Second-seeded

Beryl Penrose Beryl Penrose (22 December 1930 – 23 June 2021) was an Australian international tennis player. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Mel ...

defeated

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 ...

6–4, 6–3 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1955 Australian Championships.

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below.

is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. #

''(finalist)'' #

''(champion)'' # Jenny Staley ''(semifinals)'' # Mary Carter ''(semifinals)'' #

Fay Muller Fay Muller (born 4 November 1933) is a former international tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Australian Championships The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at M ...

''(quarterfinals)'' #

Daphne Seeney Daphne Seeney (2 February 1933 – 18 September 2020), married name Daphne Fancutt, was an Australian professional tennis player whose career spanned the 1950s. Seeney was a doubles finalist in the 1956 Wimbledon Championships with partner ...

''(second round)'' # Loris Nichols ''(second round)'' # Norma Ellis ''(quarterfinals)''

Draw

Key

* Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL =

Lucky loser A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw. This can occur when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness ...

* r =

Retired Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...

Finals

Earlier rounds

Section 1

Section 2

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Australian Championships - Women's Singles,1955 1955 in women's tennis

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1955 in Australian tennis 1955 in Australian women's sport