Helen Homans
Helen Houston Homans McLean was an American tennis champion.
Career
Homans won the women's doubles title at the 1905 U.S. National Championship and the singles title the next year.Homans played mixed doubles with Marshall McLean as early as 1902 and married him in New York City in 1907. In mixed doubles, she reached the semifinals partnering Harry F. Allen in 1905.
Also in 1905, she reached the women's singles All-Comers final at Cincinnati before falling to May Sutton. Homans won the 1905 women's doubles title in Cincinnati with McAteer, and was a 1905 mixed doubles finalist with Robert LeRoy.
In 1911, she won three of the New [Jersey State Championships] titles.
In 1913, she regained her title when she defeated Marie Wagner at the Morristown Field Club in Morristown, New Jersey. On September 19, 1913, she was defeated by Clare Cassell at the Montclair Athletic Club.
In 1915, Molla Bjurstedt of Norway, the national indoor champion, defeated McLean in the final round of the Class A tennis singles at the West Side Tennis Club. She finished second in the U.S. National Championships women's doubles with Augusta Bradley Chapman in 1915.
McLean was still ranked fourth in 1913 and third in 1915 in the U.S. national ranking. In 1915, she won the U.S. Indoor Championships.
After retiring from her career in tennis, she worked as an interior decorator.