Joan Hartigan Joan Marcia Bathurst (née Hartigan; 6 June 1912 – 31 August 2000) was an Australian Champion tennis player. Early life and education Joan Marcia Hartigan was born in Sydney, the daughter of Thomas Joseph (Tom) Hartigan, a railways commissio ...

defeated Nancye Wynne 6–4, 6–4, in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the

1936 Australian Championships The 1936 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Memorial Drive, Adelaide, Australia from 18 to 27 January (No matches were scheduled on Tuesday 21 January after the death of King George V). ...

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below.

is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Thelma Coyne ''(semifinals)'' #

''(champion)'' # Nell Hopman ''(quarterfinals)'' # Dorothy Stevenson ''(second round)'' # May Blick ''(semifinals)'' # Nancye Wynne ''(finalist)'' # Gwen Griffiths ''(quarterfinals)'' # May Hardcastle ''(quarterfinals)''

Draw

Key

* Q =

Qualifier In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which ''modifies'' the meaning of another element in the structure. For instance, the adjective "red" acts as a modifier in the noun phrase "red ball", provi ...

* WC = Wild card * LL =

Lucky loser A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury ...

* r =

Retired Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...

Finals

Earlier rounds

Section 1

Section 2

References

External links

Source for seedings and the draw

Source for the first-round results

Source for the second-round results {{DEFAULTSORT:Australian Championships - Women's Singles,1936 1936 in women's tennis

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

1936 in Australian women's sport Women's Singles