Mary Renetta Hawton (née Bevis; 4 September 1924 – 18 January 1981) was a tennis player from Australia. Her career ranged from the 1940s to the 1950s.
Hawton won the women's doubles title at the
Australian Championships five times. In 1958 she also won the mixed doubles title together with compatriot
Robert Howe.
In 1948, she married Keith Ernest Hawton.
She was captain of the Australian
Fed Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...
team in 1979 and 1980 and director of the NSW Tennis Association.
In 1979, Hawton published a book titled ''How to Play Winning Tennis''. She died on 18 January 1981 in Sydney, Australia.
The Mary Hawton Trophy, the prize for the winner of the Australian teams championships for girls, was named after her, as is Hawton Place, in the Canberra suburb of
Chisholm.
Career
Mary Hawton found much success in Australia at the
Australian Championships. She made it to the semifinals in singles six times in
1948,
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
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1953,
1954,
1956 and
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
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. Hawton reached 12 finals in Australia, eight of these being consecutive. She also reached the doubles finals at the Wimbledon and French Championships in
1957
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and
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
with Australian
Thelma Coyne Long. Hawton ended her career with six Grand Slam titles: five in women's doubles and one in mixed doubles.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 14 (5–9)
Mixed doubles: 2 (1–1)
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
References
External links
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1924 births
1981 deaths
Australian Championships (tennis) champions
Australian female tennis players
French Championships (tennis) champions
Tennis players from Sydney
Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era)
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
Sportswomen from New South Wales