Sylvia Lance Harper

Sylvia Harper, born Sylvia Lance on 1 October 1895 and died on 21 October 1982, was an Australian tennis player who won the singles title at the 1924 Australian Championships. She reached the singles final there two other times, losing to Esna Boyd in 1927 and to Daphne Akhurst in 1930. She won the women's doubles title three consecutive years, with Boyd in 1923 and with Akhurst in 1924 and 1925, and took the 1923 mixed doubles title with Horace Rice. A. Wallis Myers ranked her world number ten in 1924. She competed at Wimbledon in 1920 and in 1925 captained the first women's tennis team to represent Australia internationally. She married the businessman Robert Rainy Harper in 1924.