Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Coyne Long was an Australian tennis player, born in Sydney on 14 October 1918 and died on 13 April 2015, one of the women who dominated Australian tennis from the mid 1930s to the 1950s. She won 19 Grand Slam titles in her career. At the Australian Championships she won the singles in 1952 and 1954 and was a singles finalist in 1940, 1951, 1955 and 1956, won ten women's doubles titles with Nancye Wynne Bolton and two with Mary Bevis Hawton, and took mixed doubles titles with George Worthington and Rex Hartwig. She was ranked in the world top ten in 1952 and 1954, reaching number seven in 1952. In the Second World War she served in the Australian Women's Army Service and rose to captain, and she later became a teaching professional. She entered the Australian and International Tennis Halls of Fame.