Lorna Cornell

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Lorna Cornell
Country (sports) Great Britain
Born (1933-01-03) 3 January 1933 (age 91)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open3R (1965)
Wimbledon4R (1951, 1963)
US Open2R (1963)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open3R (1962, 1965)
Wimbledon3R (1954, 1965)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open2R (1963)
Wimbledon4R (1952, 1955)

Lorna Cornell (born 3 January 1933) is a British former tennis player.

Cornell is the daughter of athlete Muriel Gunn-Cornell, who was a world record holder for long jump.[1]

Active in the 1950s and 1960s, Cornell won the Wimbledon junior singles title twice and made regular appearances at the tournaments for two decades.[2]

Cornell married Australian tennis coach Peter Cawthorn in 1953 but towards the end of her career had remarried and was competed as Lorna Greville-Collins.[2]

Other than tennis, Cornell also excelled in long jump as a junior and was named on the list of "possibles" to represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[3]

References

  1. ^ "2014 Hall of Fame Inductees". englandathletics.org.
  2. ^ a b "Weds His Pupil". Barrier Miner. 20 February 1953. p. 2 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Britain's Girl Olympics". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 December 1947. p. 11 – via National Library of Australia.

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