Chris O'Neil

Christine O'Neil is an Australian former professional tennis player, born on 19 March 1956, best known for her singles victory at the 1978 Australian Open. She was the last Australian to win the title until Ashleigh Barty in 2022 and the first unseeded woman to win it in the Open Era, and she is one of the few players to have won both the Australian Open junior title in 1973 and the senior title in 1978. In 2007, with her brothers Keith and William, she took over the Morisset Sports and Tennis Centre near Newcastle, New South Wales, which became the O'Neil School of Tennis, and she later ran a school in Cessnock before moving to Port Macquarie, where she coaches.