Helen Houston Homans

Helen Houston Homans McLean (February 8, 1877 – March 28, 1949) was an American tennis champion.

Career Homans won the women's doubles title at the 1905 U.S. National Championship and the singles title the next year. and married him in New York City in 1907. In mixed doubles, she reached the semifinals partnering Harry F. Allen in 1905.

Also in 1905, she reached the women's singles All-Comers final at Cincinnati before falling to May Sutton. (Sutton then defeated Myrtle McAteer in the Challenge Round to claim the title.) Homans won the 1905 women's doubles title in Cincinnati with McAteer, and was a 1905 mixed doubles finalist with Robert LeRoy.

In 1911, she won three of the New Jersey State Championships titles.

In 1913, she regained her title when she defeated Marie Wagner at the Morristown Field Club in Morristown, New Jersey. On September 19, 1913, she was defeated by Clare Cassell at the Montclair Athletic Club.

In 1915, Molla Bjurstedt of Norway, the national indoor champion, defeated McLean in the final round of the Class A tennis singles at the West Side Tennis Club. She finished second in the U.S. National Championships women's doubles with Augusta Bradley Chapman in 1915.

McLean was still ranked fourth in 1913 and third in 1915 in the U.S. national ranking. In 1915, she won the U.S. Indoor Championships.

After retiring from her career in tennis, she worked as an interior decorator. They had one daughter and lived in Bronxville, New York. Helen Homans McLean died at their home in Bronxville on March 28, 1949.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1906U.S. National Championships Grass Maud Barger-Wallach 6–4, 6–3

Doubles (1 title, 2 runners-up)