Nancye Wynne Bolton

Nancye Wynne Bolton was an Australian tennis player, born on 2 December 1916 and died on 9 November 2001, who won the women's singles title at the Australian Championships six times, a total behind only Margaret Court and Serena Williams. She won 20 titles at the Australian Championships in all, second only to Court's 23. She was ranked in the world top ten in 1938, 1947 and 1948, reaching a career high of world number four in 1947 and 1948, and Ned Potter of American Lawn Tennis ranked her second in the world in 1947 behind Louise Brough. In 1940 she married George Bolton, an air force pilot who was killed in a raid on Germany in May 1942. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.