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Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Goolagong won 86 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including seven singles majors, and 46 doubles titles, including seven doubles majors.
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sports · Australian tennis player · tennis player · also Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Evonne Goolagong, Evonne Cawley, Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, Cawley
Born 31 July 1951 · Q228559
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2026· 6 entries
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Public attention spiked: 14,372 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.1× the usual 1,423, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: I changed her birthplace as it was incorrect. (her birthplace had "citation needed" beside it). According to recent youtube interview with the lady herself (lin
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2025· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Sportsperson Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards
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2024· 1 entry
The Weekly Times: Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ash Barty at National Indigenous Tennis Carnival
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2021· 1 entry
Tennis: 50 Years, 50 Heroes: Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 1977
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2020· 1 entry
But the event was cancelled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2018).
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Awarded Philippe Chatrier Award (2018).
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Was advanced to a Companion of the Order of Australia "for eminent service to tennis as a player at the national and international level, as an ambassador, supporter and advocate for the health, education and wellbei
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2003· 1 entry
Was the winner for the Oceania region of the International Olympic Committee's 2003 "Women and Sports Trophy"
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001).
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Goolagong was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her achievements as a tennis player
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Australian Tennis Hall of Fame (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
The State Transit Authority named a RiverCat ferry in Sydney after her
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1990· 1 entry
Goolagong began to play in senior invitational competitions, returning to Wimbledon to compete in the inaugural ladies senior invitational doubles, alongside compatriot Kerry Melville Reid
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1988· 2 entries
Goolagong was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
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Was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
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1985· 3 entries
The International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Aboriginal Sporting Hall of Fame in 1989
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Was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
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When in May 1985, Goolagong accepted an invitation to compete at the Australian Indoor Championship, played on carpet
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1983· 3 entries
Goolagong played in senior invitational competitions, endorsed a variety of products, worked as a touring professional, and held sports-related leadership roles
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For her final Grand Slam singles appearance
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Failed to reach the quarterfinal of any event and played her last Grand Slam singles match at the French Open, where she lost to Evert in the third round
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1982· 2 entries
Where she was given a protected seeding of 16th by the All England Club, losing her only match to Zina Garrison
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Goolagong's brother Ian was an amateur tennis player who never pursued the sport professionally, but he partnered with Evonne in the mixed doubles tournament at Wimbledon in 1982 (the pair lost their only match).
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1980· 1 entry
Won Wimbledon again, this time as a mother and becoming the first mother to win the title in 66 years
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1978· 2 entries
A career-threatening ankle injury forced her to miss the remainder of 1978, other than the exhibition Emeron Cup event played in December, where she played with her ankle heavily strapped and lost to both Navratilova and
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And 1980, she was awarded the WTA Sportsmanship Award
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1977· 2 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1977).
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(December) is not traditionally counted in Goolagong's win total because the finals were never played
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1976· 3 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1976).
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“I was on a roll for that stretch in 1976. It was a great surprise to hear after all these years.”
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But it was not reported at the time because incomplete data was used to calculate the rankings
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1975· 2 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1975).
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Goolagong severed all contact with Edwards at that point, although he remained her official coach for Wimbledon 1975.
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1974· 4 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1974).
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Teamed with Peggy Michel, her teammate on the Pittsburgh Triangles of the World Team Tennis league, to win the ladies' doubles title
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Goolagong's father, Ken, was killed after being hit by a car in 1974, shortly after Edwards had refused to release any of her money to purchase a new family vehicle when requested.
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Shortly after Edwards had refused to release any of her money to purchase a new family vehicle when requested
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1973· 1 entry
To eventual champion Billie Jean King in the semifinals; and in 1974 to Australian Kerry Melville at the quarterfinal stage; she did not enter in 1977, the year her daughter was born
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1972· 3 entries
Played in a segregated South African tournament
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And as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1982
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And made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1982
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1971· 9 entries
Won the French Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1971).
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1971).
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Awarded Australian of the Year (1971).
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1973 and 1974, and was Fed Cup captain for three consecutive years
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Becoming the 2nd woman in the Open Era to complete the Channel Slam (winning the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year)
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Played for Australia Billie Jean King Cup team (1971–1982).
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And 1972, after 1973 Goolagong did not compete at the Roland-Garros for a decade
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1975, 1976 and 1977, Goolagong reached the final of every Grand Slam championship in which she competed
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Her relationship with Edwards became strained, but she was legally tied to him as he controlled every aspect of her career and finances until her marriage to Cawley on 19 June 1975 in Canterbury, England
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1968· 1 entry
And, at the same time, lived with the family of Edwards, who had become her legal guardian, coach, and manager
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1965· 1 entry
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
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-07-31.
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