Helen Wong Lum (September 13, 1931 – December 22, 2015) was an American tennis and basketball player who was born and raised in Chinatown, San Francisco.
[5] She pursued her passion for tennis with the help of Charles Harney, who paid for her lessons for approximately a year, and Father Donal Forrester, who drove her to tournaments.
[2] In 1965, Wong was billed as the national Chinese tennis champion and won a tournament in Santa Cruz.
[6][7] She stopped playing tennis in her 40s after being diagnosed with lupus, but resumed playing a decade later once the disease was managed; she would go on to be ranked first nationally in the 50s, 55s, and 60s women's divisions, and won seven national senior tennis titles,[2] including the Women's 55 Singles title in 1988.
[2][10] Kathleen Yep, a professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College, compared her feats to those of Babe Didriksen.