Daphne Akhurst

Daphne Akhurst, later Daphne Cozens, was an Australian tennis player born on 22 April 1903 who won the women's singles title at the Australian Championships five times, in 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1930. She also took the women's doubles title five times and the mixed doubles four times, and in 1928 she won the German Championships singles. She toured Europe with the first Australian women's team in 1925 and was ranked world number three in 1928, reaching the Wimbledon semifinal that year. She married in 1930, retired from serious competition soon after, and died on 9 January 1933 at the age of 29. The women's singles trophy of the Australian Open has borne her name since 1934, and she entered the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006 and the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.