Australian tennis player
Daphne Akhurst Cozens
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Full name
| Daphne Jessie Akhurst Cozens
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Country (sports)
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Australia
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Born
| (
1903-04-22
)
22 April 1903
Ashfield
,
NSW
, Australia
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Died
| 9 January 1933
(1933-01-09)
(aged 29)
Sydney
, Australia
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Plays
| Right-handed
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Int. Tennis HoF
| 2013
(
member page
)
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Highest ranking
| No. 3 (1928
,
A. Wallis Myers
)
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Australian Open
| W
(
1925
,
1926
,
1928
,
1929
,
1930
)
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French Open
| QF (
1928
)
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Wimbledon
| SF (
1928
)
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Australian Open
| W
(1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931)
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French Open
| QF (1928)
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Wimbledon
| SF (1928)
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Australian Open
| W
(1924, 1925, 1928, 1929)
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French Open
| QF (1928)
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Wimbledon
| F (1928)
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Daphne Jessie Akhurst
(22 April 1903 ? 9 January 1933), known also by her married name
Daphne Cozens
, was an Australian
tennis
player.
Akhurst won the women's singles title at the
Australian Championships
five times between 1925 and 1930. According to Wallis Myers (
The Daily Telegraph
,
Daily Mail
), she was ranked World No. 3 in 1928.
[1]
Career
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The second daughter of Oscar James Akhurst, a lithographer, and his wife Jessie Florence (nee Smith), Daphne Akhurst won the women's singles title at the
Australian Championships
five times, in 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1930. She is fourth on the list of most women's singles titles at the Australian Championships; behind only
Margaret Court
with eleven titles,
Serena Williams
with seven and
Nancye Wynne Bolton
with six titles. She won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times: in 1924 and 1925 with
Sylvia Lance Harper
, in 1928 with
Esna Boyd Robertson
, and in 1929 and 1931 with
Louie Bickerton
. She and
Marjorie Cox
were the runners-up in 1926.
[
citation needed
]
In 1925 she was part of the first Australian women's team to tour Europe and reached the quarterfinal of the singles event at
Wimbledon
which she lost to
Joan Fry
.
[2]
During her second and last European tour in 1928, she reached the singles quarterfinal at the French Championships, in which Cristobel Hardie defeated her, and the semifinal at Wimbledon, which she lost in straight sets to
Lili de Alvarez
.
Akhurst won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships four times: in 1924 and 1925 with
Jim Willard
, in 1928 with
Jean Borotra
, and in 1929 with
Gar Moon
. She and Willard were the runners-up in 1926. She and her partner
Jack Crawford
reached the mixed doubles final at
Wimbledon
in 1928, but lost to the team of
Elizabeth Ryan
/
Patrick Spence
, 7?5, 6?4.
Akhurst won the singles title at the
German Championships
in 1928 after a three-sets victory in the final against defending champion
Cilly Aussem
.
[3]
Personal life
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Akhurst attended the Miss. E. Tildesley's
Normanhurst School
, followed by the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
.
[4]
On 26 February 1930 at
St Philip's Church of England
, Sydney, Daphne Akhurst married Royston Stuckey Cozens, a tobacco manufacturer, and retired from serious competition soon after winning the Australian ladies' doubles championship in 1931. They had one son, Don.
Daphne Akhurst Cozens died on 9 January 1933, aged 29, from an
ectopic pregnancy
.
[2]
Legacy
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Since 1934 the trophy presented each year to the winner of the women's singles at the Australian Open is named the
Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup
in her honour.
[4]
She was inducted into the
Australian Tennis Hall of Fame
on Australia Day (26 January), 2006.
[5]
She was inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame
in 2013.
Grand Slam finals
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Singles: 5 titles
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Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)
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Mixed Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runners-up)
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Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
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Key
W
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F
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SF
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QF
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#R
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RR
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Q#
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DNQ
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A
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NH
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(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W?L) win?loss record.
1
The French Championships were not held in 1924, as the Olympics were held in Paris that year.
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