Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens (née Bickerton) (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female

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player from Australia. She was born in

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, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931

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. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament. Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion

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in the first round of

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in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4. Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Notes

See also