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After learning to play the game of tennis in 1885, Cahill moved to New York in 1889 to join the New York Tennis Club. She won the Orange Club ladies championship in 1890 and 1891, crediting her improvement to training with men. Cahill would be known for her 'manly style' and heavy forehand. She entered the 1891 US Open Championship and suffered her only ever singles match loss to Ellen Roosevelt, retiring early due to injuries to her wrist and foot. The following year she became the first foreign woman to win a US Open Championship after avenging her defeat to the same opponent as the previous year. That same year she won the doubles title and the unofficial mixed doubles titles. To make more history she came back the net year to defend both titles and win the now official mixed doubles title. She was the first ever player to win the 'triple'(singles, doubles, mixed doubles) in a year. In 1893 she defaulted her crown. She was one of only twenty two female players to successfully defend her singles title.

Cahill also attempted to start a career as a writer during her time in America. She wrote a romantic novel called 'Her Playthings: Men' which was published in 1891 but it was not successful. She tried to write shorter stories,'Carved in marble' and 'Purple Sparkling'but they too were not well received. In 1893 she contributed two articles to the Ladies Home Journal named 'the art of playing good tennis' and 'Arranging a tennis tournament', respectively.

After her death, in 1936, the Irish Lawn Tennis Association placed an advert i the national press asking that a representative of hers could come forward to collect a gold medallion struck to honor her achievements in tennis in America. It is not known if the medallion was collected. In 1976, Cahill was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where she is the only Irish representative.