Brenda Nunns Shoemaker (born September 13, 1945) is a Canadian former

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

player. Nunns, a doubles champion at the 1965

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, was a national representative in the 1966 Federation Cup, featuring in a tie against

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. She is the daughter of

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player Gilbert Nunns. Her son, David Shoemaker, is CEO of the

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and a former WTA executive.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nunns, Brenda 1945 births Living people Canadian female tennis players 20th-century Canadian sportswomen

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