For her Wimbledon triumph, Cawley beat four top ten players (Hana Mandlíková #9, Wendy Turnbull #6, Tracy Austin #2 and Chris Evert #3), the only champion in Wimbledon history to do so. Evonne Goolagong Cawley is a legendary tennis player, and she has made Australian tennis lovers proud with her achievements. Simona Halep | Cawley grew up in Barellan, country New South Wales, where she showed an early aptitude for tennis, joining… Jennifer Capriati | Although Aboriginal people faced widespread discrimination in rural Australia at this time, Goolagong was able to play tennis in Barellan from childhood thanks to a local resident, Bill Kurtzman, who saw her peering through the fence at the local courts and encouraged her to come in and play.[4]. Connors, Jimmy. Married to Roger Cawley in 1975, she had a daughter in 1977. She was seeded fourth for the 1980 US Open Championships, but withdrew from the tournament before play began. SR=strike rate (events won/competed). She also beat two former Grand Slam finalists in earlier rounds, Sharon Walsh and Betty Stöve, also becoming the first champion to have dropped three sets in the championship. Goolagong retired from tennis in 1983 with fourteen grand slam singles and doubles titles to her credit. With seven championships, Goolagong is 12th on the women's list of all-time singles Grand Slam winners, and ended her career with 82 singles titles. Ana Ivanović | Other players, notably Wendy Turnbull, publicly decried the decision by Tennis Australia to pay Goolagong an appearance fee to compete at the Australian Open from 1980 onwards. (W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. Goolagong's father Ken was killed in a car crash in 1974, shortly after Edwards had refused to release any of her money to purchase a new family vehicle when requested. Goolagong won 14 Grand Slam titles. Cawley then lost her first matches of all her next three tournaments; pulling out in the final set of the Family Circle Cup to Joanne Russell; losing to Pam Teeguarden at the Dow Classic and at Wimbledon 1982, where she was given a protected seeding of 16th by the All England Club, losing her only match to Zina Garrison. Cawley didn't play competitively again until November when she lost in the first round to Sue Barker in Brisbane, but reached her only singles final at Sydney, where after beating world no.3 Andrea Jaeger, she lost in three sets to Navratilova. Juli 1951 in Griffith, New South Wales) ist eine ehemalige australische Tennisspielerin. In 1965, Vic Edwards, the proprietor of a tennis school in Sydney, was tipped off by two of his assistants, travelled to Barellan to take a look at the young Goolagong, and immediately saw her potential. She won the ladies' singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1971. 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