Margaret Hellyer

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Margaret Hellyer
Country (sports)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1937-07-29) 29 July 1937 (age 87)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958)
French Open 3R (1957)
Wimbledon 4R (1960)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open SF (1957)
Wimbledon QF (1959, 1960)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon SF (1957)

Margaret Hellyer (born 29 July 1937) is an Australian former tennis player. [1]

Active in the 1950s and 1960s, Hellyer is a native of Sydney and had some of her best results on the grass courts of Wimbledon. She won the All England Plate in 1957 and was a mixed doubles semi-finalist that year with Roy Emerson. Her best singles run was a fourth round appearance in 1960 and she twice reached the women's doubles quarter-finals.

Personal life

Hellyer had a relationship with Brazilian tennis player Carlos Fernandes and the pair were engaged. [2] She was married to Kenneth Burston, an Englishman from Shropshire, in a 1963 wedding in Sydney. [3]

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References

  1. "Margaret Hellyer returns to Australia after World Tennis Tour". The Canberra Times . 18 October 1960. p. 20. Retrieved 31 December 2021 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Through 68 countries with a tennis racquet". Sydney Morning Herald . 13 November 1960.
  3. "A Farewell Party For Diplomat". Sydney Morning Herald . 16 May 1963. p. 11 (Women's Section).