Louie Bickerton

Louie [1] Mildred Bickerton Cozens (1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia. She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament.

Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44 year old and eight time U.S. champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4.

Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.[2][3]

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Tournament 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Career SR
Australian Championships 2R A SF SF F SF QF A A SF QF 0 / 8
French Championships A A A 3R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
Wimbledon A A A 4R A A A A A A A 0 / 1
U.S. Championships A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0
SR 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 3 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 10

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

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