Margaret Molesworth

Margaret Molesworth, known as Mall and born Maud Margaret Mutch, was an Australian tennis player born on 18 October 1894 and died on 9 July 1985. She won the inaugural Australasian Championships women's singles title in 1922, beating Esna Boyd Robertson 6-3, 10-8 in the final, and successfully defended it in 1923, again beating Robertson. She also won three women's doubles titles at the championships with Emily Hood Westacott, in 1930, 1933 and 1934, and reached the singles final once more in 1934. She was the first Australian woman listed in the world top ten, rated number ten by A. Wallis Myers in 1922 and 1923. Not able to travel abroad until 1934, she then played Wimbledon and the French Championships at the age of 40. She became one of Australia's first female professional coaches and was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2022.