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1967 Australian Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Nancy Richey defeated Lesley Turner 6–1, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1967 Australian Championships. Margaret Smith was the seven-time defending champion but did not participate this year. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Nancy Richey is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Nancy Richey ''(champion)'' # Lesley Turner ''(finalist)'' # Rosie Casals ''(semifinals)'' # Kerry Melville ''(semifinals)'' # Françoise Dürr ''(quarterfinals)'' # Karen Krantzcke ''(third round)'' # Betty Stöve ''(third round)'' # Jan Lehane ''(third round)'' # Judy Tegart ''(second round)'' # Gail Sherriff ''(quarterfinals)'' # Lorraine Robinson ''(quarterfinals)'' # Fay Toyne ''(second round)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 External links 1967 Australian Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942) is an American former tennis player. Richey won two major singles titles (the 1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four major women's doubles titles (the 1965 US Championships, 1966 Australian Championships, 1966 Wimbledon Championships, and 1966 US Championships). She was ranked world No. 2 in singles at year-end in 1969. Richey won 69 singles titles during her career and helped the US win the Federation Cup in 1969. She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships a record six consecutive years, from 1963 through 1968. Richey married Kenneth S. Gunter on December 15, 1970. They were divorced on December 28, 1976, and Richey reverted to her maiden name. She is the sister of American tennis player Cliff Richey. They were the first brother-sister combination to both be concurrently ranked in the USA Top Ten. They were ranked in the Top Three concurrently in 1965, 1967, 1969 and 1970. Nancy Richey was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retired (tennis)
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of ''spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the ''server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a ''deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorella Bonicelli
Fiorella Bonicelli (born 21 December 1951) is a retired professional tennis player from Uruguay. She was born in Lima, Peru but grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay where she started playing tennis when at age 11. During her career, she won the 1975 French Open mixed doubles title with Thomaz Koch. She also won the 1976 French Open women's doubles title with Gail Lovera, defeating Kathleen Harter and Helga Niessen Masthoff 6–4, 1–6, 6–3. At the Fed Cup, her singles record is 11–4, and doubles record 6–8. During her career, she reached one Grand Slam singles quarterfinal, at the 1978 French Open, where she lost to Virginia Ruzici Virginia Ruzici (born 31 January 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship. Career Ruzici became a professional tennis player in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her po ... in three sets. Grand Slam finals Doubles: (1 title) Mixed doubles: (1 title) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Starr
Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name * Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women * Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress * Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist * Jill Becker, American psychological researcher * Jill Biden (born 1951), American educator and the First Lady of the United States * Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator * Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist * Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress * Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist * Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer * Jill Craybas (born 1974), American tennis player * Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter * Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Walsham
Sandra Walsham Reid is an Australian former professional tennis player. Walsham was a women's doubles semi-finalist at the 1967 Australian Championships and qualified for the singles main draw of the 1970 Wimbledon Championships. She took over the Matraville Sports Centre with husband Bob Reid in 1988. Their children, Renee Reid and Todd Reid Todd Reid (3 June 1984 – 23 October 2018) was an Australian professional tennis player. He excelled as a junior and peaked in the Men's Tour in September 2004, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 105. Tennis career Juniors ..., were both professional tennis players. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsham, Sandra Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian female tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Cooper (tennis) (1871–1961), Australian musician and diarist
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Caroline Cooper may refer to: * Caroline Cooper (Hollyoaks), a character from the soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Caroline Ethel Cooper Caroline Ethel Cooper (25 December 1871 – 25 May 1961) was an Australian musician and diarist best known for the weekly letters she wrote to her sister Emmie in Australia while she was trapped behind enemy lines in Leipzig during World War I. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Hunt
Lesley Hunt (born 29 May 1950) is a former tennis player from Perth, Western Australia. Particularly noted as a junior player, in 1964 at the age of 14 she won a rare double in the Western Australian Women's open, taking both the Open and Junior titles. She won the Australian junior championship in 1967 and 1968 and reached the final of the Wimbledon Junior Invitational in 1968. That year she also won the French and United States Junior Championships.''W.A. Hall of Champions'' inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport In 1968, she won the Australian and French Open Junior titles and the Australian Open Junior title again the following year. In 1974 she was ranked number 3 in Australia. Between 1967 and 1979 she was never outside the top six in Australia, playing among contemporaries Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull. Hunt was seeded once in the United States championships (number 8 in 1974); twice at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. At the age of 19, she won the French Open singles and the Australian Open doubles championships (the latter with Margaret Court). She won the women's singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1971. In 1980, she became the first mother to win Wimbledon for 66 years. Goolagong went on to win 14 Grand Slam tournament titles: seven in singles (four at the Australian Open, two at Wimbledon and one at the French Open), six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles. She represented Australia in three Fed Cup competitions, winning the title in 1971, 1973 and 1974, and was Fed Cup captain for three consecutive years. After retiring from professional tennis in 1983, Goolagong played in senior invitational competitions, endorsed a variety of products, worked as a touring professional, and held sports- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Évelyne Terras
Évelyne Terras (25 September 1944 – 24 September 2012) was a French tennis player who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. Career In 1967, she teamed with Lorraine Coghlan in the doubles' event of the Australian Championship, losing the final in straight sets to Lesley Turner Bowrey and Judy Tegart. This made her the first female French player to reach the final of an Australian Open event. Her best results in a singles' event at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of the 1967 French Championships, losing to Helga Schultze. She reached the second round of the singles event at the Wimbledon Championships between 1967 and 1970. In February 1968, she was runner-up to Nell Truman in the singles event of the French Covered Championships in Paris. Terras was Fed Cup captain of the Italian national team in 1974 and 1975. Personal life She married Dino Papale and had one daughter. The couple later divorced. She died on 24 September 2012 of pancreatic cancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Gourlay
Helen Gourlay Cawley (''née'' Gourlay; born 23 December 1946) is a retired tennis player from Australia. Personal Helen Gourlay was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She married Richard Leon Cawley in January 1977, and married William Timothy Cape in October 1986. Career Cawley reached the singles final of two Grand Slam tournaments, losing the 1971 French Open and the December 1977 Australian Open to countrywoman Evonne Goolagong Cawley (no relation). An operation on her elbow sidelined her for 10 months in 1973. In women's doubles, Cawley was a four-time winner of the Australian Open (1972, 1976, 1977 (January), 1977 (December)). She won Wimbledon in 1977 partnering JoAnne Russell and was the runner-up there in 1974 with Karen Krantzcke. Gourlay was twice the runner-up at the French Open in 1971 with Kerry Harris and 1977 with Rayni Fox. In 1977, Gourlay played in four of the five Grand Slam Women's Doubles finals (the Australian Open was contested twice), only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Coughlan
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of Lotharingia, which in turn was named after either Emperor Lothair I or King Lothair II. Lorraine later was ruled as the Duchy of Lorraine before the Kingdom of France annexed it in 1766. From 1982 until January 2016, Lorraine was an administrative region of France. In 2016, under a reorganisation, it became part of the new region Grand Est. As a region in modern France, Lorraine consisted of the four departments Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges (from a historical point of view the Haute-Marne department is located in the region), containing 2,337 communes. Metz is the regional prefecture. The largest metropolitan area of Lorraine is Nancy, which had developed for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Caulley
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