at the Carlton Club in Cannes in the Match of the Century. The final against Covell and McKane was a repeat of the Wimbledon final and again the result was a two-sets victory for Wightman and Wills. For the third successive year she played against Mallory in the singles final and like in 1923 won in straight sets. Her first tournament of the year was the Hotel Huntington Invitation in Pasadena in March where she defeated friend and frequent doubles partner Edith Cross in the final. In early August Wills won the Seabright Invitational title for the first time after a double-bagel victory in the final against Helen Jacobs.

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S. national title at the age of 17 after a straight-sets victory in the final against seven-time champion Molla Mallory, making her the youngest champion at that time. She defeated Elizabeth Ryan, seeded eighth, in straight sets to win her fourth consecutive Wimbledon singles title and with Ryan also won the doubles title against Edith Cross and Sarah Palfrey. Afterwards she and her husband visited Switzerland, Sweden and Norway but she did not play in any further singles tournaments and for the sixth consecutive year was ranked the No. On advice of her father she took up swimming and in early 1935 started to hit against a backboard to aide her recovery. When asked years later why she had lost Wills commented: "Something happened to me that had never happened before.In the seventh edition of the Wightman Cup, played on August 8 and 9 at the West Side Tennis Club, Wills won both her singles matches, including a close two-sets win against Betty Nuthall, to help the U.

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S. team reclaim the cup but lost her doubles match with Cross against Phoebe Holcroft Watson and Peggy Michell. She played the mixed doubles event with compatriot Ellsworth Vines and were eliminated in the quarterfinal.

The team reached the semifinal without playing, after a bye in the first round followed by two walkovers. On January 6 Wills departed New York en route to Le Havre, France with the aim to compete in the clay court Riviera tournaments and play against Suzanne Lenglen.

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Bill Tilden, writing in American Lawn Tennis, blamed her defeats on her lack of tournament play which Wills later acknowledged. The New York Times described the final between 16-year old Wills against 38-year old six-time champion Molla Mallory as the "battle of youth against experience". Men and Little Miss was produced about 26 years prior to his name change, his episodes of said series remain unchanged. In April the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) selected Wills for the Olympic team and for the Wightman Cup and the Wimbledon Championships leading up to the Olympics. The event was played at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills and was the inauguration of the new Forest Hills Stadium.The Dutch won the series of matches, 3 to 2, Miss Wills defeating both Miss Couquerque and Miss Bouman, while Miss Anderson lost both her matches and the Dutch team won the doubles. Wills attended the University of California, Berkeley, as both her parents had done, on an academic scholarship, and graduated in 1925 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society. In 1924 a simplified seeding system was used whereby up to four players from a nation would be placed in four different quarters of the draw.