Corinne Molesworth (born 18 June 1949) is a former
tennis
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player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s and 70s.
In 1967 she became the junior singles champion at the
French Championships
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.
Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarterfinal of the singles event at the
1972 French Open
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. As a qualifier she defeated
Nathalie Fuchs
Nathalie Fuchs (born 3 September 1952) is a French former professional tennis player.
A right-handed player from Paris, Fuchs competed on the professional tour in the 1970s. She was the winner of the 1974 Spanish Championships and played 11 ties ...
,
Sonja Pachta
Sonja Pachta (born 25 April 1941) is an Austrian former tennis player.
Pachta, a 19-time national singles champion, was active on tour from the 1950s through to the 1970s. From 1963 to 1975, she competed for the Austria Federation Cup team, feat ...
, eighth-seeded
Linda Tuero
Linda Tuero (born October 21, 1950) is an American tennis player and paleoanthropologist. She won six U.S Junior Titles and three U.S. Women's Titles. She reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1971, and won the singles titles at the ...
and
Judy Tegart Dalton
Judy Tegart Dalton (née Tegart; born 12 December 1937) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She won nine major doubles titles, and completed the career Grand Slam in women's doubles. Five of her doubles titles were with Marga ...
to reach the quarterfinal, which she lost in straight sets to first-seeded
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 ...
. At the
Wimbledon Championships
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she reached the third round in the singles event in 1976 in which she was defeated in two sets by second-seeded Evonne Goolagong-Cawley. Her three participations in the singles event of the US Open (1970, 1971, 1972) ended in the first round.
She competed in the 1972 Wightman Cup, a team tennis competition for women between the United States and Great Britain, losing her match against
Patti Hogan
Patricia Hogan Fordyce (born December 21, 1949) is a retired professional tennis player from the U.S. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times from 1970 to 1973.Scottish Championships with Joyce Williams.
Partnering Naoko Satō she was runner-up in the doubles event of the 1976
Chichester Tennis Tournament
The Chichester Tennis Tournament (Chichester, England) was a women's professional tennis tournament and part of the WTA Tour. The tournament was first held in 1970 and the final edition was held in 1980. It was held in the beginning of June and p ...