Evonne Goolagong 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 singl ...

and Margaret Court defeated

Jill Emmerson Jill Alison Emmerson (born 24 July 1942) is an Australian former tennis player from Sydney. She competed under her maiden name Jill Blackman until the late 1960s. Emmerson was a singles quarter-finalist at the 1963 French Championships and 196 ...

and

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 Juni ...

6–0, 6–0 in the final to win the women's doubles title at the

1971 Australian Open The 1971 Australian Open, also known under its sponsored name Dunlop Australian Open, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 7 to 14 March. The tournament was ori ...

Seeds

The first and second

seeds A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosperm pl ...

received a bye into the second round.

Draw

References

External links

1971 Australian Open – Women's draws and results
at the International Tennis Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:1971 Australian Open - Women's Doubles Australian Open - Women's Doubles 1971 Women's Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's doubles 1971 in women's tennis 1971 in Australian women's sport