Thelma Long
Long in 1932
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| Full name | Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long |
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| Country (sports) |
 Australia |
| Born |
14 October 1918 Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 13 April 2015 (aged 96) Sydney, Australia |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 2013 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Highest ranking | No. 7 (1952, Lance Tingay) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1952, 1954) |
| French Open | QF (1951) |
| Wimbledon | QF (1952) |
| US Open | QF (1952) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958) |
| French Open | F (1958) |
| Wimbledon | F (1957) |
| US Open | SF (1958) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1951, 1952, 1954, 1955) |
| French Open | W (1956) |
| Wimbledon | F (1952) |
Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career she won 19 Grand Slam tournament titles. In 2013 Long was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
At the Australian Championships, Long won singles titles in 1952 and 1954 and was a singles finalist in 1940, 1951, 1955 and 1956. In women's doubles, she won ten titles with Nancye Wynne Bolton (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952) and two titles with Mary Bevis Hawton (1956 and 1958). Long was a women's doubles finalist with Bolton in 1946 and 1950. She won mixed doubles titles in 1951, 1952 and 1955 with George Worthington and in 1954 with Rex Hartwig. She was a mixed doubles finalist in 1948 with Bill Sidwell.
At Wimbledon, Long was a women's doubles finalist in 1957 with Hawton and a mixed doubles finalist in 1952 with Enrique Morea. At the age of 52, Long teamed with Lorraine Coghlan to lose in the first round of women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1971.
At the French Championships, Long was a women's doubles finalist in 1958 with Hawton, won the mixed doubles title in 1956 with Luis Ayala, and was a mixed doubles finalist in 1951 with Mervyn Rose.
At the 1953 tournament in Cincinnati, Long won the singles title (defeating Anita Kanter 7–5, 6–2 in the final) and the women's doubles title with Kanter.
According to Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Long was ranked in the world top ten in 1952 and 1954 (no rankings issued from 1940 to 1945), reaching a career high of World No. 7 in those rankings in 1952.
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