Lehane won numerous titles as a junior from 1953, including the championships of New South Wales, Queensland , Victoria and South Australia . In 1958 and 1959 she won the junior title at the Australian Championships . She was one of the first players to play with two-handed backhands.
In 1959 and 1960 Lehane won the Sydney tournament . From 1960 to 1963 she moved into the final at the Australian Championships, but had to admit defeat to Margaret Smith Court . In mixed she won the title there in 1960 with Trevor Fancutt and in 1961 at the side of Bob Hewitt . She also competed regularly in the other Grand Slam tournaments between 1960 and 1964 and reached the quarter-finals several times. In 1963 she was appointed to the Australian Fed Cup team , for which she could win all three games.
After Lehane had largely withdrawn from the tournament circuit in 1965 and 1966, she appeared again in Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon in 1967; at Wimbledon she made it to the round of 16. After that, she only took part in the Australian Open sporadically, most recently in 1977.
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