Mary Hawton

Mary Hawton
Country (sports) Australia
Born(1924-09-04)4 September 1924
Sydney, Australia
Died18 January 1981(1981-01-18) (aged 56)
Sydney, Australia
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenSF (1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959)
French Open4R (1960, 1962)
Wimbledon4R (1958)
US OpenQF (1957)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (1946, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958)
French OpenF (1958)
WimbledonF (1957)
US OpenSF (1957, 1958, 1960)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenW (1958)
French OpenQF (1960, 1962)
Wimbledon3R (1957, 1960)
US Open2R (1957)

Mary Renetta Hawton (née Bevis; 4 September 1924 – 18 January 1981) was a tennis player from Australia. Her career ranged from the 1940s to the 1950s.

Hawton won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times.[1][2] In 1958 she also won the mixed doubles title together with compatriot Robert Howe.[3]

In 1948, she married Keith Ernest Hawton.[4][5]

She was captain of the Australian Fed Cup team in 1979 and 1980 and director of the NSW Tennis Association.

In 1979, Hawton published a book titled How to Play Winning Tennis.[6] She died on 18 January 1981 in Sydney, Australia.[7]

The Mary Hawton Trophy, the prize for the winner of the Australian teams championships for girls, was named after her,[8] as is Hawton Place, in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm.[9]

  1. ^ "Australian Open players archive – Mary Beavis". Tennis Australia.
  2. ^ "Australian Open players archive – Mary Hawton". Tennis Australia.
  3. ^ "Australian Open Winners". TennisNow.com. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  4. ^ "Tennis Champions Engaged". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 14 May 1946. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Gossip From Joan". Wellington Times. NSW: National Library of Australia. 25 October 1948. p. 5.
  6. ^ How to play winning tennis. Worldcat. 1979. OCLC 630558374.
  7. ^ "In Brief Death of Tennis Pioneer". The Canberra Times. National Library of Australia. 20 January 1981. p. 18.
  8. ^ "December Showdown" (PDF). Tennis Australia.
  9. ^ "Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977 – 2011) – 15 May 1987 – p3". Trove. Retrieved 2 February 2020.