Joan Hartigan

Joan Hartigan, who later played as Joan Bathurst, was an Australian champion tennis player born in Sydney on 6 June 1912 and active from the early 1930s until the late 1940s. She won the singles title at the Australian Championships in 1933, 1934 and 1936 and was a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1935, losing to Helen Jacobs and to Helen Wills Moody. She won the 1934 Australian mixed doubles with Edgar Moon and was ranked in the world top ten in 1934 and 1935, reaching number eight in 1934. She was known for a power game built on a hard-hitting forehand drive. She served in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service in 1943, married Hugh Bathurst in 1947, and died on 31 August 2000. She was posthumously inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2022.