Louie Bickerton

Louie[1] Mildred Bickerton Cozens (née Bickerton) (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia. She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. 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.

Louie Bickerton
Full nameLouie Mildred Bickerton Cozens
Country (sports) Australia
Born11 August 1902
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia
Died6 June 1998(1998-06-06) (aged 95)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenF (1929)
French Open3R (1928)
Wimbledon4R (1928)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian OpenW (1927, 1929, 1931)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian OpenW (1935)

Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon 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.[2][3]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Loss1929Australian ChampionshipsGrass Daphne Akhurst1–6, 7–5, 2–6

Doubles (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win1927Australian ChampionshipsGrass Meryl O'Hara Wood Esna Boyd
Sylvia Lance Harper
6–3, 6–3
Win1929Australian ChampionshipsGrass Daphne Akhurst Sylvia Lance Harper
Meryl O'Hara Wood
6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Win1931Australian ChampionshipsGrass Daphne Akhurst Nell Lloyd
Lorna Utz
6–0, 6–4
Loss1935Australian ChampionshipsGrass Nell Hopman Evelyn Dearman
Nancy Lyle
3–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(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. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
Tournament19251926192719281929193019311932193319341935Career SR
Australian Championships 2R A SF SF F SF QF A A SF QF 0 / 8
French Championships A A A 3R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
Wimbledon A A A 4R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
U.S. Championships A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0
SR 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 3 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 10

Notes

  1. Her name is commonly misspelt as "Louise"
  2. Jones, Cathy. "Louie Bickerton". Strathfield History. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
  3. "Cozens and Bickerton". NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

See also

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