Louise Brough Clapp, whose powerful serve-and-volley game propelled her to 35 championships in Grand Slam tennis tournaments of the 1940s and ’50s and made her one of the most brilliant doubles players in the women’s game, died on Monday in Vista, Calif. She was 90.

The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., announced her death.

A former teenage star in Southern California, Louise Brough, as she was known for most of her career, was ranked among America’s top 10 female players 16 times by the United States Tennis Association and achieved the No. 1 national ranking in 1947. She was No. 1 in the world in 1955.

She won six singles titles, including four at Wimbledon, as well as 21 doubles championships and 8 mixed doubles titles in Grand Slam events, tying her with Doris Hart at No. 5 on the overall career list for both women and men.

In doubles play, Brough (pronounced bruff) usually teamed with Margaret Osborne duPont, a longtime friend, and they were virtually unbeatable. Brough and duPont captured 12 women’s doubles championships in the United States Nationals, the forerunner of the United States Open, winning every year at Forest Hills, Queens, from 1942 to 1950 and again from 1955 to 1957.