Esna Boyd

Esna Boyd, who played under her married name Esna Boyd Robertson, was an Australian tennis player born in Melbourne on 21 September 1899 who died on 13 November 1966. She reached seven consecutive women's singles finals at the Australian Championships from 1922 to 1928 and won one of them, beating Sylvia Lance Harper in 1927. She played in the first women's singles final at the championships in 1922 against Margaret Molesworth. She also won four doubles and three mixed doubles titles at Grand Slam events, and she was ranked world number ten in 1928 by Wallis Myers. She was the daughter of the politician James Boyd, and she married Angus Robertson in 1929.