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Pauline Roberts Cox (nee Titchener) is a British former professional
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. A
Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
county player, Roberts competed on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Amongst her best performances, she reached the fourth round in mixed doubles at the
1960 Wimbledon Championships The 1960 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 20 June until Saturday 2 July 1960. It was the 74th stagi ...
and the fourth round in singles at the 1962 U.S. National Championships. Her tour titles include Barcelona, Guildford and Lowther. Roberts was the first coach of tennis player
Annabel Croft Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966) is a former professional British female tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain i ...
. She was initially hired to coach her mother, but encouraged nine-year old Croft to take to the court and discovered her potential.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Pauline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British female tennis players English tennis players Tennis people from Kent