Edith Sigourney was born in
Boston,
Massachusetts in 1895. She and her five siblings grew up at the family's home on Beacon Street. She learned to play tennis at the
Nahant tennis club where the family spent their summers. Sigourney's best result at the
U.S. Championships was the quarterfinals, which she reached twice, in 1920 and 1922. In doubles, she was a finalist alongside
Molla Mallory in 1922, where they lost to
Marion Zinderstein and
Helen Wills in three sets. She was within the US national top ten in 1920 (no. 8), 1923 (no. 7) and 1925 (no. 10). Sigourney crossed the Atlantic three times to play at the
Wimbledon Championships in 1921, 1923 and 1924, but lost her initial match in each year. In 1921, she also played at the
World Hard Court Championships at Paris. In 1928, she won the
U.S. Indoor Championships. Along with
Hazel Wightman, she won the National Senior Doubles Championships five times in between 1940 and 1947. Sigourney was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999. ==Grand Slam finals==