First-seeded
Nancye Bolton
Nancye Wynne Bolton (née Wynne; 2 December 1916 – 9 November 2001) was an Australian tennis player. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Open, Australian Championships, third only to Margaret Court's and Serena Will ...
defeated
Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer (née Fitch; 3 April 1922 – 26 July 2012) was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6–4, 6–4. She teamed with Mary Bev ...
6–4, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the
1946 Australian Championships
The 1946 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor grass courts at the Memorial Drive, Adelaide, Australia from 19 January to 29 January. It was the 34th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the A ...
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Seeds
The seeded players are listed below.
Nancye Bolton
Nancye Wynne Bolton (née Wynne; 2 December 1916 – 9 November 2001) was an Australian tennis player. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Open, Australian Championships, third only to Margaret Court's and Serena Will ...
is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
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Nancye Bolton
Nancye Wynne Bolton (née Wynne; 2 December 1916 – 9 November 2001) was an Australian tennis player. She won the women's singles title six times at the Australian Open, Australian Championships, third only to Margaret Court's and Serena Will ...
''(champion)''
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Nell Hopman
Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman, CBE (née Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and ca ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Thelma 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 S ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Joan Hartigan
Joan Marcia Bathurst (née Hartigan; 6 June 1912 – 31 August 2000) was an Australian Champion tennis player who was active from the early 1930s until the late 1940s.
Early life and education
Joan Marcia Hartigan was born in Sydney, the daugh ...
''(quarterfinals)''
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Constance Wilson ''(semifinals)''
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Alison Hattersley ''(second round)''
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Dulcie Whittaker ''(quarterfinals)''
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Joyce Fitch
Joyce Fitch Rymer (née Fitch; 3 April 1922 – 26 July 2012) was a tennis player from Australia who reached the women's singles final of the 1946 Australian Championships, losing to Nancye Wynne Bolton 6–4, 6–4. She teamed with Mary Bev ...
''(finalist)''
Draw
Key
* Q =
Qualifier
* WC =
Wild card
* LL =
Lucky loser
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* r =
Retired
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Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...
Finals
Earlier rounds
Section 1
Section 2
External links
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1946 in women's tennis
1946
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
1946 in Australian women's sport
Women's Singles