Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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Evonne Goolagong Cawley Tennis player
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Goolagong 1971 in Hilversum
Nation: AustraliaAustralia Australia
Birthday: July 31, 1951
Size: 168 cm
1st professional season: 1969
Resignation: 1983
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 1,399,431
singles
Career record: 704: 165
Career title: 68
Highest ranking: 1 (April 26 1976)
Weeks as No. 1: 2
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  7
Australian Open S (1974-1977)
French Open S (1971)
Wimbledon S (1971, 1980)
US Open F (1973-1976)
Double
Career record: 18:16
Career title: 7th
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  5
Australian Open S (1971, 1974-1976)
French Open HF (1971)
Wimbledon S (1974)
US Open HF (1972–1974)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  1
Australian Open -
French Open S (1972)
Wimbledon F (1972)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley , MBE , AC (born July 31, 1951 in Griffith , New South Wales ) is a former Australian tennis player . The Aboriginal woman from the Wiradjuri tribe is one of the most successful Australian tennis players.

Career

Goolagong Cawley has won the Australian Open four times , the Wimbledon Championships twice and the French Open once . She was in a final 18 times in Grand Slam tournaments . She had her greatest successes in the 1970s, from 1974 to 1977 she was the great opponent of Chris Evert .

Her Wimbledon victory over Evert, the then number 1 in women's tennis, in 1980 came as a surprise. Goolagong was also the first player to win one of the four major tournaments as a mother.

  • Australian Open 1974 to 1976 and December 1977 (further 3 finals)
  • French Open 1971 (1 final participation)
  • Wimbledon 1971 and 1980 (another 3 finals)
  • Masters winner 1974 and 1976 (further final 1978)
  • she could never win the US Open (she was in the final four times and failed there at Court, King and twice Evert)
  • E. Goolagong was in 18 Grand Slam finals (7:11)

In her professional career, she achieved 92 tournament victories. She also played with Australia seven times in the Federation Cup , which she won in 1971, 1973 and 1974.

Evonne Goolagong Park in Barellan, New South Wales

In 1971, she was from AP for Sportswoman of the Year is selected and as Australian of the Year Award. Goolagong was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1972 and Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1982 .

Strangely enough , it only came first in the world afterwards when the WTA corrected a calculation error from 1976 in 2007.

Goolagong Cawley was the captain of the Australian Fed Cup team in 2002.

In 2018 she was awarded the highest order in her native Australia, the Companion of the Order of Australia.

Private life

Evonne Goolagong Cawley has been married to the British tennis player Roger Cawley since June 19, 1975 , with whom she has two children. After a long stay in the USA , they have been living in Queensland since 1991 . Goolagong founded the Evonne Goolagong Sports Trust, a foundation that aims to help children from Aboriginal families get started with tennis. Together with the Indigenous Sports Foundation , the Goolagong family runs the annual Goolagong National Development Camps, at which players, coaches and managers are trained.

literature

  • Evonne Goolagong Cawley & Phil Jarratt: Home! - The Evonne Goolagong Story. Simon & Schuster, East Roseville, 1993, ISBN 0-7318-0381-7 .

Web links

Commons : Evonne Goolagong  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wtatennis.com No. 1 Spotlight: Evonne Goolagong ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Computer glitch denied Goolagong No. 1 WTA ranking in '76 . ESPN website. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  3. ^ Goolagong Cawley finally a world No.1 . Sydney Morning Herald website, accessed November 25, 2014
  4. ↑ Australia Day Honors 2018: The full list. In: smh.com.au. January 26, 2018, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  5. ^ Goolagong Cawley receives Order of Australia honor. In: wtatennis.com. January 28, 2018, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  6. ^ People in Sports. In: nytimes.com. June 20, 1975, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Dennis Passa: Grand Slam Champ Evonne Goolagong Uses Camp to Search for Next Aboriginal Player or Coach, ( USA Today , January 13, 2008, accessed May 9, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Goolagong Cawley, Evonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cawley, Evonne Fay Goolagong; Goolagong-Cawley, Evonne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Griffith , New South Wales , Australia