Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (August 20, 1868 in Rosendale, New York – September 26, 1954 in Hyde Park, New York) was an American tennis player.
She won the women's singles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships defeating the 1888 and 1889 champion Bertha Townsend in the final in two straight sets. That year she also won the doubles title with her sister Grace. They were the first pair of sisters to win the U.S. Championships and remained the only pair to do so until the Williams sisters equalled their achievement in 1999. At the 1893 U.S. Championships she won the mixed doubles title partnering Oliver Campbell.
A first cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1975.
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