About Leslie Bancroft
Lived 1894 – 1981 (aged 86–87). Leslie Bancroft was an American tennis player.
Leslie Bancroft Aeschlimann (née Bancroft) was a female tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1920s.
Bancroft reached the semi-finals of the singles event at the 1922 U.S. Championships, which she lost in straight sets to eventual champion Molla Mallory. That same year she was runner-up to Mallory at the U.S. Women's Indoor Championships which was played on wooden courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
In 1922, she lost to Canadian player Lois Moyes Bickle in the finals of the singles event at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in Buffalo, New York.
The next year, 1923, she again reached the final of the U.S. Women's Indoor Championships but this time lost in two sets to Ann Sheafe Cole.
She married Swiss tennis player Charles Aeschlimann on December 16, 1924. They had met at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Who was Leslie Bancroft?
American tennis player
When was Leslie Bancroft born?
Leslie Bancroft was born on 27 April 1894 in Newton.
When did Leslie Bancroft die?
Leslie Bancroft died in 1981.
What was Leslie Bancroft's occupation?
Leslie Bancroft was a tennis player.
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Leslie Bancroft was American.
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