Lida Voorhees

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| birth_place = Roseville, Newark, New Jersey

| death_date = February, 1934

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Eliza Day 'Lida' Voorhees (July 3, 1864 – February, 1934) was an American female tennis player who was active in the late 19th century.

Career

Voorhees reached the challenge round of the 1889 women's singles U.S. National Championships at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the third championship held, in which she lost to defending champion Bertha Townsend in straight sets, 5–7, 2–6. She had won the right to challenge Townsend by winning the all-comers tournament, defeating Helen Day Harris in the final in three sets. In 1890, she again reached the final of the all-comers tournament, which she lost to Ellen Roosevelt. The latter defeated Townsend in the challenge round.{{cite web|title=The Tennis Tournament|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/06/12/103247675.pdf|work=The New York Times|date=12 June 1890}} In 1891, Voorhees made it to the semifinals of the all-comers tournament, where she was defeated by eventual champion Mabel Cahill from Ireland.{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|edition=2nd|page=465}}{{cite news|title=Honors at Lawn Tennis|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L89VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rkANAAAAIBAJ&dq=townsend%20tennis%20voorhees&pg=6160%2C155218|newspaper=The Philadelphia Record|date=Jun 13, 1890}}

Personal life

Voorhees married Arthur Ferdinand Rodewald on April 27, 1892, in Trinity Church, Bergen Point.{{cite news|title=Bayonnetts|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FR1hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BHQNAAAAIBAJ&dq=tennis%20miss%20lida%20voorhees&pg=6932%2C803906|newspaper=The Bayonne Herald|date=Apr 16, 1892|page=1}} They had three sons (Frederick Arthur, b. March 3, 1893, Winthrop Voorhees, b. Dec. 22, 1894, Ferdinand Kingsley, b. Dec. 20, 1897). She was granted a decree of divorce, with custody of her children in New York on December 1, 1910.{{cite book|title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record|year=1918|publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog49newy/page/83 83]|url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog49newy|edition=Volume XLIX|format=PDF}}