Jill Alison Emmerson (born 24 July 1942) is an Australian former
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
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
1964 Australian Championships. In 1966 she and
Fay Toyne
Fay Toyne (born 18 December 1943), also known by her married name Fay Toyne Moore, is a retired tennis player from Australia whose career spanned the 1960s.
Toyne was a doubles finalist at the 1966 French Championships. Partnering Jill Blackma ...
made the women's doubles final of the French Championships, which they lost in three sets to
Margaret Smith and
Judy Tegart
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 Margar ...
.
She made another grand slam doubles final in 1971 at the Australian Open, where she and partner
Lesley Hunt were soundly beaten by Margaret Court and
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 sing ...
.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles (2 runner-ups)
See also
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List of Australian Open women's doubles finals
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List of French Open women's doubles finals
References
External links
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1942 births
Living people
Australian female tennis players
Tennis players from Sydney