Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens (née Bickerton) (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female

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player from Australia. She was born in

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, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931

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. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament. Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion

Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (née Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a Norwegian tennis player, naturalized American. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman ...

in the first round of

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in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4. Bickerton was friends with

Daphne Akhurst Cozens Daphne Jessie Akhurst (22 April 1903 – 9 January 1933) known also by her married name Daphne Cozens, was an Australian tennis player. Akhurst won the women's singles title at the Australian Championships five times between 1925 and 1930. A ...

. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

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See also