Lois Felix
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Lois L. Felix-Spencer (born in 1928 in Meriden, Connecticut) was an outstanding American amateur tennis player in the 1950s and 1960s. At one time in her career, she appeared as high as No. 8 in the U.S. singles rankings.
At the U.S. Indoor championships, Felix won the singles title in 1959 and in 1960 was a singles and doubles finalist.
At the historic tournament in Cincinnati, Felix won the singles and doubles titles in 1957, and won the singles title in 1954. (She won the 1957 doubles title with Margareta Bonstrom of Sweden.)
She was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990.
Felix died at age 73 on December 23, 2001, in Meriden.
