Beryl Penrose (22 December 1930 – 20 June 2021) was an Australian international
tennis player
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...
. She competed in the
Australian Open eight times, from 1950 to 1957. Penrose won the singles title in 1955 defeating compatriot
Thelma Coyne Long
Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career she won 19 Grand Sl ...
in the final in straight sets.
In January 1948 she won the Australian girls singles title. In July 1952 she won the singles title at the Welsh Championship.
Her best results came in 1955, aged 24, when in addition to her Australian success, she reached the quarterfinals at the French and Wimbledon Championships. While overseas, Penrose reached four finals including winning the German Championships against
Erika Vollmer.
She was rated as high as 5th in the world in the 1955 tennis rankings.
In 1957 she married and retired from her tennis career.
In 2017, she was inducted into the
Australian Tennis Hall of Fame
The Australian Tennis Hall of Fame was established in 1993 by Tennis Australia under the leadership of then-president Geoff Pollard. Described by Tennis Australia as "one of the highest honours Australian tennis players can receive", inductees a ...
. Her grandson,
James Duckworth, is an Australian tennis professional.
Grand Slam finals
Singles (1 win)
Doubles (2 wins, 2 losses)
Mixed doubles (1 win, 1 loss)
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1930 births
2021 deaths
Australian female tennis players
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Australian Championships (tennis) champions
Sportswomen from New South Wales
Tennis players from Sydney
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's singles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions
20th-century Australian women
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