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- NAME: Alice Marble
- OCCUPATION: Tennis Player
- BIRTH DATE: September 28, 1913
- DEATH DATE: December 13, 1990
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Plumes county, California
- PLACE OF DEATH: Palm Springs, California
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Alice Marble was a women's tennis champion, winner of 12 U.S. Open and 5 Wimbledon titles. She also served as U.S spy in Switzerland during WWII.
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Alice Marble. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/alice-marble-40332. Accessed May 25, 2013.
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Alice Marble was a women's tennis champion who overcame rape and tuberculosis to win 12 US Open and 5 Wimbledon titles. She acted as a spy in Switzerland for US Army Intelligence during WWII and was nearly killed on the mission. Marble later coached Billie Jean King and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1964. She died in 1990.
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