TENNIS CHAMPION.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 5

TENNIS CHAMPION.

GRANTED A DIVORCE. INTENDS TO MARRY AGAIN Mrs Helen Wills Moody, the tennis star, has been granted a divorce from Mr F. S. Moody, Jun., a stockbroker, of San Francisco. “Yes, it's true. I am going to divorce my husband." she said recently. “You see, Fred and I haven’t got on well for some time. “He has resented my playing so much tennis abroad and that is the reason why I have not played at Wimbledon for the past two years. “But. it made no difference; we just didn’t agree, so I am seeking my divorce on tlie grounds of mental cruelty. To Play at Wimbledon. “Where are you going to live after your divorce —England or the United States?” an interviewer asked. “I’m going to live in San Francisco, but next winter I’ll go to Switzerland for the sports and then return to England to play in tournaments, including Wimbledon. Those are my present plans.” “But.” she was asked, “do you intend to marry again?" “Yes,” she answered, “I hope so.” Rut to whom Mrs Moody refused to say. Mr Moody has gone holiday-making in the Californian mountains. Their romance began on the French Riviera in J 926, when illness forced her out of the international tennis tournament. Three years later they were married in San Francisco.