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  1. Annual tennis competition between
  2. international women's teams from the USA and
  3. the UK. The trophy, first contested in 1923,
  4. was donated by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  5. (1886-1974), a former US tennis player who
  6. won singles, doubles, and mixed-doubles
  7. titles in the US Championships 1909-1911.
  8. Because of US domination of the contest it
  9. was abandoned in 1990, but it is to be
  10. reinstated in 1991 with the UK side assisted
  11. by European players.
  12.