Leslie Bancroft

Leslie Bancroft

Full name	Leslie Bancroft Aeschlimann
Country (sports)
Born	United States
Plays	Left-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	SF (1922)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	SF (1922)

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.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

She married Swiss tennis player Charles Aeschlimann on December 16, 1924.^[4] They had met at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

References

1. Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis : an authoritative encyclopedia and record book (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 467. ISBN 9780942257700.
2. John H. Hallahan (March 18, 1923). "Mrs Cole captures two indoor titles". The Boston Sunday Globe. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Robertson, Max (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. pp. 338–339. ISBN 9780047960420.
4. "Short and quick". The Evening News. Harrisburg. December 17, 1924. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.